Guitar Licks
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Does anyone know where I could learn some decent not-to-difficult licks, > enough for me to jam along to (example) a slow 12-bar blues track? > I seem to have a serious problem with this, whilst I can widdle through the > blues pentatonic until I’m blue in the face (bad joke!), when it comes to > improvisation, I’m a total fish out of water. I go to my local college and > learn rock guitar and often asked to make something up along with the > lecturer or his backing track and fall flat on my face. I’m always told to > learn some licks and then put them together ad lib – problem is, I simply > don’t know any. (running up and down the blues scale does sound boring!!!). > I even went to the lengths of buying a blues cd/tape (from JamTracks) with a > few dozen licks on them, but they are either less than useless – as in three > or four notes long – or they are so complex that would probably make > Hendrix/Clapton/Malsteem bulk at. > Any ideas? > Graham
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> Go here:
http://www.digevent.com/events/consumer/music/guitar_mania/archives.as p Yup, that show has a couple of riffs each week. Also check out: http://www.harmony-central.com/News/2001/Lick-of-the-Day.html and http://interactive.musicyo.com/jan3102/riffoftheweek.asp They’re the only two Riff of the Week sites I can remember clearly coming across. There may have been another, but I can’t think where for now. If I remember I’ll let you know. Rikki
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Many thanks to all the pointers and tips, I’ll let you know how it goes. Unfortunatly, my playing is being hampered by other things, such as lack of time, job, women, alcohol and the usual stuff that stifles the average beginner. Graham – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Go here: > http://www.digevent.com/events/consumer/music/guitar_mania/archives.as > p > Yup, that show has a couple of riffs each week. > Also check out: > http://www.harmony-central.com/News/2001/Lick-of-the-Day.html > and > http://interactive.musicyo.com/jan3102/riffoftheweek.asp > They’re the only two Riff of the Week sites I can remember clearly > coming across. There may have been another, but I can’t think where > for now. If I remember I’ll let you know. > Rikki
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I know just what you mean! Here’s something that’s been working for me (also a beginner with some scales under my fingers): Warm up by doing your scales, slowly at first and then follow your technique to a comfortable pace. Then put the guitar down and walk away. Let the music sink in a bit. When your mind starts to "sing" back to you, go grab the guitar and figure out what you’ve just imagined. Remember–or better yet write down or record–the licks. I use the Stand Alone Tracks from Alfred Music (same idea as Jam Tracks). After weeks of playing stupid scales along with the tracks, I tried this method and had great fun. Good luck! ROY
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Does anyone know where I could learn some decent not-to-difficult licks, > enough for me to jam along to (example) a slow 12-bar blues track? > I seem to have a serious problem with this, whilst I can widdle through the > blues pentatonic until I’m blue in the face (bad joke!), when it comes to > improvisation, I’m a total fish out of water. I go to my local college and > learn rock guitar and often asked to make something up along with the > lecturer or his backing track and fall flat on my face. I’m always told to > learn some licks and then put them together ad lib – problem is, I simply > don’t know any. (running up and down the blues scale does sound boring!!!). > I even went to the lengths of buying a blues cd/tape (from JamTracks) with a > few dozen licks on them, but they are either less than useless – as in three > or four notes long – or they are so complex that would probably make > Hendrix/Clapton/Malsteem bulk at. > Any ideas? > Graham
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> Does anyone know where I could learn some decent not-to-difficult licks, > enough for me to jam along to (example) a slow 12-bar blues track? > I even went to the lengths of buying a blues cd/tape (from JamTracks) with a > few dozen licks on them, but they are either less than useless – as in three > Any ideas? > Graham
There are tons of licks on the net. However from what I understand you may want to take those useless three or four notes and spend some time trying to make them work. If it dosent come to you right away stop and listen to some blues and notice how they take those few notes and make simple but tastefull phrases out of them. Most of us learn by making allot of mistakes and god awfull noise. My real email address is in my header if you dont have any luck email me and I will try to get ya some licks. Hang in there.
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Does anyone know where I could learn some decent not-to-difficult licks, enough for me to jam along to (example) a slow 12-bar blues track? I seem to have a serious problem with this, whilst I can widdle through the blues pentatonic until I’m blue in the face (bad joke!), when it comes to improvisation, I’m a total fish out of water. I go to my local college and learn rock guitar and often asked to make something up along with the lecturer or his backing track and fall flat on my face. I’m always told to learn some licks and then put them together ad lib – problem is, I simply don’t know any. (running up and down the blues scale does sound boring!!!). I even went to the lengths of buying a blues cd/tape (from JamTracks) with a few dozen licks on them, but they are either less than useless – as in three or four notes long – or they are so complex that would probably make Hendrix/Clapton/Malsteem bulk at. Any ideas? Graham
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Rather than a few licks, let me give you a few suggestions and try them. Let us know how it turns out. You know pentatonic so minor so I will stick with that. The trick is to be very uncomplicated. Play one fret and one fret only. For a good note to try use the 7th. The 7th fret on the B string for the key of A etc. (hope this makes sense so far). Now you can bend it, slide up to it, slide up and back to it, shake it, hold it long pinch it short, rapid pick etc, but do not play any other frets. Do this over a 12 bar progression for a long time. I mean 10-20 times through. First you will find that you can do some pretty cool stuff and you will settle down and discover that you don’t need a lot of notes to sound awesome. After you can sound good with just this note then change to the corresponding note for the chord changes (7th fret E string for D 9th fret for the E) and play some of the cool things you learned on the first exercise. Next add a note for this exercise try the root. (5th fret E string for the A) Again do not stray from these notes the whole twelve bars. Do double bends etc. After this add another note and start changing to a corresponding set of notes for each change of the chord. Discover and learn. If you have the chance to play with someone else, trade licks. Here though be subtle. If you are playing with a good player, let him do all of the fancy stuff and then when he passes to you play one simple bent note over and over, people listening will say "You guys were great!" because you both are. Him with technical and you with color. Please let us know if you have any success with this. I have used this technical in person, but it is hard to convey in type.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Does anyone know where I could learn some decent not-to-difficult licks, > enough for me to jam along to (example) a slow 12-bar blues track? > I seem to have a serious problem with this, whilst I can widdle through the > blues pentatonic until I’m blue in the face (bad joke!), when it comes to > improvisation, I’m a total fish out of water. I go to my local college and > learn rock guitar and often asked to make something up along with the > lecturer or his backing track and fall flat on my face. I’m always told to > learn some licks and then put them together ad lib – problem is, I simply > don’t know any. (running up and down the blues scale does sound boring!!!). > I even went to the lengths of buying a blues cd/tape (from JamTracks) with a > few dozen licks on them, but they are either less than useless – as in three > or four notes long – or they are so complex that would probably make > Hendrix/Clapton/Malsteem bulk at. > Any ideas? > Graham
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