Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you how to play a cool Mark Knopfler riff from Money For Nothing.

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.

Mark Knopfler Riff – Money For Nothing

All right, so a big thing that makes it sound the way that it sounds is the way that Knopfler plays with his fingers. You can play this with a pick, but it sounds so much better playing with your fingers and in a lot of ways I believe is easier. So we’re going to start off we’ve just got this D5 power chord so I’m here on the fifth fret of the D string with my first finger and the seventh fret of the G string with my third finger and we’re gonna play that and I’m just using my thumb and my first and second finger. So right now I’m just using my first and second finger to pluck the D and the G string. So we’re going to start this off we play that twice as well we do it three times, we do it as beats one and two, and then the downbeat of three; so like one, two, three. And then on the and of three how I like to do it is I just keep my first finger barred and then I use my third finger to come up here to seven because the next chord is there where you’re just barring the D and the G strings. So then you get one, two, three and four and then on the and of four we’re gonna change… So on the and of four I’m just going to take my middle finger I’m going to bring it up here to the sixth fret of the B string, but since I’ve got my finger of already barring here I get the fifth fret of the G string. And then we hit that on the and of four;

so one, two, three and, four and. So it’s tied to beat one of the second measure so we’re gonna let that keep ringing, but we’re gonna pluck the D string and it’s going to be the fifth fret because again your first finger barre here; one, two, three and, four and, one and then on the downbeat of two we hit that first G5 power chord again… So that’s on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we barre five and five. So we hit that on the and of two and then the downbeat of three we’re gonna move down to the third fret so we’re barring the D and the G strings and we hit that on the and of three. And then on the downbeat of four we hit the open D string and to four the open D and G strings. So that’s like the first two measures of the riff… Okay then on the next measure we actually we have on the downbeat of one just a little percussive note. So it doesn’t really matter which string you hit, just whatever’s easier for you. It doesn’t have to be just a single string, you just to kind of get that sound in there and then on the downbeat of two we hit the open D and G strings again and that’s tied to the downbeat of three. Then on the and of three we go back to the third fret D and G strings and then two mute strums for four and… Okay then on measure four we’re gonna do a regular B flat power chord. So first finger on the first fret of the A string and then I just use my third finger to pick up the third fret of the D string and my fourth finger pick up the third fret of the G string; we’re going to hit that on one and then we slide up to three. So when we hit that it’s not counted in the timing, it’s that small note. If you look on the note it’s like a smaller size note and the font looks different it has parentheses around it. So it’s like you kind of feel it, but if you think about it like one e and uh, two, three and then we’re gonna slide back down and then we end with the G, D and G strings open. So that’s the first four measures, like half of the entire sequence.

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Okay so then starting on the fifth measure we’re back up to where we started here on that G5, and again we’ve got that kind of a mute on the downbeat of one and then we come in on two. Two and then on the downbeat of three we hit just the D and G strings on the and of two, fifth and fifth fret, that’s the C5 over G… and then back to the G5 for four and; so one and, two, three and, four and… Then on measure six we’re going to start off we’re going to hit the D string again, we’re still on the fifth fret and the seventh fret of the G string is still ringing… and now we’re gonna pick up the eighth fret of the B string so I just use my fourth finger here as we’re just going five eight we’re just picking up the octave… All right, and then on the and of two we hit the G5 again on the downbeat of three move down where it’s just the fifth and fifth. So it’s all eighth notes. It’s just kind of strange where it’s coming in because it’s coming in on the and of two and three and down to the third fret and three and four and D and G strings open… Okay now on measure seven is very similar to measure three. We start off with that mute open B and G then to the third fret. On measure three we did the two mutes, but here we’re gonna go open D string on the down beat of four and then on the and of four it’s the D and G string both open and then we kind of do something similar to what we did at a measure four. We’re going to come up here, but now we’re going to do it third fret of the A and D string and again I’m just using my first and second finger, you might want to use your thumb, I’m not 100% sure of how he’s actually doing it. I know he puts his thumb in there, but this is just kind of the way that I’ve adapted to do it to try to emulate that sound. So we hit that on beat four and then we’re gonna slide up to the fifth fret the same way we did before with that last 16th note and then we hit it again and then the whole thing would just repeat…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, a really cool riff in the style of Mark Knopfler from Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

