LEGATO LICKS – LEGATO LINES FOR ROCK GUITAR

Legato Licks – Legato Lines for Rock Guitar

Legato licks can sound awesome in your rock solos and in this guitar lesson I’ll show you 3 legato lines for rock guitar you don’t want to be without. These legato licks make a great legato practice routine or legato workout too if you want to improve your legato technique and your finger strength and accuracy. And the sliding blues scale shape I show you in this lesson really lends itself to playing legato, meaning with a little practice you can soon be creating legato licks and runs of your own.

After looking at the sliding A blues scale shape used for the lesson it’s time for the first legato lick. It’s ascending the scale pattern using a repeating legato pattern. Break it up into chunks to make it easier to learn and build your legato chops bit by bit.

The second legato lick is the kind of idea you might hear Paul Gilbert play. It’s a repeating blues scale fragment which is a useful addition for high energy rock solos.

The third legato lick descends the scale with a legato flurry moving down in octaves.

Remember to build these up to speed gradually and get the timing solid, it’s easy to lose it with legato licks like these and our fingers can start to run away with us! Also practice using them in your playing so that legato becomes a part of your guitar style.

KILLER METAL RIFFS AND THE ‘DEVILS INTERVAL’

Killer Metal Riffs and the ‘Devils Interval’

Put the heavy into your metal riffs with the tritone or ‘devils interval’! It’s been the secret weapon of heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath, Slayer and Metallica for years, now you can find it and start to use it to create killer riffs of your own. So get ready to learn all about the devils interval or tritone and how you can instantly use it to create crushing riffs like the worlds greatest metal bands.

So what is a tritone? It’s the distance of 3 tones between two notes. Of course what really matters is what it sounds like, and the good news is that it sounds dark and heavy, making it perfect for those doom-laden metal riffs!

Now we know what a tritone is we can look at finding power chords whose roots are a tritone apart. This is where the magic starts to happen! Hear me demo the sound in the lesson…instant Black Sabbath!

The theory behind this is pretty simple, but some example metal riffs using the tritone could be helpful. So see me demonstrate and break down 3 example riffs using power chords and pedal tones. These will help you see some of the possibilities and give you some ideas for killer riffs of your own.

5 TOOLS YOU NEED WHEN YOU PRACTICE GUITAR

5 Tools You Need When You Practice Guitar

Guitar practice time? Here are 5 tools which you’ll need to help you get the most from your session and see great results every time you practice your guitar. Just deciding to ‘practice guitar’ won’t get you where you want to be unless you’re doing it the right way! The 5 guitar practice tools I share in this video will help you stay on track, remember what you’ve learned, develop a good practice routine , manage your practice time more efficiently and ultimately make you a better guitar player!

Having these 5 practice tools in your practice room will help you get off to a flying start with your practice session, so keep them close by. Let’s look at them one by one:

1) Timer to help you break up your session and cover all the areas you want to practice. A small digital egg timer is perfect, or you can use the stopwatch on your phone

2) Blank tab paper to keep a record of any cool ideas you discover. We can learn a lot from ourselves when we do our guitar practice…so note down what you find out so you don’t lose it!

Grab your FREE blank tab book here (you don’t even need to submit an email address!). Print it off and you’re sorted!

3) Metronome. Great for building speed, keeping a consistent rhythm and staying focused on an exercise. Wind up or digital great…or online! Just make sure it’s loud enough.

4) Video camera in your phone. Record yourself to listen back for feedback and to document the progress over your weeks and months of guitar practice sessions. Great practice tool!

5) Backing tracks and drum loops. Unless you have a band on standby for every time you feel like jamming (I’m guessing you haven’t) backing tracks and drum loops are amazing for putting what you are practicing into a more real-life situation in the practice room.

Hope these guitar practice tips help you out. Leave a comment below the video if you have any cool practice tips or practice tips you want to share. See you next time! James

POWER CHORDS – LEARN POWER CHORDS FAST WITH THIS EASY METHOD

Learn Power Chords Fast with this Easy Method

Power Chords: Learn the power chord shapes for guitar you need to play rock and metal with this simple memory/learning technique. Learning and remembering the power chords you need on guitar can be tricky and take time, but I’ll show you a simple method you can use to nail them fast and remember and find them when you need them. Good news huh?

Power chords are an important part of any guitarists chord library. Obviously, they are used in rock and metal guitar, but you’ll also hear them in punk, country, pop, funk and other common guitar styles. So, chances are that you need to know the power chords in this lesson.

You’ll learn four common power chords in this tutorial: starting on the E, A, D and G strings. We’ll group them together into ‘octaves’ to make them easy to learn and remember. I’ll also give you tips on how to combine them and layer them to get some cool guitar sounds happening.

So guitar player, strap in and prepare to learn the most important power chords you need to know!

Blank Tab Paper…Free Download and What To Do With It!

Blank tab paper is a valuable guitar practice tool…and this free downloadable booklet of blank tab for guitar will get you started. Simply download it for free by pressing the button in this post below, print it out, and use it to help you improve your guitar playing. Each sheet contains 12 blank tab staves, and because the tab paper is blank, you can use it in many ways to help you become a better guitar player. It’s also quicker than messing around typing numbers into guitar tab software…just grab a sheet of blank tab paper and jot down whatever guitar gem you’ve just uncovered…quick and easy!

Here’s What To Use Your Free Blank Tab Paper Booklet For…

Recording new licks. How many times have you found a cool new guitar lick or riff…but the next day you couldn’t remember it? Problem solved! Write it down on the blank tab paper and it’s yours to keep.

Transcribing licks and solos. Write out the tab for guitar solos or licks you are transcribing by other players. Use this blank tab to create your own guitar tab collection. Transcribing is great eartraining for guitarists and also helps us build a rich vocabulary of guitar soloing ides to use.

Creating Technique Workouts. Tab out any technique exercises you discover to boost your guitar chops. Picking exercises, legato runs and licks, bending workouts, scale patterns…anything! If you want to come back to it later, write it out on the blank tab paper so you don’t forget it. Also great for adding some focus into your practice sessions each time.

Write your ow practice routine. Design a new guitar practice routine and write it out on the blank tab staves. Tab out any licks, exercises, riff or soloing ideas you want to revisit next time you pick up your guitar in the practice room.

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE BLANK TAB BOOKLET HERE

The blank tab paper booklet will download automatically to your device. Print it off and start using it to reach your guitar goals quicker!

Good luck!

James

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