30 Rock and Pop Licks You Must Know (JamPlay)

Rock, Pop and genres bent from it are punctuated by signature licks, riffs and rhythmic ideas. William Roberts dissects these sounds and ideas and parleys them into this vocabulary pack. Drop these licks and riffs directly into your lead playing, or use them as an inspirational platform on which to create your own.

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30 Rock and Pop Licks You Must Know (JamPlay)

About this course

Rock, Pop and genres bent from it are punctuated by signature licks, riffs and rhythmic ideas. Callum Bair dissects these sounds and ideas and parleys them into this vocabulary pack. Drop these licks and riffs directly into your lead playing, or use them as an inspirational platform on which to create your own.

What you'll learn

  • Apply hybrid picking to navigate string spacing during bends
  • Execute pedal steel-style licks on guitar using bends and harmonies
  • Create country-style phrases using major pentatonic scale
  • Incorporate hybrid picking into legato phrases
  • Lock in rhythmically with backing tracks using legato technique
Release date: 03/15/2021 • 3h 15m runtime
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Sample lessons
The Chuck Slide
The Chuck Slide
Minor Double Stops
Minor Double Stops
Stomping in E
Stomping in E
The Octave Lead Up
The Octave Lead Up

What's included

31 lessons • 30 charts • 30 Jam Tracks

30 Rock and Pop Licks You Must Know Introduction
Do you have a couple basic diatonic and pentatonic scales under your fingers but don't really know how to use them? This lick course is designed to take your scale knowledge and apply it practically to melodic lick and riff concepts. Join William Roberts as he breaks down 30 rock and pop licks designed to break you through scaler playing.
Pentatonic Power
To start off, William offers up a minor pentatonic sounding lick in the Blues or Classic Rock genre.
Color it Blue
This lick uses a descending scale sound and is based off of the lick you learned in the previous lesson.
The Chuck Slide
This is minor pentatonic meats Dorian sounding lick in the style of Chuck Berry.
Angus Steps In
You're still using that Dorian sound from the previous lick, but now in the style of Angus Young.
Stevie's Way
Lick 5 uses the pentatonic scales to groove on a Stevie Ray Vaughn inspired lick.
The King's Line
In lick six you'll be using a major pentatonic sound in the BB King box.

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