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 licks for you and the style of Billy Gibbons.

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.

Billy Gibbons Lick-1

All right, so this first one here is the beginning of the solo on La Grange. So we’re going to start off here on the 12th fret of the B string and this is all based out of B minor pentatonic. So we’re going to bend this a full step and put some vibrato on it and this takes care of all of the first beat; so it’s like one, two, three, four… And then on the second measure it is completely made up of eighth note triplets. So we’ve got four sections of three notes so let’s break it down because it makes it easier to play. So we’re going to start off on the ninth fret of the high E string and we’re gonna go nine to the 12th fret of the B string and then to the ninth fret; so that’s like one yel-low… Then starting on beat number two we’re gonna go back to 12 so you wanna keep your first finger here on the ninth fret of the B string and we’re gonna go back to 12 and we’re gonna pick that and pull-off to nine… And then go to the 11th fret of the G string; so it’s like one yel-low, two yel-low. Then starting on beat three is where it gets a little bit kind of tricky, but this is a great example of that rolling finger technique that we’ve looked at lots of times. So starting on beat three we’re going to go back to the ninth fret on the B string. So instead of coming all the way up and grabbing it with the tip of my finger like that I’m actually going to grab it more on the pad part so that way I can roll my finger because the next note is on the ninth fret of the G string. And then from there to the 11th fret on the D string; so that’s like three yel-low… And then starting on beat four we’re on the 11^th fret of the G string so we’re just going to roll our third finger up to pick up that 11 and then to the ninth fret on the G string and then back to the 11th fret on the D string… That right there I think is a really cool section and there’s all kinds of really great ideas in there that you could implement into your playing… All right so we hit that and that’s on the very end of four and then it’s tied to a 16th note, the first 16th note of the beat one of measure three. So then we hit it again so we’re hitting this again actually on the second 16th note of beat number one, but it’s a dotted quarter note. So this is like really weird to count, but you let that ring… Then we’re going to go to the ninth fret on the A string and we’re going to pick that and hammer-on to 11 and this is a triplet again. So nine hammer to eleven and then nine on the D string then we’re gonna go back to the 11th fret on the A string and slide to nine and then seven and then finally ending on the 11th fret of the D string and that’s another whole note and rings out with some vibrato.

Billy Gibbons Lick-2

All right and then the next we’re going to look at here, I believe this is from Under Pressure, but don’t quote me on that, I I can’t remember for sure. But anyway this one is using some dyads where we’re going to have to skip strings so this is a commonly used thing in the Blues and Country; lots of guys do this. So we’re going to start off we’re gonna we’re gonna start on the seventh fret of the D string and we’re going to slide to nine, but we’re going to treat it like a slide from nowhere. So you pick and slide simultaneously… Now while that’s still ringing I’m gonna put my first finger down here onto the eighth fret of the B string and I’m just holding the pick with my thumb and my first finger and I’m going to use my middle finger to pluck that B string; so hybrid picking… Then we’re going to come down here to the fifth fret of the D string and we’re going to hit pick that on the and of four and slide to seven… And then with our third finger we’re gonna grab the seventh fret of the B string and pluck it and it’s the same timing… Okay then this is where it changes and gets a little bit trickier. This is one that wouldn’t be as easy to move it around into a different key because it does use some open strings. I’m not saying it’s not possible, but any time you have open string the changes you have to do to be able to play it become really difficult or impossible depending upon what it is. But here what we’re going to do is we’re going to come up here to the B string I’m going to pick this and this is on the downbeat of four and then on the and of four we’re going to go to the second or excuse me the third fret and we’re going to do a half step bend; so four and, and then that is tied to the downbeat of one of the third measure.

And then on the and of one we hit the open high E string and again I’m using hybrid picking. Okay so after we hit that open E string and again we’re hitting that on the and of one, but since it’s a quarter note it’s taking care of the and of one plus the downbeat of two and then on the and of two I come up here to the fifth fret of the B string and let that ring with some vibrato and that takes care of the rest of the measure… Then on the last measure we’re going to go come back down here to the third fret… and that’s on the downbeat of one and then we’re going to go to the second fret of the G string and we’re going to bend that a half step and release it and follow that with the open G string… Then we’re going to do another slide from nowhere like we did earlier. We’re going to start here on the second fret of the G string and slide to four; so again we want one motion. So pick and slide together to the fourth fret and then finally ending on the second fret of the string and that’s a half note so it takes care of the rest of that measure with some vibrato…

