Lead Guitar

Some Great Guitar Licks You Can Learn Today

Adam Summers | June 6, 2010 | 1 Comments

When improvising it’s much easier to use licks that you’ve practiced rather than starting from scratch every time. A great way to add them into your practice routine is to find out which key they’re in, run through a few scale warm-ups, put on your metronome and make a start.

I prefer to write down the licks as I play them, I know I can just print them out from the net and keep them in a folder, but I prefer to increase the chance that I’ll remember them as I’m learning them by using every piece of memory retention available to me, and writing down what you know with a pen on paper is one of the best ways to do that.

So, get out a blank piece of tab sheet music, load up the following licks from the net and write them down as you play them.

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The 7 Greatest Guitar Solos – And How to Play Them

Adam Summers | February 5, 2008 | 5 Comments

Really nailing a guitar solo feels great, but deciding on which ones to really learn is often a hard choice. Here’s some of the best guitar solos that people find the most… learnable (is that a word?).

Check out some easy guitar solos by some artists you’re sure to recognize

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