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 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 this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play this fun little, like a little, like you know I’ve heard it like in country music and Bluegrass, even like blues and stuff; pretty cool, pretty fun to play and it’s a great country/bluegrass lick that will help you to get down the hybrid picking technique.

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 country/bluegrass lick.

Country/Bluegrass Lick

All right, so the way that I’ve got this country/bluegrass lick in the transcription is that it’s just a 12 bar, not a 12 bar rather, but a one four five chord progression in A, so it’s the same shape that we’re going to be doing, we’re just going to be moving it around. So the first one here we’re doing it’s based around an A. So what I’m doing here is I’m just going to take my first finger and I’m just going to barre it at the fifth fret across the first three strings. Then we’re going to pick the note on the G string and do a hammer-on with your second finger to the sixth fret and I’m using the guitar pick to do that. And then we’re going to follow that with this note here on the B string on the fifth fret, but what we’re going to do is we’re going to hybrid pick this. So I’m holding the guitar pick with just my thumb and my first finger and then that leaves my second and third fingers free here; so I use my second finger to pluck the B string. So again on the G string fifth fret first finger we’re gonna pick that with the pick as a down stroke and then do a hammer-on to the sixth fret also on the G string with my second finger and then we’re gonna pluck the B string where I’m barring here at the fifth fret with my second finger. So this is a as a triplet feel so it’s like one two three… All right, so I tried doing this before I would just start off with just starting on the G string; pick, hammer, pluck the B string, one, two, three and just work on that one, two, three, one, two, three… All right so that’s like half of this country/bluegrass lick, so what we’re going to do is the first time… we do it just like how we did and then the second time we start off the same way, we pick the fifth fret of the G string, do a hammer to the sixth and now we’re going to pluck the high E string also at the fifth fret; because again our first finger is baring here. Now when I do that I use my third finger; so my second finger is taking care of the B string and my third finger is taking care of the high E string and then we’re using the pick on the G string. So one, two, three, one, two, three and then it just repeats… All right, so with this an easy way to be able to use this, because like I said it’s movable, you can move it wherever you want. Right here we’re playing A. So what it is we’ve got right here we’ve got our C sharp, so this is our major third and then here we’ve got our E and then our A. So this is just like we’re playing just the top and it’s like an inverted triad, but that first note we picked there is actually the minor third, the flat third. So we’re picking that hammering into the major and then going so it’s like going flat three, three, five, flat three, three, one… So that’s what makes it just sound really cool right over the top of the chord. So I can totally hear this being played over like a… have a rhythm like that kind of kind of a Bluegrass thing… All right so if you think of it like that as triplets and it’s going to be like one yell-ow, two yell-ow, so that’s half of a measure, so you do that’s a whole measure right there… We’re gonna follow this in a one four five; so if our one chord is four A and then our four chord is D. So what we need to do is move up a fourth and a really simple way to do this if you know what the chord is, wherever that note is on the high E string, so in this case we want a D, so the tenth fret of the high E is D. So I’m going to move up and barre at the tenth fret. I’m just going to move that shape up and now we’re going to be picking ten, hammering to 11 and then 10th fret here for the B and the high E string, same picking technique obviously… All right then for the five chord it’s E, because it’s a whole step up, so easy enough, we can just move this up as an E, but remember here’s your root notes for this so it just makes it easy to be able to navigate it around. If you do not know where the notes are on your high E string you should. I’m a big believer in if you know where all the notes are on your E string and your A string then you can find all your roots for barre chords, scales, arpeggios, everything and then eventually you just start memorizing where they are everywhere; but make it a point to really work on knowing where the notes are on your low E string because you know, same notes on your high E string and then the A string as well… So with this you could just use that like as something in a solo to kind of highlight a chord and then you know do some other licks with it… there’s all kinds of stuff you can do with this. I think that sounds really good and it’s a really good country/bluegrass lick for developing this technique…

So now let’s focus on the right hand for this country/bluegrass lick a little bit here. We don’t want it where you’re pulling away like that, you want it to be all really self-contained right here, just really close… So I’m using my palm, I’m kind of resting on these lower strings so that way they’re just muted and they’re not just going to start, you know making noise and stuff, it keeps it all much tighter…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, a pretty cool country/bluegrass lick, not too terribly difficult, hybrid picking a little lick kind of… call it an exercise too I guess, but it does really sound good outlining the chord. So if you like this country/bluegrass lick lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this country/bluegrass lick 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 a fun little arpeggio lick for you in the key of D.

