Sometimes it just feels SO great to dig into a short phrase in the middle of a solo, and just repeat it over and over and over and over and over again! Loads of great players have used this trick, from Eric Clapton to BB King to John Mayer and everyone in between. There are […]
This is a cool-sounding lick that you can modify in a lot of different ways. In fact, it’s kind of like three licks in one. You can have a lot of fun with just the first bar, especially if you take that idea and move it elsewhere in the scale. Then, in the second bar, […]
Have you ever wanted to capture a real bluesy sound in your licks? Today’s Lick of the Week comes straight out of the pentatonic major scale, with one small twist… We’re using a flatted third as a passing note, going up to the third of the chord, and that little movement adds tons of blues […]
This is a great lick to help you move from one position to another, and of course, you can take this basic idea and apply it to more positions as well! Let me know in the comments below what kind of licks you’d like to see here in the future. You can find all the […]
It’s easy to slip into a rut of just playing within the same box patterns all the time, and sometimes you’re really looking for just a slightly different way to play those notes that changes things up a bit. Well, this is one of those riffs that can help change things up – just ever […]
Flatted fifths are incredibly dissonant… And that’s exactly why we like them! There’s nothing quite like creating massive musical dissonance and then immediately resolving it – people just love that stuff. However, if you camp out on the dissonance, your solo is going to go downhill FAST. So, as I mentioned in the video, although […]
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