Introduction

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

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

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

Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-1

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

Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-2

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

Pentatonic Box Pattern Sequence-3

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to give you some more examples of the pentatonic sequence licks that we’ve been working on. Today we’re going to look at some in the style of Randy Rhodes.

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

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

Randy Rhoads Lick-1

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

Randy Rhoads Lick-2

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

Randy Rhoads Lick-3

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got three more pentatonic sequences that can be made into licks.

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

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

Pentatonic Sequence-1

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

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

Pentatonic Sequence-2

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

Pentatonic Sequence-3

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

Combining Sequences

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

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

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

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

Jimmy Page Lick-1 – Stairway To Heaven

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

Jimmy Page Lick-2 – Whole Lotta Love

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

Jimmy Page Lick-3 – Heartbreaker

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

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

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

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

About The Licks

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

Ace Frehley Lick-1

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

Ace Frehley Lick-2

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to show you two pentatonic sequences, one that is ascending and one that is descending, and then I’m going to show you some examples of how you can take just a snippet of each one and put them together and make some really cool sounding licks that are pretty easy to play.

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.

Ascending Sequences

All right, so the first one we’re going to look at is the ascending portion and I’ve got this divided up into each section is a group of six notes and I’ve divided it up that way to make it easier to memorize it. So we’re doing this in E minor, but it’s just with the first pentatonic box pattern, but you can play this in any key, you can just move it around. So what we’re going doing is we’re going to start off with your first finger here on the 12th fret of the low E string and then we’re going to pick up the 15th fret and sometimes I’ll do it with my pinky and sometimes I’ll do it with my third finger; once I get to the 12th fret I don’t use my pinky as much because of space. But anyway we’re going to start off by going to pick the 15^th fret and pull to the 12^th and then hammer back to 15 and we’re going to go to the 12th fret on the A string and back to the 15^th fret on the E and back to the 12th fret on the A string. So that’s six notes; one, two, three, four, five, six… Okay now we’re just going to repeat the same sequence across all the rest of the strings. So our next pair is going to be the A and the D string. So now just like the pentatonic scale we’re moving to the 14th fret so we’re going to be on the 12th fret with our first finger and the 14th fret with our third finger and we’re going to pick 14, pull to 12, Hammer to 14 and then to the 12th fret of the D string, back to the 14th fret of the A string, back to the 12th fret of the D string. So, so far we’ve got… Now we’re just going to keep moving the sequence up so now we’ll start on the D string, then start on the G string and now on the B string remember now we have to go back up to the 15th fret. So you can play the whole thing like an exercise… So that is our ascending portion. Now obviously you could already use that as a lick, but not necessarily the entire sequence. Maybe you’ll just you know use a part of it… something like. Okay so now let’s look at the descending part, it’s like kind of the counterpart to this.

Descending Sequences

So again we’re in E Minor we’re still using that same pentatonic pattern and this is a group of six notes again. So now we’re going to start at the top of the scale; so first fingers on the 12th fret and the 15th fret of the high E string, again sometimes I’ll use my pinky sometimes I use my third finger, and we’re going to pick the 15^th fret and pull the 12^th to the 15th fret of the B string, back to the 12th fret of the high E and then pull 15 to 12 on the B string. Okay so the sequence is just going to continue do on the B string. Now I’m going to go to the G string, remember we have to go from the 15^th fret down to the 14th fret now. The G to the D string, the D to the A string and then the A to the low E… Again you could just use part of that too… you know, whatever.

So now what I do is I want to show you how by taking part of the ascending portion and part of the descending portion and connect them together you can come up with some really cool sequences.

Combining Sequences

All right so for this first combination we’re going to do it on the D and the G string and this is just kind of a nice neutral spot to kind of practice to get the pattern down. So I’ve got my first finger on the 12^th fret of the D string and my third finger on the 14^th fret of the D string and I’m going to pick and pull and then do a hammer-on back on to the 12th fret of the G string, back to the 14th fret of the D string and back to the 12th fret of the G string. So this is just like the ascending part that we did earlier… Now for the second half we’re going to do the second measure is going to be the descending part. So we ended off here on the 12th fret of the G string with our first finger so now we’re going to put our third finger onto the 14th fret on the G string we’re going to pick and pull-off to 12 and follow that with the 14th fret of the D string back to the 12th fret of the G string and then the 14 pull to 12 on the D string and then the whole thing would just repeat… So it’s pretty cool lick and it’s fairly easy to build up some speed. Now you could pick every note if you wanted. You could do all the hammer-ons or pull-offs or whatever you kind of make it your own. This is just the way that I personally like it.