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

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

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

John Fogerty Riff-1 – Born On The Bayou

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

John Fogerty Riff-2 – Ramble Tamble

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

John Fogerty Riff-3 – Up Around The Bend

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody this is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you that are made up of octaves. So these are cool riffs, they’re fun to play and they’re also really a great exercise for developing this 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 these.

Octave Technique

All right, so the first thing is just to go over what I’m referring to here. So an octave is just when you’re playing the same note after you’ve already gone through the scale, it’s on the next set up. So we’re doing this for a riff any note you play, and this works across all the strings except one thing that I’ll explain when we get there. So here if I go to the fifth fret on the low E string and now if I skip a fret and skip a string so that’s going to put me on the seventh fret of the D string, it’s the same note, so that shape and skip a fret and skip a string is the same no matter what frets you’re on. So if I do it between the A and the and the G string it’s the same thing, but now if I go up to the D and the B string there’s two Frets in between now because the B string is a half step lower than the rest of the strings. But for these riffs that we’re going to be doing here they’re just going to be on the A and the G string and that’s where you’re going to find where a lot of these kinds of riffs are. So when you’re playing this the trick is that I just want to get this D here and here, but I don’t want to hear all those other open strings, I just want… So what I’m doing is I’m fretting the note on the A string with my first finger and then I’m actually using the tip of my finger, close to the nail, as a way to keep the low E string muted. And then the pad of my finger is touching the D string and keeping it muted and my third finger is picking up the seventh fret of the G string my and first finger is also muting the B and the high E strings so when I strum I just get those two sounds and then you also get that that kind of percussive sound in there too; it just sounds really cool and some neat things can be done with it.

Octave Riffs-1 – Fire – Jimi Hendrix

So the first one to look at is the riff from Fire by Jimi Hendrix. So this we’re going to start off on the 11th fret of the A string and the 13^th fret of the G string. So again low E string is muted, the D string is muted, you’re getting the G string and the high E and B strings are muted… We hit this on the downbeat of one and it’s a quarter note and then on the downbeat of two we’re just going to move it down a half step so now I’m on the 10th fret of the A string and the 12th fret of the G string and then we slide out of that… and then we rest on beat two… Okay, so that’s the first measure and then the second measure we’re going to start off on the eighth fret of the A string and tenth fret of the G string and we’re going to hit this on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we’re gonna slide it up a whole step. So one and, and then on the downbeat of two we’re gonna take the shape now we’re gonna move it down a set of strings. So we’re going to stay here on the 10^th and 12th fret but we’re going to move our fingers down so now my first finger is on the 10th fret of the low E string and my third finger is on the 12th fret of the D string and we hit that on the downbeat of two. And then on the end of two we hit it again and slide out of it, but it’s a dotted quarter note, so it takes care of all the way through beat three and then we rest on beat four and then it starts over… So something you need to kind of do there for fun that I I’ll do where those rests are is I’ll put some mute strums or something in there just to kind of make it a little more interesting when I’m playing it by myself…

