Easy Guitar Licks
Guitar Tab
Easy Licks for a very slow guitarist "Beginning Lead Guitarist need to except the fact that they need to focus on licks that are more easily played when first starting out." If you can't play 'em slow, what makes you think you'll be able to play 'em fast. Playing the hammer-ons, slides, pull-offs, and wide bends properly is of the most importants. Bending to the wrong note because you don't have the strength in your fingers will be easily be noticed by everyone who hears you. Here are some tricks of the trade when choosing a lick....
These ain't just the guitar trick you're playing. It's the way it fits into the key of the song that really matters. The same riff can be played in different places within the key of a song. This results in subtle differences in feel that are available to you at little cost in terms of practice or concentration. You just need to have some background information. I will give that information to you on these pages. The best way to demonstrate the same trick sounding different depending on its relation to the key of the song is to play the same trick in two different places during a song in one key.
Easy Trick 1 This trick employs two important techniques: the hammer-on and the bend. The hammer-on is achieved by playing the note on the 5th fret with your index finger and then slamming your ring finger down on the 7th fret. Don't pick that second note on the 7th fret, make the hammer-on do the work. The "7b/" in the second measure tells you to bend the note on the 7th fret up and then back down, while the "7b" following that tells you to bend up only.
Easy Trick 2 This trick introduces the pull-off. The pull-off is the opposite of the hammer-on and probably a little easier to do at first. The concept is the same, you pluck the string while holding down your ring finger on the 7th fret and your index finger on the 5th. Pull the ring finger off the string and let the index finger ring out. The ~~~~~~ at the end just means let it ring out.
Easy Trick 3 By now you might be noticing that you can get a lot of mileage out of these 4 notes on the G and D string on the 5th and 7th frets. Generally when you hear a guitar solo a good portion of it will be in this little 4 note box pattern. If you were in a different key it would be in a different position on the fretboard. If you were in G major the box pattern would be on the 3rd and 5th frets, if you were in C the box pattern would be on the 8th and 10th frets.
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"If you've got any good notes, you're liable to find them" - Doc Watson
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Updated: 2/24/07 |
