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Cool Blues Rock Licks for blues rock guitar soloing. Learn 4 cool blues rock licks in the styles of more rocky blues players like Gary Moore, Billy Gibbons, Wilko Johnson and others! These licks are perfect for using in high energy blues rock solos and are well worth adding into your guitar lick trickbag! All 4 of these cool blues rock licks are in the key of G and will work great over a blues rock chord sequence like a rocky 12 bar blues in G. They are using a few different patterns of the G blues scale and G minor pentatonic scales. 1:00 Watch here to see the scale patterns used in these blues rock licks (tab included!) 1:40 Cool blues rock lick 1 uses a common unison bending move and a repeating bending move - a favourite device of everyone from Eric Clapton to Gary Moore. 4:39 A cool Gary Moore style blues rock lick with palm muting and an aggressive alternate picked phrase. Listen to his solo on 'Walking By Myself' to hear an idea a little like this lick. 7:37 Le...

Tasty blues funk licks for bluesy funky guitar licks soloing! Get that funky blues edge in your guitar solos with some licks from some legendary bluesy funky guitar players Freddie King, Albert King, Otis Rush and others. Armed with these blues funk licks you'll be all set to hit the stage at that blues or funk jam session and rip out an awesomely funky blues guitar solo! All these blues funk licks are in the key of D using the D blues scale played up at the 10th fret. You can practice these blues funk licks with the same backing track I'm using HERE: On my YouTube channel: Bluesy Funky Jamtrack: https://youtu.be/u8o6n8u5iCM 1:00 The first of the blues funk licks uses some repeating bends and a repeating picked fragment. You can use pull offs if you prefer...but picking it gives it more attack and a bluesy, funky flavour. 3:53 Blues funk lick number 2 starts with a funky double stop move. Remember this, it's great for getting a funky sound! Be sure to follow the pic...

Want to learn guitar scales fast? Well ...playing up and down them like most players do is not the way to do it! In this lesson you'll discover 3 powerful and simple scale practice exercises to learn your guitar scales fast...and more importantly be able to use them when you play. Get my best Memnbers Only Lessons here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Learn Guitar Scales Fast! Imagine if you could learn the essential guitar scales fast...instead of spending hours playing them up and down. Well there are some ways that you can, but we're not normally shown them. Instead we often play them round and round with the notes in the exact same order every time. Problem is you're not going to use them like that when you solo and jam! 0:20 Just playing up and down doesn't help you learn guitar scales fast! It's also got nothing to do with how we use them when we play. You need some different ways to practice themif you want to nail those guita...

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...

A guitar warm up routine to get you warmed up and ready to play in minutes. You don't want to spend half of your guitar practice routine getting warmed up...you want to be playing! Following this 3-5 minute warm up routine for guitar will get your fingers looser, your hands relaxed...and over time will also help build faster and stronger guitar fingers, finger independence and speed and fluency too!  Warming up is an important part of your guitar practice, but how can you do it? There are lots of ways, but I like to use the 5 short warm exercises here. They use bends, trills, down picks, up picks and alternate picking to get both your fretting hand and picking hand ready to play. To make them easier to remember I decided to put them together into a short warm up routine to use at the start of all my guitar practice sessions. Remember the goal is to get warmed up: these exercises are not about playing fast! Do them slowly and accurately in a relaxed fashion - this is important! ...

Beginner Rock Guitar Licks Lesson Part 2 shows you 3 more rock guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners or intermediate guitarists...but even your favourite rock guitar legend is using them too! Guitar solos by Gary Moore, Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have all used licks just like these ones. So these 'beginner rock licks' are super powerful...whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them, and get them into your solos to build yourself an awesome rock or metal guitar style! These licks are in the key of E minor using the E blues scale played up at the 12th fret. 0:57  Beginner Rock Lick 1: This scaler rock lick is similar to something played by Slash in his "Sweet Child 'o' Mine' solo. Follow the picking and bending guidelines in the lesson (they're important!) and watch that 'blues curl' at the start! 4:15 B...

This 60 second blues guitar lesson shows you a killer blues guitar bend you can start using in your blues solos today! This bend is a favourite of blues guitar legends like BB King and Peter Green, listen out for it in their blues soloing. best of all I'll have you playing this bend in just 60 seconds! We're going to play it in the key of A up at the 12th fret. Notice how the bend is extended onto the end of the sliding blues scale or minor pentatonic pattern. This makes it easy to find when you want to use it, so make sure to check this out. To use the bend grab it and bend it up 3 frets. Might take some push but with a little practice you'll get there! Then stick on a blues backing track and have a go at using it in your soloing. It's a simple but powerful blues guitar trick you won't want to be without from now on. have fun! For more details please visit Our Website - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ LET'S CONNECT! Blog - https://jamesshipwayguitar...