Octave Riffs-2 – Black & Blue – Van Halen

Alright so, the next we’re going to look at is the riff from Black and Blue by Van Halen. So this one isn’t just only octaves, it has some other stuff in it that I’m gonna add in here as well just to make it so it has some resolve when you play it. So we’re going to start off on the second fret of the A string and we skip string and skip a fret so that’s going to put us onto the fourth fret of the G string. We rest on beats one, two and three and then this starts on beat four. So it’s eighth notes, so we’ve got four and on the and of four we just slide it up a whole step so now we’re at the fourth and sixth frets and that’s the first measure. And then on the second measure we’re going to move this up a half step again, so now we’re on the fifth fret of the A string and we’re on the seventh fret of the D string and we hit that on the downbeat of one, but then on the and of one we rest and then we hit it again on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we rest. Then on the down beat of three and then rest and the down beat of four and on the and of four we rest… So for beats one and two we’ve got one and, two and, and then we’re gonna move it down a half step, three and, four and. So then for measure three we’re going to be back here to two and four and we’re going to hit this on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we hit the open low E string. And then on the downbeat of two we’re going to pick the third fret so I can just stay in this position and we’re going to just do a little quarter step bend and pull-off to the open string and we do that twice, two and, three and. All right, then on beat four we’re right back here again; so beat four is like beat four of the first measure. So we’ve got four and, and now on the fourth measure here we’re going to scoot up a half step again and instead of just doing the octave we’re going to do a D5 power chord. So another thing that’s good about this is It’s kind of giving you a way to practice making the transition between the two ideas of just doing a octave or doing a power chord because they’re they go together really well and it’s a common thing to kind of mix them up. So we’re going to hit that one and, two and, and on the downbeat of three we’re going to go to an A5 and then before the open low E string and on the and of four E5. So this E5 we’re doing it up here on the seventh fret of the A string and then the ninth fret of the D and G string and the low E string open…

Octave Riffs-3 – Machinehead – Bush

All right and then the last one to look at is the riff from Machine Head by Bush. So this one again is the just that same octave shape and is only on the A and the G string. All right, so we start off we’re on the fourth fret of the A string first finger and sixth fret of the G string third finger and again that same idea that we want to mute that D string, technically want to mute all the those strings we aren’t using, we just want to hear those two notes. So we hit this one and, and then we’re going to move it up a half step so now we’re at the fifth and seventh fret. So now we’ve got two E and it’s three 16th notes, two e and uh. So on the and of two we’re gonna move it up to seven and then on the downbeat of three we do seven again and then we’re gonna move it up a whole step so we’re at the ninth and the 11th fret and this is for beat four… And then we’re going to go back down to seven and then down a half step to six and eight… So this one’s probably a little bit tougher than the first two just simply based on the speed, but don’t worry about the speed, just worry about getting the the clarity and the timing and everything down and the speed will come with time.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three cool guitar riffs that are based in octaves that aren’t too terribly difficult to play and also make really great exercises for working on the technique. 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 six fun and not too terribly difficult pentatonic sequence riffs from Tony Iommi.

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 this very first one is actually not just in pentatonic, it has a minor sixth in it, so it’s more like a natural minor riff than a pentatonic riff. But you could think of it either way because we’re not doing the major second either and that’s in the natural minor scale. So it’s like partially pentatonic and partially natural minor, but this is a really cool riff and it’s also a really good exercise just for picking. So it’s really easy, it’s here in G minor. So we have our first finger here on the third fret and we’re gonna play that three times and then we’re gonna go to the sixth fret on the E string and then we’re gonna go to the A string; three, five, six, three, five… Then back to the sixth fret of the low E, back to the third fret of the A string and then ending on the fifth fret of the A string. So that riff just repeats and like I said it it’s like a kind of a good picking exercise because you just want to alternate pick it.

Pentatonic Sequence-2

All right, so moving along to sequence number two, this time it’s a segment out of Iron Man and this is a really good example Tony Iommi style. He does a lot of these and they are like signature riffs and licks that he just uses a lot and this is one of them. So we’re going to start here on the 11th fret of the D string and partially what makes this unique is not the notes, but the timing, it’s kind of swing that he puts onto a lot of his things that he plays. So starting on the D string we go 11 to 9, then we go to the A string and we’re going to go 11, 10, and 9… Then we’re going to move down to the seventh fret and then we’re going to go to the low E string; seven, seven hammer-on to nine and then another nine and then that just repeats…

Pentatonic Sequence-3

All right, now on to sequence number three and this one is also from Iron Man. So now we’re going to start off we’ve got this B5 chord here; so I’m on the seventh fret of the low E with my first finger and then the ninth fret of the A string with my third finger. So we’re going to play this as eighth notes, so this is one. And now we’re gonna do this little climb up the pentatonic scale; so we’re going to go seven, ten. And then we’re going to go to the A string; seven, seven, eight, and nine. And then to the D string, seven, eight, nine… So you can take that idea and hook it together with the previous sequence because they’re both from Iron Man and they’re played back to back more than once and sometimes they’ll do the previous one first and then this one or vice versa.

