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Fill it in! - Nailing your licks

Richard Lundmark
IntermediateAny styleExercises 4 lessons17m

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 span in all, with Riff -> Lick -> Riff -> Lick and so forth. The whole idea here is to force you (or me for that matter) to choose a lick, and really work it, expanding and altering the lick every 2 bars. This will help your improvising by making you more able to use any lick in any context, flowing back and forth between riffs and licks. This will be especially useful for those of you being the only guitarist in a band, where you are forced to play both rhythm and lead, filling in gaps and such, and think on your feet. So go ahead and try out the example riff, and then find ideas of your own to experiment with.

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  1. 1 2:52 Lesson · 3m Fill it in! - Intro 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...
  2. 2 4:10 Lesson · 4m Fill it in! - Part 1 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... Tab
  3. 3 4:07 Lesson · 4m Fill it in! - Part 2.a 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... Tab
  4. 4 6:07 Lesson · 6m Fill it in! - Part 2.b 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... Tab

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