Legato licks can sound awesome in your rock solos and in this guitar lesson I'll show you 3 legato lines for rock guitar you don't want to be without. These legato licks make a great legato practice routine or legato workout too if you want to improve your legato technique and your finger strength and accuracy. And the sliding blues scale shape I show you in this lesson really lends itself to playing legato, meaning with a little practice you can soon be creating legato licks and runs of your own. After looking at the sliding A blues scale shape used for the lesson it's time for the first legato lick. It's ascending the scale pattern using a repeating legato pattern. Break it up into chunks to make it easier to learn and build your legato chops bit by bit. The second legato lick is the kind of idea you might hear Paul Gilbert play. It's a repeating blues scale fragment which is a useful addition for high energy rock solos. The third legato lick descends the sc...

Power Chords:  Learn the power chord shapes for guitar you need to play rock and metal  with this simple memory/learning technique. Learning and remembering the power chords you need on guitar can be tricky and take time, but I'll show you a simple method you can use to nail them fast and remember and find them when you need them. Good news huh? Power chords are an important part of any guitarists chord library. Obviously, they are used in rock and metal guitar, but you'll also hear them in punk, country, pop, funk and other common guitar styles. So, chances are that you need to know the power chords in this lesson. You'll learn four common power chords in this tutorial: starting on the E, A, D and G strings. We'll group them together into 'octaves' to make them easy to learn and remember. I'll also give you tips on how to combine them and layer them to get some cool guitar sounds happening. So guitar player, strap in and prepare to learn the most impo...

Blues Licks for Beginners Lesson Part 2. In this video tutorial discover 3 more blues licks for beginners. These authentic but basic blues licks are perfect for helping you learn to play great blues solos and licks of your own. Learn to play these licks and you're on the way to sounding like a great blues guitarist. In this free blues guitar lesson, I'll show you how to play licks used by all great blues players. All these licks are from the blues scale, the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. We'll be playing in the key of A and these licks will work great over a 12 bar blues in the key of A. If you are just starting out playing blues licks then jump in and get started the right way! Then armed with these blues licks you'll have ideas to use in your own improvisation. Good luck! Backing track used in the lesson is here: https://youtu.be/n-WEY_Mgblw My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guita...

BEGINNERS BLUES LICKS LESSON PART ONE: In this video tutorial you will learn 3 blues licks for beginners. These basic blues licks are essential for all blues guitarists, and once you can play these licks you're well on your way to being a bluesman! Inside these beginners blues licks you'll find many of the essential tools used by the blues guitar greats: the tastiest string bends, double stops and blues rhythms to give your licks that bluesy groove. These blues licks are all coming from the A blues scale played at the 5th fret and will all work great over a 12 bar blues in A. The blues scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. If you are just starting out in blues licks you should definitely check out this video to learn it, and get a bunch of ideas to use from it. And with these blues licks in your arsenal, you'll be all set to start trying to play your own blues solos and improvisations.  Practice to the backing track for this...

Guitar backing track in A minor at 100bpm. This rock pop style jam track is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Am. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This guitar backing track and my other backing tracks are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel. Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what's going on around you and you get used to playing...not just practicing! Hope you enjoy my guitar backing tracks look for more coming regularly. Scale suggestions for this rock guitar backing track: The backing track is in the key of A minor so try using scales like A minor pentatonic, A blues scale or A natural minor scale (also called A Aeolian mode). Try some open string scale shapes too, these can sound great ...

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...

Want to learn guitar scales fast? Well ...playing up and down them like most players do is not the way to do it! In this lesson you'll discover 3 powerful and simple scale practice exercises to learn your guitar scales fast...and more importantly be able to use them when you play. Get my best Memnbers Only Lessons here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Learn Guitar Scales Fast! Imagine if you could learn the essential guitar scales fast...instead of spending hours playing them up and down. Well there are some ways that you can, but we're not normally shown them. Instead we often play them round and round with the notes in the exact same order every time. Problem is you're not going to use them like that when you solo and jam! 0:20 Just playing up and down doesn't help you learn guitar scales fast! It's also got nothing to do with how we use them when we play. You need some different ways to practice themif you want to nail those guita...

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 ...

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 ...

W atch this Gary Moore Licks lesson to learn a classic Gary Moore lick from 'Walking By Myself'. Free Gary Moore licks tab book here: http://jamesshipwayguitar.com/gary-mo... This Gary Moore lick shows Gary playing in the key of E using shape 4 E blues scale at the 7th fret. After some tasty B string bends Gary launches into a repeating picking lick using the chromatic passage from the blues scale on the D string. Use alternate picking for this and a healthy dose of palm muting for a fat and chunky sound. This is a trick you'll hear in many Gary Moore style licks and on many of Gary's greatest solos like 'Out In the Fields' and 'White Knuckles'. Make sure to check out all the cool shape 4 moves used in this lick . You can use them to come up with some Gary Moore style licks of your own! I started my channel to you the kind of 'BS free' and no nonsense guitar lessons I think you want. So if you want to understand 'how to play'...r...