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 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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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.

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Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got a fun little arpeggio lick for you in the key of D.

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Arpeggio Lick In D Minor

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

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

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it. A pretty cool D minor arpeggio lick and like I said it’s movable. So you can move around any different keys and do different stuff with it. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video Lesson. Today I want to show you how to play a couple of extended arpeggio licks sequences.

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

Major Arpeggio Sequence

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

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

Minor Arpeggio Sequence

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

Conclusion

So there you have it. Two extended arpeggio licks with the major and the minor that are movable shapes that you can move to different keys. So if you like this arpeggio guitar licks lesson and you found this helpful and stuff be sure to give it a thumbs up and leave me a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification Bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching this arpeggio guitar licks lesson and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to teach you how to play a really cool, not too terribly tough to play, tapping lick in the style of Randy Rhoads.

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

Randy Rhoads Lick

All right, so this Randy Rhoads lick is fairly simple as far as we’re going to just do the same shape with the same spacing between our fingers for this entire thing. So we’re going to start off you can put your first finger on the ninth fret of the high E string and then you’re going to use your pinky or your third finger, just kind of depending on the individual, on the 12th fret and then we’re going to use our; well how I do it. So when I tap I like to keep a hold of the pick, I don’t like to put it down or put it in my mouth and tap with my first finger. I’m always holding the pick just with my thumb and my first finger like this… so I just hold on to it and then tap with my middle finger so that way i can transition between the two… So there’s kind of a pattern for it and we start off we tap that 17^th fret and pull to the 12^th fret; tap, pull and then pull 9^th fret to the 12th fret to 9^th fret and then back to 12th fret. So the first thing you probably want to do is just practice that and get that sequence down… All right, so there you have that sequence down and don’t worry about if you can’t play it quickly or whatever, just work on it even slow it still sounds pretty cool. So we’ve got that space we’re going a step and a half between our first finger and fourth finger and third finger and then between there we’re going a two and a half steps to where we tap and that’s one beat. So we’ve got we’ve got a whole measure of that and then what we’re going to do is we’re just going to move everything up a half step and down a string so now we’re going to be on the 10th fret of the B string with your first finger and then the 13th fret of the B string with your third or fourth finger and now we’re going to be on the 18th fret where we tap and it’s the same sequence. So, so far we have… now we’re going to do the same thing, we’re going to move it up a half step and down a set of strings so now we’re on the G string. So we’re at the 11^th fret, 14^th fret and 19th fret… then we’re going to do the same thing again we’re going to move it up so now we’re 12th fret and 15^th fret and 20^th fret, but we’re going to move it down so now we’re on the D string. Now with this at the end of that… he slides out of it… so this is like the first half of it and this is like from the solo for Flying High Again. It’s not exactly what he’s doing, but it’s just like the same general idea, but it just sounds really good… So we slide out of that and then quickly we’re going to do the same thing, but we’re going to move it we’re going to move it down so now you’re going to start off with your first finger on the fourth fret of the high E string and then we’re going up a step and a half so that’s going to put us at the seventh fret with our pinky finger and then we got to go up two and a half or two steps. So we come up here to the 12th fret and we’re going to do the same the same thing, but this to get it started if after we do that slide we do open, hammer-on to fourth fret to seventh fret, pull back off and then this thing starts over; so again it’s the same the same general idea like we were doing before, but we’re just doing it down here now. So now we’re gonna go fourth fret, seventh fret, and twelfth fret, all on the high E string, same sequence or same tapping sequence. I guess we’re going to do the same thing we do a whole measure of it then we’re going to move it up a half step and down a string so now we’re at the fifth eighth and thirteenth fret on the B string and we do the same thing again and shift it up a half step down a string so now it puts us at the sixth fret, ninth fret and fourteenth fret all on the G string… Now we can do the same thing again and shift it up a half step down a string so now we’re at 7^th fret, 10th fret and 15^th fret on the D string… and then to the eighth fret on the A string and slide out of it and we’re going to go back into like that riff in the song. So the whole thing… Okay so it’s not like really super fast in the first place, but I would just work on it you know even if you’re you know… just you know just to work your speed up on it.