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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.

Arpeggio Lick In D Minor

All right, so starting off we’re going to do a D minor arpeggio. So for those of you who like know how to play Stairway to Heaven this is like the very first chord, I’ve just moved up here so I’m on the 12th fret of the D string with my third finger and then my first finger is going to pick up the G, B and high E strings all at the 10th fret. Now when we play this we don’t want we don’t want to just have a sound like a chord, we want the notes to be separated. So third finger picking this note up and then when I go to the G string I release the D string to mute it. Now when I play the G string here I’m not just barring. I’m playing the fret on the G string, but the B string and the high E strings are both muted. And then I’m going to roll my finger up now I’m picking up that B string and the high E string is muted. So on the G string I’m going to roll it up again and now I’m fretting the highest string and the B and the G string are both muted. All right so when we get to the top of that then we’re going to hammer on to the 13th fret on the high E string with your pinky. Now another thing too when you’re when you’re making the approach up is that

I’m also heavily palm muting so that way I’m just trying to isolate those notes separately so they’re not ringing out or I’m not hearing string unwanted string noise. And as far as the technique itself I’m not going to get too deeply into this. There’s lots of lessons on here on the technique for this, but it’s just one long continuous downstroke or one long continuous upstroke. So what I do is I just let the pick come to a rest on the next string and then over time you just get faster at doing it. So we do the hammer-on there and then we slide to the 15th fret. Now what that’s setting us up for is now we’re going to be doing a C major arpeggio, but now it’s going to be a different voicing. So if you see my arpeggio series these are the three string arpeggios. So we’re sliding up here to the 15^th fret and then at the same time you want to drop your first finger the 12th fret here and now we’re going to pull-off to the 12th fret and then our middle finger is going to go to the 13th fret of the B string and then our first finger to the 12^th fret of the G string; so it looks like a D major shape second inversion Triad. Down to the G string and then back up, hammer and slide to the 17^th fret. Now we slide to the 17^th fret then at the same time we want to drop our first finger here onto the 13th fret of the high E string because now we’re going to be doing a D minor. So we’re up here at the 17^th fret and we’re going to pull-off here to the 13^th fret. So now instead of being like a like a D major shape it’s going to be like a D Minor shape. We’re flattening the third to make it minor and then to the 15th fret on the B string, 14th fret on the G string and then back up and hammer and then tap the 22^nd fret. So what we’re doing is we’re tapping one, two, three, four, five frets up because this is movable since we don’t have any open strings we can move this. So starting here, this is where we started this Dm here. So we can move this around wherever we wanted to if we moved it here this is an A. So it’s movable around in different places. The further you are down this way I think it’s more difficult to play and then up here it gets more difficult too and then if you have a 24 fret guitar then you can do it in E minor because you could still do it here, it’s just the you don’t have enough frets to tap the note here. So yeah, it’s not too terribly difficult to play. I mean if you’re if you’re completely new to this technique I’m sure it would be difficult, but I tried to make it something that was a little bit simpler, but so there’s things that you could do to this to make it fancier. You could play the extended arpeggios and just add in the D string and the A string and again these are series that I’ve already done before with all these shapes and stuff that they’re here on the channel.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it. A pretty cool D minor arpeggio lick and like I said it’s movable. So you can move around any different keys and do different stuff with it. 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 I want to show you how to play a couple of extended arpeggio licks sequences.

