Beginner Rock Guitar Licks (Part 1)

This Beginner Rock Guitar Licks lesson shows you 3 guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player, teaching you essential concepts and techniques you’ll use time and again to play great rock guitar solos. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners…but don’t be fooled: even your favourite rock guitar legends like Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have used licks just like these in their epic rock and metal guitar solos. These ‘beginner rock licks’ are super powerful…whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them now! These licks are in the key of E minor using the E blues scale played up at the 12th fret.

0:57 Beginner Rock Lick 1: This repeating rock lick is using hammer ons, pull offs on the top 3 strings. Follow the picking and muting guidelines in the lesson (they’re important!)
3:30 Beginner Rock Lick 2: Michael Schenker does this sort of thing a lot! This move can be a bit tricky for beginner rock players but it’s important to learn how to do it. It starts off with some unison bends before moving into a repeating blues scale lick.
6:55 Beginner Rock Guitar Lick 3: This lick shows you a cool bending idea, a favorite of players like Slash and Zakk Wylde!

Even if you’re a beginner rock guitar player, it’s never too early to start experimenting with these guitar licks! See how you can take the bits of them and use them as the building blocks for some rock licks of your own. This kind of guitar practice really pays off big time…it takes you from a beginner to a more intermediate level guitar player!