Guitar Zen: Roots Rock Licks

If you've ever found yourself searching for something fresh to play mid-solo, Eric Haugen's Guitar Zen: Roots Rock Licks delivers exactly what you need. These online video roots rock guitar lessons are built around a simple but powerful idea: familiar vocabulary, transformed by feel, phrasing, and just the right twist.

"I don't use licks — I listen to the melody. But sometimes you get stuck. That's when you reach for the ones that have always served you well. That's what this course is all about."

This step-by-step guitar course works through six distinct grooves — drawing from blues, major pentatonic, and a handful of useful modes — with licks inspired by players like B.B. King, Dickey Betts, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Wes Montgomery, and more. For each groove, Eric breaks down the licks and then shows how they connect inside a full solo etude, so you're learning how musical ideas actually live within a song, not just in isolation.

What makes these licks work isn't complexity — it's the details. A hidden bend, an unexpected rhythmic move, a double-stop landing in just the right place. Take your playing to the next level by mastering the kind of phrasing that makes simple material sound genuinely alive.

You'll practice and play with your instructor through the entire course at your own pace using TrueFire's intuitive playalongs, backing tracks, and learning tools. All of the demonstrations are tabbed, notated, and synced to the video, with controls for looping, slow motion, and fretboard animation.

Grab your guitar, and let's play roots rock guitar with Eric Haugen!