{"id":7596,"date":"2019-03-20T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2019-03-20T19:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:05:49","slug":"3-bb-king-licks-that-dont-use-the-house-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/3-bb-king-licks-that-dont-use-the-house-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"3 BB King Licks That Don&#8217;t Use The House Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When most folks talk about how BB King solos, they tend to refer to what I call the &#8220;house&#8221; pattern, sometimes also known as the &#8220;BB Box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically a grouping of notes that can be easily morphed into either a major or minor pentatonic\/blues sound, but that&#8217;s not the point of this video &#8211; I have others that delve into that sound&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No, instead, today I want to take you back to 1974 and BB King playing live. I stole these 3 licks fair and square, and they will show you how BB King was also a master of good old Box 1 and Box 2 and moving brilliantly between the 2 sounds.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you dig the video, feel free to skip ahead 30 seconds or so if you want to get around the intro and just go to the lesson.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dd4b4cwQWl0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>If you want the TAB to the licks it&#8217;s here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/3BBKingLicksThatDontUseBBBox.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most folks talk about how BB King solos, they tend to refer to what I call the &#8220;house&#8221; pattern, sometimes also known as the &#8220;BB Box.&#8221; It&#8217;s basically a grouping of notes that can be easily morphed into either a major or minor pentatonic\/blues sound, but that&#8217;s not the point of this video &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7596\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}