andi7575
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50 Radio Rock Licks You MUST Know
Crucial phrases, concepts and radio rock guitar techniques you MUST know
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About this course
You're feeling mighty fine as you head home after dropping your sweetie off on the doorstep, her kiss still fresh on your lips. The top is down, hair blowing all in your face, big smile on your mug and the radio is blasting your favorite tune. Like the rest of us, you struggle singing along to some of the lyrics (for the record, it's "blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night") but no problem scatting those killer guitar solos note-for-note. That's radio rock guitar baby -- tasty, melodic, memorable solos guaranteed to trigger involuntary air-guitar convulsions.
Top NYC recording and performing artist, Angus Clark is your radio rock jock for this collection of 50 Radio Rock Licks You MUST Know inspired by the likes of Jeff Beck, Kirk Hammett, Jimi Hendrix, Mike McReady, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, John Shanks, Trevor Rabin and David Gilmour. Not only is Angus one of the scene's go-to rock players, but he's also a passionate educator whose clinics and workshops always pull standing-room only audiences.
Angus covers a lot of ground in this collection of lickage. You'll learn how to build tasty rockin' lines with the major scale, how to apply pre-bends and releases in your solos for optimal impact, pull-offs, slides, arpeggiated phrases, mixed major and minor pentatonic lines, repeating motives, intervallic lines, double-stops and triads, "money-maker" licks, suspended chord arpeggios, repetition licks, Mixolydian lines, ostinato patterns, and even how to pull melodic ideas from classical music and old standards. In short, plenty to keep you happily busy in the shed for many moons.
Dive into this versatile toolbox of 50 Radio Rock Licks You MUST Know and other assorted tricks of the trade for maximum melodic impact in your solos and improvisations. Soon you'll be putting smiles on drivers' faces!
Top NYC recording and performing artist, Angus Clark is your radio rock jock for this collection of 50 Radio Rock Licks You MUST Know inspired by the likes of Jeff Beck, Kirk Hammett, Jimi Hendrix, Mike McReady, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Neal Schon, Steve Lukather, John Shanks, Trevor Rabin and David Gilmour. Not only is Angus one of the scene's go-to rock players, but he's also a passionate educator whose clinics and workshops always pull standing-room only audiences.
Angus covers a lot of ground in this collection of lickage. You'll learn how to build tasty rockin' lines with the major scale, how to apply pre-bends and releases in your solos for optimal impact, pull-offs, slides, arpeggiated phrases, mixed major and minor pentatonic lines, repeating motives, intervallic lines, double-stops and triads, "money-maker" licks, suspended chord arpeggios, repetition licks, Mixolydian lines, ostinato patterns, and even how to pull melodic ideas from classical music and old standards. In short, plenty to keep you happily busy in the shed for many moons.
Dive into this versatile toolbox of 50 Radio Rock Licks You MUST Know and other assorted tricks of the trade for maximum melodic impact in your solos and improvisations. Soon you'll be putting smiles on drivers' faces!
What you'll learn
- Play melodic lines using sixth intervals
- Apply triad inversion knowledge to create licks
- Create David Gilmour-inspired melodic phrases
- Resolve displaced rhythmic patterns back to the downbeat
- Fill upper register space in pop arrangements
Release date: 10/10/2012 • 2h 27m runtime
Sample lessons
Sliding Ascent
Lick 1
Flashy Arps
Lick 9
Makin' Money 2
Lick 21
Peppy Reppy
Lick 36
What's included
53 lessons • 50 charts • 50 Jam Tracks
50 Radio Rock Licks
These are licks inspired by the guitar playing you hear on Rock Radio. The guitar is there to serve the song, so the licks are catchy, melodic, and never get in the way of the vocal. Embedded in the licks are numerous fundamentals and techniques that will help you become a better overall player. We're covering styles from rockabilly to 90's hard rock, songwriter rock to classic rock and everything in between.
Sliding Ascent
Here's a great way to turn a pentatonic scale into a concise melodic phrase. You'll be using position shifts and hammer-ons to create a really smooth line and then capping the run off with a lick straight out of the Steve Lukather playbook.
Bending Major Descent
Sometimes in a pop tune you can't just play blues licks. This a great example of how to turn the major scale into a lick. Pay close attention to keeping your bends in tune in this descending scale. You'll be using your first finger to pre-bend and release two half-step bends in order to smooth out the sound.
Bending Major Ascent
Here's another lick based on the major scale that uses first finger bends, just that we're ascending this time. It's capped off with a country-sounding bend. This lick is inspired Trevor Rabin from Yes.
Fill 'er Up
By playing a simple arpeggiated phrase in the upper register you can really open up the sound of a song. Check out how this lick exploits common tones through a progression in order to create a really effective color part.
Be Bop Slide
In the eighties a number of the LA session players like Steve Lukather and Dann Huff brought some sophisticated phrasing to rock radio. This lick is based in the blues scale but uses pull-offs and slides to create some jazzy accents. In a solo, this would be the kind of thing you'd have to work your way up to, as it's fast and in an upper register.
Descending Sixes
This is a pentatonic lick that uses pull-offs. It's a six note grouping played in sixteenth notes. Check out how it lands on an A just as the chord in the backing track changes. As always, we're keeping the lick tied into the song as a whole. I'm thinking Dann Huff on this.
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Reviews
18 results
alessandroramos
Verified buyer
10/15/25
A great pick for any hard rock lover.
It's a great pick for any hard rock guitar lover. Angus Clark is the man.
tomac
Verified buyer
01/13/22
Fun
DMac70
Verified buyer
10/26/21
Must Have
Great course and even greater instructor if you want to expand on your lick vocabulary and build on your technique in a more melodic and radio friendly style .
bjwhittle126
07/19/21
Sooooo Fun
I thought this was going to be a bit beyond my abilities, but the examples sounded so good and I already love Angus as a teacher, so I dug into it anyway and holy cow I'm glad I did. My playing improved a ton! And what seemed difficult at first got way easier with a little practice. Highly recommended if you're into melodic soloing.
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