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12/01/21
Great course
Blues and Jazz sounds full of creativity and style. Great for studying and improvising
30 Southern Roots Licks You MUST Know
30 Must-Know American Roots Guitar Licks Inspired by the Genre's Greats
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About this course
In the first edition of Southern Roots, you explored core blues and jazz influences, a wide variety of key harmonic concepts, some creative approaches to improvising, and some fundamental guitar techniques to help you gain command of American Roots music -- from blues and rock to soul, jazz, and even country. This collection of 30 Southern Roots Licks from Scott Sharrard includes many of his own favorite lines and phrases for building solos.
”As we play our way through this versatile vocabulary, I’ll pass on tips and approaches for using them with whatever style of roots music you happen to be playing. I’ll demonstrate and break down each of the licks using backing tracks that I produced using my touring band featuring Brett Bass on bass, Eric Kalb on drums and my co-producer/engineer for twenty years, Charlie Martinez. They cover a variety of electric roots feels, keys and tempos.”
Scott 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, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s get back to our Southern Roots with Scott Sharrard!
”As we play our way through this versatile vocabulary, I’ll pass on tips and approaches for using them with whatever style of roots music you happen to be playing. I’ll demonstrate and break down each of the licks using backing tracks that I produced using my touring band featuring Brett Bass on bass, Eric Kalb on drums and my co-producer/engineer for twenty years, Charlie Martinez. They cover a variety of electric roots feels, keys and tempos.”
Scott 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, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s get back to our Southern Roots with Scott Sharrard!
What you'll learn
- Execute slide vibrato at specific fret positions
- Use octaves for call and response phrasing
- Create horn-style stabs and punctuation
- Loop and vary a lick for extended one-chord vamps
- Adapt bebop vocabulary to funk grooves
Release date: 04/13/2020 • 1h 42m runtime
Sample lessons
The Collins Shuffle
Lick 6
Kenny's Octave Jump
Lick 12
Open G Doubles
Lick 16
The Christian Four
Lick 23
What's included
32 lessons • 30 charts • 30 Jam Tracks
30 Southern Roots Licks
30 Southern Roots Licks is a special course that is designed to cut to the chase and focus on 30 specific phrases from my improvisation vocabulary. We have created a course that targets specific grooves, chord progressions and tempos (focusing on the music of the Gregg Allman Band and my own solo band and my new work with Little Feat). This series offers a well rounded approach to my style and also illustrates a lot of the tricks of my greatest influences. This is my first time Producing the music for the backing tracks on a Truefire project. I am thrilled to present this series that also features my touring band Eric Kalb on drums and Brett Bass on Bass, as well as my co Producer and Recording Engineer/Mixer Charlie Martinez at the helm. Now lets plug in and work out 30 new phrases to incorporate into your own style of playing Southern Roots music!
B7 Vampin'
This vamp is from my song "Bad News" which will be on my 6th solo album (Coming in Fall 2020). The key of B is an embarrassment of riches on the guitar, because it allows you to utilize open strings in a more unconventional way. This lick was influenced by the pedal steel guitar playing of Sneaky Pete AND a bit of Herbie Hancock. Tricky and melodic, also unconventional for a one chord funk vamp...
A Minor Octave Bender
"My Only True Friend" is a Grammy Nominated song that I wrote with Gregg Allman. We used the vamp out progression from that song as a bed to demonstrate my style of playing over this A Minor vamp with Bent Octaves (which you can hear on our album "Southern Blood".) This type of octave bending is a signature sound in Rock and Blues, a major part of the guitar style that we know and love from Santana, Hendrix and Duane Allman. Use these full throated stabs to come up with some melodies and develop your improvisation while building a muscial narrative.
Lowell's Slide Boogie
Lowell George of Little Feat (a band I recently joined) is my number one hero as a guitarist/singer/songwriter. Here we are gonna try to tap into his slide guitar magic in Open A tuning. A quick breakdown of how to tune your guitar to open A followed by a tutorial on what may be Lowells trickiest move, playing beyond the frets and over the pickups to get those blazing high, squealing slide notes. I had to make due with a Telecaster and a glass slide for this shoot, but I'd reccomend a Strat with big old strings and a Craftsman 11/16 socket from the hardware store if you really want to nail this sucker. Doing my best here, viva Lowell!
Minor Six Wes
Wes Montgomery was an instrumental Jazz guitar genius. Lets apply one of his fret leaping minor runs to a A Minor Vamp that is in the vain of the Gregg Allman Band arrangement of "Whipping Post" (You can hear that version and this guitar lick on our "Back to Macon" Live album from 2011). Minor triads help to explain this climb up the neck of the guitar. Tricky lick. And a great example of how important it is to explore all genres of music for inspiration and application in Rock and Roll and beyond...
C Standard Slide Riff
Some good old blues guitar slide a la Muddy Waters "I cant be satisfied" but in the key of C in standard tuning. A timeless melody is always a good place to start if youre trying to master slide technique. Dont forget to get that vocal sound using muting, and watch your pitch, sliding around in standard is a tricky business!
The Collins Shuffle
The shuffle is truly a groove that has to be mastered if you really want to play Southern Roots music. Albert Collins was an absolute master of phrasing. His vibrato is one of the greatest in guitar history. Albert played in a "spanish" minor tuning and used a capo to change keys. Heres a standard tuning adaptation of his style of blues run. It's worth mentioning that he also played B-3 organ and was heavily influenced by B-3 players in his sound. All hail the Iceman!
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Reviews
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Dave58
03/08/21
with a lot of Jazz influences
For anyone who loves the southern rock greats, this course is highly recommended. It is a mix of blues, soul - jazz and rock influences, all clearly presented and taught. Not unimportant to know that Scott knows his favorite jazz greats and can combine with blues and rock in his guitar playing! You should definitely have this! This is a great course. When comes the next
morningfield
Verified buyer
07/10/20
Thanks !!
cocopicasso
04/16/20
Amazing course. Tons of ideas.
I really like this course. 1. Tons of ideas to make anybody a better musician. I really like the way Scott use jazz influences in a context of rock blues playing (as the Allman used to do). 2. A great variety of rhythm contexts and rhythm challenges in almost each lick. 3. Scott's explanations are always interesting to listen too. Thanks Scott
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