Originally posted by BluesShredder
Skee1 what do you mean when you say BB King trill?
trill is doing rapidly hammer on and pull off, right?
what is BB King doing at the very first note of The Thrill
Is Gone? is that a trill or a vibrato?


After practising for many hours i can do this but still not good enough,

I am fretting a note and then by rotating my wrist
i am trying to move the finger in cyrcles
my hand is on the air but is always in line with the arm
it sounds like BB King's vibrato

A Trill is a Rapid back and forth motion useing Vibrato.
And off of the top of my head right now, can/t remember the,
the first note to the thrill is gone.i would have to listen,
to it again then i could play it without a tab.
Like they quoted bb said on guitar world. listen and,
use your ears alot in blues.You could say that really a,
trill is just a fast vibrato.
Another thing bb-king could look like hes useing the tip,
of his finger if you were out front watching him.
But bb has very large fingers so how could you see what,
part of index finger is touching the string?
I got the mighty trill or fast vibrato thing from a friend that could see behind that large index finger.Studio ect
Like i said in a post awhile back that the bb king trill,
would be very hard to explain with words. oh well i tried!
If you listen real close to those lessons on guitar world,
you can hear when a reg vibrato is used plus when a trill,
i used.........................................
Mark
Play the blues but listen!


[Edited by skee1 on 06-19-2001 at 09:33 PM]