Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play Hard Days Night by The Beatles.

So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can get yours. It has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled on one sheet. It’s in PDF format so you can download it, you can print it off, you can put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever situation you could have any chord you needed to glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description to the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.

Hard Days Night – The Beatles

All right, so first off there’s multiple things that are kind of going on in this song. This starts off we’ve got this first chord here, this is a really interesting sounding chord, it’s a G7 suspended four (Gsus4). So it’s a barre chord unfortunately, so if you’re a beginner this may be the hardest part of the song, but you could really omit this and it isn’t going to make that big of a difference. So I’m going to start off, we’re just going to barre all the way across the third fret across all of the strings. Then we’re going to take our third finger we’re going to put it here on the fifth fret of the A string. So right now it looks like we’re playing a G minor seven, but then we’re going to take our pinky and we’re going to put it down on the fifth fret of the G string. So now it’s three, five, three, five, three, three…

So we hit that one, two, three, and then we rest on four and then it just starts on G. So if you are a beginner and this is really tough to do that and like I said you could totally start off with… you don’t have to do that at the beginning of it. Okay so then from there it’s pretty simple for the most part. The song also has a really easy solo that we’re going to go over as well.

Okay, so for this first part here we’ve got the chords G and then C add nine (Cadd9). So if you just take your regular old G chord here and you move your first and your second finger up a string each so now my first finger is on the second fret of the D string and my second fingers on the third fret of the A string and we don’t play the low E string, that’s Cadd9. And then we’ve got an F over C (F/C) and this is just my kind of a preference. So you could play A full on F barre chord like this if that if that’s comfortable for you, or you can do the really basic F chord shape that you probably already know. How I like to do it is like F/C, so it’s the regular F, but I just have the C in the bass here. So that’s third fret of the A string, third fret of the D string, third finger, fourth finger and then my second finger is on the second fret of the G string and first finger is barring the first and second string…

Then we also have a regular C major chord, a D major chord and that’s all the chords for this first part of the song. All right, so we start off with the G major on here it it’s broke down pretty simple for the most part. It’s quarter notes and eighth notes, so this is like one, two and, and then on the downbeat of three it goes to Cadd9, but you don’t need to really break it up you know… you can kind of just feel it. Once you get to where you can just kind of feel it and wing your own rhythms it’s so much easier to play and sounds lots better too. All right, so that’s on G, down, down, up and we switch to a Cadd9, down, up, down and then to a G down and up. If you wanted to do it that way it’d be like one, two and, three and, four and, so it’s kind of weird that G is coming in on the and of four and then it’s tied to one on the next measure. So you have that eighth note plus a quarter note for beat number one and then two, three, four and… Okay then we switch to the F, whatever version of it you’re gonna do, up… Then to a G and it’s one and, two, three and, four and, and then that also is carries over on to the next measure, one, two and. So it’s a lot easier if you just kind of feel this… now we’re back to Cadd9 again, back to F, G and the next change we go to a C.

So this is where the strumming kind of changes and this is kind of weird to count because it’s quarter note then an eight then a quarter then three eighths; one, two and, three and, four and… So how I think of it is like down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, up… Then we when we go to this D it’s the same thing, the same strum, and then we go to a G

one, two and, three, to a Cadd9 and four and then on the and of four back to G.

All right, so if you’re looking on your transcription we’re on the first staff of the second page. So if you look back at the very beginning starting on the second measure it has the beginning of the repeat, it’s the double barre with the colon. Now if we look here we’ve got the colon and a double barre so that’s the end of the repeat. So it means we’re going to go back to the second measure and play forward again, but the second time we do it where it has that bracket above that third measure with the number one. That means it’s the first ending. So the second time you play through it you’ll skip that measure and go right on to measure 14 because you can see above it has the bracket with the number two. The basic difference is when we get to this end… it goes right into another verse that second time around… it’s gonna be one and, two, three and, four. And then on the and of four we switch to a B minor (Bm) and this is what I’m going to call the bridge section.

This is the part that Paul McCartney sings and like a lot of Beatles fashion they completely change the feel of the song when he sings it versus when John Lennon sings. They’ll like switch your major chords to minor chords just to have that contrast which I think is really cool. So B minor barre chord unfortunately if you’re a beginner this might be kind of tough, but just do the best you can. So we’re gonna barre our first finger across the first five strings of the second fret and then my second finger is here on the third fret of the B string, my third finger is on the uh excuse me the fourth fret of the D string and my pinkies on the fourth fret of the G string. So we’re hitting that on the and of four and then it’s tied to all of beat one on that next measure; so it’s like and one, two, three and, four, and on the and of four we’re gonna switch to an E minor (Em)… So it goes into back into that same strum that we were doing uh on the C and D on the John Lennon part. So with the Bm to an Em and then on the and of four of that measure back to B minor again and now it’s going to go into that strum that we did on the D and C on the John Lennon part… so same strum still; down, up, up, down, up, to an Em. And then we’re gonna go to a C7; so if you just take your regular C major chord and you take your pinky and you put it down onto so it’s on the third fret of the G string that’s C7. So we got same strum to a D major one, two and, three and, four and, the whole bridge section… Then it just goes back into the same thing, it repeats those parts again.  So it’s easy to put the song together when you have these two sections.

Solo Section

Alright, so now let’s take a look at the guitar solo. So this guitar solo is actually really easy. It’s just one little riff that’s repeated twice. So we’re going to start off here on the third fret of the low E string and you want to use your third finger. So we hit this, it’s a dotted quarter note so it means it’s going to get all of beat one plus the downbeat of two and then we hit it again on the and of two; so one, two and, and then on the downbeat of three we’re going to go to the first fret of the A string, three on the and of three to the third fret, down B to four back to the first fret and then on the four back to three and slide to the fifth fret… All right, so that’s the riff or lick or whatever you want to call it is two measures long and it’s repeated. So once we go through these two measures or excuse me these four measures here you just repeat the whole sequence. Now when we slide up to that five we’re doing it from the and of four and then it is tied to that whole measure. So it’s like one, two and, three and, four and, one, two, three, four… All right, so then the second half of this riff we’re going to keep our third finger here where we’ve got it on the fifth fret of the A string, We’re going to take our first finger we’re going to bring it back here and we’re going to barre so we’re picking up the third fret of the A string and the D string and then we’re going to pick the starting on the A string pick three and hammer to five and then we’re gonna follow that with the third fret on the D string. So how I’m doing this is I pick down pick and hammer and then an upstroke on the D string. So it just repeats you do that one, two, three, four, so you do it four times… Then you’re gonna with your third finger here on the fifth fret you’re gonna pick and slide to the third fret, but you’re going to want to do both of your fingers together. So your first finger is coming down here to the first fret and the reason is because we’re gonna pull that off so we’re gonna pick five, slide to three, pull to one and then end on the third fret of the low E string and that’s measure four and it’s a whole note…

Conclusion

Alright, so there you have it, not too difficult rendition of Hard Day’s Night by The Beatles. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you a couple of pentatonic interval bending ideas for licks that you can hopefully incorporate into your own playing.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.

