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Mix Chords, Licks and Melody

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Playing a chords, chord progressions and songs is fun, but combining chords with melody by adding licks to the table is even more fun. This style of playing adds beautiful colors to the rhythm that makes the whole thing really interesting to the listeners ear. Today we’re going to do just that.

Video Lesson

Mix Chords, Licks and Melody

Learning to combine chords and licks is a skill that has to be trained and practiced. It’s a different technique that requires you to anticipate your next move where your fingers have to jump from chords to single notes lines.

Tips

  • Practice and memorize then entire tune from beginning to end
  • Practice the chord strumming slowly
  • Practice the licks / fills slowly
  • Practice the chord strumming and fills slowly
  • Hear me: When I say slowly, I mean slowly
  • Make sure each notes sounds clean and clear
  • Gradually increase your speed when you a bit comfortable
  • Learn how to practice faster
  • Practice daily

Tablature

If you want more of this check out:
Combine Chords and Melody | G – C – D |
Chord Melody Guitar | C – F – G – Am – Dm |

Combine Chords with Melody

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Today we’re going to combine chords and melody using a G – C – D ( I – IV – V ) chord progression. This is a fun one that you’ll enjoy practicing. See the video lesson and Tabs below.

Video Lesson

Combining Chords with Melody

You can play this sweet little melody between the chords of G – C and D, but once you got those comfortable under your fingers you can also use others chord derived from the G major scale like: G – Am- Bm – C – D – Em – F#dim – G. Okay F#dim will be your least favorite, but the others chords will sound great around the melody.

Enjoy experimenting and have fun!

Tabs

Ending G – G6sus4 – G

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Blues Lick Across the Neck – Key of E

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Blues licks across the neck gives you the freedom to play in wider area on the fretboard and gives you the feeling you are really soloing. It’s also one great lick that can be divided into smaller blues licks that can lead to new fresh ideas for your improvisation.

Video Lesson

Blues Lick Across the Neck – Key of E

This lick is in the key of E and is without bend ups. It uses up and down slides and a single pull off and the end. It’s a lick that can be played by both beginners and intermediate guitar players. Beginners can learn to play it at a slower pace and use it to develop their dexterity and build their chops, where intermediate students can get it more up to speed.

It’s a really nice straight forward blues lick to have some fun and add to your blues lick vocabulary.

Below are the tabs, and above the video lesson.

Enjoy!

Tabs

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Marvelous Major Pentatonic Blues Country Lick

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Major Pentatonic Blues Country Lick

A Marvelous Major Pentatonic Blues Country Lick is heading your way. This blues country, country blues guitar lick is a great one for intermediate and beginner players, because you can split it up into 2 licks and play it slow and fast. Either way it sounds pretty good.

Marvelous Major Pentatonic Blues Country Lick

The lick is played in the key of A and is derived from the major pentatonic scale. The lick runs through 3 or 4 different positions of the major pentatonic scale and includes hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides.

Lick Chords and Progression

The lick can be played over a 12 bar blues in the key of A or a Major key chord progression like the popular I – vi – IV – V chord progression: A – F#m – D – E

A chord progression in the key of A can consist of the following chords. (See video lesson below)

A – Bm – C#m – D – E – F#m – G#dim [ I – ii – iii – IV – V – vi – vii dim ]

Below you can find the TABS and the detailed video lesson for this blues country lick.

Have a great one ya’ll!

Tabs

Video Lesson

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