Billy Gibbons Lick-3

All right, then the last one here this is arguably one of the most famous lick ideas riff ideas and again we’re going to be doing that same thing with we’re skipping strings and we’re doing the hybrid picking. So on this one here we’re going to start off by going to put your third finger onto the 10th fret of the B string and then your second finger onto the tenth fret of the A string and we’re gonna pick A and then the B string. So I’m using my pick on the A string and my middle finger to pluck the B string. So we hit that and now this is like a strange grouping of notes. We’ve got quarter notes, but they’re tuplets, so you we’re actually playing six notes; one, two, three, four, five, six, but we just want this… and that’s our first measure. And then for the second measure our third finger just stays here on the tenth fret of the B string, but the note on the A string is going to move down a half step and we’re just going to move that down chromatically. So we’re going to go from the 10th fret to the ninth fret so I’m going to switch and use my first finger and it’s the same timing and picking. Then we’re going to move that note on the A string down to the eight fret, same thing… And then on the last measure we’re going to hit the A string open twice, one and. Then we’re gonna go to the third fret and we’re going to slide to the fourth fret and this is quick and then and on the second fret of the G string and the whole sequence…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun, not too terribly difficult licks to play, in the style of Billy Gibbons. 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 this video lesson and today I’ve got kind of a part two or an update to one that I did a couple of weeks back. So if some of this seems familiar to you that is why and I’ll explain my reasoning.

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.

Previous Pentatonic Sequence

All right, so if you remember we’ve been doing these lessons on pentatonic sequences and I did this one that climbed up through the pentatonic positions and I had some feedback on it. People were saying that some of the notes I was playing was actually outside of the pentatonic scale, which is actually true. All right, so I’m going to show you this version of it that the notes I’ll be playing will actually be the correct ones from the scale and I’ll show you where the ones I changed to get my reasoning why. And then the other thing for this was is that some people wanted some more ideas of how to combine these two concepts together.

All right so the basic concept and like I said this is what we did in the other one is that we have this sequence that starts on the B string… and then there’s another version of it that starts on the high E string… So if you put those two together… it sounds pretty cool and that’s the thing we went over in the last one and then we worked our way up. So I have two versions of this on here. I’ve got it going through all the positions with the one that starts on the B string and then I have it again where it starts on the E string and I’m going to show you how you can take the two ideas and like mix them together. It’ll make more sense when we actually look at it.

Pentatonic Sequence-1

So starting here on the eighth fret of the B string with my fourth finger and sometimes I’ll use my third finger; whatever’s more comfortable for you. And then on the fifth fret of the B string with my first finger so we’re going to pick that eight, pull the five and hammer to eight and this is all triplets. And then we go to the fifth fret of the of the high E string back to the eight on the B string and back to the five on the high E, so trip-le-let, trip-le-lit and that’s the first two beats. Now we’re gonna go to the eighth fret on the high E string and we’re gonna pick that and pull to eight, excuse me we’re going to pick eight and pull to five and then go to back to the eighth fret on the B string and that’s beat three… And then for beat four we go back to five on the high E string and then we go to the B and pull eight to five… So we’re doing the riff starting on the B string so each measure it’s going to shift up position and that’s our first measure. Okay now we’re just going to shift up so our first note is going to be the note we left off on so we’re going to go eight and then ten and it’s going to be eight, ten on the B and the high E string, but we’re going to do that same pattern. So we’re going to go ten pull to eight, hammer to ten and then to eight on the high E back to ten on the B and back to that eight. Now we’re starting on B and we’re going to pick ten pull to eight on the high E string to the 10th fret of the B string and then back to the eighth fret of the high E and then ten pulled eight on the B string… Okay so now is where we’re going to shift up again and this is where the change is going to be from the previous pattern. So now our first note on the B string tenth fret, but we’re going to go a step and a half to the 13th fret. So same timing 13 pull to 10 Hammer to 13 and now we’re going to go to the 10^th fret on the high E string and then back to the 13th fret of the B string and then back to 10 on the high E. Okay now when we do the descending part starting on beat three the first note on the high E is ten, but the next note is actually going to be 12, so it’s just a whole step. So we’re gonna go 12 pull to 10 to 13 on the B string, back to 10 on the high E and then back to 13 pull to 10 on the B string… All right so now we move up into the fourth measure we’re going to shift up and now our first note on the B string is 13 and the second note is 15. So 15 pull to 13 hammer to 15 and then we’re going to go now to the 12th fret on the high E and then back to 15 on the B back to 12 on the high E. Now 15 so starting on B 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 13 on the B string and then back to 15 and bend or just slide up to the from 15 to 17… So this one’s a little bit more difficult because you can’t just keep your first finger planted, you have to move it back and forth this half step. So that is the reason that, well one of the reasons why I changed it from just being a step and a half, whole step, whole step, whole step, whole step, step and a half step and a half… So by doing that what happens is we put a B in there which is not part of A minor pentatonic because B is the second, but in this case it’s like we’re doing a A minor pentatonic with adding the nine in there because nine is the same as two, it’s just an octave higher. So we could call it that, it makes easier to play obviously because you’re not having to shift your finger back and forth, but the other thing is that I just personally really like the way that it sounds and I like having those extra notes, passing tones, just to make it sound more interesting, but that’s just me. So my recommendation would be to actually practice it both ways…

