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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn 5 guitar lick ideas that can make you sound like a pro! You can apply these concepts to any style and in any key.
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This sounds awesome Brian. Lots of great ideas and take-aways to learn. Thanks heaps. 😎🎸😎
beautiful.seems to me a bit of a jazz beat.
Love the on-screen descriptions and arrows popping up in real time.
Well that will be an instant favorite. Looking forward to playing with this this week!
great stuff. thanks.
I really liked how this lesson was packaged so as to help me to remember the Lick Ideas.
This is sounding great Brian! Thanks for putting these ideas together in this week’s lesson.
Finally an exclamation and use of the diminished scale. I don’t remember your using that in other lessons ,though you may have and I just didn’t pick up on it. As always a lesson filled with more to explore and think about. Lot’s of light bulbs!
It’s so cool that you can do that diminished run and not break up my friend playing rhythm! Of course you can say later you can do it if you want to but you don’t have to!
Another action packed lesson. Lots of great licks, and a great sounding guitar tone. Not sure if I will be able to play all the way through up to tempo, but I will try. Thanks Brian.
Cool ideas Brian!
Another excellent lesson packed with great riffs and detail on what they are, I find the explanation of how each lick is put together from the underlying intervals, scales and chords so helpful and so satisfying to play. The diminished scale instruction is a treat to learn and I think many of us would love to see more of those. Also, the flash screen text in the beginning is excellent. I often thought some text call outs over the slow walkthrough or video tablature breakdown highlighting where the lead was going such as ‘walking up with pentatonic to the 4 chord, or ‘diminished scale’ etc as you did in the intro would be very helpful. I often find i forget the details of what I’m doing using the tablature and as you said in this video, memorizing leads isn’t as valuable as fully understanding what we are playing. Of course, that’s a lot more work for you already and I can only imagine the time and effort you are already putting in to make these incredibly comprehensive lessons. Thank YOU for all you do for us Brian.
Brilliant lesson Brian, thanks a lot! 🙂
Man you sure packed a lot into this one! Sure there was a lot of time you put into it. Blending chromatics along with arpeggios 7s to 9s blending major minor pentatonics. Light bulb moments and the some! Thanks so much for another great lesson! Excited to dive into this one!
Really love the lessons. Brian na quick suggestion. It would be helpful if you could also tab out the rhythm for the lessons. What I try to do is piece it all together on a looper. Maybe my practicing is wrong but curious on your thoughts about looping vs using the rhythm track. thanks
I love getting a big surprise every week! Thanks for another great lesson Brian
This is what makes you an outstanding instructor.
Great lesson once again. I hate repeating myself but what I got out of this one was the use of the diminished scale and chords etc. I tend to go down some rabbit holes from time to time and this lesson has helped to reinforce these diminished chords and scales. I was back in the wood shed again going back over on what makes a diminished chord and find myself now going down into some jazz ideas for a more sophisticated sound. The composition sounds great and I’ll be working on this lesson for awhile. Thank you again for your many talents and you’re teaching abilities convey your thoughts and knowledge which is not an easy thing to do over the internet. I love the format that allows me to stop, rewind and replay. If I miss something I will come back to it later and think about it over a cup of coffee or a beer later in the day, I wish college had been this easy and interesting. Yeah! this lesson was awesome, more of them please.
As an old retired guy–I spend a LOT of time practicing. Mostly your material–THANK YOU Brian.
When I’m not working on something, the good ole A 12 bar is a favorite to jam out to.
So ALL of these licks… tricks… angles… different takes… on the fret board are a joy.
I might even grow up to be a guitar player someday.
Thank you.
Great expiation of blending the Minor and Major Pentatonics in addition of using the chord shapes within the pentatonic boxes and utilizing the Mixolydian scale to add a little flavor . Great ideas on how not to overthink what you are trying to play. Sometimes less is best…………
Great lesson,
Randy
Always a great blend of theory and practical application. And good sounding stuff.
I really liked this lesson EP581.
I love this lesson. There’s a lot to this lesson. This is the kind of lesson that I enjoy the most. Please keep them coming. Just the right amount of challenge.
G’day Brizo,
You never cease to please. Excellent as always!
M.J.
I’m excited about this lesson, in particular incorporating diminished runs, that really caught my ear. I’m familiar with diminished chords, arpeggios and fingerpicked rolls but had not yet ventured into using them in phrases. Thanks coach, you are on track as always.
Brian Great lesson.
Love the tune, the riffs ,and your detailed explanations on how you relate rrifs to chord shapes. Thank You for all you do.
