Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got two more pentatonic sequence licks like the stuff we’ve been working on in the past. We’ve got one for descending and one for ascending.

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 the first one here we’re going to start with the ascending one and this all right out of the minor pentatonic scale. So this is movable and you can do it in different places to play in different keys. I’m not going through the entire scale; it’s just a small section of it. So you can take the idea of it and you can move it around within the scale.

Pentatonic Lick Ascending

So here we’re doing it in E and we’re going to start here on the on the 14th fret of the D string with my third finger and then my first finger is on the 12th fret because we’re going to pick 14 pull to 12 and then hammer back on to 14… So this is all a triplet feel, so it’s like one-yel-low. And then we’re gonna go on the downbeat of two to the 12th fret on the G string with your first finger back to 14 on the D string and then back to 12 again on the G string… So we’ve already done one that was very similar to this with this same idea; this is just another way of hooking it together. So that’s the first half, the first two beats of the first measure… Now what we’re going to do is starting on beat three we’re going to shift up and we’re going to start on the B string. So now I’m going to pick 15 on the B string and pull to 12, because remember we’re out of the minor pentatonic shape, pattern one. So we’re going to pick 15 pull a 12 to 14 on the G string, so that’ll be beat three, three-yel-low and then on the B string 12 to 14 on the G back to 12, and that’s our first measure… Now starting on the second measure we’re going to start the sequence again, but now we’re moving up a string; so we’re going to start on the G string and I’m going to do 14 pull the 12 back to 14 as a triplet and then to 12 on the B string, back to 14 on the G string and then back to 12 again on the B string and that’s beat two. And then for beat three we’re going to come up to the high E string and we’re going to pick 15 pull to 12 and follow that with 15 on the B string and that’s beat three. And then for beat four we’re going to go back to 12 on the high E string and then back to 15 pull to 12 on the B string and that’s beat four… And then we’re going to end it by barring the 12th fret of the B and the high E string…

Pentatonic Lick Descending

All right, now let’s look at the descending version. So the descending version we’re going to start at the top of the scale and we’re going to pick 15 pull to 12 and then follow that with 15 on the B string; so again this is all triplets one-yel-low. Then we’re going to go back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull of 12 on the B string and that’s beat two… 

Then we’re going to go to the G string 14 pull to 12, back to 14, back to 12 on the B string to 14 on the G string and back to 12 on the B string… Then on the second measure we’re going to be moving it down. So just like on the first one where we shifted up a string; now we’re going to shift down. So we’re going to start on the B string 15 pull the 12 and then we’re going to go to that 14 on the G string, back to 12 again on the high E string, back to 12, 14 pull to 12 on the G string. So that’s the first two beats of that second measure. Then we’re going to go to the D string 15 or excuse me 14 pull the 12 hammer to 14 and then back to 12 on the G string to 14 on the D string back to 12 and then finally ending on the 14th fret of the D string…

Moving The Licks Around

All right, so I was saying you can move these around. You could take the first one and starting it on the on the D string, the ascending one rather, and you could start it on the low E if you wanted to… however we want to do it just so it follows that same sequence. All of the notes that we’re playing are all in that E minor pentatonic scale. You can also move this around wherever you want since it’s out of that scale anywhere that you can play the scale you can play that same sequence. Now the further you go down the neck this way since the frets are further apart in your arms and more of an awkward position, it’s a lot harder. It’s a lot easier to play these licks at a higher fret. So there those are pretty cool, they’re just some ideas, hopefully this gives you some more ideas of things you can do in your own improvisation, so feel free to take any of this stuff and just dissect it make it your own.

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I want to do another continuation on this series we’ve been doing on licks and Lead styles of different players and today we’re going to be looking at Don Felder.

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

Okay, so Don Felder a guitar player, one of the guitar players, from The Eagles. So this is the first half of the solo for Hotel California. So this is just the first half of the solo and then Joe Walsh shows the second half; so we’re just gonna be looking at the first half of Felder’s. This is one of my all-time favorite solos. I think that this is just really great melody and he makes everything follow the chord changes of the chord progression, which is really cool.

