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Repeating Rock Licks - How To Make Your Own Awesome Repeating Rock Guitar Licks!

Learn how to easily create dozens (even hundreds) of awesome sounding repeating licks to use for high energy guitar solos. Repeating licks are an easy and effective way to create exciting, high energy guitar solos and we hear them used by all the great rock and metal players like Slash, Vai, Page, Rhoads - pretty much all of 'em use some repeating licks in their solos.

But how can you come up with your own awesome repeating licks?
Well stay tuned because in this video I'll show you an easy way you can create ear catching repeating rock licks from our old friend the blues scale!

Repeating Rock Licks - How To Make Your Own Awesome Repeating Rock Guitar Licks!

0:15 Repeating licks demo. Hear me solo using some repeating licks similar to the ones I'm going to show you in this guitar lesson.

1:00 In this lesson I'm going to show you how to take one simple repeating lick and create lots of simple and logical variations on it. This is a great way to build out a guitar style because you'll see how you can easily start to make up new licks and ideas simply by reworking things you already play and know...cool!

1:15 Here's how you can play the A blues scale pattern down at the 5th fret. Also I show you how to modify it slightly to give a 'symmetrical blues scale' shape. This is great for repeating licks because the fingering is the same on every string making it easy to adapt a lick to other string sets.

3:00 Repeating Lick 1. Here I'm going to show you a simple repeating lick. This will be the starting point for the other repeating licks we'll create during this lesson.

3:54 This repeating lick is cool...but how can we change it to create a new repeating lick. The symmetrical scale pattern we're using makes this pretty easy. In this example I've just moved it onto the B and high E string.

4:38 String skipping can be a cool way to 'open up' a repeating lick and create a new idea. Here we skip the B string to get a dark, bluesy repeating lick. Watch the string skipping. It might test out your fretting hand!

5:45 Extending the original repeating lick is a cool way to create a new idea. We're going to extend it into a lick that lasts for 4 beats instead of 1 beat. This high energy repeating lick is heard in the playing of guys like Zakk Wylde.

7:03 This repeating lick can easily be transferred to the top two strings like we did before. This is how easy it can be to create your own repeating licks - it doesn't need to be complicated to work!

7:32 String skipping can open this lick up nicely too. Here we can skip over the B string to create a cool string skipping repeating idea which will sound great in your solos.

9:09 All these repeating licks are simply variations on the original starting lick. This what's so cool...you're building new licks by looking at what you can do with the starting note. With a little imagination the sky is the limit. You can create dozens or hundred of new repeating licks (and non repeating licks too). If you add the G string 7th fret back in then even more possible repeating licks emerge. GHow awesome is that?

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