All right, so you can see on the tabs, staff one, which is just a single measure; measure one is one idea and measure two is another idea and they’re not in really any particular order. These are movable since there aren’t any open strings so you can move this around into whatever key you want.

Interval Bending Lick-1

So this very first one here we’re going to look at we’re going to start off with a slide from nowhere to the 13th fret on the G string. So I’m going to use my middle finger to do this and the reason for that is that the following notes after that is 12 on the B string and then 14 on the B string… So what we’re going to do is we’re going to slide from nowhere to 13 and this whole thing’s got like a triplet, one two three, one two three, feel to it. So we’re going to do that slide from nowhere to 13 and then follow that with 12 on the B string and hammer to 14, one two three… Okay so now the next part here starting on the second beat this is where the interval bending comes in. So what I’m saying by interval bending is that I’m going to bend this note up and I’m gonna play it over the top of this note here. So if I bend to where it was pretty hard to bend like a unison bender where you’re bending to the same pitch here we’re bending because we get that cool interval. You can make some really neat sounding stuff that kind of emulates, like in country music, that pedal steel sound. So slide from nowhere to 13 to 12, hammer to 14 and then I’m gonna drop my pinky onto the 14th fret of the high E string; so I’ve still got my third finger on the 14th fret of the B string, but you want to keep your first and second fingers down here too so it’s easier to bend and you get all three fingers to give you the leverage to bend easier. So we’re going to bend this note up the whole step… and what we’re trying to get is that inner third sound there. So how I’ve got it written on here and this is for an idea so it’s like one two three… to the one two one two three and then starting on beat three you’re gonna do the bend again and then you’re gonna do bend and release… Then the 12th fret on the B string your first finger and then just let it roll up to get both the B and high strings together… Now you could change that around, you know speed it up, slow it down or you could increase the length of the bends… whatever you need to do to kind of make it fit whatever you’re playing…

Interval Bending Lick-2

All right, and then for the second one, it’s more or less the same concept, we’re just going to move it down a set of strings. So now we’re going to do our slide from nowhere to the 13th fret on the D string and now I’m going to use my third finger to do this because the next notes are going to be 11 on the G string hammer to 13… So here we have… and now we’ve got… Now for the bend on this one we’re going to bend that up a whole step on the G string, but then we’re going to be playing it over the 14th fret of the B string with my pinky… same concept of on the other one. The only difference is we’re on different strings and now we have to be up a half step on the note we’re playing over the top of. Now when we end this one… we have this 11th fret here on the G string and instead of going to 11th fret of the B string we’re going to go to the 12. So we’re getting that same fourth interval that we got here, but because the B string is a half step lower than the other string so you always have to compensate for that… So same thing you can elongate it…

Combining The Licks

Now you could try doing stuff where you hook the two things together, and again it kind of depends on what you’re playing over the top of. I would experiment with it so like here when we’re here… it’s like a B major and then we go to like an E… Now when we go to this one we’ve got an F sharp down to a B. And to the other one we had the five, so if you wanted to think of it that way it’s like E and F sharp; so one four five. But anyway you can move this around into different keys… wherever you want to do it… Anyway, this is just one idea of lots of different things you can do. My recommendation for like experimenting and finding these intervals is if you just take the pentatonic scale and you could do the same thing going into the lower strings, it just doesn’t really sound as good in my opinion. Anyway, if you take the pentatonic scale and you’re bending this note we already know we can do that that unison bend there we can do that there we could skip over a string… So in that case you have to hybrid pick, but that could be a subject for a whole other video.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, a couple of interval bending ideas for licks that hopefully you can apply it to your own playing. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play This Boy by The Beatles.

So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can get yours. It has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled on one sheet. It’s in PDF format so you can download it, you can print it off, you can put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever situation you could have any chord you needed to glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at this.

This Boy – The Beatles

All right, so there’s actually three different ways that we’re going to be looking at this, actually even probably even more than three. This is a fairly easy song and a really timeless Beatles tune. But there are a lot of variations of things you can do with chords on here and ways you can play it versus playing by yourself versus playing with a second guitar. So hopefully this will be kind of a thing that no matter what skill level you’re at there’ll be something that you could hopefully get out of this.

All right, so it’s got this kind of swing kind of feel to it because it’s in a six eight (6/8).

So as we go through this let’s kind of show you the alternative different ways to do it. So we’ve got the intro and we’ve got a D major chord, we’ve got a B minor, we’ve got an E minor seven… Okay so when you when you actually when you listen to the song it’s got the intro it starts off here with these three quarter notes of D and then it goes into the rhythm. Well there’s actually two guitar parts, so one guitar is just playing these chords in the background, so we’ve got one, two and, three, so just two strums, well if you only play that part of it by itself it’s not like super interesting. It would be hard to even tell what song it was unless you were singing it. So you could have B minor, E7 or E minor seven and then A7 and then that other little melody going over the top of it. So you could play it if you were just totally playing this by yourself you could just… or if you have a second guitar player you have somebody that’s playing those chords in the back or even without it, it still sounds pretty good… So we’ve got these that blends really well, this is a lot easier to play too, especially if you’re a beginner. So what I’m doing here is I’m barring at the seventh fret across the D and G strings. Now so for this first chord, the D, this is D if we look at our D major barre chord we’re just playing the top end of it, but you want to use your first finger here because the next chord is B minor. So all we’re going to do is take keep our first finger where it is, but take our third finger and go to the ninth fret on the D string and that’ll give us our B minor; because again if we look at our barre chord we’re just playing the top end of it… so this way you get this…