Don Felder Licks

All right, so we’re going to start off we’re going to do a slide from nowhere on the G string with your middle finger to the 11th fret…  So it’s kind of weird and we actually rest on the first three beats and then we rest on the first 16th note of beat four. So this is actually coming in on the e. And then we’re gonna go from there to the 10th fret of the B string and then the 12^th fret with your third finger; one, two, three, four and…  All right, so we’re gonna do that bend up here on the 12th fret of the B string with your third finger and this is the very last of beat four. And now starting on the downbeat of one, we’re still holding that note, but we’re going to bend it up a step and a half and hold it… then we’re going to go back to the 10^th fret. So when we hold this it’s a dotted quarter note so it’s getting all of beat one, the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we’re gonna go ten to twelve on the B string… we go 10, 10, 12 and then you’re going to take your middle finger and you’re going to grab the 11th fret of the G string and we’re gonna treat this like a slide from nowhere. So it’s like a little ghost note on there and we’re gonna slide to nine. So you’re picking and sliding like simultaneously… and we just throw the vibrato on there… Then starting on beat number four we’ve got four sixteenth notes again, so we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the G string with your first finger and we’re going to pick that and hammer to the ninth fret and then we’re going to follow that with this the seventh fret on the B string with your first finger and then back to seven on the G string with your first finger so you got this and we’re gonna do that rolling technique that we’ve looked at before… Then we come to the third fret on the G string on the last 16th note of beat four of the second measure we’re going to pull that just a little bit of a quarter step bend and then on the downbeat of one we’re gonna pick up the eighth fret. So we’re just going to take our middle finger and move it you know so just a half step up, but on the D string we’re gonna hit that with some vibrato for all of beat one and then we’re going to go to the ninth fret. So this part can be a little awkward because we’re going to have to completely change our hand position. We’re playing eight… but now we’re going to want to go nine. So we’re gonna move up and use our first finger on nine and then we’re gonna pick nine and hammer to twelve and pull back off to nine… so just quick looks like a triplet and then back to seven and we’re gonna do a half step bend and release and then we rest on the very last of that because that’s kind of the end of the phrase…

All right, so then that leads us to measure four. Now measure four we’re going to start on the seventh fret of the G string with your first finger and we’re going to pick that and hammer to nine and then we’re gonna go to the seventh fret on the B string. So I’m just going to do that rolling technique and then back to seven with a quarter step bend… So that’s beat one and there are 16th notes; so like one e and uh… Then starting on beat two we’re gonna go to the ninth fret on the D string with your third finger, to the eighth fret with your second finger and then back to nine with a little vibrato on there. Then we’re gonna do that same exact thing again, so the seven hammer to nine, roll your finger to seven on the B string back down to seven and then this time we’re gonna go to instead of going nine eight nine we’re gonna go nine, seven, nine and we’re gonna pull it off… And then from there to the seventh fret of the G string and that’s all of measure four… so all of it is sixteenth notes with the exception of beat number two. Now we’re doing that nine eight nine on the D string and this is all 16^th notes; one e and uh, two e and uh, three e and uh, four e and uh…

All right, so now uh we’re gonna go to measure five and this is kind of like a another awkward part because we’re gonna have to shift up a little bit. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to shift up to the 10th fret on the B string with your third finger and we’re gonna bend. So I just have my second, first finger behind it, on the ninth and the eighth frets and now I’m gonna bend that a whole step and I’m gonna use my pinky to pick up the tenth fret of the high E string… so we the high E string hit the B string again and release the bend… Then we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the B string, tenth and then to the eighth and we’re going to bend that up a half step.

So if you noticed all of this very planned out. He didn’t just wing it. He completely composed this based around the chords and everything. And it’s like I said, I think it’s one of the most memorable solos, I really, really like this and hopefully this will help you to be able to get better melody in your own playing.

