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Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Lexicon
Supercharge Your Acoustic Guitar Licks with this Acoustic Learning Path Core Course
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Welcome to Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Lexicon for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Acoustic guitar.
This Acoustic Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: David Hamburger and Joe Dalton.
The Lick Lexicon 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 Lexicon is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, David Hamburger shows you how assemble a collection of blues licks into full fingerstyle blues performances. Joe Dalton shares 14 more acoustic blues licks in the second section. In Section 3, David Hamburger returns to guide you through 3 full length fingerstyle blues etudes.
When you’ve completed the lessons here in Lick Lexicon, you’ll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Vocabulary, 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!
This Acoustic Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: David Hamburger and Joe Dalton.
The Lick Lexicon 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 Lexicon is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, David Hamburger shows you how assemble a collection of blues licks into full fingerstyle blues performances. Joe Dalton shares 14 more acoustic blues licks in the second section. In Section 3, David Hamburger returns to guide you through 3 full length fingerstyle blues etudes.
When you’ve completed the lessons here in Lick Lexicon, you’ll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Vocabulary, 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
- Learn complex fingerpicking patterns
- Assemble blues licks into full performances
- Expand acoustic blues vocabulary
- Understand triplet rhythm phrasing
- Learn fingerstyle blues techniques
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 2h 09m runtime
Sample lessons
Syncopated Double Stop 7ths
E Lick 8
Travis Train Whistle
E Lick 11
Alt Thumb I VI II V
E Turnaround 4
Truck Stop
Lick #20
What's included
46 lessons • 35 charts
Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Lexicon
Welcome to Play Acoustic Guitar 6: Lick Lexicon for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Acoustic guitar.
This Acoustic Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: David Hamburger and Joe Dalton.
The Lick Lexicon 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 Lexicon is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, David Hamburger shows you how assemble a collection of blues licks into full fingerstyle blues performances. Joe Dalton shares 14 more acoustic blues licks in the second section. In Section 3, David Hamburger returns to guide you through 3 full length fingerstyle blues etudes.
When you've completed the lessons here in Lick Lexicon, you'll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Vocabulary, 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!
This Acoustic Learning Path core course is presented by 2 top TrueFire educators: David Hamburger and Joe Dalton.
The Lick Lexicon 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 Lexicon is organized into 3 sections. In the first section, David Hamburger shows you how assemble a collection of blues licks into full fingerstyle blues performances. Joe Dalton shares 14 more acoustic blues licks in the second section. In Section 3, David Hamburger returns to guide you through 3 full length fingerstyle blues etudes.
When you've completed the lessons here in Lick Lexicon, you'll find more lessons focused on building your vocabulary in Lick Vocabulary, 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!
Blues Construction Kit
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of fingerstyle blues tunes are performed in the keys of E and A, which is why all of the examples in this section are focused on those two keys. David Hamburger shows you how assemble a collection of E licks, A licks, D licks and turnarounds into full fingerstyle blues performances.
TIP! A great way to stay excited about practicing something is if it starts to actually sound like the lesson. This is accomplished by getting down the technique, working it up to speed and so on. BUT, it is also important to try and get as close as you can to the sound and the tone of the instructor's guitar. They have been dialing in their tone for years so it makes sense to try and emulate what they are doing. Take your time and tweak on your amp - listen to what their guitar sounds like and get yours as close to that as you can. This will actually make your playing sound better to your ear and give you more confidence!
TIP! A great way to stay excited about practicing something is if it starts to actually sound like the lesson. This is accomplished by getting down the technique, working it up to speed and so on. BUT, it is also important to try and get as close as you can to the sound and the tone of the instructor's guitar. They have been dialing in their tone for years so it makes sense to try and emulate what they are doing. Take your time and tweak on your amp - listen to what their guitar sounds like and get yours as close to that as you can. This will actually make your playing sound better to your ear and give you more confidence!
Train Whistle (& Then Some)
Train Whistle (& Then Some) - E Lick 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by David Hamburger and is sourced from Fingerstyle Blues Factory.
You gotta love the train whistle lick. If you've ever heard people going on about quarter-tone bends or, even more exotically, "microtonality," this is all it is - bending to a note that's somewhere in between two adjacent frets, and is therefore less than a half-step from its starting point. You know the sound, because you've heard it countless times in the blues: the bends we're doing from the 8th fret of the second string are the sound of a note that's reaching for, but not quite getting to, the full sweetness of a major third. There's some great train whistle action on Roy Book Binder's arrangement of "Friend Like Me,' and Dave Van Ronk's "Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning" makes use of a similar kind of quarter-tone bend, without the double-stop.