Variation

All right so the other thing I wanted to show you with this is it’s the same idea. All right, so we’re going to start with the descending part of it first. So we’re going to start first fingers on the fifth fret of the high E and the fourth finger is on the eighth fret of the high E string as well. Pick eight, pull to five and then go to the eighth fret on the B string. So again this is triplets, it’s the same timing we’re doing, and we’re just doing it backwards kinda… Now we’re going to go back to the fifth string or excuse me the fifth fret on the high E string and then eight pull to five on the B string. Now starting on beat three we’re gonna eight, pull the five, hammer back to eight on the B string. Now to the fifth fret of the high E, back to the eighth fret of the B and back to the fifth fret of the high E and that’s the pattern… So we’re gonna move the same way. We’re gonna move it up through the position. So now it’ll be eight and ten and then we’re gonna move it up again; so now it’s going to be a 10 and 13 on the B string and 10 and 12 on the high E… Now we’re going to move it up again so now on the high E string it’s going to be 15 and 12 and then it’s going to be 15 and 13 on the B string. So this one is the hardest position to do that in my opinion… it’s much easier, even though we’re adding in that note that’s not part of the scale, it’s still in the key of A minor, so it still sounds good.

Pentatonic Sequence-2

Okay and then the last idea with this was is that as we move up in the positions a cool thing you can do is change how you’re playing it. So if we started with the descending one in the first position… Now we move to the next position and we start on the ascending… Now we’re going to shift up again and now we’ll start with the descending and then we’ll shift up to the last position we’ll start with the ascending… Now you could also do it the other way around. We could start with the ascending and then go to the descending on the second position and now the ascending part again… and then finally the descending… any kind of combination like that. So we have the first one… we’re going to skip the second position and go to the third… then we could come back and go to the last one. Any combination like that you like could be cool. You could kind of do it to follow a chord progression; there’s are lots of neat things that you could do with this.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, kind of a continuation or an amendment of a previous lesson that I did on these repeating pentatonic sequences. 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 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 you this video lesson and today I want to give you some more examples of the pentatonic sequence licks that we’ve been working on. Today we’re going to look at some in the style of Randy Rhodes.

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.

Randy Rhoads Lick-1

All right, so the first one to look at here is a lick that’s kind of a fill in the chorus on Crazy Train. So this is all right out of F sharp pentatonic minor. So we’re gonna start off we’re going to bend and we’re gonna take my first finger and I’m gonna barre across the second fret of the B and the high E string and then my third finger is going to go on to the fourth fret of the G string and we’re going to bend that and then follow it with the B and high E string… So this is really common one and we’ve seen it a lot in the Chuck Berry kind of a style thing. Then we’re gonna go to the fifth fret on the B string and we’re going to pick that and pull to the third fret. Then we’re gonna take our second finger go to the third fret and pick and pull to the second one. Then we’re gonna go to the fifth fret on the G string and back to that second fret on the B string and then we’re gonna go back to the fifth fret on the G string and we’re going to pick pull to the fourth fret with our third finger and then to the second fret with our first finger… Then we go to the fourth fret on the D string, back to the second fret of the D string, and that’s a little sequence right there. Then we’re going to go down to the second fret on the D string to the fourth fret on the A string back to the second fret of the D string and back to the A string again… Then second fret to the third fret of the A string and then first finger on the second fret and we’re gonna pick and pull and then end on the open A… So this is a movable shape and it’s much easier to play it a little higher up on the fretboard than it is down here. So I would transpose it… maybe up here; just make it so it’s a little bit easier to play especially if you’re a beginner it’s like when you when you’re down you’re trying to do stuff like that it’s pretty awkward.

