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09/25/26
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Rock Lick Permutations
Learn the lick. Reshape it. Make it yours.
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About this course
Strong rock phrasing starts with a solid idea and knowing how to reshape it. In this set of lessons, Chris Buono will show you how to take familiar rock licks and transform them through timing, technique, and phrasing so your practice becomes more creative and musical.
“Instead of just memorizing licks, we’re going to learn them and then start changing them. We’ll shift the timing, stretch them out, compress them, expand them, and use different techniques to change the feel.
The idea is to establish something rock solid and then slightly reshape it. We’ll use bending, vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping, slides, and phrasing variations to turn simple ideas into something more complex and expressive.”
Chris will break down each idea step by step, showing you how small changes in timing, articulation, technique, and phrasing can open up new possibilities and help you get more mileage out of the licks you already know.
Grab your guitar and let’s get to work with Chris Buono!
“Instead of just memorizing licks, we’re going to learn them and then start changing them. We’ll shift the timing, stretch them out, compress them, expand them, and use different techniques to change the feel.
The idea is to establish something rock solid and then slightly reshape it. We’ll use bending, vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping, slides, and phrasing variations to turn simple ideas into something more complex and expressive.”
Chris will break down each idea step by step, showing you how small changes in timing, articulation, technique, and phrasing can open up new possibilities and help you get more mileage out of the licks you already know.
Grab your guitar and let’s get to work with Chris Buono!
Release date: 09/24/2026 • 1h 19m runtime
Sample lessons
Lick #2 | Breaking The Rules
Overview
Lick #2 | Breaking The Rules
Lick and Breakdown
Lick #2 | Breaking The Rules
Permutation #1
Lick #2 | Breaking The Rules
Permutation #2
What's included
27 lessons • 20 charts • 5 Jam Tracks
This is Chris Buono. Today, we're working through some rock licks, and we're gonna work through some permutations of those licks.
Permutation, what is that? It's all about taking something familiar. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make it familiar, and we're gonna learn how to reshape that so your practicing can be more worthwhile.
Instead of just memorizing licks, we're gonna learn them, but then we're gonna shift the timing. We're gonna stretch them out, maybe we're gonna compress them, maybe we're gonna expand them. We're gonna add some different techniques to change the feel. All of the above.
The point is, we're gonna establish something rock solid and slightly change it, permutate it.
We're gonna use a collection of techniques that include, but are not limited to, bending, vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping, and slides. We're even gonna do some phrasing variations to transform the simple ideas that we establish into something more complex, but yet expressive.
That's enough from me. It's time to grab your guitar and let's get to work.
Permutation, what is that? It's all about taking something familiar. That's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make it familiar, and we're gonna learn how to reshape that so your practicing can be more worthwhile.
Instead of just memorizing licks, we're gonna learn them, but then we're gonna shift the timing. We're gonna stretch them out, maybe we're gonna compress them, maybe we're gonna expand them. We're gonna add some different techniques to change the feel. All of the above.
The point is, we're gonna establish something rock solid and slightly change it, permutate it.
We're gonna use a collection of techniques that include, but are not limited to, bending, vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping, and slides. We're even gonna do some phrasing variations to transform the simple ideas that we establish into something more complex, but yet expressive.
That's enough from me. It's time to grab your guitar and let's get to work.
In this lesson we’ll go over the essential rock lick that will serve as the foundation for the first series of permutations.
In this lesson we’ll break down the essential lick, looking at the notes, phrasing, and techniques you’ll need to get it under your fingers.
In this lesson we’ll learn the first permutation of the essential lick and see how a small change can give the original idea a fresh feel.
In this lesson we’ll explore another way to reshape the essential lick by changing its phrasing and rhythmic feel.
In this lesson we’ll cover a third variation of the essential lick, pushing the original idea in a new and more expressive direction.
In this lesson we’ll go over a rock lick designed to break a few familiar rules and open up new possibilities for phrasing and expression.
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