Okay then the next one we’ve got is our E minor seven (Em7); so if we look at our E minor seven barre chord and we just play the top end of it… we get the notes that are in E minor seven, but we don’t get is the E, so technically those are the same notes that are in a G major chord. So later on we’re going to be playing a G major we’re going to be able to use the same voicing. You might be thinking “how are we going to be able to do that”, but you’ll hear it when you play it even though when we play this is a G it’s going to sound like a G and when we play the B minor seven it sounds like B minor seven. So we’ve got that D, B minor and then the E minor seven and then an A7. So we do our A7 barre chord here, but we just play the top end… But what we can do here is barre across starting on the D string and we can actually play the A string open with it if we want and that’s our A7… Okay, so as far as that rhythm, it’s an eighth note, two sixteenth notes, an eighth note and then three more eighth notes. So it’s like da da da da da da… So what I’m doing to make those last ones really punchy is I’m releasing the pressure. So I’m only really hitting it technically on the downbeat and then the upbeat and it’s not really the downbeat playing them as eighth notes. I’m actually hitting the 16th note and then resting on the next 16th note…  I’m only doing that on the last ones… and then I go to the next chord the B minor and do the same thing… E minor seven… A seven…

Okay so here is where it brings us to the verse. So the verse is like the same kind of thing. So we start off with D again, you can have one guitar doing… behind it if you have two or if you’re playing by yourself you could do these chords doing that same thing to get that little mute in there… I like playing it this way. I just think it’s more fun because it’s a little different and a good opportunity to work on these triad shapes and stuff. I just think it’s kind of more fun to play it this way. So it’s the same idea, we’ve got one measure D and then we’ve got one measure of B minor. Then we’re going to go to that E minor seven and also at the beginning of the verse you know so it’s a repeat. So the first two times… that’s our first and second ending. So the first two measures the D and the B minor and then the E minor seven and the A7 is the first two endings and then on the third time through its those chords, but what’s different is that instead of strumming it we’re just going to let them ring out for three beats each because they’re dotted half notes. So the whole verse with all the repeats… Now I’m on the third time; two, two, three, one, two, three and then it goes right back into… Okay, so now this leads us into the bridge section.

On the bridge section we’ve got a couple of new chords we have to look at. So we’ve got still our regular D major and then we’ve also got the D7. So for those of you don’t know what that is it’s like you take your regular D major chord and the note here on the B string moving from the third fret to the first fret, but the other two notes stay the same, so you just switch which fingers you’re using… So it’s going to be the one, two and, three, one, two and, three, one, two and three, one, two and three… All we’re going to do is for that D we’re on the seventh fret of the D, G and B string, we’re just gonna have the eighth fret of the high E and now we have our D7 because that note says C, that was a C down there and then to a G. So you could have this regular open G and this is where I was saying earlier that we’re going to be doing G here, this was our E minor seven. If we take the notes that we’ve got here to make up a G major. So the difference between the two is basically if you just take the G major and add an E in it you could look at it as E minor seven or as G6, that’s a whole other subject, but we’re just going to use that shape. So we’re going to be on this bridge we’re gonna have the… now we’re playing the G, but it’s the same that we did for E minor seven earlier… and there’s two measures long. Before everything was one measure. Now we’ve got an F sharp seven; so this F sharp seven you know if you just take your regular seven shape, but you know barring on the second fret. Here we can do it like that; if you’re more of a beginner we could just do it like this. So I’m just doing the top end of it so it’s more or less kind of what we’re doing for the A7, we’re just moving it down, but how we’re going to do it for this higher part here we’ve got the G, we’re just going to move that shape down a half step. Now we want to add in that high E… open high E string. Okay then we’re going to go to a B minor; so we’re just going to scoot back up and do the B minor shape we did before… And then we’ve got a D7; so for that D7 we’re just going to move this shape down a whole step and then drop your pinky onto the seventh fret of the B string so we’re just playing the top end of it. And again this whole part everything’s staying on two measures… F sharp seven, B minor seven. Then after that D7 we’re going to go back to G so we’re going to come back up to that same shape again, two measures of it again. Then we’ve got an E; so if you were playing it you know here it’s got this regular E major chord, but what we’re going to do is we’re coming from here is we’re going to pick up the ninth fret of the D, G and B strings, plus the high E string open. So I’m using my second finger to get the D string, third finger on the G and fourth finger on the B so that way the high E string can be open.

And then to A7 and then it has it rests and then it goes back and you know into another verse… and then it just goes back into another…

So you can see there’s a variety of ways that you can play this. So if you were just playing by yourself you could do this one or you could do the one… If I was playing it on my acoustic guitar I probably wouldn’t do this, not that you that you couldn’t do it, it’s just my acoustic guitar once you get up into that area it’s got some issues that need to be resolved and it just doesn’t sound good, but here it sounds pretty good I think… on the electric guitar and then if I find an acoustic I might play it down here… you can change up that rhythm, there’s really a million ways you could do it, it’s kind of up to you, make it your own.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, a slightly variable variation of This Boy by The Beatles. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you in the style of John Fogerty.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

John Fogerty Riff-1 – Born On The Bayou

All right, so the first one to look at is the opening riff for Born on the Bayou. This is really easy. If you just take the C7 shape that you probably already know; if not it’s just it’s just a regular old C chord, but you’re going to take your pinky and put it so it’s on the third fret of the G string. So it’s on the same fret as your third finger is on so if we just take that shape and we move it up so now we’re on the seventh fret of the A string with my third finger, the sixth fret of the D string with my second finger, seventh fret of the G string with my pinky and then the fifth fret of the B string with my first finger. And it’s pretty easy, we’re gonna just pick it A, D, B, G… So that’s one and, two and, three and, and four. So the timing is not just a consistent three eighth notes and then a quarter note and then three eighth notes; so one and, two and, three, four and, so A, D, B, G, D and then the B and the G string together and then just the G string. So it’s not consistently like that. Sometimes I don’t think he was being really particular about how he did it. So if you just kind of… Now you could hybrid pick it, but I think that it sounds the most authentic to my ear when I play it anyway if I just use the pick…

