Beginner Rock Guitar Licks (Part 2)

Beginner Rock Guitar Licks Lesson Part 2 shows you 3 more rock guitar licks that are perfect for the beginner to intermediate rock guitar player. These rock guitar licks are great for beginners or intermediate guitarists…but even your favourite rock guitar legend is using them too! Guitar solos by Gary Moore, Slash, Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett have all used licks just like these ones. So these ‘beginner rock licks’ are super powerful…whatever level of player you are so dive in and learn how to play and use them, and get them into your solos to build yourself an awesome rock or metal guitar style!
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 scaler rock lick is similar to something played by Slash in his “Sweet Child ‘o’ Mine’ solo. Follow the picking and bending guidelines in the lesson (they’re important!) and watch that ‘blues curl’ at the start!
4:15 Beginner Rock Lick 2: It starts with a repeating blues scale lick. Follow the picking guidelines on this one, it will help you get the lick fluent and up to speed.
6:30 Beginner Rock Guitar Lick 3: All rock guitarists play licks like this one some of the time. It’s basically working it’s way down the blues scale. A great frethand exercise to build up a repertoire of speedy licks. Follow the picking to make it easier to play!

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. Repeat bits, change parts of them, add a different ending…just explore the possibilities with your imagination. This kind of guitar practice really pays off big time…it takes you from a beginner to a more intermediate level guitar player!