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Hone your precision, endurance, dexterity, and synchronization skills with loads of interesting exercises to learn and practice. The accompanying CD contains 81 demonstration tracks of all the exercises in the book.
Technique Exercises for Guitar: Lessons and Licks for Improving Your Speed, Power and Clarity
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Have you ever wondered about how to get that ringing country sound from your guitar. In this guitar lesson you will learn some country licks based on a combination of fretted notes and open strings.
We will first take a look at a D-major scale in one octave:
0/4 2/4 4/4 0/3 2/3 0/2 3/2
How do you read this guitar tablature?
The first digit indicates which fret to play. The digit after the slash gives you the string to play.
2/3 means that you are to play the second fret on the third string.
We will now try to figure out a way to play the previous scale with some ringing open strings. Let’s try this one:
0/4 7/5 4/4 0/3 7/4 0/2 6/3 3/2
A little bit confusing at first of course. If you are used to the ordinary way of playing scales you have get used to finding higher notes on lower strings.
I suggest that you learn the scales and licks by heart by learning just a few notes at a time until you get a little bit more used to this new way of finding notes.
You can probably figure out a left hand fingering that works for you. The principle is to hold the notes as long as possible to let them blend together.
But, what about the right hand?
You can pick the notes with a pick of course. It’s a little bit awkward, though trying to play notes on different strings in succession. Many country pickers use one of the following approaches:
1. Hybrid picking. This means that you hold the pick as usual but also use the middle finger and ring finger along with the pick. This opens for an easier way to play notes in rapid succession even if the are on different strings.
2. Finger picking. You can play the notes with your bare fingers using your thumb, index, middle finger and ring finger. You will miss the crisp sound from the pick but can compensate this with the freedom of having four finger to use and growing calluses on your finger tips!
3. Using a thumb pick. A little bit like hybrid picking but with the advantage of having four fingers at your disposal and a crisp sound from the thumb. Not bad! Not all guitarist like this approach though. But it has to be tested! I have bought a couple of these thumb picks but they have a tendency to dissappear! I guess it’s because I can’t keep them in my hip pocket because of the pain sitting down!
Let’s test a few country guitar licks in the key of D:
I will put the suggested chord in front of the lick:
(A7) 9/6 0/4 7/4 0/3 7/4 0/2 7/3 0/1 6/3 0/2 7/4 0/3 (D) 4/4
Yes, you have to learn it by heart, a couple of notes at a time!
The last lick will use both hammer-ons and pull-offs.
I will put h and p between the actual notes.
(A7) 3/5 h 4/5 0/4 0/3 2/3 p 0/3 4/4 0/3 2/4 p 0/4 3/5 h 4/5 4/0
Don’t play faster than your present technical skills allow you to but of course you have already figured out that the last lick is supposed to be played fast, maybe lightning fast!
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Learn The Most Famous Guitar Licks And Techniques In Nashville Today (not Twenty Years Ago). Styles Like Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Albert Lee And Danny Gatton Guitar Riffs… Instant Download, Full Tablature, Backing Tracks And Slow Down Software!
1 Hottest, Modern Country Guitar Licks Video Instant Download.
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Studio: Hal Leonard Corp Release Date: 11/25/2003
Best of Lennon & McCartney for Acoustic Guitar Signature Licks DVD
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Comb-bound electric slide guitar instruction book and CD.
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This superb electric slide book teaches how to play open tuning slide guitar with a blues band and singer. It is the only slide (or bottleneck) guitar instruction book devoted to learning how to play slide behind a blues vocalist.
The term slide guitar refers to a style of playing in which the guitar strings are fretted with a piece of metal, glass or ceramic. Usually, the fretting device is a finger sized cylinder (the slide) that is worn on either the third or fourth finger of the fretting hand. Bottleneck blues guitar players have been known to play bottleneck blues guitar with makeshift items such as knife blades, bones, and spoon handles.
Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar or knife guitar. Slide guitar setup: A guitar used for slide playing is usually tuned to an open chord; the strings are raised at the nut to accommodate the pressure of the slide.
A fill-in is a lead guitar lick played behind a singer. This slide guitar guide teaches 101 authentic slide guitar fill-ins in open E tuning. Songs are presented in a way that makes learning efficient, enjoyable, and pertinent to real music.
For your convenience, all of the songs are performed in open E tuning, allowing you to jam with the entire CD without having to retune. After absorbing the licks, apply them to songs of your own choice.
Songs include standards such as Joe Turner Blues, St. Louis Blues, Sporting Life Blues, House of the Rising Sun, Midnight Special, and several new songs based on standard blues changes.
