Lick Of The Week Another Nameless Blues Lick I’ve gotta confess, it’s HARD to name guitar licks! I could just go with the lick of the week number, but that seems bland and boring. Or, I could describe what’s under the hood so to speak – today we’re using a the blues scale, a flatted fifth, a one tone bend, etc. But again, […]
Lick Of The Week The Repeater 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 […]
Lick Of The Week Lick of the Week 9: 4ths in G Major 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 […]
Lick Of The Week Lick of the Week 7: Sliding Fourths 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. […]
Lick Of The Week Lick of the Week 4: Open Pentatonic Bend 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 […]
Lick Of The Week Lick of the Week 3: Double Stops This guitar lick comes from two different scale patterns, box 1 and box 2 of the pentatonic minor patterns, or you could also call them the root 6 major and minor scales. A double stop is simply two notes played simultaneously. In the right context, the right double stop can be an incredibly sweet addition […]