All right, so when we hit that bend that is right on the last 16th note of beat two and then it’s tied to a quarter note. So we we let that ring over beat three and then starting on beat four your first finger is already right there on the seventh fret. So we’re gonna go seventh fret on the high E string to the seventh fret of the B string; so again, that rolling technique. Then I’m gonna go to the tenth fret on the high E and do a full step bend… So we hit that on the and a four and then it’s tied to the downbeat of one… Then we come out of the bend, and you don’t want to hear it, it’s not a release, we’ve just got… so we’re still at ten and we pick it again and bend and release… Then we’re gonna go to the B string tenth fret and we hit it twice, well actually we hit it three times, and on the third time we bend it. Then we’re gonna do that kind of that same idea that we did earlier, we’re bending this up on the tenth fret and I’m going to use my pinky to grab the tenth fret on the high E string. And then we’re gonna hit that again on the B string, release the bend and end on the eighth fret of the B string. Then after that we have another kind of a what you might think of maybe as a little bit of a weird transition to get to this next part. So we’re coming from that… then we’re going to go to the ninth fret on the G string. So what I do is I just reach up with my middle finger and grab it and then bring my first finger up too so I can get some leverage because we’re going to bend this. And then we’re gonna do that same thing we were doing earlier, but now we’re skipping the strings, we’re bending the G string and then we’re going to pick the tenth fret on the high E string and then pick the G string again… Then we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the G string, so I just use my first finger, and then we roll to seven on the D string. So that’s we’re going to kind of cut this that little phrase in half… and the reason is as we hit this and this is on the last 16th note of beat two and then we’re going to go back to the seventh fret on the G string and we’re gonna pick that and pull the six. So what I do is I just switch my finger. I’m

going from the bend and first finger comes down and gets a little roll and then I switch to my second finger so that way I can pick that and do the pull off to the sixth fret with my first finger… So we do the pick and pull back to that seven with some vibrato and then we’re going to hit the sixth fret on the G string again, to the ninth fret on the D string and that’s kind of transitioning this to the next part.

All right, so after you do that, six of the G string so the ninth fret on the D string, then we’re gonna go seven on the G string hammered in nine with our first finger on the seventh fret of the B string. So we’re just doing this little half step bend and this thing is kind of this is done a couple of times here. So we’ve got the seven hammer to nine and we do that bend, so one e and uh, we rest the last 16th note on beat one and then we’re gonna do that bend again… and then bend and release… Now we’re gonna go to the ninth fret on the G string; so the eighth fret back to nine then that’s seven again with rest and two bends in a release the G string nine to seven. So this is kind of like that part at the beginning of it… Then this leads us to the very last phrase from this and this is a really cool lick and you’ll kind of recognize it just from other things that we’ve done in the past, it’s kind of a garden variety lick, but the way he that he does it I think is really kind of interesting. So he’s just taken an idea you like that Chuck Berry thing we’ve done different variations on. So we’re going to bend the starting on the ninth fret of the G string we’re going to bend that a whole step to the seventh fret on the B string to the tenth fret… then we’re gonna do that again… but this time instead of going the 10^th fret we’re just going to hit the B and the high string together. So then we’re going to do that bend again and release, seven, still on the G string, back to nine for a full step bend with some vibrato… Then at the very last of it he bends the nine and releases seven and then nine on the D string then that’s where it transitions into the next solo, the Joe Walsh solo. All right, so the whole thing…

Conclusion

Alright, so there you have it, a fun solo with licks in the style of Don Felder. 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 sequence licks for you in the style of Angus Young.

