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Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary

Supercharge Your Acoustic Guitar Licks with this Acoustic Learning Path Core Course

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Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary
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About this course

Welcome to Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Acoustic guitar.

This Acoustic Learning Path core course is presented by 3 top TrueFire educators: Pete Huttlinger, Cathy Fink, and Matt Brandt.

The Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select Acoustic guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.

Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, Matt Brandt treats you to 13 of his chord tricks to help spice up your chord vocabulary. Cathy Fink contributes 9 Americana licks, in the second section, so you’ll have a few tasty lines to pull out at the next bluegrass jam. Pete Huttlinger wraps up things in the third and final section with 15 premium fingerpicking licks that will significantly advance your vocabulary.

When you’ve completed the lessons here in Lick Vocabulary, you’ll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Lexicon, also a Play Acoustic Guitar 6 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let’s get started!

What you'll learn

  • Master 15 fingerpicking licks
  • Expand guitar technique vocabulary
  • Improve finger-picking techniques
  • Learn Americana and bluegrass licks
  • Develop rhythmic versatility
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 2h 00m runtime
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Sample lessons
Chord Tricks
Chord Tricks
SECTION 1: Overview
Mayor's Daughter
Mayor's Daughter
Trick 5
Inverted Pyramid
Inverted Pyramid
Trick 8
Keep It Out
Keep It Out
Trick 10

What's included

42 lessons • 37 charts • 25 Jam Tracks

Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary
Welcome to Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Acoustic guitar.

This Acoustic Learning Path core course is presented by 3 top TrueFire educators: Pete Huttlinger, Cathy Fink, and Matt Brandt.

The Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select Acoustic guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.

Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Vocabulary is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, Matt Brandt treats you to 13 of his chord tricks to help spice up your chord vocabulary. Cathy Fink contributes 9 Americana licks, in the second section, so you'll have a few tasty lines to pull out at the next bluegrass jam. Pete Huttlinger wraps up things in the third and final section with 15 premium fingerpicking licks that will significantly advance your vocabulary.

When you've completed the lessons here in Lick Vocabulary, you'll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Lexicon, also a Play Acoustic Guitar 6 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Chord Tricks
In the first section, Matt Brandt treats you to 13 of his chord tricks to help spice up your chord vocabulary so you can keep things interesting in any musical situation. These chord applications will impart a truck load of ideas for performing cover tunes or arranging and composing your own songs.

TIP! Being a good rhythm guitarist starts with having a good sense of timing and being able to play in the pocket. But once you have a good handle on that, then you need to expand your options - both rhythmically and harmonically.

A great way to do this is by listening to other players who are great rhythm guitarists. Hear how they apply different variations and make note of what their choices are.

It helps to break your rhythm practice into those two areas - work on rhythm variations and different feels and grooves. Then work on using other harmonic options, different chord inversions and voicings. If you systematically experiment with testing out other options you will naturally gravitate towards the ones that are YOUR style, and you can further develop those, and then you will become that hip rhythm player that other people listen to!
Mayor's Daughter
Mayor's Daughter - Trick 5 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Chord Tricks You MUST Know.

Bar chords without a bar can be a very powerful tool in creating backup parts that sound thick and rich. The open strings E and B will color all the chords and glue them together throughout the progression.
Inverted Pyramid
Inverted Pyramid - Trick 8 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Chord Tricks You MUST Know.

Inversions of chords will get you new voicings that can be put to work in this more complex approach to playing backup. With this chord trick you can create a more orchestral way of playing your guitar by looking at each chord note individually, instead of some set chord voicing that moves to another set.
Keep It Out
Keep It Out - Trick 10 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Chord Tricks You MUST Know.

Leaving out the third (major or minor) of a chord will get you a 'floating' sound, uneasy and uncertain. This chord trick works well, if you are looking for spooky progressions and mystifying atmospheres.
You'd Be Mine
You'd Be Mine - Trick 11 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Chord Tricks You MUST Know.

A chord trick often used in country and folk music. This one uses a thick voicing of a G chord as a pallete for simple melodies on the top string.
Bottled Time
Bottled Time - Trick 28 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Chord Tricks You MUST Know.

Some chord tricks are just so beautiful that they show up again and again in the pop and rock charts. This chord trick that we'll study has been featured in many great songs, but in my opinion it is Jim Croce's Time in a Bottle that has become the standard.

Play a minor chord and let the bass do the talking.

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wholmer

01/04/21

Not really for the beginner.

Some of these are quite a challenge. Then I just took them and made them my own and it made a world of a difference. By adding these licks my vocabulary has grown to where I can add more complex ideas to my playing. That's the next step after getting all these licks under your belt.

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