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30 Jam Band Licks You MUST Know

Must-Know Guitar Licks Inspired by Jam Band Legends

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30 Jam Band Licks You MUST Know
Michael Palmisano

Michael Palmisano

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jam band, rock

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About this course

Musicians love to jam, especially guitar players. It’s in our genes. Taking extended solos over the variety of vamps and progressions that you encounter in a jam situation demands a bottomless, versatile vocabulary of licks and moves to pull from. Michael Palmisano’s collection of 30 Jam Band Licks, all of which can be tweaked into endless variations, will supply you with ample firepower for any jam situation.

A PRS-sponsored instructor and award-winning GIT grad, Michael has been playing professionally for over 15 years and has been teaching thousands and thousands of students online since 2013. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and 4 boys.  As Michael likes to say: "I'm working hard and getting better every day. Do it with me.”

”This collection of 30 Jam Band licks is based around my favorite jam band progressions and I’ll show you how to string those chords together with melodies. So, these licks are totally melody-based, going from chord tone to chord tone, and it's going to teach you how to connect chords and bridge the gap. As we play through the chords, I'll give you some useful tips and approaches jam band style music.

Michael Palmisano has been a dedicated online guitar instructor since 2013, with over 100k students enrolled from 185 countries around the world.  Michael is a PRS-sponsored instructor, an award-winning GIT grad, and has been playing professionally for over 15 years. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and 4 boys.  As Michael likes to say: "I'm working hard & getting better every day. Do it with me!"

Michael Palmisano will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.

Grab your guitar and let’s jam with Michael Palmisano!

What you'll learn

  • Combine hybrid picking with sliding techniques
  • Apply slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs smoothly in melodic contexts
  • Play rhythmic double stop licks over I-bVII-IV progressions
  • Execute first inversion triads for melodic resolution
  • Understand and apply chord inversions to create melodic movement
Release date: 05/28/2020 • 2h 41m runtime
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Sample lessons
Garcia's 3rds
Garcia's 3rds
Lick 1
Pedal Steel Vibe
Pedal Steel Vibe
Lick 3
Climb & Slide
Climb & Slide
Lick 10
Double Stop Mix'n
Double Stop Mix'n
Lick 12

What's included

31 lessons • 30 charts • 5 Jam Tracks

30 Jam Band Licks
Hi, I'm Michael Palmisano and welcome to 30 Jam Band Licks You MUST Know!

This collection of licks is really based around playing my favorite jam band progressions and how to string those chords together with melodies. So, these licks are totally melody-based, going from chord tone to chord tone, and it's going to teach you how to connect chords and bridge the gap.

As we play through the chords, I'll give you some useful tips and approaches jam band style music. All the licks are transcribed, and the tabs are synced to the video so you can play along. You can also loop and slow down the videos so you can learn at your own pace.

Ready? Grab your guitar and let's go!
Garcia's 3rds
This lick is a Jerry Garcia inspired Mixolydian lick connecting a V chord to a IV chord. It's a chromatic run that connects the 3rds of the two chords in the key of B Mixolydian.
B Slick
This a melodic, major pentatonic lick that sounds great in a Mixolydian progression.
Pedal Steel Vibe
Here's a super useful pedal steel lick that starts on the V chord and resolves to the IV chord. It's a major pentatonic shape that uses the pinkie to anchor while the third and second finger bend up to the 3rd.
Mix a Little Fast
This is a fast arpeggiated run with a "tag" meant to be used over a Mixolydian progression.
Polish the Chromatics
Here's another Jerry Garcia inspired chromatic lick that allows you to connect chord tones within melodies. Super fun to play!
Anchor Line
This one's slick. Anchor with your first finger and slide with your third finger to snag connections between chords.

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Reviews

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akaphenom

Verified buyer

06/29/26

Cool jams, accessible riffs, lots fun

Love the riffs, very helpful in understanding how riffs can be applied 2-3 chord progressions. Riffs are easily modified creating a larger bag. . . Still the riffs are applied on maybe 3 or 4 backing tracks. There could be more variety there.

prs7htd98k

Verified buyer

04/13/23

Good launching point

This is a good set of stock phrases that can be memorized and used to launch into very serviceable Jam band leads and rhythms. Very useful for jam band guitarists.

oldintheway

Verified buyer

10/20/22

Jam band man

Probably has the best sets of licks/course for jam band and stuff on the website, and he is a great instructor whos well respected, so for the little money you pay for this, it's worth it, man.

morningfield

Verified buyer

05/25/21

Thanks!!

Derek

02/23/21

A true believer

It's very cool to watch Michael get on the bus via his YouTube channel. You can see his love for this music. And, it comes through in this course. This isn't just your everyday "play mixolydian" approach to the music. Michael understands that Jerry was a third hunter. And, here he gives us plenty of ammo to go out and bag our own.

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