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Repeating Licks - Monster Repeating Rock Licks

Grab your free Rock Jam Pack (backing tracks, lick lessons, scales etc) Perfect for practicing your repeating licks over: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/jam-pack-redirect-page/ 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 repeat...

Guitar Turnaround Lesson - How to Use a Blues Turnaround Lick

Blues Guitar Turnarounds Lesson - How To Use a Blues Turnaround Lick Game changing Blues Improvisation tips, technique workouts and more in my free Members Only Video Powerpack! Get it here:http://jamesshipwayguitar.com/sign-up Learn how to add a blues guitar turnaround lick onto the end of your guitar solo. Perfect for guitar solos on the 12 bar blues. Blues Guitar Turnaround Lesson Welcome to another episode of the Ask James Guitar Show where it's all about how to add a blues guitar turnaround lick onto the end of your blues solos. This isn't essential but it's a handy thing to be able to do, lending your blues solos an authentic and bluesy sound. Here's a breakdown of the lesson: 0:25 One of my Members at http://jamesshipwayguitar.com has asked a cool question!  If you're playing a solo how can you add a turnaround lick onto the end?  Here I demonstrate the turnaround lick we're going to be using on the end of our solo. It's in the key of G an...

Guitar Soloing - The Secret of a Great Start To Your Solo!

Grab my free jampack with lesson backing track and video lessons here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/jam-pack-redirect-page/ Guitar Soloing - 3 Tips for a Great Start to Your Solo! Get a powerful start to your rock guitar soloing every time with these 3 great tips. A powerful start to your solo will grab the listeners attention and make them pay attention to what you're playing, a weak start to your guitar solo and they might not even listen at all. Use these 3 tips for your guitar soloing which will make people listen and have more impact every time! Guitar Soloing - 3 Tips for a Great Start to Your Solo! Here's what you learn in this guitar lesson: 00:50 A bad start to your guitar solo can spoil it from the start. Here I demo how lots of players start their solos. It doesn't really grab the listeners attention and make them want to hear the rest. 1:21 When we play a guitar solo we need to 'set it up' and announce to the listener that a solo is coming...

5 Common Mistakes Beginner and Intermediate Lead Guitar Players Always Make!

A void other common guitar mistakes and explode your guitar skills with my free guitar powerpack here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-... Common Guitar Mistakes Beginner and Intermediate Guitar Players Make Learn how to avoid and how to fix some of the most common mistakes beginner and intermediate guitar players make when it comes to learning to solo. Overcome these and you really can supercharge your progress, improve faster on guitar and stop getting held up. Common Guitar Mistake 1- Weak Finger Independence and Accuracy This can cause you to press down on the strings too hard making notes sound out of tune. Poor finger accuracy can also lead to lifting up the fingers after playing a note., slowing you down and making it hard to play smoothly. Common Guitar Mistake 2 - Picking Problems Don't use too much pick when you play. It's way harder to get good controlled picking. Just use the very tip of the pick. And make sure your picking hand stays close to the ...