John Fogerty Riff-2 – Ramble Tamble

All right, so the next one to look at is the riff for Ramble Tamble. Now this is in drop D so you’re going to need to tune your low E string down a whole step to D, but everything else stays the same. So we’re going to start off with the open low E string twice, remember it’s tuned down to D. So this is one and, and then starting on beat number two we’re going to play the A string open and then a hammer-on to the third fret and then to the fifth fret and that sixteenth note, so two e and uh. Now we’re going to go to the third fret on the D string with your first finger and this is an eighth note, so it’s kind of weird because it’s taking care of the last 16th note of beat two, plus the first sixteenth note of beat three so it it’s going to ring out longer… Then we’re gonna go to the fifth fret of the A string with your third finger and that is on the and of three and then for the downbeat of four we’re gonna go up here and how I’m doing is I use my second finger on the third fret of the G string and then my third finger on the sixth fret of the B string and that’s four and. And then on the and of four we just flatten the note on the sixth on the B string from the sixth fret to the fifth fret…

John Fogerty Riff-3 – Up Around The Bend

All right, then the last one to look at here is from Up Around The Bend. So I want to show you two ways that you can play this, the second part of it anyway. It’s four measures long and it just repeats and the first and second measure are the same and then the third and fourth measure the same; so technically it’s a two measure riff that’s just repeated. So we’re going to start off with the D string open and this is a quarter note, so it’s one and then we’re going to do a slide from nowhere to the tenth fret of the B string to the 10th fret of the high E and then back to ten… one, two and, three and, and the downbeat of four we’re gonna go to the seventh fret on the B string and then on the and of four back to the tenth fret. So that’s half of the riff right there… All right, so for the second half here I’ve got it tabbed out the way that I play it and I’m not sure how Fogerty actually does it. So I’m going to show you two ways to do it. I feel it this way is a little bit easier just because I don’t have to move around as much, but if you’re somewhat of a beginner the other the alternative way I’m going to show you might be possibly easier at first, but it has its own set of problems too. Okay so what basically what we’re going to do is we’re going to move the riff down a perfect fourth so now the open string will be the A string. Now what I’m doing is I’m going the A string open, it’s the same timing but I’m going to slide from nowhere to the ninth fret on the G string to the 10th fret of the B string, back to nine on G and then down to six and back up to nine… Now an alternative way you could do this is instead of doing it here, you could do it on the same strings how we did it originally with the open… But now we would move it down to the fifth fret so still we have to switch from the open D to the open A. Slide from nowhere to five on the B string to five on the high E, back to the B string down to the second fret and then back to five… Now doing it this way is easier because it’s the same shape, but now the frets are much further apart; you’re in this kind of awkward position. This way you have this transition where you have to go up a half step on the B string and stuff so that can make it a little tricky if you’re new, but really I would try to work on it both ways and then you will figure out which way is easier for you, which can help you with other things in the in the future. So the whole thing… So it does two measures based around D, one measure based around A and then back to one measure based around D and then the whole thing just repeats…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun and easy riffs in the style of John Fogerty. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. That is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got some licks and lick ideas for you in the style of Eric Clapton.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get a close-up and take a look at these.

About The Licks

All right, so first thing I’m going to show you three completely isolated Eric Clapton licks that you may not hear and recognize what song it’s from, but these are things that I chose because they are typical kinds of licks that he does. And then after we do these three then I’m going to show you the intro melody lead for Layla to sort of put the concepts together.

Eric Clapton Lick-1

All right, so this first lick is pretty easy. All of these are relatively easy to play, but they hopefully will give you some ideas for your for own playing. So the first one here we’re starting here on the 10^th fret on the B string and we’re in D minor pentatonic. So we’re going to pick this 10 and then I’m going to hammer to the 13^th fret and pull back off to 10. So this is this is a triplet, so these are eighth note triplets, so trip-le-t. So that takes care of beat one and then for beat two we’re gonna go here to the 12th fret on the G string and that’s a quarter note… and then you should repeat that… So you can see the idea… A lot of cool ways that you could play the same sequence and just change up the timing and tempo and kind of make it your own.

Eric Clapton Lick-2

All right and then lick number two… For this one we’re in E minor pentatonic, but it has some passing tones in here. So we’ve talked a lot about that in the past and this is just going to kind of give you an example. So we’re going to start off here on the 15th fret of the B string and we’re going to pick this and we’re going to bend it up a whole step and it’s a quarter note… so that takes care of beat one. And then on the downbeat of two we’re going to the 13th fret and that’s adding in an F that’s not in the pentatonic scale and technically it’s not even in the key of E minor. In E minor it’s F sharp, but by having this passing tone in there you can really get some interesting sounds. All right, so we do that bend on the B string and then we’re gonna go to the 13th fret on the high E string and we’re going to pick that and hammer-on to the 15th fret. So this is one, two and, and then on the downbeat of three we’re going to go back to the 15th fret on the B string and we’re going to bend that up a full step and it’s an eighth note. And then it’s we release it to an eighth note. So this is the downbeat of three, three and. And then to 13 on the B string and when we go to 13 on the B string we’re hitting this C, which again is not part of the pentatonic scale, but it is in the key… So after we do the bend and release, three and, four and then that’s tied to a whole note on the next measure… So you can really kind of hear that Clapton kind of sound in there and again you can take this and add it into other things…

Eric Clapton Lick-3

All right, and then the third one here, and this one’s really short, it’s just a single measure lick. We’re going to start here on the seventh fret, and one thing too I forgot to mention is any of these things we’re doing here are all movable and you can just move them down into a different positions and you’d still get the same sequence, but you just do it in a different key since this doesn’t involve any open strings. So we’re starting here on the seventh fret on the G string and this is a quarter note, so it’s beat number one. So we’ll hit that and throw a little vibrato on it and then on the downbeat of two we’re gonna go to the seventh fret on the D string and we’re going to pick that do a hammer-on to nine, two and then back to seven on the G string. So we hit it twice, so it’s one, two and, three and, four, so it’s tied to four…

