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30 Electric Expressions You MUST Know

Melodic & Expressive Approaches for Rock Guitar Improvisation

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30 Electric Expressions You MUST Know
Andy Timmons

Andy Timmons

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blues, blues-rock, rock

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About this course

The music universe is blessed with so many truly gifted guitarists. There are amazing performing guitarists, highly sought-after session guitarists, successful solo-recording guitarists, rock star guitarists, master educator guitarists, guitarist’s guitarists, and then there’s Andy Timmons — all of the above. Andy is the consummate guitarist.

Andy Timmons’ 30 Electric Expressions You Must Know is a select vocabulary of Andy’s expressive phrases and harmonic devices whatever style you play, and whatever level you play at, you’ll find something of significant musical value for you within this collection of Andy’s Electric Expressions.

”Melody is the central focus of everything that I do musically. While I’m not a licks player per se, I’m excited to share many of the melodic and expressive devices that course throughout my playing here in this collection. Feel free to learn them in their entirety, or cherry-pick parts of them and make them your own.”

Andy will demonstrate the lick over a backing track and then break it down for you emphasizing the key techniques and harmonic approaches in play.

Andy will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way.  You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, Andy includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and let’s get expressive with Andy Timmons!

What you'll learn

  • Create contrapuntal effects using string bending
  • Use pick-hammer-pull technique for fluid descending lines
  • Apply hybrid picking to riff-based playing
  • Execute chromatic lines that connect scalar notes
  • Build tension using repeated notes (railing) before resolving
Release date: 10/15/2018 • 2h 20m runtime
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Sample lessons
Horizontal Pentatonic Slide
Horizontal Pentatonic Slide
Lick 1
Hendrixy Wail
Hendrixy Wail
Lick 5
Slippery Gypsy Lick
Slippery Gypsy Lick
Lick 13
Chromatic Riffage
Chromatic Riffage
Lick 19

What's included

33 lessons • 30 charts • 11 Jam Tracks

30 Electric Expressions
Hi, I'm Andy Timmons. Welcome to 30 Electric Expressions You Must Know.

Melody is the central focus of everything that I do musically. While I'm not a licks player per se, I'm excited to share many of the melodic and expressive devices that course throughout my playing here in this collection.

Feel free to learn them in their entirety, or cherry-pick parts of them and make them your own.

Everything is tabbed and notated and you'll have all the jam tracks to work with on your own. You can loop and slow down the videos to work at your own pace. Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Horizontal Pentatonic Slide
For the first lick, this is an A major horizontal slide. This is something that I use all the time, and works great over the progression from my song "Resolution", going from A major to D major.
Descending Horizontal Triplets
Lick 2 is a descending pentatonic pattern that will work over the A major chord and D major chord. I really love the sound of the pentatonic over the the I and IV chord.
Positional Triplet Line
Here's another A major pentatonic that will work over our chord progression. This time I'll be staying in position (I do stay in position sometimes!) and has a lovely triplet-falling-over-the-bar type of vibe.
Agressive Ascent
Lick 4 is over a track called "Move On" from the Resolution record that the Andy Timmons Band put out. It's a pretty aggressive ascending pentatonic lick. Let's check it out.
Hendrixy Wail
This lick is also over the "Move On" A minor to F chord progression. We'll be playing a very bluesy, crying, Hendrixian lick this time.
Sixteenth Note Triad Outlines
Lick 6 is also over the "Move On" progression, which is A minor to F. This is a line made up of 16th notes where I'm superimposing A minor, G and F over the A.

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Reviews

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mikkel1

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11/04/25

Great inspiration

Perfect for opening new doors and elements to my playing. Inspiration and a good teacher. It’s great to sit down with and take it slow and easy to really work out the different licks and lines and to understand when and where to play them. I’m now thinking different when I write and play the guitar which is super lovely. He’s a great dude with cool expression

Addahia

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01/06/25

Intense

This is a very subjective opinion: i bought this course after going through ELECTRIC MUSE, which is one of the best and most creatively inspiring courses i’ve done. So i thought, this licks will be a good follow up, but no, they are not. This licks need you to master speed, lots of speed if you want to play like andy. I am not interested in such a level of speed. I wanted to keep on learning from his melodic creativity, but that stays in a second place here, in regards to the dexterity needed.

pabsguitars

Verified buyer

01/05/25

Amazing licks and resources

I think Andy Timmons is a Master of feeling. This licks are son inspirational. There are some really hard but once you nail it become part of you. Andy never dissapoint me.

VladanVavrusa

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10/18/23

Its really goot to know :-)

weinstja1

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08/31/22

Great course

Great licks and teacher gives tips for each of the needed techniques, which is much appreciated

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