As a guitarist, why would you bother to learn other guitarists licks? What could you gain from it? Shouldn’t you just work at making your own? If one of your purposes for picking up the guitar in the first place was to have an instrument to communicate with, you’re going to need to spend time learning the languages.

In this exercise we are working on eight licks that are not only very useful, but also quite common. There are a ton of important techniques here, oblique bends/double stops, rolling rock/blues ideas, quarter, half, whole step bends, sliding sixths, mixing major/minor pentatonic. CLICK HERE TO THE PAGE FOR THIS EXERCISE.

Three note per string licks and scales are generally used for speed. Whenever you hear a guitar player playing these really fast terrifying licks, it’s probably a three note per string lick. Paul Gilbert, and Joe Satriani a couple of many great experts in this field. This is a three octave legato run that moves though five keys starting in the key of G. CLICK HERE FOR THE PAGE FOR THIS LESSON.

If your looking to find a way to get started soloing and Improvising, this is the lesson for you. Improve your soloing and phrasing using the minor pentatonic scale. These A minor pentatonic licks incorporates eighth notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, vibrato. this exercise is a great way to get started learning how to solo on your guitar. These rock guitar licks uses the A minor pentatonic scale, phrases like these are commonly used by many rock and blues players such as, Jimmy Page Ritchie Blackmore, and Angus Young

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The Legato Pentatonic Groupings of 5 exercise is a sequence that takes the pentatonic scale in groupings of five notes from every note in the scale. This type of scale sequence is used in thousands of guitar solos and is something that every guitar player should be comfortable with. You should be very comfortable with pattern one of the pentatonic scale to be successful with this exercise.

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In this insane thirty-two measure Arpeggio Variations In D Minor solo, Chris Zoupa gives us some more essential soloing techniques. hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, many position shifts, many variations of arpeggios, the D minor, and harmonic minor scale, minor pentatonic, and even two handed finger tapping.

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In this arpeggio exercise I want to cover share a trick based around a concept that will add some sophistication to your improvisations (while also being sure to turn heads with its attention-grabbing coolness!): open-voiced, string-skipping 7th arpeggios. The basic idea is this: we split up the arpeggios into six-note patterns with two notes per string on three strings, skipping a string in between each.

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Sweep picking is often regarded as a “shredder’s” technique, the notion of sweeping (or raking) the pick across the strings to produce a quick succession of notes has been around since the invention of the pick itself. Jazz players such as Les Paul, Barney Kessel and Tal Farlow, would use the approach in their improvisations, and country guys like Chet Atkins was known to pull out sweep-picked arpeggios, as well as rock player like Ritchie Blackmore used sweep picking to play arpeggios as well. Yngwie Malmsteen is known as a master of sweep picking on the guitar.

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