holiday guitar update & now on twitter

Enjoying a Christmas holiday with family and friends. I am fortunate enough to have a musically enlightened family and received some excellent musical gifts including two great cd's Miles Davis' classic modal jazz masterpiece 'Kind of Blue' with John Coltrane and country guitar whiz Brad Paisley's new guitar centric album simply called 'Play'. These should provide countless hours of inspiration and kickstart my guitar playing for the new year.

If you follow the blog and/ or guitar lessons site you'll know updates have been sporadic - entirely my fault - I appreciate your patience. I've joined twitter so if you'd like to follow my ramblings and updates you can do that here: http://twitter.com/jimifan

Here's wishing you all a guitar and music filled 2009!

updates on Guitar Licks

Been a hectic few weeks so I'm playing catch up with updating the blog. I'm loving the Line6 Floor Pod plus though and hope the licks based on presets can appeal to a wide range of guitar players. If you have any requests as always let me know. Cheers.

Delay and Volume Pedal Lick

A repeating pattern guitar lick that uses a delay and volume pedal. The effects are based on preset 3C on the Line6 Floor Pod plus ( *note all trademarks other intellectual rights are property of their respective owners - I am not affiliated with Line6 in any way) The pattern delays build on each other for a neat effect. When performing you want to use this with some discretion to avoid clashing with other instruments but used sparingly it can add some color to musical passages. I concentrated more on pattern than scale when coming up with this lick but you could think of it as being in D Mixolydian Mode from the derivative notes contained in the musical passage.

Sub Octave Effect - Guitar Lick

Here is a pretty basic lick using the E Minor Pentatonic scale spiced up with a sub octave effect and wah using preset 3B from the Line6 Floor Pod Plus.

Drop D Guitar Riff

More of a riff than a lick but I hope some people dig this. It is based on the line6 floor pod plus preset 3A "Raspy Tweed". I used the built in wah as well. I was shooting for an early Soundgarden feel kinda like "Loud Love". The tone on the preset is pretty clean compared to some of my usual settings and this lets the wah shine through a lot clearer. Anyway hope you have a bit of fun with this. Remember the tuning is drop D. Cheers.

Major Scale Guitar Lick

This guitar lick uses preset 2D Shreddy Metal on the Line6 Floor Pod. It is based around the A Major Scale.

70's vibe guitar lick

Here is a wah and phaser based guitar lick that to my ears has a 70's vibe. It is based around the D Minor Pentatonic scale. The Line6 Floor Pod preset was 2C "Slow Swirl".