Eric Clapton Lick-4 – Layla

All right and then the last thing I want to show you here is this intro lead from Layla just to see how some of these things are incorporated in there and then again showing some samples of passing tones. So we’re gonna come up here we’re gonna start on the 10th fret of the B string and I’m gonna pick that and then do a hammer-on to the 13th fret then I’m going to go to the high E string and do the same thing. And then I’m gonna pull back off to ten… this is 16th note, so one e and uh, two B and three. So that’s our entire first measure… Okay now we have to we hit that bend on beat number four and then starting on the second measure we’re gonna release the bend and we’re gonna go 13, 12 and then 13 on the B string, ten on the high E string and those are all quarter notes, so it’s one, two, three, four… Okay, so the third measure is the same as the first measure, except for one thing, so we’re going to start off the same way with the 10 hammer to 13 on the B string and then to 10 hammer to 13, pull to 10 on the high E, back to 13 on the B string, back to 10 on the high E string. So it’s the same as that first measure except the very last note. So on the first measure the last note we bend the 13th fret on the high string, but now we’re going to shift up and we’re going to bend the 15th fret. So we’re going to do the same thing that we did we’re going to bend that on four and then this the fourth measure starts on 15, quarter notes, 1 to 12 and then 13 on the B string for beats three and then back to 10 on the high E for beat four… All right so like I said here we’re doing your basic pentatonics stuff. We’ve got parts we’re adding in, these passing tones… So this is out of Mixolydian and that’s like a really common thing. I’m not really mixing Mixolydian into pentatonic and I’m not going to get into that today. I’ve done a couple of lessons on that already.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three basic licks in the style of Eric Clapton and then the intro lead sequence for Layla. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy licks for you in the style of John Fogerty.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

John Fogerty Lick -1 Old Man Down The Road

All right, so the first one to look at is from the intro for Old Man Down The Road. This one’s pretty easy and it’s just based out of the pentatonic and using the open strings here in the first position. So we’re going to start off we rest on the first three beats and then on beat number four we start with the open G string and then on the and of four we go to the second fret. So when I’m doing this I’m using my second finger and it’s just because here in a minute we’re gonna have to go to the first fret; just so I don’t have to change my hand position. So we’re going to go four and then the first beat of the second measure is we’re going to bend that up a half step with some vibrato. And then starting on the downbeat of two we get that note again, second fret on the G string, and we’re going to that’ll be two and then on the and of two we hit the open G string. Then for beat three we’re gonna go to the second fret of the D string and then for beat number four we’re gonna go to the first fret of the A string and then on the and a four the open A string… All right, so that’s the first two measures and then starting on the third measure we’re going to go to the third fret of the low E string and I’m going to use my third finger. So again I’m just staying in this position so I have to switch my hand position and we’re gonna go one and then on the and of one, second fret of the G string. Then we’re going to rest on the downbeat of two and on the and of two the open low E string and then the second fret of the D string again for beat three. And then starting on beat number four is kind of where the riff starts over again. So the only thing that’s different this time we start off the same way so we’re going to starting on beat number four on the third measure; four and, and then on this fourth measure we’re going to hit we’re going to bend that a half step, but instead of it being a quarter note we’re gonna do it twice as eighth notes… and then the rest of it’s the same…

John Fogerty Lick -2 Green River

All right, so the next we’re going to look at is the riff from Green River. So we’re going to start off we’re going to hit the open low E string and I’m playing this with hybrid picking. I just think its much easier and I kind of think that’s the way that Fogerty played it too, but don’t quote me on that. So we’re going to start off on the downbeat of one we have a quarter note just the open low E string and then we’ve got this little dyad. We’re on the fourth fret of the G string and I’m using my third finger and then I’m on the second fret of the, or excuse me, the third fret of the B string. So we’re going to slide into that; so one two and three and four… So then the second measure starts off the same; so it’s one and two and, and then this is where everything changes. So just that first part… Okay so after we do the one and two and on the second measure then we’re going to do this little lick here. So we’re going to start off it’s like a slide from nowhere, but you have to basically start on the first fret on the G string and we’re gonna do that to the second fret and then follow that with the open G string… So on the end of three plus the downbeat of four and then on the and of four we’re gonna hit that D string… So we hit this and one two and open A string three and then we hammer back down to two and then on the and of three the open D string. Then we’re going to go to the third fret of the low E string and this is the downbeat of four and we’re going to do this quarter step bend and then back to the second fret of the D string. Okay now that fourth measure is very similar. So we’ve got the open low E string for beat number one and then on the downbeat of two it’s that second fret of the D string again. So two, the and of two is the open A, down B, hammer onto two, so the end of three is the open D string and then the downbeat of four is the third fret of the low E with that quarter step bend, four and. So it ends the same way as the third measure and then that whole thing just repeats…

John Fogerty Lick -3 Fortunate Son

All right and then the last one to look at is the little opening lick for Fortunate Son. So all of these notes, everything that we’re playing here is on the G and the high E strings except at the very end of it. Okay so starting off we’re going to start like here on the fourth fret of the G string and we’re going to pick that slide to six, but we’re going to treat it like a slide from nowhere. So we don’t want we want… and you let that ring. So this is like one and, two, three, four and this is the fifth fret of the high E string with my first finger. So that’s our first measure… Okay, so the second measure is basically the same thing, we’re just going to move it down. So now we’re starting on the second fret and we’re going to slide to the fourth fret and pick up the third fret of the high E string. And then for our third measure we’re going to start off with the G string open and do a hammer on to the second fret… And then pick up the second fret of the high E string. So here I’m using my second and first finger, second and first finger, second and third finger and then the fourth measure is going to be exactly the same thing, but instead of playing the second fret of the high E string, the highest string is open and then we’re going to go to the fifth string. So on the A string on the third fret and I’m going to use my third finger to pick that and just a little quarter step bend and follow it with the open A string and then the whole sequence just repeats…

Okay now the other thing with this is I’m hybrid picking this so the notes on the G string I’m playing with the pick and then I’m using my second finger to pluck the high E string… and then the pick to hit the A string.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun and easy licks in the style of John Fogerty. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got some more pentatonic sequence lick ideas for you that are going to help you to get more horizontal across the fretboard.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Horizontal Pentatonic Sequence-1

All right, so this first one that we’re going to look at is an idea that we’ve already done based out of the box pattern. This one we’re going to do is going to move through the positions ascending horizontally across the fretboard. So if you’ve seen the previous videos that I’ve done, I did one a while back where I did these pentatonic patterns that all connected together. And instead of being like in a box they were more horizontal across the fretboard.

So we’re going to use the idea from the other lick, but we’re going to put it in with this. So it’s just going to make it a little different because we’re going to be incorporating slides and I think it really makes it sound cool. So we’re going to start off on the seventh fret of the A string with your third finger and the fifth fret with your first finger. All right, so we’re going to pick seven and pull to five and then hammer back to seven.  Then we’re going to go to the fifth fret of the D string, back to the seventh fret of the A string and then back to the fifth fret of the D string.