Randy Rhoads Lick-2

All right, so the next lick we’ll look at is a lick from Flying High Again. This is like the very beginning of the guitar solo. So this is just a little repetitive sequence that’s just on the first three strings and again it’s out of the pentatonic scale. So this time we are going to be starting here on the 14th fret of the high E string and then we’re going to go to 17 on the B string and pull to the 14^th fret. And then we’re going to go to the 16^th fret on the G string and we’re going to do just a little tiny bend and it just repeats… Now it just keeps repeating that so this is something you again you can move this around wherever you want. So since we are above the 12th fret this is where I’ll start kind of substituting my third finger with my pinky you know because the fronts are close together, it’s just kind of cramped, but in this particular thing it’s actually easier for me to play it that way. So you’ll just have to kind of experiment and see what’s easier for you.

Randy Rhoads Lick-3

All right so then the last one to look at is a lick from Mr Crowley and this is similar to the last one we looked at as far as it’s just a little repeating sequence that’s just on the first three strings. So this time we’re going to be barring at the 10th fret on the first two strings and we’re going to be on the 12th fret on the G string and we’re going to bend that up a full step and then we’re going to go B, E, then to the 13th fret of the B string and pick and pull to ten… So that first bend rings out just a little bit longer than everything else does, but it’s like… So this is a cool lick. It’s easy to move it around into other Keys. It sounds really good when it’s played up to speed, although I didn’t really do it all that right there in the example, but as you can see that’s just a repeating sequence just like the ones we’ve previously worked on and this is very similar to the ones you’re going to see like with Jimmy Page and we’ve seen with Ace Freely. You can see with lots of players doing this very similar kind of a pentatonic sequence licks.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three pentatonic sequence licks in the style of Randy Rhodes. 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 more pentatonic sequences that can be made into licks.

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 Sequence-1

All right, so all three of these, today I’m doing them in A, but they are movable, you could do them in whatever key you want because there isn’t any open strings in this.

So this first one here we’re going to start off, we’re right here in just our box pattern of A minor pentatonic. So I’m going to start here on the D string and I got my third finger on the seventh fret my first finger on the fifth fret and we’re going to pick this seven and pull off to five and then hammer back on to seven. Then we’re gonna go to the fifth fret of the G string, back to the seventh fret of the D string, back to the fifth fret of the G string. So these are all done in triplets; so it’s divided up in four groups of three notes. So that’s the first two and now starting on the third one we’re going to we left off here with our first finger on the fifth fret of the G string and now we’re going to take our third finger go back to the seventh fret and we’re going to do like this slide from nowhere to nine and then we’re gonna pull off back to seven. So when we do that pull off then we go to the ninth fret on the D string and that’s our triplet, so that’s beat three. Now for beat four we’re just gonna go back to the seventh fret of the D string again, excuse me the G string, and then back to the ninth fret of the D string and now we’re gonna go to the ninth fret of the D string by rolling your third finger up.

Pentatonic Sequence-2

All right, then the second one, again we’re in A minor and we’re also out of that same sequence. Now we’re going to start off on the fifth fret of the D string and we’re going to pick that and do a hammer on to the seventh fret. Then we’re going to take that third finger and roll up to that ninth fret of the, or excuse me the seventh fret of the G string like what we did on the previous one and then back to the seventh fret of the D string. So this is just made up of eighth notes so it’s like one and. Okay so that’s uh the first two beats; one and, two and. And then on the downbeat of three we’re gonna go back to the fifth fret of the G string and then back to the seventh fret of the D string but at the same time. You want to move your first finger to the fifth fret so you can pick and pull off. And then we’re gonna end on the seventh fret of the A string. So we’ve got… and that’s our first measure of that one and, two and, three and, four and. And then on the next measure we go back to the fifth fret of the D string one and then on the and of one back to the seventh fret of the A string. And now we’re gonna do this little chromatic walk down. So this is like one and two, down B and we’re gonna go to the sixth fret here. So this is your blue note. Then to the fifth fret and then finally ending on the seventh fret of the D string which is an A, so it makes it resolve…

Pentatonic Sequence-3

All right and then finally the last one we’re gonna look at here. We’re gonna start off by doing a slide from nowhere to the ninth fret of the G string and you want to use your third finger. And then you’re gonna follow that with the eighth fret of the B string with your second finger, but you want to keep this on here so it’s ringing out… And then immediately we’re gonna scoot down to the seventh fret so your third finger will go to the seventh fret, your first finger is on the fifth and we’re gonna pick that and pull off. Then we follow that with the seventh fret on the D string. Now we’re going to take that third finger and roll it up again just like we’ve been doing from the seventh fret of the D string to the seventh fret of the G string, back to the seventh fret of the D string and then the A string open.