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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 arpeggio guitar licks.

Major Arpeggio Sequence

All right so both of these arpeggio guitar licks are movable shapes somewhat, we’ll explain that in a minute. But I just chose this area because it’s kind of a neutral spot for your hand. So if this is like a new thing to you it won’t be a huge deal.

So the first arpeggio guitar licks we’re look at is the major shape. So an arpeggio is basically just the notes of a chord so the major consists of the first third and fifth note of the major scale. So if you’re playing an A major scale we started here on the fifth fret of the low E string because that’s A… So there are our notes to make A major; we need the first, third and fifth notes so when we play the shape we’re just going to go right up through the notes in the scale. So we’re actually going to start this with the open low E string because this is one just to kind of make it a little bit more interesting and a little bit more like a like a lick and little less like your just playing a scale so to say or playing an arpeggio rather. The E is in there, it’s our fifth, so we’re just starting with that so this would be like an inversion. So we’re going to start off we’re going to play the open low E string and then we’re going to do a hammer-on to the fifth fret with your first finger and then a hammer-on to the ninth fret with your third finger… Then we’re going to the seventh fret of the A string and then we’re going to also use that finger and we’re going to roll up to the seventh fret of the D string. So what we’ve got happening here is five, one, three, five, one. Now we’re going to go to three again and we’re going to do now is go to the sixth fret of the G string with your first finger…  So when I’m doing this I’m doing it all as a down strokes; so down, Hammer, Hammer, down, down, down… All right, so what we’re going to do now is we’re actually going to shift up and we’re still going to be doing an A major, but we’re going to shift up into another position. So if we play this note here we want to slide to the ninth fret of on the G string… Now we’re going to be looking at our shape here and it looks like a D major chord, it’s your second inversion Triad for those of you who know that. So after we slide up to nine then we’re going to take our second finger and go to the tenth fret of the B string, first finger to the ninth fret of the high E string and then hammer-on to the 12th fret with your pinky. Now we’re going to take our picking hand and we’re going to tap the 17th fret… Now we also want to descend the whole descend thing as well. So with this first, especially if this is like completely new to you, you’re probably going to want to break this into sections. So maybe you could just go… Try to get that down and then you could… until you could… Tight now when we descend it we’re just gonna pull-off to here. So as we climb up we want to leave our trailing fingers on so that way we can just pull, pull and now it’s an upstroke starting on the B string, up, up, slide, up… and then you can pull-off to the open strings and then resolve on an A major barre chord… So that’s the major shape and now I want to show you how to play the minor shape arpeggio guitar licks as well.

Minor Arpeggio Sequence

So just like when you switch a major chord to a minor chord all you’re doing is we’re going to take the note that’s the third of this arpeggio guitar licks and we’re going to flatten it a half step. So when we did here we had a C sharp and E. So now it’s going to be A and we’re going to take the C sharp and flatten it to C. So what’s going to happen is it’s going to change which fingers we use. So now we start off open, hammer-on to five with your first finger, hammer-on to eight with your fourth finger and then we’re gonna take our third finger pick up the seventh fret of the A string and roll up to pick up the second fret of the D string. And now this note that was normally on the sixth fret will be on the fifth because it’s our third. See there? We have that minor dyad shape; minor third dyad shape. Now we’re going to slide up to the ninth fret again to the 10th fret on the B string, but now instead of being the ninth fret of the high E string it’s the eighth fret. So hammer-on to the 12^th fret and 17^th fret again… And then this one resolved to an A minor chord… All right, so it is a movable shape and depending upon what key you do it in is whether or not you could start with that open string, but if you didn’t start with the open string and you just went… I mean just do it like that, we don’t have the open string, so then you can move this around anywhere you want it. So this is an A, so it’s A major; so if we did it here since it’s a C it’d be a C major. So it’s just still the same shape all the way through. So one of the things you want to pay attention to is how far away the tapped note is. So it is one, two, three, four, five Frets away or two and a half steps, however you want to look at it… So you could in the keys where you can use the open string, you could still do that in there. So like if we were doing it in G; G, D. So E isn’t even part of the major Triad, but it still sounds good because it’s in that key. If we were doing the minor one though… see it still sounds good. It isn’t a clashing note, but I personally probably wouldn’t do it you know if I was playing it down there, but in here in A it sounds really good…