All right so the second combination we’re going to look at is basically going to be the exact same thing, but we’re going to do it between the G and the B string. So this is going to be just a little bit more difficult, but it’s still the same idea. So we’re starting pulling 14 to 12 on the G string and hammering back to 14 to the 12th fret of the B string, back to the 14th fret of the G string, back to the 12th fret of the B string… And on the second half we’re gonna have to go 15 on the B string pull to 12 to the 14th fret of the G string, back to the 12th fret of the B string and then 14 pull on the G string… So that one’s quite a bit harder because you’re having to make that transition and you see that I kept changing which fingers I’m using because I’m still trying to figure out exactly how I would want to play that part.

Okay and then the last one and this is the one that I really think sounds cool. I hope that I can play it well enough here to give you a good example. We’re going to start on the high E string and we’re gonna pull 15 to 12 to the 15th fret of the B string to the 12th fret of the high E string and then 15 to 12 on the B string; so this is the descending leg… So that last 15 to 12 you could pull that too or pick it. Okay so then the second measure we left off herel so on the 12th fret of the on the B string. So now we’re going to go back to 15 we’re going to pull the 12 hammer back to 15 to the 12th fret of the high E, back to 15 on the B string and then back to 12 on the high E and then it would just the whole thing would repeat. All right, so like I said that one really I think that one really sounds cool and it’s a really cool lick. I need a lot more practice with it to really be able to play it quick, but it isn’t really that hard to get the sequence down. So if you were gonna try to do that across all the strings, like a long continuous run or something, you wouldn’t be able to do what I’m about to show you here, but with this what makes this kind of easy is if you just barre your first finger on the 12th fret of the B and the high E string then all you have to do is really move your third finger… but as you move down you have… I’m gonna try to do that, which I really don’t recommend.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it a cool ascending and a cool descending pentatonic sequences and then combining them together to make different licks. So obviously those aren’t all of the ways you could do that. So just mess around with it and come up with your own ideas really try to make it your own. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment if you have any questions about this or other guitar related subjects. 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 up load 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 three ideas for ascending pentatonic 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 of the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Ascending Pentatonic Sequence-1

All right, so all three of these examples are all in the key of E minor, but they’re all movable shapes and they’re all based out of the your number one box pattern of the minor pentatonic. So in E we’ve got; 12, 15, 12, 14, 12, 14, 12, 14, 12, 15, 12 and 15… So the very first one here is made up of a sequence of six notes so we’re going to start here on the 12^th fret of the low E string with your first finger and we’re going to pick and do a hammer-on to the 15th fret and pull back off to 12 and then hammer back to 15. So one, two, three, four and then for note five we go to the 12^th fret of the A string and then back to the 15th fret of the low E string… And the sequence just repeats as you go across the strings. So if you know you think about that pattern that’s based on the E and the A string. So now we’re just going to start that process over again, but now we’ll start on the A string and obviously the frets will be different here so we go 12 hammer to 14 pull off to

12, hammer to 14 and back to the 12^th fret of the D string and back to the 14^th fret of the A string and then you would just continue the process, so you start on the D string, same frets as for the A string and then the G string and now when we go to the B string we have to go back to the 12 and 15. So if you were going to try to use this idea for a lick you might not want to play through the entire sequence. You might just use a section of it to lead into something else… something like that.

Ascending Pentatonic Sequence-2

All right so the next we’re going to look at is that you can play this just as it is, it’s a good exercise for really knowing the scale, but also for with pentatonic licks there’s a lot of stuff where you’re rolling, you know on the same fret from one string to the other i.e. Angus Young does a lot of stuff like that. So the sequence again you can do it in whatever key, but here we’re doing it in E. So I just start off by play the 12th fret on the E string and I’m going to roll up and do the 12th fret on the A string… Now we’re going to go to the 14th fret of the A string same fret of the low E… And now we’re going to just continue that process along. So this is like a grouping of four; one, two, three, four. So now we’re going to do the same thing, but we’re going to start on the A string, it’ll be between the A and the D string. So now we’re to since we’re both notes are on the 12th fret and the 14th fret we can roll both of our fingers. So we’re going to roll that at first finger for the 12s and then your third finger for the 14s. Now you just continue the process now you’d start on the D string to the G string, again both since they’re the 12th and 14th frets so you can just roll like that. And then the G to the B string so it’s going to be 12 and then 15 on the B string back to 14 on the G string and then to the B and high E 12 and 12 and 15 and 15… Now again, you may not necessarily do that whole thing, but you certainly do parts of it. There’s so many times where you’re doing stuff where you’re doing that roll technique that you really want to you know work with that and this is a good way to do it and it also breaks up the pentatonic scale so that you don’t have to play it sequentially in order to be able to play it… Or you could do it the other way so we do the 12 on the E and the A and then 15 on the E 14 on the A and so on and so forth…

