Albert Collins guitar lesson
Posted by Dan | | Posted On Oct 12, 2009 at 9:26 PM
This post is inspired by JP over as Strat-o-Blogster. He posted a rather awesome video of blues legend Albert Collins giving a little instruction on his trade mark "Ice Pickin'" style. I'm pretty sure I had seen this video two years ago when I was first beginning my quest to learn to play the blues. At the time I was playing around with open E, doing a pathetic attempt at learning Duane Allman's slide. Then I saw this video with Albert Collins and him showing his crazy minor tuning of F-C-Ab-C-F tuning and I gave up on special tunning. I just figured I'd work on regular tunning for a while like my hero Buddy. Well now I'm back to the slide I love with some success with open G.
Still through. you can learn a lot about feel from this video.
Still through. you can learn a lot about feel from this video.
You can still do a lot of his single note and double stop phrasing in standard tuning. I'm starting to hear more Blues players throwing in AC licks. You can spot 'em instantly Hahaa!!!
Like the man said it's all about feel.