Conclusion

So there you have it. Two extended arpeggio licks with the major and the minor that are movable shapes that you can move to different keys. So if you like this arpeggio guitar licks lesson and you found this helpful and stuff be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me 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 this arpeggio guitar licks lesson and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you an easy finger picking riff. This is the intro for the song Holiday by the Scorpions. So it’s a fairly simple riff and a great one for beginners for finger picking. 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.

Holiday Chords

All right so the first thing let’s just go over the chords that we’re going to be using in this. So we’ve got D minor; D string is open, I’m on the second fret of the G string with my second finger, third fret of the B string with my third finger and first of the high E with my first finger. Then we have D minor over C, so that’d be written Dm/C minor so we’re going to continue to have that same D minor chord, but now we’re going to move our bass note from being the open D string to the third fret of the A string and I’m going to use my pinky for that. Then we have B flat major seven (BbM7); so what we’re going to do is we’re going to leave our second and third fingers where they are and our first finger is just going to bar across the first five strings, so now our bass note will be there on the first fret of the A string B flat, my second finger is still on the second fret of the G string and my third finger is still on the third fret of the B string, my first finger is picking up that first fret of the A string and it’s also picking up the first fret of the high E… Then the next chord we’ve got from there we have A suspended four (Asus4); so again we’re going to leave our third and our second and third fingers where they are and we’re going to take our first finger and we’re going to put it on to the second fret of the D string. And then the last chord is just A5; so this is kind of a different it’s not like your regular power chord A5 we’re going to take our first finger and what I do is I just bar it so it’s going across the second fret of the first three strings and then my fourth finger is going to come up here and go across the fifth fret of the first and second string…

Finger Picking Pattern

Alright so the picking pattern for this is P-A-M-I-A-M-I-A. So if you’re new to finger picking, um I did a lesson quite a while ago where I go over the basics of finger picking and stuff and so you’ll understand what the PIMA stuff is and all that is, anyway I’ll just leave a link for that here you can check that out. But in a sense what it is we’re doing here is on this first chord, on the D minor, our thumb is playing the D string, our first finger is playing the G string, second finger is playing the B string and third finger is playing the high E. So your thumb that’s P, so your thumb is P your first finger is I, your middle finger is M and your third finger is A. So the bass note is the D string and then the high E with your third finger, B string with your middle finger and G string with your first finger. So I’m just gonna call this out basically off the strings; one, two, three, four, one two, three, four, five, six. So we’re gonna go four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one. All right so that is basically the picking pattern throughout the whole song, there’s just some slight variations of what strings are on and we’ll cover those as they come.

Holiday Riff

So starting off with that D minor, so again so we’re; four, four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, and then we’re gonna move to our second chord the Dm/C. So we’re going to take our pinky and we’re just going to bring it up here and put it on the third fret of the A string and now we’re going to do that same picking pattern but now instead of our thumb playing the D string it’s going to play the A string but we’re going to everything else stays the same. So now we’re 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 1, but the difference is on that last time we go to the high E we’re going to remove our first finger so that it’s open. So we’ve got… Then we’re going to move to our BbM7, so I just remove my pinky and leave my second and third finger where they are and just lay my first finger across the first fret, same picking pattern that we just did and again we’re going to end it with the high E string open. So here we’re; five, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, open and then from there we go to our Asus4, so again we’re leaving our second and third fingers where they are and my first finger is going to move from the first fret here of the A string to the second fret of the D string. So now our thumb is gonna go back to the D string, so now we’re back to four, one, two, three, one, two, three, one and then we’re gonna go to that A5. So I just take my first finger and just drop it where it’s at so it’s going across the first four strings at the second fret and then I’m going to bring my fourth finger all the way up here to the fifth fret on the B and E strings and the same picking pattern. So the whole sequence slowly; four one two three one two three one and then move our pinky to do the Dm/C… with the open high E and to the BbM7 to the Asus4… So that’s P A M I…