Ascending Pentatonic Sequence-3

All right and then the last one to look at here is this one and it’s a grouping of five notes this time. So we’re going to start here and again we’re in E Minor. So we’re going to start here on the 12th fret and we’re going to pick and do a hammer-on to 15 and then follow that with 12 on the A string and then back to 12 hammer to 15 on the E string. So now again we’re just going to continue that sequence. So now we’re going to start on the A string. So 12 hammer to 14 and then the 12th fret on the D string back to the 12th fret of the A string and then hammer it again… so on and so forth. So now to the D to the G string, G to the B string and then B to the high E string… So again you may not use that whole thing. You could combine this with the other ones. With all three of these together you have multiple different ways you could put them together to kind of make your own licks out of it.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three not too terribly difficult ascending pentatonic sequence ideas. 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 a couple of really common, but feel like they’re kind of must know cool rock/ blues licks and then I’m going to show you how you can combine them together.

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

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

Must Know Licks #1

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

Must Know Licks #2

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

Must Know Licks #3

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

Conclusion

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

So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar later topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching must know guitar licks and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got a cool little lead guitar lesson for you that is going to show you how to combine arpeggios and diatonic scales with the pentatonic scales.

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

Combining Arpeggios & Scales

All right, so we’re doing this it’s in the key of E minor, but it’s movable, you can move it to whatever key because it doesn’t use any open strings. All right so we’re going to start off by ascending a C major arpeggio. So I’ve got my fourth finger here on the 15th fret of the A string and then I’m going to go to the 14^th fret of the D string with my third finger then to the 12th fret of the G string with my first finger. So you’re going to want to do this with the sweep picking technique. So I’m just down, down, down, but as I’m ascending this you don’t want it to be like a bunch of downstrokes like that. When I play the A string I just let the pick come to a rest on the D string and then just continue that up the arpeggio… So after we get here we’ve just ended off here on the 12th fret of the G string with our first finger. So now we’re going to go to the 13th fret of the B string with our second finger to the 12th fret of the high E string with your first finger then hammer-on to the 14th fret and then to the 15th fret… so this is the arpeggio… Now we tap these two notes, or excuse me we hammer-on these two notes and then we’re going to come up and we’re going to tap here on the 20th fret of the high E string. So what we’ve done here is we’re playing right out of… this would be like the last three notes from the Mixolydian mode, a diatonic scale, and in this case that starts on D. So we tap, pull, pull, pull and then we’re going to go to the 15^th fret of the B string with your fourth finger and we’re going to continue that Mixolydian diatonic sequence that we’re descending. So we’re going to go to the 15th fret of the B string and then we’re going to pick that and do a pull-off to the 13th fret and then we’re going to pull-off the 13th to the 12th fret so as you come down to that you want to put your other fingers down so that way they’re ready to do these pull-offs. So we can do that pull-off and then we’re going to go to the 14th fret of the G string with your third finger, back to the 13th fret of the B string and do a pull-off to the 12th fret. So when you’re descending this I just leave my first finger here on the B string so that way I can just be ready when I come back up. So back to the 13th fret of the B string, pull to 12… to the 14th fret on the G string and we’re going to pick that and pull to the 12th fret to the 14th fret of the D string. So what we’ve done now is we’re actually in E pentatonic minor scale pattern one back to the G string and 14^th fret pull to the 12^th fret to the 14th fret of the D string and then I’m going to go to the 14th fret of the G string. So I’m going to just roll my third finger up like this back down to 14 and then finally ending on the 12th fret of the G string. So with this we’ve got the arpeggio and the diatonic and pentatonic scale… So it’s just like a really good way that you can see where these patterns overlap each other. That’s really helpful with playing lead guitar, especially with improvisation, is if you can visualize where these things all overlay each other and then you can combine them together and come up with some really neat sounding things. So the whole thing again…

Conclusion

Alright, so there you have it, not too terribly difficult lick to play that combines arpeggios diatonic scales and the minor pentatonic scale. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar later topics. If you haven’t 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 combining arpeggios with diatonic and pentatonic scales 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.

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

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

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.