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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 Beginner Rock Guitar Licks lesson shows you 3 guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player, teaching you essential concepts and techniques you'll use time and again to play great rock guitar solos. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners...but don't be fooled: even your favourite rock guitar legends like Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have used licks just like these in their epic rock and metal guitar solos. These 'beginner rock licks' are super powerful...whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them now! 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 repeating rock lick is using hammer ons, pull offs on the top 3 strings. Follow the picking and muting guidelines in the lesson (they're important!) 3:30 Beginner Rock Lick 2: Michael Schenker does this sort of thing a lot! This move can be a b...

Blues Guitar Tricks Lesson - learn the 3 most important blues guitar string bends you need to use for killer blues guitar solos. You won't find a famous blues guitar solo anywhere that doesn't use at least one of these string bends...they are quite literally 'must know' for any aspiring blues player. Think these blues guitar bending tricks will take years to learn? Wrong...I'll show them to you in just 60 seconds in this super powerful but super short blues guitar lesson. So hold on and prepare to get some authentic blues bends used by all the blues guitar legends into your playing...and hear the difference fast! Dream of being a better guitar player? James Shipway Guitar gives you awesome lessons, licks and practical tips guaranteed to take you to the next level. For more details please visit Our Website - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ LET'S CONNECT! Blog - https://jamesshipwayguitar.com/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jamesshipwayguitar Inst...

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...

These palm muting tips will help you to power up your palm muting technique and get those chunky power chord riffs sounding awesome and heavy...like you hear in music by Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera and other great metal bands. This guitar technique can take a little practice to get right, but by following the palm muting tips in this lesson you'll be able to avoid some of the most common mistakes players make. I'm muting an E5 chord in this lesson. Hand position is important when palm muting chords. Too far back near the bridge, or too far forward and your palm muting won't hit the spot! Aim to pick at around the base of the neck pickup in your guitar, this will probably put your hand in the right sort of area. Keep your palm muting hand soft and relaxed, we don't want to push down on the strings. Try muting hard, then soft and switch between them. This will help you learn to feel the best level of pressure/relaxation to get the sound you like. Good luck! For more...

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 ...

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...

Rock Solo Tricks - this killer double stop idea is amazing for jamming out high energy rock licks. Think Zakk Wylde, Slash, Schenker...they all use this in their epic solos. With this and other rock guitar solo tricks and licks you can start to power up your rock solos and start sounding like a better guitar player. Remember to always experiment with how to use them and most importantly give everything a solid rhythmic groove. Then this double stop trick can be a powerful addition to your guitar lick library. It's using C# minor pentatonic up at the 9th fret and uses three double stop bending ideas. These can be freely mixed up and combined to create dozens of cool rock licks. Try jamming over a backing track and see what you can come up with. Look out for more rock solo tricks coming in future lessons. Have fun! My awesome guitar lessons and tutorials covering improvisation and soloing, guitar chords and scales, great guitar licks, music theory and more are guaranteed to help ...

Rock guitar backing track for E minor jamming. Practice jamming in a 'dirty' rock style similar to bands like Guns'n'Roses, Motley Crue, Love/Hate and others. Practice rock soloing, guitar scales, new lick ideas or creating 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 E minor so try using scales like E minor pentatonic, E blues scale or E natural minor scale (also called E Aeolian mode). Try ...