Combining Sequences

Alright so any of these licks you can take it and just add it into something that you’re already doing. So like if you were already playing some kind of a lick, you know maybe ones we’ve gone over before…. you could add that in there. You can add any of these things in or you could… So as you learn these and practice them you just want to kind of like you know think of ways that you can implement this into stuff that you’re already doing. You don’t even need to play the entire sequence. You could just take part of it. So that was just like the first part of lick number two. Kind of add whatever you wanted into it. So there I added in that first measure of lick two and added that the lick three to it so just any combinations like that you want to experiment around with it.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three more fun, not terribly difficult to play pentatonic sequences that you can make into 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 have 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.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got some fun pentatonic licks, sequence licks like what we’ve been talking about as of late; and these are all in the style of Ace Frehly.

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.

About The Licks

All right, so these are in E Minor because these are some sequences from the song Love Gun by KISS. If you’ve followed me for any length time you know that Ace is basically the guy that got me going in the first place, so I’m a big fan of his playing. So this solo is made up of a lot of the ideas that we’ve been going over so I thought it’d be kind of fun to put it into context, to something that you can play and know what it is and be able to play along. Now that being said they are actually tuned down a half step and I’m in standard tuning right now so if you want to be in the same key as they are to play along you will have to tune your guitar down a half step. So I’ve divided this up into two different parts.

Ace Frehley Lick-1

All right, so part one, this is the run at the beginning of the guitar solo. So we come in on the and of four, so we rest one two three four and on the and of four we’re gonna hit the 12th fret of the low E string with your third finger. And then starting on the downbeat of one of the second measure we’re going to go into the sequence that’s made up of eighth note triplets, so it’s going to be like one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. So we’re gonna go to the 10^th fret of the A string with your first finger and we’re going to play that and then back to the 12th fret of the low E string with your third finger and then back to the tenth on the tenth fret of the A string, and that’s your first triplet. And now you’re going to take your third finger and we’re going to put it on the 12th fret of the A string and we’re going to go 12, 10, 12. Then we’re going to slide from there to the 14th fret, 14, 12, 14. Then we’re going to go to the 12th fret of the D string, back to the 14th fret of the A string and back to the 12th fret of the D. So one yell-ow, and that’s how I count triplets. Instead of going trip-el-it I like to know what beat I’m on so I’ll say the number of what beat it is and then the word yellow. So it’s like one yell-ow, two yell-ow. Now we’re going to go to the 14th fret on the D string and now we’re on the third measure so it’s 14, 12, 14 and then to the 12^th fret of the G string, back to the 14^th fret of the D string and back to the 12th fret. So you can see the pattern we’ve got there. Now after we do 14, 12, 14, 12, 14, we go to the G string 14, 12, 14. Then we’re going to slide up a whole step so we’re at the 16th fret and then back to 14. Now we’re going to go to the 15th fret on the B string, but you want to use your middle finger and then back to 16 on the G string. Now we’re going to switch our hand position a little bit here and we’re going to put our first finger where our second finger is here on the 15th fret of the B string and then my third finger will go to the 17th fret on the B string. Then to the 15th fret on the high E string, back to 17 on the B string, back to the 15; so that’s three yell-ow. Now third finger up to the 17th fret on the high E string and it’s going to be 17, 15, 17. Then we’re going to move up to the 19th fret and we’re going to go 19, 17 and then we’re going to scoot up and this is the first time where we’re changing of our shape here. Instead of just being a whole step we’re going to scoot our first finger up a whole step, but a step and a half with our third finger. So now we’re on the 22^nd fret with our third finger and the 19th fret with our first finger, and that’s beat two and then we’re gonna bend that 22^nd fret up a whole step and throw some vibrato on it…