Pentatonic Sequence-4

All right, now sequence number four here is just more of kind of a little lick, but this isn’t a thing that he uses in soloing, he uses he uses it in the riffs of songs. It’s really recognizable and it’s pretty easy to play and it’s a staple in the Tony Iommi sound. So we’re going to start here on the fifth fret of the D string with your second finger and then my first finger is going to handle the fourth fret. So we’re going to pick and then we’re gonna go four pick four hammer-on to five and pull-off to four. So the counting on this is really kind of weird because this is the downbeat of one and then starting on the and of one we’ve got this, but it’s a it’s a sixteenth note tuplet… Then we’re gonna go to the seventh fret on the A string… recognize that? It’s in War Pigs and tons of songs, even in the later material like Falling Off The Edge Of The world… He uses that particular type of timing all the time so this is a good one just to practice to kind of get down so when you see those riffs in songs as you learn them it makes it much, much easier.

Pentatonic Sequence-5

Now we’re on to sequence number five and this is another one that’s just a more of kind of a lick, but this is just something that he does a lot. One of the things about this that’s worth mentioning why this is a good one to have is that he’s taking a similar kind of lick that you maybe have done before, like a really common kind of a blues lick, but he’s kind of switched it up a little bit. So we’re gonna start off here we’re going to barre our first finger across the 12th fret of the B and the high E strings and then we’re going to go to the 15th fret on the high E string and we’re going to pick that pull to 12 and then follow that with the 12th fret of the B string. So this is triplets, so there’s like one yel-low and then it just repeats… easy to play quick. So like a common one like that would be the… so I just think that’s a little bit different than how I see a lot of other people play it.

Pentatonic Sequence-6

All right, so the sixth and final sequence and this one is another one that’s more of kind of a lick and you should recognize this if you’re a Sabbath fan. So it’s all pentatonic and we’re gonna start off here on the 12th fret of the A string and we’re going to pick that and do a hammer-on to the 14th fret. So I’m using my first finger on 12 and this is an E minor pentatonic box pattern number one. All right, so we’re going to start here on 12 on the A string and we’re going to pick that and do a hammer-on to the 14th fret and we’re going to do the same thing on the D string and then we’re going to hit that 14 again with some vibrato on it. So these first four notes are 16th notes and then when you hit the 14 on the D string a second time it’s an eighth note… Then we’re going to do that again on the D string and then go to the 12th fret on the G string… and he just does just a little tiny bit of a quarter step bend… Then you’re gonna go back to the 12th fret on the A string again, pick, hammer, pick, hammer on the D string and that’s our first measure… Now going on to the second measure, this is a another idea where he has taken a lick that’s like a common kind of a blues lick and he’s kind of changed a little bit and I really have difficulty making this sound good or being able to play it at any kind of tempo. So what he’s done you’ve probably done before, it’s a really common lick, but what he does is he starts off on the 12th fret of the G string. So it goes 12 and then 14 bend followed with the 12^th fret of the B and 12th fret of the high E…  it’s really hard to get that, I just don’t think I’d do it very well… And then on the 15th fret of the B string full step band with some vibrato… so the whole thing…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, six fun, not too terribly difficult, riff/lick sequences, however you want to look at them, in the style of Tony Iommi. 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 three fun and easy riffs for you from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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

Lynryd Skynyrd Riff-1 – Gimme Three Steps

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

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

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-2 – What’s Your Name

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

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-3 – Saturday Night Special

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing 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.

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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 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.

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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.

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