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Category: Lead Guitar Lessons

26 July 2011

Rock Guitar Cliche

A video lesson I was inspired to do today… Enjoy.
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21 June 2011

Multi-String Picking Shred Lick

Want to play shred licks? Many players would agree that alternate picking chops are the foundation of “shredding”… And almost all the teachers, from me, to Silvio Gazquez, to Paul Gilbert, all advocate building up your picking chops on...
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05 May 2011

Hey Hey… its another Lick of the Day

Here’s a nice little pentatonic lick in the key of B. Make sure to pay attention to the upstrokes, downstrokes and hammerons/pulloffs. Start on an upstroke with your pick. Check it out: [audio:https://www.claudejohnson.com/blog/audio/may2011-ex1.mp3] Hey hey, if you haven’t seen...
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Lead Guitar Lessons, Uncategorized 6 Comments
17 March 2011

Playing fast, with feeling

I’ve always wanted to play with a lot of feel, AND play fast too. I’m sure I’m not the only one 🙂 In my development as a guitarist, I’ve mostly focused on playing with feeling, and it’s only been...
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10 March 2011

Building Pentatonic Licks

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27 September 2010

Alternating eighth notes and rests

What notes you play are only half the story. The other story is the rhythms. One interesting and useful rhythm is to alternate eighth notes and eighth note rests. It can spice up even the most stupidly simple riff,...
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18 July 2010

Rhythms for Melodies, Part I

There are 2 aspects to creating interesting lead lines and melodies. One is the actual notes… You can play around with various scales, seqeuences, arpeggios, intervals, motiffs, and patterns. The other, equally important aspect is the rhythms of the...
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24 May 2010

Beginner Blues Soloing Lesson

Here is a video lesson just for the beginners. If you’re more experienced or advanced, please surf around my blog for more advanced lessons, or check out my home page for more killer websites. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT...
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27 February 2010

More Repeating Pentatonic Ideas

Ok, today I would like to share 3 repeating pentatonic licks. The first one is a 4 note pattern. I repeat it 3 times so you can see/hear what it sounds like repeating. This is cool because we are...
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12 February 2010

24 note Repeating Pentatonic Legato Lick

Recently I sent an email about fast, repeating pentatonic licks and how to take advantage of some cool economy picking and legato techniques for maximum efficiency. Here is the lick I was talking about tabbed out, and also here...
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