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

Angus Young Lick-1 – Highway To Hell

All right, so this first one here we’re going to look at is the beginning part of the solo for a Highway to Hell. So it’s got this really kind of garden variety like bluesy Rock lick; Chuck Berry kind of thing. Angus Young uses this allot, especially in the older material. So it’s pretty simple we’re just going to take our first finger we’re going to bare here across the fifth fret of the B and the high E string and keep that there and then you’re going to take your third finger put it on the seventh fret of the G string and then I use my middle finger on the sixth fret because we’re going to bend, so I get a little more leverage. So we’re going to bend this up a whole step, so we’ve got… and then we hit the double stop twice, so… That right there… I mean if you get nothing else out of the all of this entire lesson, if you’re a beginner, that right there is a really versatile usable lick. Okay so after he does that one, two, three, four, five times… then we’re gonna do another double stop here. So now I’m just barring the seventh fret of the G and the B string with my third finger. So we’ve got that, we’re hitting that on the very last 16th note of four and then it’s tied to all of beat one plus the downbeat of two; well actually all the way through beat two, but we’re gonna on the downbeat of two we’re gonna bend it and then release it to the and of two. So it’s like one, two, and then down here to the fifth fret on the B and G strings and that will be coming in on the downbeat of three… And then on the and of three we’re going to barre across the seventh fret of the D and the G string this time. So we’ve got this… then the G string, seventh fret again to the fifth fret… So seventh fret of the D string, this is the most awkward part of this here that I struggle and play it where I’m satisfied with it. Seven and then down to the fourth fret with a little bit of a bend… then to the second fret, so you got this… second fret of the A string, pick that and do a pull-off and then finally ending here on the second fret of the G string. So it’s really that tough, but for whatever reason I just have a really hard time getting that timing at the last part of it unless I’ve got something to meter me I just kind of get kind of get out of whack on the timing.

Angus Young Lick-2 – Hell’s Bells

All right, so the next we’re going to look at is from Hell’s Bells and this is like the little part before it goes into the solo. It has this kind of little breakdown part and it’s just coming in off of A and then it comes into this part… So this is like made up of a lot of double stops, primarily of double stops. So we got the first one we’re playing on the G and the B string; so I’m on the seventh fret of the G, but the eighth fret of the B and we’re gonna hit that and then we’re gonna go to the seventh fret on the B string. So there’s a couple ways you can do it because you do that bend and then you’re gonna follow that with the fifth fret of the B string. All right, so probably the easiest way for me to do this, but I’m not really consistent about using my third and fourth finger and then just barre that one… and then we’re going to follow that with the seventh fret on the G string to the fifth fret, a little bend and then that resolves to the seventh fret of the D string… Then we’re gonna do a slide from nowhere here, you know like the fifth fret, one of these little slurred slides or you could do a pull-off and a hammer, but he does a slide on the recording. But I don’t consistently do it the same way, so that being said all of these things the big thing from this is you want to take is just the ideas to try to implement it into your own playing. Whether it be the technique or the note choices or the phrasing, anything like that, just you know use it and experiment with it. Try playing it over different backing tracks and different keys and just making it and tailoring it to fit what you’re playing. Okay so after we do the… we’re letting that that seven ring there with some vibrato on it, same for the D string. Then we’re going to go back up and we’re gonna barre the fifth fret of the B and the high E string and then the seventh fret of the G and B string…  Then we’re going to come here we’re going to do a quick bend and then hit it again and then that’s on the and of four and then it’s tied to the first one and a half beats and then while it’s ringing we’re just gonna pull it up there starting on the and of two…

Angus Young Lick-3 – You Shook Me All Night Long

All right, so the next one here is from the solo for You Shook Me All Night Long. So this isn’t starting at the beginning, I just really like this particular phrase. So we’re going to start off we’re going to do a slide from nowhere to the seventh fret of the G string. I’m going to use my middle finger because we’re going to follow that with the sixth fret on the B string; so we’ve got… Then we’re going to do the same thing, but we’re going to slide to nine and then eight and when we do the slide to nine we can just start there at seven. We still want to treat it like a slide from nowhere…  Then we’re going to go back to the ninth fret of the G string again, to the eighth fret of the B and then to the tenth. So I’m going to keep my first finger there and then drop my second and third finger because we’re going to bend; so we’ve got… Now this is one of the parts I really like, I really like this style of bending. So we’re going to do this bend and while we’re holding it I’m going to take my pinky I’m going to pick up the 10th fret of the high E string. I’m gonna hit that and then pick the B string again and release since you want that to ring out over each other… Then the very last part here and I think this is like one of the really neatest things about this is. It’s got this little melody… but he doesn’t play it like that, he does it with these bends… So we’re going to come to the 11th fret. We’re gonna bend that up a whole step. Then to the 10th fret and do the same thing; so bend, bend, release to 10 and then to eight and then nine on the G string and then back to eight here again to resolve…