Ace Frehley Lick-2

All right then so then for this second part, it’s kind of got two separate parts of its own. So the first one here this is a really common lick that’s been done in lots and lots of stuff. You know Ace really didn’t invent these or anything. These are sequences that Jimmy Page uses, lots of people have, but this particular lick here is kind of like a Chuck Berry kind of a thing, so again we’re in E Minor and this is all right out of the E minor pentatonic box number one. So we’re going to start with our third finger on the 14th fret of the G string and we’re going to bend that a whole step and then we’re going to go to the 12^th fret on the B and then the 12th fret on the high E. So this is a triplet, so that’s like one yell-ow, really, really, really common. So we do that twice’ one yell-ow, two yell-ow. And then starting on beat three we’re going to keep our first finger barred how we’ve got it here on the B and high E strings at the 12th fret and I’m going to take my pink and go to the 15th fret and I’m going to pick that and do a pull-off to 12. And then I’m going to use my third finger to go to 14th fret and pick and pull-off to 12. Then I’m going to go to the 15th fret on the B string and then back to the 12th fret of the high E string and that’s the first measure of part two, so it’s like measure six on the transcription and this thing is just repeated. So now you could change these and you could do pull-offs and stuff like that… And with any of the stuff that we do it’s always the best thing to do is really experiment around with it. Change where a sequence is completely picked try doing Legato with hammer-on’s, pull-offs, slides or if it’s something that’s already Legato try playing it by picking everything. It does make them sound different and it just really will help you to get all around better and to kind of know what you like. So it does that a few times and then on the next measure we’re going to do it three times; one yell-ow, two yell-ow, three yell-ow. And then on beat four is just a quarter note and that bend again and then on the last part of it we’re going to do something that’s very similar to things that we’ve done in the past. So we’re going to start on the 12th fret of the high E to the 15th fret of the B string to the 12th fret of the B string and this is triplets; so it’s like one yell-ow. Now we’re going to start on the 15^th fret of the B string and go 15, 12 to 14 on the G string. So do you see that sequence? It’s like a pattern of three notes; one, two, three. ow we start on Note two and add one, two, three, four, but one, two, three and it just continues down the scale. So now we’re back to 12th fret on the B string, 14 on the G to 12. Now 14, 12, 11 on the G string and then we end on the 14th fret of the of the D string. Now when we do this note here on the 11th fret, that’s outside of the pentatonic box, but it’s actually a note that’s in Mixolydian, which overlaps the pentatonic and so you’ll see that in like rock and blues things.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, two pentatonic sequence licks in the style of Ace Frehley. 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 that 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 you this video lesson and today I’ve got a couple of really common, but feel like they’re kind of must know cool rock/ blues licks and then I’m going to show you how you can combine them together.

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 tab so let’s get close up and take a look at these licks.

Must Know Licks #1

All right, so this first must know licks here is extremely common. It’s been used in lots and lots of stuff, but it’s still like a really cool lick and it’s movable. We’re doing these in E minor, but you can do them wherever. They’re based out of the pattern number one of the pentatonic positions. So for this first one we’re going to start off, you want to take your first finger and just barre the 12th fret of the B and the high E string. Now you’re going to take your third finger and go into the 14th fret of the G string and then I put my second finger on the 13th right behind it; so it’s just easier to bend. So we’re going to bend up a whole step, sort of bending to that pitch and so we’re going to bend that up and then follow that with the B string and then the high E string… So that’s like the first part of it, that’s the first beat. Now we’re gonna go to the 15th fret on the B string and we’re gonna pick that and do a pull-off back to the 12th fret… And then we follow that with the 12th fret of the high E string, it’s like one-yell-ow, two-yell-ow… So you do that sequence twice per measure. Now what’s nice about this is it sounds good if you’re playing it really slow or it sounds good playing it really fast too, so it’s pretty you know versatile. You might recognize it right off the bat. There’s like a million songs that have that exact same licks in it.

Must Know Licks #2

All right, so the next must know licks we’re going to look at this one is also in E Minor and its also movable shape. This is another one that’s really common and I like this one just the way it sounds personally better than the previous one and tend to use this one more. I feel I’m much better at applying this one, but this one is based off of again, just a little repeating sequence of notes. So we’re going to start off on the high E string and we want to be on the 15th fret with your pinky and the 12th fret with your first finger. Now you could use your third finger, but once I get above the 12^th fret a lot of times I’ll use my third finger instead of my pinky. So whichever is more comfortable for you. But if you’re playing it, you know down here in A, I don’t recommend you do it with your third finger. So anyhow we’re gonna pick the 15^th fret and pull the 12^th fret and then we’re going to do a hammer-on from nowhere to the 15th fret on the B string and then back to the 12th fret on the high E string. And then we’re going to go to the B string and we’re going to pick 15^th fret and pull to the 12^th fret; so we’ve got… Now you don’t do have to do a hammer from nowhere. You could alternate pick the entire thing if you want, I just like the way the hammer-ons and pull-offs sound. So that’s our sequence. So we’re going to just do that again, but now we’re going to do it based on the B string and the G string. So now we’re going to start off by picking the 15^th fret to 12^th fret on the B string and hammer-on from nowhere to the 14th fret of the G string and then follow that with the 12th fret of the B string and then pull 14^th fret to the 12^th fret again on the G string. Now it’s just going to continue that same sequence. So we start on the G string and pick and pull the 14^th fret to the 12^th fret and hammer from nowhere to the 14^th fret on the D string, back to the 12^th fret and then back to the D string 14th and 12^th frets. Now we’re gonna do the same thing starting on the D string to the A string and then finally the A string to the low E string. But remember now we’re going to go back to the 15^th fret on the low E string… So this one like I said is also really common, but I love the way that sounds, especially at speed. I think it just sounds awesome.

