My Top 10 Favourite Licks
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- By request, here are my top 10 favorite guitar licks in no particular order. These ten licks can be used in many guitar genres from classic rock, blues, country, and many more. They cover both major pentatonic and minor pentatonic forms.
I always recommend to my students here in Vancouver that they memorize several licks that can easily be moved to other keys and other positions on the fretboard -- and that generally means memorizing licks that aren't that complicated. The easier it is to 'plug and play' a lick, the more useful I think it is.
These are all licks that I use frequently in the bands I play in and when jamming with friends.
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Been playing a long time, originals, cover bands, learned mostly by trial and error. What you just taught is what took me years of experimenting. If I taught guitar, I would teach the C major scale and these types of multi use phrases. Excellent content, Blue!
Great to hear thanks Mark!
Hi my man I’m 48 from Ireland 🇮🇪 found ur channel the other day when a friend told me your good teacher I’m playing on and off over the years but no foundation or structure I’m studying fingerstyle for about 15 months now especially alternating bass like chet atkins style and it’s not easy 😂but want to branch out to Eletric it’s hard to know wat to practice anyway thanks !! Your channel is amazing your a class teacher my man thanks !! Brian 🎸🎸🎸🇮🇪
Thanks again Brian, glad you are enjoying the channel. I'm hoping to launch a Patreon soon with lots more content.
Hey there dieselman, I'm up North near Belfast.
These videos are gold. That’s gold, Jerry! GOLD! seriously, so good. Thank you.
Hey Blue, if you need to take a break from lessons it would be cool to see a video showing off your different guitars and other gear you use most. Why you chose them, how you decide what to use for different songs, any cool stories behind some of them, etc. With your thoughtful approach to guitar I'm sure you could offer some great insights for us. I did see your pedal video and it was great.
Thanks Gabe, I've been thinking about doing that, though those videos didn't get a lot of views on UA-cam. I planning a Patreon which will have more lessons and likely more content about gear. Details coming soon
Absolutely loved this video. I'm an older learner and just started a year ago. This one video will help me add so much flavor to my playing! THANK YOU!
Thank you for saying! Lots more lesson videos on the channel!
I thought I had discovered all the good teachers. You get right after it, easy to understand and apply.
Cool thanks Aaron! Lots more coming!
This lesson is something I’ve needed for a long time. I get too caught up in complexity. Simple, pretty easy to learn licks in this video. Thanks for another superb lesson.
When you played Lick 3 I immediately heard Joe Walsh.
Oh thats cool I like style thanks!
Excellent. I shall download and print and put it in your soloing book!
Very helpful content, thanks.
Great idea thanks Brian!
Another great video. Always an interesting topic. I like your memorable names for scales.
Thank you very much!
Great, some cool licks I can practice to impress my friends.
That's the goal 👍😎
Love this video so much! Any chance of a part 2? Keep 'em coming!
Thanks James, glad to hear. I could potentially do lots of these, just have to think of a way to effectively title them for YT. I have some ideas :)
Another great lesson. Just finished your book and I can tell over the past month whilst working through it I have improved a lot. Is there still a plan for book 2 covering the major soloing. Cheers blue.
Great thanks Ross. I have started working on book. Just might take me a while as I don't much free time but I hope by summer it will be out.
Thank you for this gold-mine of a lesson!
Thank you for saying! Lots more coming here and our Patreon group
Shape 3 in minor pentatonic is SOOOOO underrated. It is great for writing riffs, like page used to do a lot. He’d be in a but play the riff in that 2x2 3 string box and you think he’s in e. And the top of the shape is so versatile. It is so easy to slide into from the extension shape and slide back. And sounds really cool in many genres. Everyone hangs out in box one. But force yourself outside the box and you find lots of cool things
I agree, thanks Rob. You're right, shape 3 is strangely under-used when it's actually a great shape with all the tasty notes in just the right place.
Great lesson Thanks for sharing
Glad you liked it!
Extremely useful! I think it's way more valuable to have a bag of these "micro-licks" that you can paste anywhere than to learn a big long widdly widdly widdly lick note for note.
Thanks Phil! I like your term "micro lick," that makes a lot of sense to me. Agreed on the "widdly widdly" too.
Awesome blues lick. Love it❤
Thank you!
Great lesson! What I find really interesting about lick number 3 is that as you said it's a really common bending lick in rock and blues but What's fascinating is that almost every player plays it differently and goes to show the simple versatile licks are the most valuable. Robben Ford very commonly bends holds it then plays the bent note and note underneath at the same time and releases with both notes sounding, David Gilmour often does it when he plays the note underneath at same time as the bend so it has a country sort of flavour to it, and Peter Green would often play the bend and play the note underneath almost staccato not allowing both notes to ring out at once and releasing the bend with just the bended note sounding.
Great observations thanks!
Excellent ! Thank u so much for the PDF ! ✨🙏🏻👍🏼🍒
Thanks, enjoy!
Thank you kind sir, I will use these examples to build a more musical understanding. I need a toe hold, something to work with and learn from.
Excellent!
Loving this channel, thanks so much!
Thank you!!!
have needed some new licks cheers
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Loved that lesson cheers Blue👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
Je suis guitariste depuis quelques années, merci pour améliorer mes solos avec plusieurs de vos formations, je l'apprécie vraiment, Stef from Québec !
Merci Stef!!!
Hi Blue, I found these licks great, thanks a lot; in particular the 5th is so tasty and even more if you involve the D at 12 fret before the C# at 11
Good stuff, mate!! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thanks! 👍
Good licks thanks
Thanks Shaun!
Thanks. This is very helpful.
If you are going to steal from somebody, why not steal from the best?
I love that bit of the 'Let It Be' solo (album version) for the same reason.
Yeah that whole solo is great. Simple but memorable
Tq for no 3 - The Hotel California lick
Purdy good dare Tabernac. Merci beacoup from Cali. (My friend is from Montreal).
Merci beaucoup!
Thanks 😊
There are some cool melodies at Scorpions songs, suvh as "Lady Starlight" and "Still Loving You"
must have video every day lol
Thanks chips. I'm thinking about making a membership only section that will have more videos. Details soon.
Thanks for the lessons. Great teacher. Enjoying them. I enjoy listening to the Haaks. Is that you in that band?
Thanks! I don’t know that band.
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver you should check them out. The singer guitarist looks like you so much.
Superb lesson Blue. One thing that may be a bit confusing to people is that the term “blue note” actually refers to 2 different things depending whether you’re in the minor or major pentatonics. E.g. in the A major pentatonic it is C ( the minor third) and in A minor pentatonic, it is E flat ( the sharpened fourth).
True indeed! We still call it a blue note but it certainly has a different relationship to the scale. Would be better for us to say "a blue note" rather than "the blue note," but I tend to say "the" out of habit.
Awesome lesson! Great looking Les Paul - what model is it?
Thanks John. It's a Tribute model. I love the simplicity of it. Same pickups as the more expensive models. But simple look to it, which is my preference anyway.
Ottimo video, un sacco di spunti e spiegazione impeccabile.. complimenti! Ho preso da qualche giorno il tuo manuale "Guitar Soloing Like a Pro" e lo trovo strepitoso, strutturato molto bene e soprattutto progressivo nelle difficoltà. Complimenti ancora.. ciao dall'Italia 🇮🇹
Thank you Roberto! I'm working on Book 2 now!
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Fantastico!
5:17 🔥
Thanks 😀
Thanks Blue. Some really useful licks there. One minor problem, so to speak. I think that the tab for Lick #9, about 14:30, is wrong. I think what you played was d(e)d c a g e d# d c c#, with the d(e)d representing a bend from d to e and back.
Thank you! You're right, I guess I got the wrong image in there. Sorry about that.
You're welcome. I'm grateful for the lesson :-) @@GuitarLessonsVancouver
Love your videos. Besides that, we share the same last name.
Cool! It's a good name for sure
talking about the caged system, for me theres a little confusion about the difference between the D SHAPE and the C-SHAPE; If you hold the low strings along with the d-shape, there isn't much difference between that and the C-SHAPE. if you understand what I mean?
Absolutely they are pretty much the same, one just spans further across the fretboard
@@GuitarLessonsVancouver ok!
Another favourite❤ This is almost getting monotonous!!😂
Thank you!! More coming
Great
Thank you for watching!
hmmmm maybe a video on how to lead to next chord in a progression ?
That's a good idea thanks. I'll think about how I can frame that into a video
Number 9 and 10 are the same just different starting point