Fill it in! - Nailing your licks

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Welcome guys! In this tutorial we will look into a simple, yet effective practising method you can use to help nail your licks in the musical context of your choice. The idea here is to choose a riff, rhythm or chord progression that spans 2 bars. After playing that riff, you then fill in licks of your choice in 2 bars following that, creating a 4 bar ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: And here we have the riff I've chosen as an example, just treat this and the licks to follow as the examples they are. The main lesson in this tutorial will be you finding and experimenting with your own ideas. The riff itself is pretty straight forward, an 8th note based rhythm in roughly 130bmp. You can of course use any type of lick or phrase over this, ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Here's some short lick examples, in the video I mainly improvise all the variations, so I'll just give you a basic lick idea or two, that you can use as a guideline, and a starting point for your own lick excursions. Actually tabbing out every improvised variation would kind of defeat the purpose, since then you would learn those as "new" licks, when you sho...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Nothing different here really, just me dividing the video in 2 parts for easier and faster viewing. Did some tab ideas here as well for you, just the two though, remember to find your own variations to your own ideas! Now, once you've gone through these, it's time for the real work! Get grooving and do your own thing with this simple, yet effective exercise...

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