Guitar Tricks
August 2006


Welcome to Guitar Tricks. We have over 2500 multimedia guitar lessons. 
367 of them are beginner lessons. Each individual lesson is designed by 
one of over 40 guitar instructors that contribute to our site. 

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This months FREE lessons

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1) Basic Rock Riff 14  -  Nick Marchant
Easy rock riff lessons for beginners , blues slide guitar lessons from 
complete beginner to advanced plus a fresh look at chords for acoustic 
players


A great Jimi Hendrix intro riff using an E pentatonic scale at the 5th 
fret and 7th fret positions
(if you don't know these 'boxes' already find them on the site and learn 
them )

This riff uses pulloffs (p) and one hammer-on (h)- uses first and third 
fingers throughout.

The 2 beats marked x in the tab are "dead stringing".This is where you 
hold your left hand on all 6 strings
without pressing down on the frets to get a dead sound. Jimi Hendrix 
used this technique a lot especially with wah-wah.

You need to set the player to loop to hear this properly 

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2) Bluegrass Hot Lick 1 (VIDEO LESSON) -  Bobby Howe
new instructor!
Guitar teacher from Illinois specializing in fingerstyle guitar.

This is a standard bluegrass lick--one of the first ones you should get 
to know--a very common ending lick for a song. 

In Bluegrass, pulloffs, hammers and slides are used and are very common. 
They allow you to divide up the work between your right and left hands, 
i.e., since most bluegrass picking is very fast, you learn how to pick 
one note with your right hand and use pulloffs, hammers and slides with 
your left hand which could result in two, three or maybe even four notes 
sounding. 

Notice that I have shown in this example how to use a flatpick and also 
how to use three-finger "banjo roll" type picking as well. Notice the 
right hand close up and how sometimes the pick or finger will pick one 
string but achieve more than one note. Also notice how in this example, 
generally the notes go from higher pitched to lower pitched. When I use 
the pick, and I don't need to return back to a higher pitched note, the 
pick comes to rest on the next lower string, that is, it is in position 
to do the next thing--pick the next string in sequence. 

When I use three finger picking, generally the thumb and first two 
fingers are situated such that I have command of whatever three string 
group they happen to be resting on at the time, i.e., 2,3,4 or 3,4,5, 
etc. After a string has been played and I am ready to play the next 
string, most times the finger for the string that was just played comes 
back to rest on that string thereby muting it so that the next string 
can clearly sound by itself. If not the finger that played that string, 
then another one that is coming into position to play the next sequence 
of notes as I move to the next position. 

There will be more to say about these techniques as we go through 
subsequent lessons. This is a great entry level bluegrass lick.

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3) Lydian Legato Lick  - Tobias Magnusson
Lead guitarist of Soul Source. Sweeping, String Skipping and other 
techniques are available here with some Metal, Blues & Rock Style playing

As you all probably know, the Lydian scale is based from the forth note 
of a major scale. The Lydian Intervallic is:1 2 3 #4 5 6 7

*note* You can start each string by Picking it. 

I'm tabbing the Lydian scale used in the video example. Try some 
different patterns out and start shredding. In the end I'm tapping 
around a Maj7 arpeggio. 

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4) Drunker than me  -  J.D. Jarrell
Flat pick, and fingers method, string poppin' bends, and double stops 
from Nashville,TN.

This is how I play the intro for the Trent Tomlinson song 
"(I can't be with a woman) who gets drunker than me". It's a real crowd 
pleaser, and is not very hard to do. The best way I found to do this is 
to use a flat pick, and two fingers with your right hand, or the hand 
you're picking with. I also use two fingers on my left hand, my ring 
finger in the 3rd fret on the second (B) string, and my middle finger to 
do the hammer on in the 3rd fret on the third (G) string. My ring finger 
stays in place through the whole lick, use the middle finger to do the 
pull offs, and the hammer ons, on the third ,and fourth (D) string, also 
for the bend on the fourth string. You don't release the bend, you bend 
and then play the second , and third string with your fingers. 

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5) Combined Steel Lick  -  Wayne Neal
Get your B-bender ready. Country guitar from Ohio.

This is a little steel lick I use in some of the songs I play. It seems 
to work in the slow stuff very well.
Handy for endings. Also handy if you dont have a steel man.(or if you 
just want to mess with him)

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6) Harmony Tapping