Angus Young Lick-4 – Back In Black

So next we’re gonna look at the little lick from Back In Black. So this is the… so we’re just gonna be looking at that. So this particular thing is using these open strings so we’re kind of tied into being, you know, into that key, but I’m going to show you how you can use it; it’s just the box pattern number one. So we’ve got three to the open string and this is on the high E and I’m going to do the same thing on the B string and then we’re going to go to the second fret on the G string and we’re going to do a full step bend and release and pull to the open string…

Okay now if you wanted to do it, say an A minor, so we’re going to be fifth fret and the eighth fret on the high E string and then the same thing on the B string and then we go to the G string and it’s going to be seven, bend and release to seven, to five; so it’s the same… So you can see right there that’s a very useful, cool sounding little lick.

Angus Young Lick-5 – Have A Drink On Me

All right and the very last one this is one of my favorites. I’ve referenced this before in other lessons, but it’s a portion of the little intro melody, kind of main melody line to Have A Drink On Me. So we’re gonna start off, I’m gonna do a slide from nowhere to the ninth fret on the G string and I’m going to use my third finger and then when I slide up to that I’m going to take my second finger and put it on the eighth fret of the B string and let them ring out over each other with some vibrato… Then we’re gonna do that slide to nine eight thing again and then we’re gonna go back to the G string and we’re going to pick that and slide to seven. Now the tricky part here is that when you slide down you want to drop your first finger onto the fifth fret at the same time because then you’re going to pull-off to that and that’s a tuplet… So after you do that pull-off then we’re gonna go to the seventh fret of the D string and then we’re gonna do that Angus Young thing that it’s really, really common that we’ve talked about lots of times is the rolling finger thing. So he ends up here on the seventh fret of the D string and then it’s going to go to the seventh fret of the G string. So instead of moving his finger you just roll it up. So here I’m fretting it on the tip of my finger like how you typically would and then here I’m rolling it up; so I’m actually kind of playing it more with the pad part of my finger. And then to the fifth fret the G string with your first finger and seventh fret of the D string with your third finger and then the open A string… So to get that you might want to practice that separately…

Conclusion

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

Introduction

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

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

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

Billy Gibbons Lick-1

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

Billy Gibbons Lick-2

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

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

Billy Gibbons Lick-3

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got six fun and not too terribly difficult pentatonic sequence riffs from Tony Iommi.

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

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

Pentatonic Sequence-1

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

Pentatonic Sequence-2

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

Pentatonic Sequence-3

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

Pentatonic Sequence-4

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

Pentatonic Sequence-5

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

Pentatonic Sequence-6

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

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, six fun, not too terribly difficult, riff/lick sequences, however you want to look at them, in the style of Tony Iommi. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

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

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

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

John Fogerty Lick -1 Old Man Down The Road

All right, so the first one to look at is from the intro for Old Man Down The Road. This one’s pretty easy and it’s just based out of the pentatonic and using the open strings here in the first position. So we’re going to start off we rest on the first three beats and then on beat number four we start with the open G string and then on the and of four we go to the second fret. So when I’m doing this I’m using my second finger and it’s just because here in a minute we’re gonna have to go to the first fret; just so I don’t have to change my hand position. So we’re going to go four and then the first beat of the second measure is we’re going to bend that up a half step with some vibrato. And then starting on the downbeat of two we get that note again, second fret on the G string, and we’re going to that’ll be two and then on the and of two we hit the open G string. Then for beat three we’re gonna go to the second fret of the D string and then for beat number four we’re gonna go to the first fret of the A string and then on the and a four the open A string… All right, so that’s the first two measures and then starting on the third measure we’re going to go to the third fret of the low E string and I’m going to use my third finger. So again I’m just staying in this position so I have to switch my hand position and we’re gonna go one and then on the and of one, second fret of the G string. Then we’re going to rest on the downbeat of two and on the and of two the open low E string and then the second fret of the D string again for beat three. And then starting on beat number four is kind of where the riff starts over again. So the only thing that’s different this time we start off the same way so we’re going to starting on beat number four on the third measure; four and, and then on this fourth measure we’re going to hit we’re going to bend that a half step, but instead of it being a quarter note we’re gonna do it twice as eighth notes… and then the rest of it’s the same…

