Lick Challenged

[KurtsZeppelin]

Does anyone know where I can find a website with a bunch of blues/rock licks? I only know 4 or 5 and my improvisatoins are starting to sound a lot alike.

Thanks

[SwampDonkey]

http://www.guitartricks.com

More licks than you can shake a stick at ;)

[wild_axeman]

Go here:

Musicians Friend /Fun Zone (http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=030107150531004047065226726646/content/g=home/s=funzone/index.html)

Scroll down to games and puzzles and click on Blues Jam....learn all of those techniques.

[John Prophet]

Bunch of blues licks?

yeah, go to my website and listen to the song called "blues intro"..it has about a million blues licks...get you some software to slow it down and see if yoy can figure some of the slippery ones out.

http://members.toast.net/jusjoking/

I always thought that would be a good exercise...to take some of your own stuff and try to transcribe it! lol....cuz that song was a live band practice and I played a lot of off the cuff stuff and prolly couldnt figure out some of it myself.

JP

[geffen]

you sound really good

[KurtsZeppelin]

Thanks guys

[John Prophet]

Thanks Geffen (i think that was directed to me, lol)

Ok, so that song didnt have a MILLION licks, sorry..I forgot it was just a one chorus intro.

I been listening to some clapton last few days. I would point ANYBODY who wanted to learn how to use blues licks in a rock context to eric clapton. His stuff isnt super hard to play but it really speaks volumes...he really knows how to make a guitar sing. Listen to "white room" or "Crossroads" or "forever man" or about a million other ones....get the tabs...if you need to get you some software to slow it down etc.

He played lots of stuff with just two fingers (like hendrix did) so its not hard to play but it is killer the way he made it sing with simple phrasing....sometimes he made it sorta 'swing".

Also of course you could check out Albert Kings "blues power". And another sort of classic blues album with a lot of good solos was an album that I think was called "showdown" with albert collins, robert cray and Johnny copeland...good guitar album.

A lot of guys play blues licks but clapton is almost a purist...next to SRV , clapton was/is one of the purist white "bluesmen" ever and he has influenced a lot of people....eddie vanHalen cut his teeth on clapton and before he was known worldwide he was known locally as the kid who could play all the claptons solos note-for-note.

JP

[JiMi=GoD]

John prophet, the mp3's are cool.

I like the "jimmy page flavoured" one, its very dazed and confusedish!

Are you teaching yet? I remember a while ago you posted about lesson charges etc.


rob

[John Prophet]

Well, I did have one student before, lol. And his friend came and took one lesson...I think I scared the other guy off cuz I told him it took practice to be good.

Anyway, no I haven't made any moves yet except to check around and se what the 2 local stores are charging...one is charging $15 for a 30min lesson and the other is charging $48/months for I assume a 30min lesson. I somewhat know both 2 out of the 3 who do the teaching and to me I dont see them really playing half modernish rock stuff so I think there is room for me to get some students who want to play rock. I just am dissappointed that the local rate is so cheap! lol.

Still $15 for 30 minutes of fun work aint bad (of course when I gave lessons before I would put time in away from the student going over what I wanted to teach him etc.

I think the thing to do would be to get a couple of junior high and high school students and naturally get them to pass the word around school etc....maybe even put up a few flyers for your lessons and naturally do some of the free newspaper ads with a link to your page with your playing on it so they could check it out beforehand. What I may want to do is re-do my webpage and/or add a section that says "lessons" perhaps and just have some short examples of licks and stuff with some killer tones...I think kids would be more attracted to that than to my introspective instrumentals....like have a few licks from Nickleback, 3doors down or ozzy and they think you are god or something.

Anyway, thanks for the compliment on the playing and hopefully I will get off my lazy butt and get some lessons going soon.

JP

[dlh]

What I think would be cool and I wish was available where I am at is group lessons.

Think about it - when I first bought my guitar I didn't know jack about chords or scales or anything (hmm...come to think of it - I still don't! heh).

If the guitar shop would offer group lessons - say $30 bucks a month for a 10 person class 1xweek for 30min. That makes you $300 for same work as 15x4=$60. You could have levels and stuff so that people with different abilities could join different classes. And then schedule private lessons for people who require extra effort - either because they are really good or because they really suck! (I would be the latter! :-D)

Plus the students could jam together after class! Sweet!

Hopefully that'll give you some ideas.

[dlh]

BTW Really like the "Page"ish solo!

[John Prophet]

yeah, I can see 10 teens in my apartment living room now! But yeah, for a guitarshop it might work.

I have been toying in my mind with some ideas though. My aunt has a big resteraunt with several large banquet rooms upstairs. I am sure I could get use of a room for pretty cheap (prolly free) and I thought about having some guitar seminars. Charge 420 a head for an hour or $30 for two hour seminar (or whatever $$charge..I havent tried to think that thru yet) and then I could have a seminar once a month or once every two weeks if it did well. Either I could do the seminar all alone or I could bring in other players, like this classical player I know. The seminars could have different "themes" like "Music theory: construction of chords" "how to use blues licks in your improvisations" blah blah. And if it was a 2 hour thing it could have like 4 30 minute sessions with bathroom breaks in between.

I just dont see why the two music stores in town dont do these sorts things already...hard for me to understand. My town, though, is noted for small mindedness and poverty mentality etc. But the town and surrounding area have about 70000 people including two colleges so I think there would be some demand once word got out. And the cost to me to put on a seminar like that would seem to be very low. Maybe pay someone $50 to come play, maybe pass out some nice handouts showing the topics with chord charts or whatever.

Plus of course I would by then have me some nice CD-roms and music cd's of teaching stuff recorded which would be sitting on a table for $ale. hehe. Stuff like 50 easy rock licks for the beginner...and then maybe a cd each for each of the modes, a cd for the modes period, "how to turn one lick into twenty" and stuff like that.

Seems a guy with some drive and imagination could do ok. I have the imagination and I am trying to work up the drive! lol.

JP

[dlh]

Shoot - I'd go! Especially for that "turn a lick into 20" thing! You should do it. Don't expect a large turnout your first couple - but it'll grow!

Your aunt would probably love it because then all the adults would have something to do - i.e., eat - whilst their kiddies were rawkin'.

D