Conclusion

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Introduction

Hey everybody how’s it going? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I want to show you a Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping that uses two different styles of arpeggios and then has some tapping included in it. So this is a movable shape and I’m doing this in E minor mostly just so for the close-up so everything’s close together so you can see both of my hands but it’s easily moved to in whatever key you want. 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 Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping.

Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping

All right so the very first thing we’re going to do for this Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping is this little E minor arpeggio. So for this particular one I’m starting off here with my third finger on the 14th fret of the D string and then we’re going to go to the 12th fret of the G, B and E strings; so it actually looks like the very first chord from stairway to heaven. It goes all the way up here but when you play it you don’t want to hear all those notes. So what I’m doing is this whole sweep picking technique and if you are new to sweep picking, if this is like the first time you’ve tried to do anything as far as sweep picking goes or you haven’t done a whole lot you’re going to probably want to work on the technique itself; I’ve done numerous videos on this subject, I’ll leave a link for one right here. But simply in a nutshell what we’re doing here is that when I play the note on the D string I’m just letting the pick come to a rest on the G string and then when I play that note I’m letting it come to a rest on the B string and then as I go up, when I go to the B string, I roll my finger here on my left hand up so that way it’s still touching the third string but it won’t ring… I just do that the rest of the way up… and each time you just let the pick come to a rest because with sweep picking it’s one long continuous down stroke or a long continuous upstroke. So then we go to the 14th fret of the high E with your third finger and that’ll be an upstroke, to the 15th fret is a down stroke… Then we’re going to slide up to 17 and we’re going to descend a major shape. So we slide up here to 17 we’re going to keep our first finger here on the 14th fret and now we’re going to do a pull-off to that 14 and then to the 15th fret of the B string… to the 14th fret of the G string. Then we’re going to ascend back up so; down, down, so far… Then from there we slide up to the 19th fret with your fourth finger and then your first finger will be on the 15th fret. Now we’re going to do a minor shape. So we’re going to pick after we slide up to 19 it’s a pull off to 15 to 17 on the B string to 16 on the G string and then to 17 on the D string and 19 on the A string… Then we just ascend back up, so back to the D string, back to the G string, back to the B string, back to the high E, 15 hammer 19 and then tap to the 24th fret…

Transposing To Another Key

Now like I said this Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping is a movable shape, so if your guitar does not have 24 frets then you won’t be able to add that last note in there obviously, but if you’re doing this in a different key, if we just moved it down to a different key, then you’d have enough frets. So if you want to do it in E minor and you do not have 24 frets an alternative to it is after you ascend back up to 19 then just come up to the 22nd fret and do a full step bend… I just really like the way it sounds with the tap. So the whole sequence slowly… All right, so these shapes like I said are movable. So if like this first one here, the reason this is E minor is because that’s an E right there. So if we were to move it down a whole step so we’re on the 12th fret and then the 10th fret… now we just did the same sequence, but we moved it down a whole step, so instead of being an E minor now we’re in E minor; so those shapes like I said they’re movable. I’ve done some other lessons on this so if you just check out that link you can see what these other shapes are and like work with the actual technique.

Conclusion

All right so I hope you enjoyed this Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping and got something out of it. If you like this lesson be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below if there’s something that you’d like to see covered in a future lesson by myself or one of the other instructors at GuitarControl.com. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and click that notification bell so that way you don’t miss out any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I’ve got for you today. Thanks for watching Killer Sweeping Arpeggio Lick With Tapping and have a great day.