How to Play "The Thrill is Gone" by B.B. King

You can learn how to play The Thrill is Gone as played by blues legend B.B. King. It’s easy and a whole lot of fun!

The Thrill is Gone is a slow minor-blues song and B.B. King’s most famous recording. Blues musicians Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell wrote the song in 1951. It is worth noting that Roy Hawkins recorded it first and reached number six on the Billboard R&B charts. However, B.B. King recorded and released the song in 1969 on his album Completely Well. As a result, Mr. King won the Grammy award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. Rolling Stone Magazine voted The Thrill is Gone to be number 183 their 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The Thrill is Gone is certainly an iconic blues song. Numerous artists have re-recorded the song after B.B. King including Aretha Franklin, Little Milton, Chicken Shack/Stan Webb , Luther Allison, the Crusaders, Barbara Mandrell, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Steven Allan Brown, the Manhattan Transfer, Dishwalla, Diamanda Galas, Willie Nelson, the Marshall Tucker Band, Pappo, Leslie West, M.C. Hammer, and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. Perhaps you could record the next big hit! Start by learning how to play the blues masterpiece with eMedia Music multimedia software giving the assist.

You can learn to play this wonderful blues song using B.B. King’s original recording thanks to eMedia Masters of Blues Guitar software for Windows and Mac. This fun software for your desktop computer shows you exactly what B.B. plays using note-for-note tablature and notation transcription. Meanwhile, an animated fretboard shows the correct fingering. Furthermore, you can loop any section of the music and slow it down. The software examines ten original blues guitar master recordings, each with detailed transcription and multimedia features. eMedia makes learning how to play The Thrill is Gone fun and easy. Learn how.