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50 Ultra Intervallic Guitar Licks You Must Know
A comprehensive collection of intervallic approaches for rock guitar
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About this course
Nicolas Slonimsky published the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns in 1947, which was largely ignored for years until the likes of John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Allan Holdsworth, Frank Zappa, Paul Grabowsky and many other significant artists started crediting the material as a source of great inspiration, which sparked highly creative improvisation.
Jazz guitar genius, Joe Diorio was likewise inspired by Slonimsky’s work and later published his own highly acclaimed Intervallic Designs, which focuses on a wide variety of intervallic designs for freestyle improvisation.
Rock guitar genius, Jennifer Batten studied with Joe Diorio for many years absorbing both Slonimsky’s and Diorio’s intervallic teachings, eventually assimilating those ideas into her own intervallic-driven approaches for soloing and improvisation in a modern rock context.
Jennifer’s 50 Ultra-Intervallic Licks is a comprehensive collection of Jennifer’s intervallic approaches. Work your way through the course and you’ll possess an impressive vocabulary of head-turning intervallic licks that you can call on anytime, across the entire fretboard, to spice up your solos and improvisations.
More importantly, you’ll graduate the course with a solid know-how for crafting your own intervallic lines, in any harmonic situation. You’ll also majorly beef up your right and left hand technique along the way.
Jennifer demonstrates each lick over a rhythm track for optimal musical context, and then breaks it down for you note-by-note. All 50 licks are tabbed and notated, plus you’ll get Guitar Pro files as well (Windows & Mac compatible) so you can loop, play and/or slow down the tab and notation. All of the rhythm tracks are also included for you to work with on your own.
Breakaway from those way-too-familiar (and boring) fretboard patterns with 50 powerful doses of Jennifer’s Ultra-Intervallic medicine!
Jazz guitar genius, Joe Diorio was likewise inspired by Slonimsky’s work and later published his own highly acclaimed Intervallic Designs, which focuses on a wide variety of intervallic designs for freestyle improvisation.
Rock guitar genius, Jennifer Batten studied with Joe Diorio for many years absorbing both Slonimsky’s and Diorio’s intervallic teachings, eventually assimilating those ideas into her own intervallic-driven approaches for soloing and improvisation in a modern rock context.
Jennifer’s 50 Ultra-Intervallic Licks is a comprehensive collection of Jennifer’s intervallic approaches. Work your way through the course and you’ll possess an impressive vocabulary of head-turning intervallic licks that you can call on anytime, across the entire fretboard, to spice up your solos and improvisations.
More importantly, you’ll graduate the course with a solid know-how for crafting your own intervallic lines, in any harmonic situation. You’ll also majorly beef up your right and left hand technique along the way.
Jennifer demonstrates each lick over a rhythm track for optimal musical context, and then breaks it down for you note-by-note. All 50 licks are tabbed and notated, plus you’ll get Guitar Pro files as well (Windows & Mac compatible) so you can loop, play and/or slow down the tab and notation. All of the rhythm tracks are also included for you to work with on your own.
Breakaway from those way-too-familiar (and boring) fretboard patterns with 50 powerful doses of Jennifer’s Ultra-Intervallic medicine!
What you'll learn
- Navigate chord changes using appropriate diatonic intervals
- Apply alternate picking consistently throughout a complex phrase
- Applying symmetrical scale theory to improvisation
- Execute a lick using various interval shapes (fifths, thirds, sixths, sevenths)
- Understanding how diminished chords repeat every minor third (3 frets)
Release date: 12/23/2014 • 2h 24m runtime
Sample lessons
Unison Face
Lick 7
Blue Tude
Lick 14
Skippit
Lick 33
Six to My Stomach
Lick 39
What's included
52 lessons • 50 charts • 50 Jam Tracks
50 Ultra-Intervallic Licks
An interval is the space between two notes. In most common melodies, you'll hear the movement in a close scalar fashion. The idea behind this course is to break out of this close movement and into the wider intervallic jumps of 4th intervals and higher. This will open up your playing and challenge your chops as well, if you're not used to it. This will surely help spice up your playing and get you thinking in a new way. In a lot of these riffs, I end on the root, but you should also try ending with a different chord tone as well. Think of these phrases as conversation builders. Ending on a non-root chord tone can act as a question, and ending on the root will feel more like a resolved answer.
Yoga Stretch
The scale for a dominant chord is mixolydian, so I am using the A mixolydian mode for this line. I play clusters of fourth intervals to begin with, in groups of three notes. You will find it easiest if you stretch your hands out five frets, and bar these clusters with one finger each. The last half of the phrase is a repeating scalar sequence ascending, followed by a descending sequence incorporating whole and half step bends. The whole phrase ends on the flat 7th degree of the dominant chord.
Bop Not
This is an intervallic lick that starts out serious and ends up with more of a lighter, bluesy attitude. It begins with a couple of 5th intervals followed by scalar and chromatic moves, and then a cluster of perfect 4ths. The whole phrase resolves in some bluesy bends.
Skip to My Steve
This one was born from skipping strings from the A major ( F# minor) pentatonic scale. it has a surprise ending after all of the jumps, when it goes into a standard chromatic blues riff.
Flat Tire
This line begins with a series of flat five intervals followed by perfect 5th intervals. It ends with some bluesy bends.
Jimi Says
This phrase blends flat 5 intervals with 4th intervals to begin with. And like several of the others, it ends with a blues vibe. Dominant chords allow you to get away with the most craziness. You can get away with using flat five intervals (and other alterations) over a dominant harmony way more than on any other chord type.
6th Foot Spider
Diatonic 6th intervals are the focus of this one. It is an eight note sequence that almost completes two cycles but then veers off into the blues.
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Reviews
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Ohio5665
Verified buyer
03/31/25
This course really helps you to break out of a rut and come up with some new ideas by using different intervals and is taught by a master musician!
drewflax
Verified buyer
12/13/24
Great licks
These licks are great. Jennifer is a fantastic player and teacher. So cool. There is a lot of ideas you can mine from this.
r624bhvpb6
Verified buyer
01/21/24
Great course on intervallic guitar techniques
Great course for learning intervallic guitar techniques. I studied with Joe Diorio in a jazz context at the Musicians Institute and he was truly revolutionary. Jennifer does a great job in translating these techniques for use in a rock context. She clearly understands the theory and how to lay it out on the guitar. She explains everything clearly and makes learning this a lot of fun.
Alex M.
Verified buyer
10/15/23
Challenging and great
One of the hardest and most interesting courses I have encountered. The fingerings are unusual (as are the sonic results), and it is hard to see how this would not inspire and revitalize anyone's playing. Very challenging (for me at least), but great for breaking out of the tired old patterns. Plenty of string skipping, precise bends, and general weird noises.
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