Drop D down 1.5 Metal Guitar Triplet Lick

This is a triplet based metal guitar lick tuned in what I call "Slipknot tuning" because this band uses it a lot.Drop D Tuning down 1 and 1/2 steps. B,Gb,B,E,Ab,Dd.
I think this guitar lick sounds pretty cool but it doubles as a useful alternate picking exercise. You can also try economy picking exercises with this lick to take advantage of the direction of string changes. Have a rocking Friday!

Ambient Guitar Lick

A pretty experimental style preset today so we have an equally experimental ambient guitar lick to match. This yields a nice spacey, deep layered kind of guitar sound which I think would work well as a base track and could be used to put a solo on top of it.

Guitar Lick - Alternate Picking Exercise

Today's guitar lick is a sextuplet based chromatic run that sounds cool and also makes a great alternate picking exercise if your looking to improve this technique. Start slowly with a metronome and incorporate this run into your practice schedule. Sextuplets are note groupings where there are 6 notes per beat are equally weighted. For an additional challenge and practice with precise picking you can try to accent certain notes within the sextuplet grouping. For more advanced guitar exercises involving accented notes check out Paul Gilbert's guitar video series or his various column in Guitar Magazines.

Guitar Lick - Lean and Clean

A simple chord based guitar lick/riff. I've always liked this style of lick. Try expanding the ideas here to another chord shape or pattern or see if you can move this around further to create other musical phrases.

Capo Guitar Lick

Been experimenting more with a capo lately so here is a guitar lick based around a chord shape that takes advantage of the wider intervals a capo can offer a guitar player. Using a capo is a great way to break out of a creative rut and come up with musical ideas that are different than your typical playing. A capo much like altered tuning forces you to approach your playing and note choice on the guitar from a different angle.

Wah Guitar Lick

Here's a funky little wah guitar lick that uses octaves and other intervallic diads for a cool sound.

Celtic Inspired Guitar Lick

Had a bit of a creative burst so I'm posting tomorrow's lick today. It's a celtic inspired guitar lick that incorporates lots of open string hammer on and pull off legato technique. It sounds good clean and crunchy so experiment with different guitar tones and try altering the phrasing to improvise around this riff.