Chords for Key To The Highway - Guitar Lesson and Tutorial - B.B. King

BB King is really a household name.
If you can think of one blues guitar player, it's probably BB King.
He's famous for playing his beloved guitar.
It's an ES-335 like this.
He refers to as Lucille.
_ It got its name back in the winter of 1949.
He was playing at a club where they were heating it with
barrels of kerosene and
two men got into a fight and ended up kicking one of the barrels over and setting the whole place on fire.
[Fm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ [G] _
[Abm] _ _ [Cm] _ [Eb] I [Cm] got the [Db] key.
[Ab] _
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_ [Db] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ [Cm] _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _ [Db] _ [Abm] _ _
[Ab] _ Oh give me [Abm] one.
_ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Db] _ [Bm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb]
I [Cm] got the [Db] key.
[Ab] _ One thing to notice is the way that I'm using vibrato.
It's really really
stylistic of the way that BB King plays.
So here goes.
_ [Db] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [B] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ [Fm] _ [B] _ [Eb] _ _
[Fm] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ [B] _ _ [E] _ Okay, so the rhythm guitar player on this song, he basically
varies between two different ways of playing the chord progression.
Here's the first one.
_ So you're going to set up an A-flat major chord.
So your third finger is on the sixth fret of the fourth string.
Your [Ab] second finger is on the fifth fret of the third string.
And then your first finger is laid across the fourth fret of the first and second strings.
And so what you're going to do is you're going to hammer on
from your first finger to your second finger on that third string like this.
It's just a little ornament [Db] there.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] _
[Ab] _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ [Abm] _ _
_ [Ebm] _ [E] _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _