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Supercharge your guitar technique and soloing with my free Video Powerpack: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Bending Vibrato Guitar Lesson -How to Add Vibrato to String Bends Adding vibrato to your string bending can sound awesome and bring your string bending technique to life. But getting your bending vibrato sounding good on string bends can be tough! In this guitar lesson you'll learn the technique for adding vibrato to your string bends whilst avoiding many of the common vibrato mistakes most players make. Bending Vibrato Guitar Lesson - How to Add Vibrato to String Bends Lesson breakdown: 0:23 Hear a demo of what vibrato sounds like with string bends. Notice how it makes bends so much more expressive and energetic! 0:48 Bending Technique and hand Position If you're getting a poor sounding string bend to start with...then no amount of vibrato will get it sounding good! Here we look at some key pointers for solid bending technique. I su...

Learn 5 powerful blues licks for minor pentatonic scale soloing right now...and start playing better blues solos today. With these 5 blues licks in your minor pentatonic scale soloing trick bag you'll soon be playing more authentic and better sounding blues guitar solos. Why? Because the minor pentatonic scale is the basis of most blues guitar soloing! So the more minor pentatonic scale blues licks you know and can use..the better your blues solos are likely to be. You'll hear your favourite blues guitar players use ideas like these in their minor pentatonic scale blues licks library. And that's exactly where these licks have come from. I've taken them from blues guitar legends like Eric Clapton, BB King, Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan and other blues legends. All these players used the minor pentatonic scale most of the time in their playing and all use pentatonic blues licks exactly like these. So let's jump in and boost your knowledge of blues guitar soloing wi...

Hey everyone, through this lesson you will learn about gst rock guitar licks and advance fast rock licks. Grab the Tabs for this lesson here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/fast-pentatonic-licks-opt-in Essential fast rock guitar licks you can use over and over again for high energy rock solos. These fast rock guitar licks not only sound great in your solos but will also help you build guitar speed and play guitar faster and show you some essential tricks for expanding your rock soloing. Watch now! Fast Rock Guitar Licks (You need To Know!) These speedy pentatonic licks are all using the D minor pentatonic and D blues scale. Not sure how to play these? Click here for my minor pentatonic tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJKenmHWKyc Let's jump into the lesson! 0:25 Lick 1 - The Classic Rock Bending Lick Everyone plays this first one, in fact it's one of the most common fast rock licks you'll hear. Watch out for the technique tips to learn how to control ...

Playing a guitar solo on a ballad is your chance to show the expressive and emotional side of your guitar playing chops! But there are challenges with playing a guitar solo in this style. How can you play a more melodic guitar solo? How should you use phrasing and space? Are there any tricks the guitar gods use when playing a guitar solo on a ballad and can you use them too? And can you learn how to play an emotional guitar solo which sounds epic, or is it an ability you either have or you don't!? Stay tuned, because I think you can learn to play a killer guitar solo on a ballad! And in this guitar lesson, I'll point you towards 5 powerful soloing tips which are based on what you hear in the playing of 'power ballad' masters like David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Slash and other great players. Follow these tips and explore and practice them and you will hear a difference when you step up to play a solo...and over time and with practice you can become an expressive ...

4 awesome rock guitar licks in my free Michael Schenker Licks tab book : https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/michael-schenker Want some awesome rock guitar licks? Check out this hot rock lick from Michael Schenker.  This burning blues rock lick is coming from the C minor pentatonic blues scale and is a classic Michael Schenker lick. 0:34 Here's the Michael Schenker style lick played at full speed. It's similar to something he plays in his solo on 'Mother Mary' by UFO 0:44 Let's hear  the lick played slower now. Notice the use of common  rock bends and pentatonic scale patterns. Take these and use them to make up your own rock guitar licks. 0:57 Let's break this Michael Schenker lick down now and look at how to play it one note at a time. These blues scale ideas are typical of Michael Schenkers awesome rock guitar licks 3:56 Let's have another listen to the whole lick played fast again over the backing track. Join my FREE Facebook group 'James Ship...

BB King Licks Guitar Lesson : Tasty BB King licks to use in your blues guitar solos! Grab the free BB king licks tab book for this video here: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/bb-king-book In this BB King licks lesson you'll learn a tasty blues lick from the master of soulful blues guitar. It's showing off some of BB's favourite blues soloing devices including the 'minor to major 3rd move', mixing up notes from the minor and major pentatonic scales and a cool, funky BB King style double stop (works great in blues solos!). Look out for more BB King licks coming very soon in my Quick Licks video series.  Enjoy! Remember to grab your free BbB King licks book with tab for all the licks in the series: https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/bb-king-book SUBSCRIBE here for more BB King soon: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgEEEz7ZNL8572YERffNfuw?sub_confirmation=1 Join my FREE Facebook group 'James Shipway Guitar Backstage'. Video broadcasts, lick challenges and a ...