Supplementary Materials
All this for a low price that is less than the cost of a single private music lesson.
Prerequisite Ability
User Profiles
Goals and Purposes
Author-Recommended Supplemental Listening for Slide Guitar Players
The author recommends that guitarists who use this book supplement with listening to as many of the following slide guitar players as possible. Listening to these classic blues slide guitar players will provide unlimited enjoyment and inspiration.
Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Bob Brozman, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, John Hammond, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, Homesick James, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Son House, J.B. Hutto, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Nighthawk, Bonnie Raitt, Tampa Red,Tom Rush, Hound Dog Taylor, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks, Muddy Waters, Merle Watson, Bukka White, Johnny Winter.
101 Razor-Sharp Slide Guitar Blues Licks in Open E Tuning
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Studio: Hal Leonard Corp Release Date: 11/25/2003
Best of Lennon & McCartney for Acoustic Guitar Signature Licks DVD
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Studio: Hal Leonard Corp Release Date: 11/25/2003
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As guitar players we are always looking for arrangements of notes that we can use to impress our audience. There are several names given to these sequences of notes, such as lick, phrase, riff or hook. Each of these terms identifies a group of notes with a different function. A lick is a basic ingredient in a guitar player’s repertoire – kind of like spices in a kitchen – it can be used in many different ways to achieve many effects. Blues music uses very simple melodies but solos, whether they be by a guitarist, trumpeter or keyboard player can depart from the simplicity of the main melody by means of the soloists use of licks. One thing about blues licks is that they are always easy. What grabs the attention of the listener is how the licks are strung together like pearls on a necklace. A blues guitar player learns his licks from other blues guitar players. You can still go and find a blues player and learn from him but it in modern times you can readily obtain easy blues licks from websites that feature free blues guitar lessons or from one of the many guitar tab collections on the net. One of the classic blues guitar solos of our times is Eric Clapton’s arrangement of Crossroads by Robert Johnson. The solo passages in Crossroads contain many easy blues licks beginning with a simple passage from C down to A. Try it now: put your first finger on the third fret of the fifth string, play it and then play the open fifth string. It’s only two notes, but it IS a lick. So one thing you can do to acquire a collection of easy blues guitar licks is to do a web search for “crossroads guitar tab” and start fooling around with the notes. Find sequences of notes that sound good as stand alone riffs, play them in different orders, try them out with other songs. A common problem with blues guitarists is that you can sometimes find that you are playing the same couple of riffs over and over again. To stop this from happening, you need to learn as many licks as you can. Make it an ongoing part of your guitar practice. You can also try playing the same licks with variations in the note values, using notes from different positions on the fretboard or any other new wrinkle you can think of.
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Here’s your chance to learn more than 150 original acoustic licks in a detailed lesson from the one and only Arlen Roth. Double-stops, roll patterns, pick and finger style, advanced bending, arpeggios, harmony runs, turnarounds, banjo, dobro and pedal steel styles, chicken pickin’ and much more are all demonstrated by one of the world’s master player/teachers.
Arlen Roths 150+ Acoustic Hot Licks For Rock, Blues, Country, Rockabilly, And R&B Guitar
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Here’s a video lesson for players who know the basic chords and want to get started playing blues on the electric guitar. Jim Weider takes it from the top, and shows the easy way to get into playing authentic licks, riffs, rhythms and hot solos.
You’ll learn how to use slides, string bends, hammer-ons and a variety of vibrato styles for an authentic blues feel, along with rhythm grooves, bass lines and other accompaniment techniques. Learning the pentatonic (5 note) blues scale is the key to blues improvisation, and Jim teaches you how to find the notes you’ll need in different positions up and down the guitar fretboard. Before long you’ll be playing leads and soloing with the best of them.
Jim teaches the elements of this powerful American style through the classic licks and solos of some of its key players. You’ll learn, in detail, how to play tunes such as Albert King’s “Going Down,” Elmore James’ “Elmo’s Blues,” Freddie King’s “Hideaway” and Jim’s own “Sugar Cane Blues.” He demonstrates the style of the great B. B. King, showing how he gets his distinctive sound, and covers how to get expression on the guitar with the use of volume and tone controls, pickups, pick attack and other essential information. Each tune covers a different aspect of electric blues playing and provides you with a great solo for practicing the techniques you’ve learned.
The Honky Tonk Gurus, Jim’s recording and touring band, supply plenty of great back-up and help Jim demonstrate how a song should sound when played in performance. This video lesson will help novice players become real electric blues musicians in no time!
Basic Licks and Classic Solos for Electric Blues Guitar
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