I was watching these B.B videos and realized this guy knows more about music theory than many people give him credit for. He just doesn't wail away round pentatonics, but introduces some beautiful chord tone patterns. A true master of phrasing and saying more in four notes than many can in four hundred. Notice carefully and you will see that although he uses few notes, he subtely bends these notes into many other notes of the scale without actually alighting on them with his fingers.
His light and shade phrasing and delicate finger technique produce the tone, not an effects box.
These are well worth watching for people whatever genre of music you are into.
Even If you are a ten million notes a minute person who can't hack it without an effects processor , sit back and watch raw basic tone in action.
Yep dear old B.B has got to be one of my favourite players. A sort of Afro American Pavarotti.
Pavarotti was known as a dolce tenor ( sweet tenor ) and I think old B.B could well be described as the same thing in blues world.
I went to see his UK farewell tour in Wembley last week.. Awesome !
This man just feels every note of music he plays..
Anyway.. If you have the time..Enjoy..