Scale Climbing Guitar Lick

This guitar lick uses a pattern ascending the A Minor Pentatonic Scale. Each note is picked twice. The pattern is up four and back two. Try using this pattern for each of the Five Pentatonic Scale patterns and work out the scale sequence on the guitar neck up and down the whole scale pattern. Practice this guitar lick with a metronome and using an alternate picking pattern with an eighth or 16th note rhythm.

Blues Guitar Lick in C

A blues guitar lick in C with a wah wah.The backing track is from Pete Anderson
called "Slow Blues". It is one of his contributions to the blues guitar backing tracks for the King of The Blues Competition. Used with permission. You can download the backing track and chord progression here: http://gc.guitarcenter.com/kingoftheblues/tracks/

To hear some of Pete's great blues guitar playing check out his
website:http://www.peteanderson.com/
Thanks to Pete for letting me
use this great track.

A Happy Guitar Lick in E Major

Just messing around with the E Major scale and came up with a little
guitar lick that made me happy and was fun to play so here it is.

*NOTE: I posted the guitar licks early this week
so this is under the Feb23 blog post. Just labelled
like this to keep the files straight.

Rock Inspired Jazz Guitar Lick

Musical inspiration can come from many sources. Different genres of music can inspire guitarists to create music in many different forms. I really love the guitar playing of both Skid Row guitarists. I was recently learning a great song of theirs called "Wasted Time". In the solo there is a really cool run from I believe a C5 to and Ab5 chord. It sounds great and resolves to the Ab note. It is a guitar lick that would not be out of place in a jazz song - to my ears anyway. In any case that guitar lick inspired this one. It is in the key of C but incorporates some passing tones. You'll note on the youtube video I've labelled the last couple of guitar licks for days from Feb21 to Feb24 - they are all under the 21st as I decided to post them early. If you enjoy excellent melodic rock guitar check out the song and see if you can spot the guitar lick that inspired this one!

Neo Classical Guitar Lick in A Minor

Here is a guitar lick in a neo-classical style using the A minor scale. The backing track uses the guitar riff we looked at in the last post and drums are courtesy of Sonoma Wireworks Riffworks InstantDrummer.

80's Metal Guitar Riff

Today's we look at a guitar riff  based firmly in the 80's metal style. Experiment with various degrees of palm muting and distortion. This guitar riff is based around a power chord progression from A to C to G. The run after the A5 power chord uses hammer on and pull offs and incorporates open strings.

Wah Guitar Lick in A Minor

Here is a pretty basic yet cool sounding ( i think anyway) wah infused guitar lick based around the A Minor Pentatonic Scale. Use the tab as an approximate rhythmic guide but listen to the video for the phrasing - or better yet play around with the notes make up alterations by changing up the phrasing.