John Fogerty Lick -2 Green River

All right, so the next we’re going to look at is the riff from Green River. So we’re going to start off we’re going to hit the open low E string and I’m playing this with hybrid picking. I just think its much easier and I kind of think that’s the way that Fogerty played it too, but don’t quote me on that. So we’re going to start off on the downbeat of one we have a quarter note just the open low E string and then we’ve got this little dyad. We’re on the fourth fret of the G string and I’m using my third finger and then I’m on the second fret of the, or excuse me, the third fret of the B string. So we’re going to slide into that; so one two and three and four… So then the second measure starts off the same; so it’s one and two and, and then this is where everything changes. So just that first part… Okay so after we do the one and two and on the second measure then we’re going to do this little lick here. So we’re going to start off it’s like a slide from nowhere, but you have to basically start on the first fret on the G string and we’re gonna do that to the second fret and then follow that with the open G string… So on the end of three plus the downbeat of four and then on the and of four we’re gonna hit that D string… So we hit this and one two and open A string three and then we hammer back down to two and then on the and of three the open D string. Then we’re going to go to the third fret of the low E string and this is the downbeat of four and we’re going to do this quarter step bend and then back to the second fret of the D string. Okay now that fourth measure is very similar. So we’ve got the open low E string for beat number one and then on the downbeat of two it’s that second fret of the D string again. So two, the and of two is the open A, down B, hammer onto two, so the end of three is the open D string and then the downbeat of four is the third fret of the low E with that quarter step bend, four and. So it ends the same way as the third measure and then that whole thing just repeats…

John Fogerty Lick -3 Fortunate Son

All right and then the last one to look at is the little opening lick for Fortunate Son. So all of these notes, everything that we’re playing here is on the G and the high E strings except at the very end of it. Okay so starting off we’re going to start like here on the fourth fret of the G string and we’re going to pick that slide to six, but we’re going to treat it like a slide from nowhere. So we don’t want we want… and you let that ring. So this is like one and, two, three, four and this is the fifth fret of the high E string with my first finger. So that’s our first measure… Okay, so the second measure is basically the same thing, we’re just going to move it down. So now we’re starting on the second fret and we’re going to slide to the fourth fret and pick up the third fret of the high E string. And then for our third measure we’re going to start off with the G string open and do a hammer on to the second fret… And then pick up the second fret of the high E string. So here I’m using my second and first finger, second and first finger, second and third finger and then the fourth measure is going to be exactly the same thing, but instead of playing the second fret of the high E string, the highest string is open and then we’re going to go to the fifth string. So on the A string on the third fret and I’m going to use my third finger to pick that and just a little quarter step bend and follow it with the open A string and then the whole sequence just repeats…

Okay now the other thing with this is I’m hybrid picking this so the notes on the G string I’m playing with the pick and then I’m using my second finger to pluck the high E string… and then the pick to hit the A string.

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got some more pentatonic sequence lick ideas for you that are going to help you to get more horizontal across the fretboard.

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.

Horizontal Pentatonic Sequence-1

All right, so this first one that we’re going to look at is an idea that we’ve already done based out of the box pattern. This one we’re going to do is going to move through the positions ascending horizontally across the fretboard. So if you’ve seen the previous videos that I’ve done, I did one a while back where I did these pentatonic patterns that all connected together. And instead of being like in a box they were more horizontal across the fretboard.

So we’re going to use the idea from the other lick, but we’re going to put it in with this. So it’s just going to make it a little different because we’re going to be incorporating slides and I think it really makes it sound cool. So we’re going to start off on the seventh fret of the A string with your third finger and the fifth fret with your first finger. All right, so we’re going to pick seven and pull to five and then hammer back to seven.  Then we’re going to go to the fifth fret of the D string, back to the seventh fret of the A string and then back to the fifth fret of the D string.

