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50 Hard Rock Licks You MUST Know
Crucial phrases, concepts and hard rock guitar techniques you MUST know
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About this course
Angus Clark’s 50 Hard Rock Licks You MUST Know will keep your blood boiling with this handpicked collection of mighty moves and thunderous lickage inspired by and respectfully borrowed from the masters of the genre. Angus focuses primarily on the evolved style of 70‘s and 80‘s hard rock brought to the air waves by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Ratt, Dokken, Rainbow, Deep Purple amongst many others.
This particular generation of Hard Rock bands produced dozens of rock guitar gods; Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Randy Rhoads, Adrian Smith, Michael Schenker, Slash, Yngwie Malmsteen, Warren DeMartini, Dave Murray, Vivian Campbell, Zakk Wylde and George Lynch to name but a few. Their collective contributions took electric guitar to a new level of virtuosity way beyond mega-volume, distortion, power chords and the pentatonic scale.
To play in the game you need an arsenal of chops; trilling, sliding, modal variations, harmonized lead lines, sophisticated phrasing, expressive vibrato, muting, sweeps, shifting positions, dozens of new bending techniques , hammers, pull-offs, legato, open strings, chromatics, groupings and plenty of did-el-ee-bums. Angus covers it all in 50 Hard Rock Licks You MUST Know!
All of the licks are first presented in context over a rhythm track, followed by a detailed breakdown of the lick along and the techniques being employed to perform it. Everything is tabbed and notated, plus you'll also get all of the rhythm tracks to practice with on your own.
Keep your bloodline fertile and your amp dialed to 10. Long live Rock & Roll!
This particular generation of Hard Rock bands produced dozens of rock guitar gods; Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Randy Rhoads, Adrian Smith, Michael Schenker, Slash, Yngwie Malmsteen, Warren DeMartini, Dave Murray, Vivian Campbell, Zakk Wylde and George Lynch to name but a few. Their collective contributions took electric guitar to a new level of virtuosity way beyond mega-volume, distortion, power chords and the pentatonic scale.
To play in the game you need an arsenal of chops; trilling, sliding, modal variations, harmonized lead lines, sophisticated phrasing, expressive vibrato, muting, sweeps, shifting positions, dozens of new bending techniques , hammers, pull-offs, legato, open strings, chromatics, groupings and plenty of did-el-ee-bums. Angus covers it all in 50 Hard Rock Licks You MUST Know!
All of the licks are first presented in context over a rhythm track, followed by a detailed breakdown of the lick along and the techniques being employed to perform it. Everything is tabbed and notated, plus you'll also get all of the rhythm tracks to practice with on your own.
Keep your bloodline fertile and your amp dialed to 10. Long live Rock & Roll!
What you'll learn
- Execute a full six-string sweep arpeggio cleanly
- Execute a fast ascending pentatonic lick with chromatic embellishments
- Apply trills in a heavy metal context
- Coordinate left and right hand synchronization for speed licks
- Develop 'chopsy' sounding pentatonic phrases
Release date: 06/25/2013 • 2h 40m runtime
Sample lessons
King Killer
Lick 10
Bandit's Blues
Lick 19
Did-el-ee-Bums
Lick 21
Trading Two
Lick 27
What's included
52 lessons • 50 charts • 50 Jam Tracks
50 Hard Rock Licks
I love hard rock and I love playing hard rock guitar. In coming up with the licks for this course I discovered so much about what makes the legendary players similar and also different. I'm talking about Sabbath, Ozzy, Priest, Scorpions, Maiden, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Ratt, Dokken, Rainbow, Deep Purple, and all that good stuff. Bands that made records that I played on my turntable until I wore them out.
To summarize the formal elements, this stuff is pentatonic plus. Home base is the pentatonic scale but it's amped up and stretched out and we're adding scale tones and modal material on top. The vibrato is big. The hair is long. Let's get started.
To summarize the formal elements, this stuff is pentatonic plus. Home base is the pentatonic scale but it's amped up and stretched out and we're adding scale tones and modal material on top. The vibrato is big. The hair is long. Let's get started.
Something Wicked
Watch how we add on a few scale tones outside the minor pentatonic to open up a whole new palette to work from.
Trilling and Sliding
Tony Iommi is the master of trilling and sliding. Use the second degree of the scale to get that sound.
Keep It Simple
This is just about the first lick I learned off of a record. Now you know it too. Let's see where it takes you.
Got To Be Real
A minor triad is a part of the pentatonic scale. It's simple but super effective.
Sabbath Shuffle
A heavy shuffle is a hallmark of the Sabbath sound, here's a lick you can really dig in on.
Evil Neighbor Notes
We're adding scale tones just adjacent to the pentatonic to get you into the Dorian scale.
+ 45 more lessons
Reviews
14 results
Thomas1866
Verified buyer
11/29/25
This is great
alessandroramos
Verified buyer
10/15/25
A great pick for any hard rock lover.
It's a great pick for any hard rock guitar lover. Angus Clark is the man.
BradTV
Verified buyer
11/09/24
Great course, well pitched and interesting, great to work through one by one, has challenged and helped my guitar journey.
Jerry
05/20/24
Thank you for doing this Angus
One day with this has lifted my playing considerably! And I've only scratched the surface.
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