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50 Licks Greatest Hits Vol. 1

Ramp Up Your Lick Vocabulary with 15 Top Educators

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50 Licks Greatest Hits Vol. 1
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country, blues, rock

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About this course

This Greatest Hits compilation presents 50 of the top-ranked video lessons from TrueFire’s popular 50 Licks You MUST Know series.

A wide variety of styles are covered by the featured 26 top educators who perform the licks over a backing track and then break them down note-by-note, technique-by-technique.

All of the lessons are tabbed and notated, include Guitar Pro files, and come with the backing tracks used in the lesson.

All in all, this Greatest Hits collection delivers an essential and very versatile vocabulary for any guitar player.

Styles Covered:

  • Blues
  • Blues Rock
  • Jump Blues
  • Texas Blues
  • Modern Blues
  • R&B
  • Jazz
  • Jazz Rock
  • Acoustic
  • Rock
  • Hard Rock
  • Metal
  • Shred
  • Country
  • Rockabilly
  • Funk
  • Bass
  • Other
Educators

What you'll learn

  • Perform Eddie Van Halen-style bend and tap combinations
  • Execute a whole step bend while maintaining it for tapping
  • Apply Dorian scale concepts over pentatonic bends
  • Play the Moneymaker lick transposed up an octave
  • Transition seamlessly from major pentatonic to minor pentatonic within a lick
Release date: 12/01/2014 • 2h 17m runtime
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Sample lessons
Bueno Massa
Bueno Massa
Lick #2
Taking Liberties
Taking Liberties
Lick 34
Taking Liberties
Taking Liberties
Lick 34
C Lydian 2
C Lydian 2
Lick 27

What's included

54 lessons • 52 charts • 49 Jam Tracks

Real Harm
Pretty as they may be, harmonics can also be used to add a little dissonance and color. After all, you're pretty much locked into the few notes open harmonics offer regardless of the harmony of your song, so they're only going to be harmonically appropriate if you've planned your changes accordingly. Here, a jazzy chord is punctuated by two harmonic strokes across the fretwire at the 5th and 7th frets.
Honeybeez
It is essential that you get some flash into your playing, after all we do play guitar don't we?!?! I am still a sucker for a guy who can rip it up. It may not be sexy but I can make one promise to you, if you practice your scales and licks with a metronome you will get better. No way around that simple truth and believe it or not it is a short cut to great chops. A friend once said to me “I know how all the great players became great. They practiced their butts off.” Truer words have never been spoken.
Teja's
This is one of the coolest little moves, I never get tired of playing it or hearing it. I first heard it from Eric Johnson as many of us did I believe, then after hearing more Austin based players it seems it's in the water down there. The 3rd of a chord is really the most important, it tells us if the chord is major or minor. In the blues, we want the sound in between those two. Not quite the flat 3rd not quite the natural 3rd. That ambiguity is at the core of the blues. Here we are playing the b3rd and bending it up slightly almost to the natural 3rd while laying on the root an octave below.
Pedal Steel Imitation 5
Here's a meatier sound. You may use this the same way you may use lick 2. We are still bending the second in to the third of the chord. This time the root and the fifth are below the bent instead of above. The bend is not supported here either. You'll be surprised how often you can go to this sound.
Fire in Ohio
Going all the way back to Lick #3, "Sugar Coo", we had our first encounter with the great Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner of the Ohio Players. While the lick itself was loaded with '50 Funk Licks You Must Know' prerequisites, technically speaking that was a primer compared to the incendiary riffage going on this one. Looking into Players defining hit, "Fire", you're about to put any fleet finger pentatonic chops to the test with this Cm jam.
Jazz Blues
This straight-ahead Bb jazz lick relies on chromatics and a firm control of rhythm. Notice how we continue to explore Charlie Christian's inclusion of the 6th, the use of chromatics, as well as the bounce between the b3rd to major 3rd. Play around with the tempo - this riff really swings at speed!
Concrete Primate
Dropping down the low E to massive sounding D allows you to play an earth shaking open D5 with no hands (look ma!). With your free hand raised to the sky, dig into this second installment of groove-alicious Dimebag riffs. This polyrhythmic excursion is from "Primal Concrete Sledge" from the groundbreaking Cowboys From Hell album that put Dime and Pantera on the map. What you have is groups of three 16th notes, but you're only playing the first two attacks. The real trick is this is superimposed over a 4/4 double kick-based groove at 140 bpm. How 'bout them apples?!

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Cordylou

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12/31/25

It's fine until you have a technical issue in the app

I've written tech support 3 times in the past 2 months and still no response (yes, I checked my spam folder, daily I might add). I'm not comfortable recommending a product with no customer service.

kruud1

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03/25/25

Great teaching tool

TrueFire has motivated me to take up guitar playing again.

rick56

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04/26/21

Awesome Lick Library!

The variety and unique selection in this collection is just great! So many choices to explore. I start to noodle and its hours later and Im just getting started. Lots of Fun!!!

wholmer

12/23/20

Great best of licks

Not really for the beginner. Some of these are quite a challenge. Then I just took them and made them my own and it made a world of a difference. By adding these licks my vocabulary has grown to where I can add more complex ideas to my playing. That's the next step after the first licks to learn series.

lonnie1

Verified buyer

10/12/20

In depth study

A very well organized in depth study of some of rocks best licks

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