Now we’re going to start the sequence over again on the D string. Now we’re going to start the sequence again on the D string, seven pull to five and hammer back to seven and this time we’re going to slide to nine and pull-off to seven and hammer back to nine…

So it’s all it’s in groups of three and they’re triplets… so that’s the first measure. Now we’re gonna start on the second measure and we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the G string and then back to the ninth fret of the D string and back to seven. Now we’re gonna go nine pull to seven, hammer back to nine and then we’re going to go to the eighth fret on the B string. So I’m just gonna use my second finger because then my third finger is already here on nine on the G string… Now we’re going to go eight on the

B string, nine on the G string, that’s beat three, so like the second measure; one yel-low, two yel-low, three yel-low. Then we’re going to shift our hand position slightly we’re just going to put our first finger where our second finger was on the eighth fret and then our third finger is going to go to the tenth fret and we’re going to pick and pull and then slide to twelve. When we get to twelve we’re gonna pull-off to ten and hammer back to 12. So that’s the first beat of the third measure and then we’re gonna go to the 10th fret on the high E string, back to the 12th fret of the B string, back to the tenth fret on the high E and then hammer to twelve…

Horizontal Pentatonic Sequence-2

Then the last one, I’m only doing two today because these are both kind of longer sequences, this one’s kind of cool because it just moves in positions of the fretboard and we’re just playing on the first two strings. So we’re going to start off… or like the last four notes of a minor pentatonic combining Sequence one. So we’re gonna on the B string and I’m gonna pick eight, pull to five and hammer back to eight and I’m gonna go to the fifth fret on the high E string back to the eighth fret of the B string and then back to the fifth fret. So like one yel-low, two yel-low. Then starting on the third beat we’re gonna go to the eighth fret of the high E and pick that and pull the five back to the eighth fret of the B string back to the fifth fret of the high E and then the B string eight pull to five. So we’re kind of reversing the pattern sort of. So that’s like a cool Lick in itself and I think we did something similar like that a couple of videos ago, but this is going to be a repeating sequence. So that’s the whole pattern… Now what we’re going to do is just move it up and do the same kind of idea. So what we’re going to do to move it up is that this there’s two notes for string five and eight. So we’re going to start on eight and then ten. So we’ve got a step and a half and then a whole step and the same thing on high E string, it’s going to be eight and ten. So I’m going to do that same pattern and I’m going to pick ten, pull to eight, hammer to ten and then go to eight on the high E and then back to the ten and then back on the B string and then back to the high E… Now so that’s the first two beats; one yel-low, two yel-low. Now starting on the third beat pick ten pull to eight, ten on the B string, back to eight on the high E and then ten pull to eight on the B string. So, so far… Okay so now for the next position we’re going to do the same thing and our first note is going to be the second note. So we’re going to shift up to ten and then it’s going to be 10, 12, 10, 12 and we’re going to do the same the same idea. We’re gonna start here on 12 on the B string and we’re going to pick that and pull to ten and hammer back to 12. Then 10 on the high E back to 12 on the B and back to 10 on the high E… that’s the first two beats. Now starting on beat three we have twelve pull to ten to 12 on the B string, then back to 10 on the high E and then 12 pulled to 10 on the B… Okay now we’re going to shift up again for the last time. So we’re going to do the same thing now we’re going to move up we’ll be on 12 on both strings, but now we’re going to go to 15. So we’re back to a step and a half so that’s the important thing to remember out of this is that we’ve got a step and a half a whole step and a whole step and a step and a half. So when we get here this is going to be exactly just like… but up here. So now we’re going to be 15 pull to 12, hammer to 15 to 12 on the high E, back to 15 on the B, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 on the high E to 15 on the B string, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 on the B string and then finally ending on the B string 15th fret with a full step bend.

Conclusion

Alright, a couple of fun little, longer in length, pentatonic sequences that you can make in licks. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours. So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Lynryd Skynyrd Riff-1 – Gimme Three Steps

All right so the first Lynyrd Skynyrd riff we’re going to look at is the opening riff from Gimme Three Steps. So this one’s pretty easy they’re using these inverted power chords. The intervals are fourths instead of fifths and I’ve done lots and lots of videos about this subject. So we’re going to start off we’re gonna take our first finger and we’re just going to barre at the seventh fret on the D and the G string and this first measure, this first part of the riff is all in eighth notes so it’s pretty easy to count. So we start off on the downbeat of one we play that D and G string at the seventh fret, so it’s one, and then on the end of one we rest, so one, and two, then on the downbeat of two we hit it again and then on the and of two we’re gonna pick up the ninth fret of the A string with your third finger, but you just want to keep your first finger here. Then for beat three we go back to this D over A (D/A) here the seventh fret on the D and the G string and we hit three and, and then on the downbeat of four ninth fret of the A string and then back to that chord again and that’s our first measure… All right so then the second measure on the downbeat of one we rest and then starting on the and of one we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the A string with your first finger and we’re gonna go seven and then to nine on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we’re gonna go back to that chord again. Now this time when we hit it we’re hitting it on the and of two, but it’s a quarter note, so it’s the and of two plus it rings out for the downbeat of three and then on the and of three we hit it again and then beat four we go back to the nine here and it’s a quarter note and that’s the first two measures…

So that’s the first two measures and the whole riff is four measures long and then it just repeats. So all we’re going to do here is we’re going to play the exact same thing, but we’re going to move it so instead of being based from the seventh to the ninth fret we’re going to move it down so it’s the second to the fourth fret. Now we’re going to do the exact same timing and we’re going to play it the same way we did we’re just down here… And then the only thing that’s different is the timing on the third measure is exactly the same as the first and then on the fourth measure what we’re going to do different here is we’re going to rest on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we hit the second fret here of the A string and two, and then on the and of two back to the A5 over E and it’s a eighth note tied to a half note so that rings out for the rest of the measure and then it just simply repeats…