Must Know Licks #3

A cool thing to do would be to just take an idea from both licks and put them together. So this again is a really common way this is done, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are lots of different combinations you can do. So for this particular one here what we’re going to do is we’re going to start off by doing the first lick. So we’re going to bend the 14th fret of the G string and then go to the 12^th fret of the B and the high E string. So you have… Then we’re gonna go back to the B string and pick the 15^th fret and pull to the 12^th fret and then on the 12th fret. So this is like the first two beats of the first lick. Starting on beat three we’re going to switch to the other lick. So we’re gonna start off by picking the 15^th fret and pull to the 12^th fret and then do the hammer-on from nowhere to the 15th fret of the B string, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 and then the whole thing would just repeat…. So these licks are all kind of very reminiscent of Ace Frehley, like the stuff from Love Gun, from that solo and everything. If you know me at all you know that I’m a huge fan of that whole era of a KISS.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, two, I guess actually three, licks all based out of the pentatonic scale that are tried and true licks that you should really know how to play.

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 later 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 that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching must know guitar licks and have a great day.

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 three fun and easy open string licks.

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 let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Legato Lick-1

All right, so the first one here this is actually a riff from Mr Big’s song Addicted To That Rush. So it’s pretty simple to play and whether you play it slow or fast it still sounds cool and this is one that’s nice because if you’re a beginner and you and you have to play it slowly it still sounds really good. So we start off we have a half note rest, we rest on the first two beats and then the downbeat of three and then on the and of three we play the open A string and hammer-on the third fret for the downbeat of four and then we pull back off to the open string for the and of four; so it’s like one, two, three and, four and.

All right and then starting on our second measure you can see it’s the beginning of a repeat. So how I do this is I use my middle finger to do that first part because then the next thing is we’re going to go to the second fret of the G string and I’m going to use my first finger and I’m going to pick that and pull-off to the open string. Then I’m going to come up here to the fourth fret of the D string and I’m using my third finger sometimes I’ll use my second finger, but generally I’ll use my third finger and we pick that and slide up a half step to the fifth fret and then we follow that with the open G string… Then we just repeat that for slide to the open string and then on the third measure we do that again and then we do the slide one more time and then open A string, hammer to the third fret, pull back off and then the whole thing we just repeat… So when you’re practicing this one of the things that you want to really try to work with is to mute the other strings because if you if you just have it… you have all that racket. So I’m muting the lower strings with my palm of my hand here and I’m we’re just kind of picking here in the middle so I’m using this part of my hand to kind of get the higher strings and then letting my fingers kind of droop over here.

Legato Lick-2

All right, so the next we’re going to look at is another pretty easy one. So we’re going to start off with the open B string and we’re going to do a hammer- on to the third fret and I use my second finger here and I’ll explain why in a minute; you could use your first finger, but I honestly feel that it’s going to be easier if you use your second. So we’re going to pick that, hammer and then follow that with the open high E string; so that’s a triplet. Then starting on the downbeat of two we go back to the third fret of the B string and we’re going to pick that and pull to the open string and then we’re going to do the same thing on the high E string; so that’s kind of the whole phrase and then that just repeats… So again we want to mute these lower strings we’re not playing, so just the palm of my hand is taking care of that… All right, so it does that a few times and then the last time at the very last beat of the second measure of this you have the four yell-ow and then starting on the third measure we’re going to go to the third fret of the G string and slide that down pull-off to the second fret of the D string. Then we’re going to go to the low E string open, to the third fret slide to the fourth fret and then we’re going to go back to the second fret of the D string and finally ending with the open low E string… So this is the reason why I say I use my second finger because you could… but for me it just feels more natural to use my second finger, but first you probably just want to break it down and just play just the… just that much of it and then just practice that… Then you add that other part on you break that down into…

Legato Lick-3

All right and then finally the last one this is this, I don’t know if this is exactly the same thing, but it’s very similar to a thing that Slash does at the end of the song My Michelle.