After that lead break I can totally hear Donald Fagen coming in with the next verse…very evocative of SD in my opinion.
Will certainly be saving that one to favourites. Great lesson , blends a lot of good stuff together. Thank you.
Thank you for another great lesson. I do have a question. It has been my understanding that the diminished chord/scale used is determined by the sharp IV chord. In the lesson you used the sharp I chord. Am I missing something? I am trying to learn more about the diminished scales in particular, but it’s kind of like studying east mysticism. Thanks
it depends on when you use it – if you’re going from the 1 to the 4 chord, you’d use the 1# diminished as the transition. when you’re going from the 4 chord back to the 1 chord – you’d use the 4# diminished.
Another informative lesson. I have to listen to it for a while to get in the groove, never hearing the tune before. Just playing the notes or chords without that pause, bend or quick run etc. or being in that groove ,it doesn’t make music. Hey Rick C, I’m retired also and agree with your post. But I WILL be a guitar player. Thanks Brian.
Brian, Glad I’m retired, work would definitely get in the way of this weeks lesson! Love the targeting of the flat 7th and adding major 3rd, and connecting multiple shapes, definitely getting a little closer to mastering the fretboard and letting my ear be the guide!
Thanks!!
Nice… Good basic blues with just enough more advanced stuff to pull us gently ahead with our own improvisations! Thank you, Brian
WOW! What a ton of info to explore. I agree with David S. just before me (glad I’m retired) because there’s so much in this lesson. As you are progressing in complexity each week, I think I need to go back to previous (maybe in 300’s) lessons as I have not progressed as fast as you are. Your explanations are excellent and complete but contain so many thoughts to absorb. (we retired folk learn more slowly, you know LOL). That said, any advice on how to manage your program because it takes me more than a week to learn any / each lesson. Thanks so much.
Hi Brian, another awesome lesson. It’s such a great way to clearly present all these ideas. It’s true you teach them regularly, but I feel like I keep forgetting them when improvising and always end going back to minor pentatonic scale. Now I feel I have an easy way to remember many options available. I’m sure there is a ton more that you could put together for a part 2. Or even better, 5 ideas to improvise in country style. I know some are also usable in both styles but other classic tricks could be presented in a similar way.
Thanks and keep them coming.
I’ve been practicing some of these licks over the last few days and I’m thrilled. Firstly, I can practise at a higher tempo than I’m used to and secondly, I’ve come up with lots of new ideas. A great lesson that I hope I can apply to many improvisations in the future.
Wow Brian. You are off the charts. This is amazing and wonderful!~ Thank you more than I can say!!!
So much to learn so little time… this one will take some time. What’s cool is that as you are playing it, I’m starting to recognize where you are on fretboard why it works before you explain it. The diminished stuff I had no idea about. Thanks, this one will take a few weeks of work…
That’s got some great stuff I’ll be adding to my toolbox. Thanks Brian. Great lesson. Love the A6 A9 stuff. Albert King lick is always a good safe way to start. Interesting transition scale from the 1 to 4 in the beginning. I’ll definitely rewatch this one. Laura.
Superb and inspirational as always Brian – one question, the music I play (generally indie type music but with melody) , I try to make use of drone strings – is this something you’d blend in possibly? Thinking the section in part 1 where you play the low E open as an example but possibly using the drone as almost a metronome in a solo?
amazing as ever. a quick question for Brain or anyone! in At the “frampton” style riff in bar 7, who do i pick the pull off part. Is it down strokes on the ‘8’ and ’10’ on the E and B strings, or a down stroke on the ‘8’ and an upstroke on the ’10”?
thanks in advance. Phik
nice lesson Brian…going from the “knowing” to the “doing”. It’s a skill to take us into the practical (“real world”) application of theoretical concepts. Beautifully illustrated. Thanks Brian!
Excellent Brian. The deep dive on how the licks are built is super helpful and interesting!
guys. Do ytou use hybrid pciking for bat 21?
I need help for some reason when using the on screen tabliture the sound cuts in and out when I slow it down and loop what am doing wrong?
wow, Brian, this lesson is outstanding from your usual outstanding lessons! I don’t know if I ever will be able to play it in an acceptable speed, but I enjoy working on it not only because it sounds so good, but also because it is a special intellectual pleasure! 🙂
Hi Brian ,
I’m really interested in learning some licks with the harmonic minor scale and getting that mysterious kind of spooky sound. I think players such as Yngwie Malmsteen use this. Would you be able to incorporate some harmonic exercises or licks into an upcoming lesson? I believe it would enhance my playing and understanding of this style.
Thanks for all your guidance! 🙂