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Guitar lick - Guitar Lesson - Combination Licks

Inject attitude and style into your guitar solos by combining 2 or 3 different techniques within a guitar lick! (techniques are slides, bends, vibrato etc...)

1. Be able to play each guitar technique well before trying to combine them within a guitar lick!
2. Review all of the guitar technique lessons(Slides, Vibratos, etc..)even if you have played them on your own. Practice each of those techniques within a guitar lick. Those lessons might help you play those techniques even better.
3. SLIDES, BENDS - don't try to play a slide or a bend on the 2nd note of a pair of eighth notes
4. HAMMERS/PULL-OFFS - they are much easier to play with eighth, eighth note triplets, or sixteenth notes
5. VIBRATOS, BENDS W/VIBRATO - they are much easier to play with half notes or quarter notes
6. FINGERING is below the tab staff

Follow rules 3, 4, 5, and 6 until you feel confident enough to throw them out!

Examples

Always tune first!

• Practice playing and counting each guitar lick

• Practice each guitar lick 3 times in a row (keep a steady beat)

• Practice each lick 3 times in a row with the metronome or the practice track

• Print out the WRITE YOUR OWN page

• Write out a Combo lick with quarter notes and half notes.

• Then write out a guitar lick using eighth notes, quarter notes, and half notes

• Practice each one of your licks 3 times in a row

• After writing a couple of licks, try creating some on the spot.

• Make sure your licks are 4 beats long