So this one’s pretty simple and to start off you’re going to put your first finger on the second fret of the G string and then your third finger onto the fourth fret and we’re going to do the same shape across the G, D and A string. So we’re going to start we’re going to pick four pull the two and then pull to open string, it’s like that’s a triplet… so that’s beat one. And then for beat two we’re just going to move down to the D string and do the same thing… so that’s beats one and two. And then beats three and four are the same as one and two so we just go back and forth between the G and the D string… So that’s the first measure… Starting on the second measure we go back to the G string again and then the D string and then the A string and then we end just on an A chord… So that one’s pretty easy to play fast once you get there. I mean if your brand, brand new to pull-offs… then it might take some work. So that being said where you’re doing this pull-off here you want to be careful that you don’t that you don’t bend the string… you don’t want to get that where you’re pulling on the string. So what happens when you go to pull-off here you end up bending the string here. So if this is a new technique, just hold that finger down extra tight… then you’ll get to where you know you’ll have the feel for it you won’t have pulled it down so hard, but at first that really helps.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun not too terribly difficult open string 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

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you how to Spice Up The Pentatonic Scale With This Easy Sequence. 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.

The Pentatonic Scale

All right, for this example, I’m doing it in the key of E minor, but this is a movable shape, so it doesn’t matter what key you play it in, it’s always going to be the same sequence. So we’re using the minor pentatonic scale pattern number one starting on the 12th fret of our low E because we’re doing this in E minor. So really quickly if you do not know this sequence; we have 12 on the low E, 12, 15, 12, 14 on the A string, 12, 14 on the D string, 12, 14 on the G string, 12, 15 on the B string and 12, 15 on the high E. All right so if you don’t already know that scale pattern the first thing you’re going to want to do is just memorize the sequence.

The Lick

Okay so what we’re going to do is we’re going to break this into groups of six notes. Now this is not an Eric Johnson lick, but this is a kind of in the style he does, he does a lot of stuff in groups of six, so it’s this is just a really easy way that you can play the pentatonic scale and make it sound a little bit more musical and less like you’re just playing a scale.

The Lick Ascending

So let’s look at the ascending part of it. First what I’m going to do is I’m just going to ascend the scale. So you can do this by picking all of it or you could do hammer-ons or do both, you know just kind of whatever you feel like doing. So when I play this ascending I almost exclusively do it with hammer-ons because I just really like the way that it sounds. So i’m starting here on the 12th fret and I’m going pick and do a hammer-on to 15, then I’m going to go to the A string, pick, hammer and then to the 14th fret and then go to the D string, pick 12, hammer-on to 14.

How I’m doing this I’m going down hammer, down hammer, down hammer or you can alternate pick it, just either way it doesn’t really matter, just whatever is more comfortable for you to do. So that’s the entire sequence, so we’ve just played six notes and it’s based on three strings, it’s based on the fourth, fifth and sixth strings, now we’re going to start the sequence over again, but this time we’re going to start on the A string and we’re going to go the D string and then the G strings. So now going back to the A string. Now we’re just going to start the sequence over again on the D string to the G and B strings. And then finally we’ll start on the G string to the B and high E strings.  

So like I said it sounds more musical, more interesting than just ascending and descending the scale. Now you wouldn’t necessarily want to play the entire sequence, but this is something where you could take a part of this and combine it with something else. So maybe you combine it with something else to make it sound more interesting. So now let’s take a look at it for descending.

The Lick Descending

So for descending this easy movable shape it’s more or less the same idea, but we’re just going to do it backwards. So we’re going to start on the 15th fret of the high E with my fourth finger and the 12th fret with my first finger. Now you could also pick and do a pull-off, but for me it’s extremely difficult to try to do pull-offs with stuff like that because of having to switch strings, so this one I almost exclusively pick it and when I pick this I alternate pick it. So put both of your fingers down at the same time, it just makes it a little bit easier, so my first finger is on the 12th fret and my fourth finger is on the 15th fret of the high E and I’m going to do a down stroke on 15 and then when I go to 12 it’s an upstroke and then when I go to the B string it’s 15 with a down stroke to 12 with an up stroke and then to the G string 14th fret with my third finger with a down stroke to the 12th fret with an up stroke.

Okay so now we’re just going to do the same principle that we did with ascending, so now I’m going to start on the B string, 15, 12, to the G string, 14, 12, to the D string, 14, 12, again alternate picking, so down, up, down, up. Now we’re going to start on the G string, 14, 12, to the D string, 14, 12, to the A string, 14, 12 and then finally we start on the D string, 14, 12, to the A string, 14, 12, to the low E, 15, 12. So that whole sequence slowly.

Changing Keys

So again this is an easy movable pentatonic shape. So if you wanted to Spice Up The Pentatonic Scale With This Easy Sequence in a different key, let’s say you wanted to do it in G, then we just move up to the 15^th fret, because that’s where G is, same idea, like I said it does not matter what key you’re in, it’s just always going to be the same sequence.

Conclusion

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