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Guitar Lick Factory - Building Great Blues, Rock, And Jazz Lines - 132 Pages Paperback

By it's nature, modern electric lead guitar playing is very much lick-based.
Lead guitar parts in Rock and Blues are often composed of a series of 3, 4, 5, and six note licks. These licks are strung together, in varied ways, changed and improvised this way and that, and the end result is a beautiful, melodic guitar solo, that we love to play and hear. For example, what could be better than watching an Eric Clapton Guitar Crossroads Festival - seeing all those great guitar players trading their signature licks back and forth. This is guitar playing at its best! So, because of this lick-based nature of modern electric guitar playing, all of us guitar players are on a continuous journey of building and adding to our own personal lick libraries.

And just how do we add licks to our personal lick libraries? Several ways: we hear guitar licks in songs we like, copy them, practice them, and learn them. We buy magazines that have articles like "Learn 50 Must Know Blues Licks". We might talk to our friends and find out about some new lick or trick they recently learned. And many more. This book is another great way for you to learn new guitar licks and lines for Rock, Blues, and Jazz. And add them to your arsenal of licks. This book contains hundreds of licks. They are presented in a way that allows you to easily move them into any key you need. The book also shows you how to change the timing/rhythm of the licks to allow for even more variation.






Here is a list of some section titles to give an idea what's inside the book:

  1. Three Note Blues Licks
  2. Four Note Blues Licks
  3. One Bar Blues Licks
  4. One Bar '60s And '70s Rock Licks
  5. Pentatonic Sequences And Speed Licks
  6. Contemporary Rock Speed Licks
  7. Four Note Swing And Bop Licks
  8. Four Note Jazz Blues Licks



The goal of the authors of the Guitar Lick Factory book is to teach you to use these licks in your playing. To make the licks part of your guitar playing vocabulary. And you're encouraged to modify the licks. One of the ways you can change the licks is to change the rhythm the notes are played to. There is a chart of rhythmic variation at the bottom of the pages. Use this to change the tempo of the notes in the lick. They sound completely different and will fit into a completely different song when you play them. Another way you can alter these guitar licks and make them your own is by changing the order of the notes. You can play the same lick buy with the notes in a different order and get another completely different sound. They show you haw to do this and give you examples.