Play like Albert King

Albert King played left-handed on a flipped right-handed guitar, pulling the strings down to bend them, and his huge, stinging bends shaped a generation of blues and rock players, Stevie Ray Vaughan among them. Think of "Born Under a Bad Sign". This chapter teaches you the Albert King style in A minor, around the upper "Albert box".

You start with big multi-step bends: a step and a half, even two whole steps, held in tune and sung with vibrato. The upside-down feel lesson borrows his approach without flipping your guitar, with pull-down bends and slow, heavy pre-bend releases. Sparse phrasing is about the space between notes: a short stab, a huge bend, then silence that makes the next note hit harder. The last lesson places those bends and stabs on the triplet grid of a slow blues.

Each exercise is a tab that plays in your browser with a click and a tempo ladder, and every lesson ends with a checkpoint. Expect to build finger strength, sharper pitch control and the confidence to leave room in your solos.