Now another thing too when you’re doing this since you’re only playing on the high E string these other strings you know if you’re if you’re just playing like… you get all that other noise happening. So you have to keep that muted. So what I do is I actually since I’m tapping here, I’m just basically taking this part of my arm and then my like the bottom side of my forearm here and I’m just leaving it on these low earth strings… so that way they’re not just free to just really ring out because it won’t sound good. So you can play this with a clean tone and it still sounds really good, but if you practice it with the with the distortion or overdrive on you’ll notice those foreign sounds much better and you’ll be able to actually do it or it’ll be easier for you to mute it because you can hear it.

Conclusion

All right there you have it, a not too terribly difficult tapping lick in the style of Randy Rhoads. 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 Randy Rhoads lick or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching killer tapping lick in the style of Randy Rhoads and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson. Today I’ve got another riff for you to kind of work with your rhythm and your strumming technique. So in the past I’ve done a couple of Doobie Brothers ones and things and that just seemed to really help and people really seem to dig them so I thought I’d do with this one too. So this is just like the beginning kind of main riff from Pinball Wizard by The Who. So be sure to click on the link in description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look.

Pinball Wizard Riff

All right so for this riff what we’re doing with your fretting hand is pretty simple. So we’re going to start off here and we’re just going to barre the seventh fret of all the strings, well sort of.

So start up here put your finger on the 7th fret and put your second finger onto the eighth fret of the G string and your third finger onto the ninth fret of the D string and your pinky finger onto the ninth fret of the G string. Now how I’m doing this is my first finger is picking up the low E string, the A string is muted and I’m getting the D, G, B and high E string. Now another way you can play this is that you could just barre like this and then use your thumb, but I have a difficulty using my thumb to play chords, so I just kind of avoid it whenever possible; so that’s just an alternative if you’re having trouble getting it. So you’re getting that string muted and now the strum for this is it’s pretty simple, it’s just it’s 16th notes on the first three beats; one e and a, two e and a, three and a, four and; so on beat four it’s just eighth notes. Now you don’t want it to just be one and a two e and a three and a four and one e, you’ve got to put these accents on there. So we play a whole measure of this and then you just remove your pinky finger for the other chord, for the second half and then the shape actually just starts moving down, we’ll get to that in a minute. So with the the strumming for this you put an accent on the downbeat of one and then you put the next one on the last sixteenth note of one and then the next one comes down on the third sixteenth note of beat two and then the second sixteenth note of beat three and then both eighth notes on beat four. So an easy way to think about it is that you have an accent and then two that aren’t accented and then an accent two that aren’t accent two that aren’t so it’s like every two strums you start with the with the accent and then you don’t for two and then you do the accent and then you don’t for two and just so on and so forth… and then both of the eighth notes on beat four are both accented. So you want to just first just start off, don’t worry about like moving your position, in fact just for the what I’m trying to relay to you with this you don’t even need to move it, but it can be kind of fun to do that after you get it down just to make it a little bit more interesting and then at the same time you’re kind of working with your fretting hand as well… so it’s like da da da da da da da… then it would just simply move down a whole step…; so now your first finger is barring the 5th fret and your second finger is on the 6th fret of the G string, your third finger is on the 7th fret of the D string and your pinky finger is on the 7th fret of the G string. Move down a whole step again…; now you’re barring the 3rd fret with your first finger, your second finger is on the 4th fret of the G string, your third finger is on the 5th fret of the D string and your pinky finger is on the 5th fret of the G string and then it is and then just ends on the on F sharp (F#) here on the second fret. So when you’re playing this you don’t want where you’re using your whole arm like that, you want to really kind of isolate this into your wrist, just like we did on that Doobie Brothers one, we kind of want to do the same thing here, we want to have your wrist loose, but putting in those accents… so you really want to try to keep it just like all in your in your wrist… So you can see I’m still moving my elbow here, I’m still using this part of my arm, but the majority of it is just in my wrist. If you’ve followed me for any length of time you’ve probably heard me talk about this about a million times, but that’s like a really key thing with playing is that you don’t want this like really stiff, you want everything to just kind of be loose and let your wrist do the majority of the work because it’s just a lot easier to get that that swing on there that way…

Conclusion

All right so there you have it. Not too terribly difficult to play, but again just a really good exercise riff for really developing your strumming and your technique for your strumming hand. So between this and the Doobie Brothers one and I’ve done a couple of them, I can’t remember even what the other riffs are right now off the top of my head, but that Doobie Brothers one’s like a really good one and I’m sure a lot of you guys have already seen that, but I’ll leave a link for that in the description so you can check it out.

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