You gotta love the train whistle lick. If you've ever heard people going on about quarter-tone bends or, even more exotically, "microtonality," this is all it is - bending to a note that's somewhere in between two adjacent frets, and is therefore less than a half-step from its starting point. You know the sound, because you've heard it countless times in the blues: the bends we're doing from the 8th fret of the second string are the sound of a note that's reaching for, but not quite getting to, the full sweetness of a major third. There's some great train whistle action on Roy Book Binder's arrangement of "Friend Like Me,' and Dave Van Ronk's "Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning" makes use of a similar kind of quarter-tone bend, without the double-stop.
10th Story Walkup
10th Story Walkup - E Lick 6 is a video guitar lesson presented by David Hamburger and is sourced from Fingerstyle Blues Factory.
Tenths, or an octave plus a third, are closely related to sixths. If you took each note of this lick on the low E string and just moved it to the high E string, you'd wind up with a sequence of sixths on the third and first string. You could also think of this lick as a way of using the third string to harmonize the walking bass line on the low string. A lick like this can come in handy when you want to break up the constant drone of the low E note on the I chord.
Tenths, or an octave plus a third, are closely related to sixths. If you took each note of this lick on the low E string and just moved it to the high E string, you'd wind up with a sequence of sixths on the third and first string. You could also think of this lick as a way of using the third string to harmonize the walking bass line on the low string. A lick like this can come in handy when you want to break up the constant drone of the low E note on the I chord.
Syncopated Double Stop 7ths
Syncopated Double Stop 7ths - E Lick 8 is a video guitar lesson presented by David Hamburger and is sourced from Fingerstyle Blues Factory.
More syncopation! On beat two of the first measure, you're grabbing all three notes of the "Rolling E7" voicing at once in a thumb/index/middle finger pinch. The b3 bass note on the third beat of measure two resolving up to the root is a cool way to change things up in the bass without disrupting the flow of the alternating thumb.
More syncopation! On beat two of the first measure, you're grabbing all three notes of the "Rolling E7" voicing at once in a thumb/index/middle finger pinch. The b3 bass note on the third beat of measure two resolving up to the root is a cool way to change things up in the bass without disrupting the flow of the alternating thumb.
Swingin' with John
Swingin' with John - E Lick 10 is a video guitar lesson presented by David Hamburger and is sourced from Fingerstyle Blues Factory.
John Hurt, that is - Mississippi John Hurt. I don't have a whole lot of regrets about coming of age before the ubiquity of smartphones and social media, but I do have one. In 2003 I gave a workshop at the Denver Folklore Center to promote a book I'd written, and in chatting with the proprietor about this and that it transpired that he had one of Hurt's guitars on the premises. It turned out to be the Guild that Hurt picked out in New York City in the early 1960s. I got to play the guitar, we took a couple pictures, but they weren't on my camera and I never got to see them. Lost to history, rather than becoming my Facebook avatar. Maybe it's for the best.
John Hurt, that is - Mississippi John Hurt. I don't have a whole lot of regrets about coming of age before the ubiquity of smartphones and social media, but I do have one. In 2003 I gave a workshop at the Denver Folklore Center to promote a book I'd written, and in chatting with the proprietor about this and that it transpired that he had one of Hurt's guitars on the premises. It turned out to be the Guild that Hurt picked out in New York City in the early 1960s. I got to play the guitar, we took a couple pictures, but they weren't on my camera and I never got to see them. Lost to history, rather than becoming my Facebook avatar. Maybe it's for the best.
Travis Train Whistle
Travis Train Whistle - E Lick 11 is a video guitar lesson presented by David Hamburger and is sourced from Fingerstyle Blues Factory.
As in Merle Travis, singer, songwriter (though not an, ahem, singer-songwriter, if you see what I mean) and fingerpicker extraordinaire, composer of both "Sixteen Tons" and "Cannonball Rag," if you can wrap your head around that for a moment. Also an inspiration to Chet Atkins and the person you're invoking any time you mention "Travis picking." In this case, far from playing a basic "Travis picking pattern," we're laying in a whole assortment of funky minor pentatonic licks over an alternating bass. Behold! It can be done. Feel free to goose those flat thirds on the high string with a quarter tone bend up towards the major third.
As in Merle Travis, singer, songwriter (though not an, ahem, singer-songwriter, if you see what I mean) and fingerpicker extraordinaire, composer of both "Sixteen Tons" and "Cannonball Rag," if you can wrap your head around that for a moment. Also an inspiration to Chet Atkins and the person you're invoking any time you mention "Travis picking." In this case, far from playing a basic "Travis picking pattern," we're laying in a whole assortment of funky minor pentatonic licks over an alternating bass. Behold! It can be done. Feel free to goose those flat thirds on the high string with a quarter tone bend up towards the major third.
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wholmer
01/04/21
Great licks to start out with!
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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