Nuno's Trick Bag - Funk/Rock Licks

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: Welcome to this "Lick-tutorial". Now, even though this was meant to be a lick-tutorial, you know me, I always press the need for real world applications and conceptual understanding of every little thing you learn! So, I felt I had to record these licks and tricks over a backing track (as the title suggest in the style of Funk/Rock-Maestro Nuno Bettencourt, ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: Ok, time to break things down a bit. In the intro, I just groove along with the backing track organ line to get things grooving along. Then comes the first lick, labelled (duh) Lick 1 in the tab. This lick is very much in the style of Bettencourt, and variations on this type of lick has been with me since my teens, when I had my first close encounter with N...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Improvising Style: Rock

Excerpt: And here's the backing, in all it's Garageband-ish glory =) Keep it groovy fellows, whatever the backing might be! I would like to say it is MANDATORY for all of you to go download all the tons of backing tracks attached to lessons throughout this site, and then try these licks over those, whatever they might be! That's a sure way to get your motor going, an...

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