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-2 – What’s Your Name

All right next Lynyrd Skynyrd riff we’re going to look at is What’s Your Name intro riff and this is probably the hardest one out of all of this because it’s got a combination of regular fifth power chords and the inverted ones and it’s also got a shuffle pattern like that you’ve maybe done in the past. So this one starts off even though when you’re looking at the tab it shows we rest on beats one and two and then on the downbeat of three it’s showing the fifth fret of the D and the G string and on the and it’s the third fret of the A string. And then we’ve got a C sharp five and then a D5. So the easiest way to do it is just put your fingers down like you’re going to do a C5; so my first finger is on the third fret of the A string and then I’m barring the 10th fret of the D and the G string. So what I’m going to do here is I’m going to rest one, two, three, and four… So that’s the very first measure one two three and four and now when we hit that D5 on the and I’m just moving that C5 chord up chromatically. So I’m on three and five for C5 and then C sharp five it’s four and six and D five it’s five and seven so when we hit this D5 on the and of four it’s tied to the downbeat of one of the second measure and then starting on the and of one we’re going to do this shuffle thing. So we’ve got that ringing and we hit the A string on the and of one and now we’re going to take our pinky and reach up and grab the ninth fret on the D string and we’re still keeping the fifth fret of the a string. So here this is the shuffle thing I was talking about. So we’ve got… and then back to seven… then we rest on the downbeat of three and on the and of three we’re going to come up to the tenth fret of the D and the G string, so that’s the inverted power chord thing again and we’re going to hit that and slide to the ninth fret and that’s going to be and four, ten slide to nine and we rest on the downbeat of three and four and then on the and of four we’re barring the seventh fret of the D string… we hit that on the and of four and it’s tied to beat number one of the third measure which is a quarter note. So that rings out and then on the downbeat of two we strum it again two and then on the and of two we come back here to the ninth fret of the A string. So this part is kind of similar to the last riff… So this is ringing out; and four, and one, two and, three and. Then we hit the open low E string and the downbeat of four we’ve got an F sharp five. So it’s the second fret here on the low E string and the fourth fret on the A string, half step to G5 on the and of four and that’s our first three measures… So this is not only the most difficult riff of these three, but it’s the it’s the longest as well. Now we hit when we get to the and forth and now going on to the fourth measure here we got another shuffle. So we’re on this G5 one and, and then on the downbeat of two we reach up and grab the seventh fret on the A string and take it back off so it goes back to five, back to there again on the and of three and then that’s a quarter note so it’s the and of three plus the downbeat of four and then on the and of four we’re gonna grab a G5 up here. So 10^th fret on the A string and 12th fret on the D and the G string and we hit that and slide out of it… Then the last measure here the fifth measure to wrap this up we rest on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we have this A5 over E again; so we’re just barring the second fret of the D and the G string and then on the downbeat of two we come up to the fifth fret and then on the and of two we slide to four; so one and, two and, and three were back to the eight for the and of three we’re gonna go to the third fret of the A string with your second finger and then to the fourth fret with your third finger on the downbeat of four and then the and of four a five…

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-3 – Saturday Night Special

All right then the last Lynyrd Skynyrd riff we’re going to look at this the easiest one out of all of them in my opinion. This one uses a combination of power cords and the inverted ones as well. So we’re going to start off with those same inverted ones, but now we’re on the ninth fret of the A and the D string and it’s going to go from nine to seven and back to nine. So I’m going to use my third finger here on the ninth fret and my first finger when we go to the seventh fret. So this is eighth notes one and, two, and then on the and of two we’re gonna use our first finger to shift up to play the seventh fret of the D in the G string… So one and, two, and then we rest on the downbeat of three and the and of three we come back to where we started here on the B5 over F sharp and then we rest on the downbeat of four and then the and of four we’ve got this A5 power chord. So fifth fret of the low E string and seventh fret of the A and the D string, so we’ve got… So we hit that on the and a four, but then it’s tied to the first beat, well it’s actually the first and the second beat because it’s tied to a half note so it takes care of beats one and two of the second measure; so you want to throw some vibrato on there… Okay so we hit that it’s on the it’s beats one and two of that second measure and then starting on the downbeat of three we’re gonna go back to the seventh fret on the A and the D string and we’re gonna slide to nine so three and, and then we rest on four. So coming from this you can just slide up however you’re doing it if you’re doing it with three fingers, like this, you can slide up or just using one finger barre and whatever’s more comfortable for you. So this has two endings. So we play the first measure and then the second measure and then the first measure again, skip the second measure and go to the third measure because that’s what the brackets on the top is showing your first and second ending. So the first time through… we’re gonna hit this big E5; so it’s the open low E string, seventh fret of the A string with your first finger and then the ninth fret of the D string with your third finger ninth thread the G string with your third finger and the B and high E strings are open… So that one’s the shortest of them and it’s the easiest one as well. That’s a cool riff and it’s the first song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that I can remember every hearing. I had a compilation record that had a bunch of different songs, this is in the probably like 1978 or something. It was a hand-me-down record from my sister that had like all this different stuff, but this is one of the songs that was on there.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun not two terribly difficult riffs to play from Lynyrd Skynyrd. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got some more pentatonic sequence and lick ideas for you.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-1

All right, so the first one we’re going to look at here I’ve showed you before, but in a different context. So before we looked at it with the… so you play one, two, three, four, five, six notes. So you play two notes per string and play three strings and then you add one more string as you go along. So like six, five and four and then five, four and three. So what I’m going to show you now is to do it by shifting up into different positions. It’s still going to sound more or less the same, but instead of being stuck in this box it’s going to move you to different places and help you to play more horizontally. So the simplest way to do that for this little exercise is we’re going to start here on the A string, this is all just going to be on the A, D and G strings. So we’re going to start here at the fifth fret I’m going to pick and then do a hammer-on to the seventh fret and I’m going to do that on all three of these strings… So pretty easy just like the other one, but now what we’re going to do is we’re going to shift up to the next position. So we’re going to go from five and seven to 10 and 12, but still on the same strings. So the tenth fret on the A string, here is a G, and then the 12th fret is an A. So if we look at the fifth fret on the D string it’s a G and then an A, so by shifting up we’re going to get that same effect… Now we want to come up and do the same thing 10 to 12. Now we’re going to move up five frets again, so that’s going to put us at the 15th and 17th fret and we’re going to do the same thing, but the only difference now is that when we go to the G string the first note has to be flat a half step; so we’re 15, 17, 15, 17 and now when we go to the G string it’s 14 and 17… So by practicing that and just getting used to that spacing when you’re improvising instead of having to be stuck in the box you could play stuff here… something like that.

Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-2

All right, then the next we’re going to look at is based out of your box pattern number one of the pentatonic and we’re doing it here in E, but it’s movable just like the previous one, they’re movable shapes since we’re not using any open strings. So this is a variation on another one that we did recently, but what I like about this one is that you can just barre your first finger so it makes it a little bit easier to be able to play. So we’re gonna take our first finger we’re gonna barre at the 12th fret just across the first four strings with your third finger. We’re going to start here on the 14th fret and we’re going to pick and pull to 12 and then hammer back on to 14. Then we’re going to go to the G string 12th fret and then back to 14 on the D string. Then we’re going to follow that with the 12th fret of the G string again… Now we’re just going to repeat that same pattern, but now we’re going to start on the G string, so it’ll be 14 pull to 12, hammer to 14 to the 12th fret of the B string, back to the 14th fret of the G string and then back to the 12th fret of the B string again. So now we’re going to go starting on the B string and we have to go to the 15^th fret and pull to the 12th fret, hammer back 15 to the 12th fret of the high E string and then back to the 15th fret of the B string. And then here just to kind of end the sequence when you get to the 15th fret of the B string you just roll that finger up to the 15th fret of the high E and pick and pull-off to 12… So there’s all different variations you could do with that, but I like this idea, especially if you’re kind of a beginner this can kind of help you to be able to play something that sounds really satisfying, but make it a little bit easier by being able to just barre your finger.

Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-3

All right and then the last one we’re going to look at has segments of a couple of different things that we’ve done before and this is just another idea of how you can hook them together. So again out of the first pentatonic pattern and we’re in E but, again movable to wherever you want. So we’re going to start off at the top of the scale so I’m going to pick 15 and pull to 12 on the high E string and then on the B string… Then we’re going to go to the G string and we’re going to start on the 12^th fret and do a hammer-on to 14. Then we’re going to go back to the B string and hammer 12 to 15, and that’s the sequence… pull, pick, pull, pick, hammer, pick, hammer… Okay now we’re just going to repeat that same sequence through the rest of the scale. So now we’re going to start on the B string and we’re going to pick 15 pull to 12 and then go to the G string 14 pull to 12… Now we’re going to go to the D string and we’re going to start on 12 and hammer to 14 and then do the same on the G string… Okay now we’re going to just continue the pattern so now it’s going to start on the on the G string 14 pull to 12, same thing on the D string and now we’re going to go to the A string 12^th fret and hammer to 14 and then to the D string 12 Hammer to 14 and then finally ending with the last sequence starting on the D string 14 pull to 12, A string 14 pull to 12. Now we go to the low E we have to go back to 15 and then back, except now it’s going to be a hammer-on… so we’re gonna go 12 hammer to 15 and back to the A string 12 hammer to 14. I just ended it to kind of resolve the sequence to make it more like a lick; we’re ending on the 12th fret of the G string with some vibrato…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three more pentatonic sequence slash licks, just ideas to get you to be able to make your own licks and make your improvisation more fun and interesting. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson. Today we’re going to take the sequences we’ve been working on and we’re going to apply them and look at some licks by Jimmy Page that use these same sequences.

So right now, Guitar Control is giving away this really awesome daily practice routine to improve your lead guitar chops. This was put together by our very own Silvio Gazquez, a two-time Guitar Idle finalist. This routine covers the four main concepts that are necessary for lead guitar; alternate picking, legato, sweep picking and tapping. All the tabs and exercises are all included in this free ebook and there’s a link in the description where you can get yours.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Jimmy Page Lick-1 – Stairway To Heaven

All right, so the very first one is the opening sequence from Stairway to Heaven. So this is in A minor pentatonic so we’re everything we’re doing is out of the same minor pentatonic box. So we’re going to start off here on the seventh fret of the G string and we’re going to do a full step bend and it’s a half note with some vibrato; so it’s like one, two and then that leads us into the next part. Okay so for the next part we’re going to start on the fifth fret of the high E string we’re going to pick that and then we’re gonna go to the B string and pick eight and pull to five. Then we’re gonna go to the G string and pick seven pull to five and then to the seventh fret on the D string. Then we’re gonna go back to the G string and do that seven to five pull off again and then we’re gonna go to the D string and do seven five pull off and then we’re gonna end on the eighth fret of the A string. And then adding in that note there on the eighth fret of the A string, that’s a note that’s not actually in the pentatonic scale, but it’s in the A natural minor scale so it’s in key sounds good. So in case you didn’t notice this is very similar to one of the sequences we’ve been working on.

Jimmy Page Lick-2 – Whole Lotta Love

All right, so the next we’re going to look at is a lick from Whole Lotta Love. So again this is just in the pentatonic, this time we’re in the E minor pentatonic. So this has more of the same kind of sequences that we’ve been working on. So we’re going to start off here, we’re going to take our first finger and we’re going to barre it across the 12^th fret of the B and the high E string with my first finger and then my third finger 14th fret of the G string and I’m going to bend this and follow that with the B and a high E strings. So this is a really common one we’ve looked at before and there’s going to be lots of these licks that we look at that have a very similar type of thing in it. So we’re going to bend that 14th fret on the G string up a full step followed by 12 on the B string, 12 on the high E string and then we’re going to go to the B string on the 15th fret and we’re going to pick that and pull to 12. Then we’re going to go to the G string and we’re going to go 14 pull to 13 and pull to 12. So we’ve got this little chromatic movement in there and that’s like a tuplet too. Then we’re going to go back to the 14^th fret, pick and then go to 12 back to 14 with a bend. So not too terribly tough of a lick and it sounds really good and it’s really usable. All of these licks by the way that we’re looking at are all movable, so you can you switch them around into different keys and then just slightly alter how they’re done and really kind of just make it your own.

Jimmy Page Lick-3 – Heartbreaker

All right, then the very last one to look at is a lick from Heartbreaker. This one is kind of similar to the Ace Frehley lick from Love Gun that we looked at the other day. So what we’ve got here is in A Minor again and it’s a minor pentatonic. I’ve got my first finger here on the fifth fret of the B and the high E string. So I’m barring it and then we’re gonna use our pinky to go to the eighth fret and we’re going to pick that and pull to the fifth and then with our third finger we’re going to come back to the seventh fret and pick that and pull to five. Then we’re going to go to the B string and pick eight and pull to five. So that’s the sequence, beat number one and then it just keeps repeating and this one’s really cool, especially when you get it up to a fast speed. I haven’t worked on this particular one a whole lot so I can’t play it really fast yet, but it sounds really good and you can move it around anywhere you want. So in any key it would be the same idea. So if we’re going to do it in E… So again, really cool lick. All these I think are really cool and that’s just a really good way to kind of see how all that stuff we’ve been working on goes together.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three pentatonic sequence licks in the style of Jimmy Page. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.