Quick Licks 11
Welcome to the Quick Licks series! These guitar lessons are meant to give you some really fun and exciting licks to play and jam on so you can expand your lick repertoire.
This fast rock lick will get your heart pumping and the crowd cheering! Set to a backing track called 80’s Rock Groove.
Here’s Quick Lick #11
Backing Track
80’s Rock Groove ▶ custom player
Get your hairspray out and crank the gain on your amp! This uptempo rock riff will get your heart rate up. It’s in G Minor so pull out your favorite minor pentatonic licks and start them on the 3rd fret of the E string
Guitar Tab
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Have Fun!
March 18, 2018 @ 11:36 am
I’m a slow-hand, generally, but a great riff with a lot of “lifting” potential.
A possible “problem” just crossed my mind. Of course, I’ve set out to learn my scales and apply them to my playing. Yet, I’m never really that aware of the scales I’m using when it comes down to actually messing around, or improvising with guitar lines. If I am aware it’s typically only initially, then the ear and hands tend to take the wheel. On the other hand of I focus on patterns and their relationship to what I’m playing it tends to come out as very boring and uninspired.
Is this actually a problem, or is it pretty much like that for every guitarist? Any advice?
March 20, 2018 @ 8:13 am
Hey Terry,
Great Question! I’m actually going to cover this topic in my live video lesson… but a quick answer is this:
I find it most productive to separate your “practice” time and your “playing” time. What you are trying to achieve in your practice time is to teach your fingers and muscles new patterns, licks and techniques. This focused time should be very thought provoking and use a lot of brain power to analyze what your doing and how it sounds.
When it comes to playing… I think the goal is to NOT think as much and allow the time you’ve spent practicing new scales, licks and techniques to “show up” in your playing when you possibly least expect it.
When you say “then the ear and hands tend to take the wheel”… this is EXACTLY what should happen when you just play and don’t think. If you train your hands and ear enough during your practice time, they will instinctively use what they learned when you are not even noticing and this is when cool, exciting new things happen!
Hope that helps
Mike D
January 8, 2016 @ 9:20 pm
If you are playing in Gm the note should be Bb not A#. There is no A# in G minor.
January 8, 2016 @ 11:15 pm
Great point Phil! You are correct so thank you for pointing that out
Mike D