Now we’re going to start the sequence over again on the D string. Now we’re going to start the sequence again on the D string, seven pull to five and hammer back to seven and this time we’re going to slide to nine and pull-off to seven and hammer back to nine…

So it’s all it’s in groups of three and they’re triplets… so that’s the first measure. Now we’re gonna start on the second measure and we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the G string and then back to the ninth fret of the D string and back to seven. Now we’re gonna go nine pull to seven, hammer back to nine and then we’re going to go to the eighth fret on the B string. So I’m just gonna use my second finger because then my third finger is already here on nine on the G string… Now we’re going to go eight on the

B string, nine on the G string, that’s beat three, so like the second measure; one yel-low, two yel-low, three yel-low. Then we’re going to shift our hand position slightly we’re just going to put our first finger where our second finger was on the eighth fret and then our third finger is going to go to the tenth fret and we’re going to pick and pull and then slide to twelve. When we get to twelve we’re gonna pull-off to ten and hammer back to 12. So that’s the first beat of the third measure and then we’re gonna go to the 10th fret on the high E string, back to the 12th fret of the B string, back to the tenth fret on the high E and then hammer to twelve…

Horizontal Pentatonic Sequence-2

Then the last one, I’m only doing two today because these are both kind of longer sequences, this one’s kind of cool because it just moves in positions of the fretboard and we’re just playing on the first two strings. So we’re going to start off… or like the last four notes of a minor pentatonic combining Sequence one. So we’re gonna on the B string and I’m gonna pick eight, pull to five and hammer back to eight and I’m gonna go to the fifth fret on the high E string back to the eighth fret of the B string and then back to the fifth fret. So like one yel-low, two yel-low. Then starting on the third beat we’re gonna go to the eighth fret of the high E and pick that and pull the five back to the eighth fret of the B string back to the fifth fret of the high E and then the B string eight pull to five. So we’re kind of reversing the pattern sort of. So that’s like a cool Lick in itself and I think we did something similar like that a couple of videos ago, but this is going to be a repeating sequence. So that’s the whole pattern… Now what we’re going to do is just move it up and do the same kind of idea. So what we’re going to do to move it up is that this there’s two notes for string five and eight. So we’re going to start on eight and then ten. So we’ve got a step and a half and then a whole step and the same thing on high E string, it’s going to be eight and ten. So I’m going to do that same pattern and I’m going to pick ten, pull to eight, hammer to ten and then go to eight on the high E and then back to the ten and then back on the B string and then back to the high E… Now so that’s the first two beats; one yel-low, two yel-low. Now starting on the third beat pick ten pull to eight, ten on the B string, back to eight on the high E and then ten pull to eight on the B string. So, so far… Okay so now for the next position we’re going to do the same thing and our first note is going to be the second note. So we’re going to shift up to ten and then it’s going to be 10, 12, 10, 12 and we’re going to do the same the same idea. We’re gonna start here on 12 on the B string and we’re going to pick that and pull to ten and hammer back to 12. Then 10 on the high E back to 12 on the B and back to 10 on the high E… that’s the first two beats. Now starting on beat three we have twelve pull to ten to 12 on the B string, then back to 10 on the high E and then 12 pulled to 10 on the B… Okay now we’re going to shift up again for the last time. So we’re going to do the same thing now we’re going to move up we’ll be on 12 on both strings, but now we’re going to go to 15. So we’re back to a step and a half so that’s the important thing to remember out of this is that we’ve got a step and a half a whole step and a whole step and a step and a half. So when we get here this is going to be exactly just like… but up here. So now we’re going to be 15 pull to 12, hammer to 15 to 12 on the high E, back to 15 on the B, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 on the high E to 15 on the B string, back to 12 on the high E and then 15 pull to 12 on the B string and then finally ending on the B string 15th fret with a full step bend.

Conclusion

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

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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

Lynryd Skynyrd Riff-1 – Gimme Three Steps

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

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

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-2 – What’s Your Name

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

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-3 – Saturday Night Special

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

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

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

Randy Rhoads Lick-1

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

Randy Rhoads Lick-2

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

Randy Rhoads Lick-3

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

Conclusion

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

Introduction

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

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

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

Pentatonic Sequence-1

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

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

Pentatonic Sequence-2

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

Pentatonic Sequence-3

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

Combining Sequences

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

Conclusion

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