Today I thought I’d haul out my acoustic guitar for a bit of a change, and teach a guitar lick that might be a little more accessible for the beginners among us. It’s actually pretty much the same lick as we learned in Lick 7: Sliding Fourths, but it may sound and feel very different […]
Today’s guitar lick comes from the key of C major. We’re working with sixths, which are also sometimes called inverted thirds. If you like that kind of thing, checkout my Secrets of Tasty Riffs & Solos course for a lot more of it. The main difference between a sixth and an inverted third is which […]
If memory serves, I first stole this lick or something like it from Colin James. If you’re not familiar with his music, look him up, it’s awesome! Double stops like this are sooo tasty, I can’t get enough of them. For extra effect, make sure you line these up over top of the correct chord. […]
Sometimes it can sound SO good to simply use the scale as a lick. Sequence or pattern based licks are great for that, and that’s exactly what we’re doing today with this descending diatonic major lick. It’s straight out of the diatonic major scale. If you wanted, you could apply this same pattern to literally […]
I bet this one is a bit off the beaten path for you! Unless you’re into jazz, not too many guitar players plumb the depths of the diminished chords, but today I wanted to show you a fairly simple way to string some into a lick. The amazing beauty of this diminished 7th chord shape […]
Open position guitar licks are kind of their own animal. Sure, you can often try to apply them to other scale positions – and later in this lesson you’ll see me do that – however, because of the open notes we have access to, we can often end up playing things that we simply couldn’t […]
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