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Join them together, change them slightly or completely, so that when you’re improvising, you reach a point where you feel like you’re creating something completely new. So how should you go about learning licks? Learn other people’s licks. Create your own licks. Both of these processes are an essential part of developing fluency with a scale. The easiest place to start is to learn licks that have already been created by someone else. You can find licks in books, or on the internet. Alternatively, you can simply listen to a guitar solo that you like, and transcribe the licks that you hear within a solo. Let’s do some example licks with the A minor blues scale. The A minor blues scale is one of the most used scales for guitarists. It works well over the A minor chord and as the name suggests, has a bluesy sound. Here are five A minor blues licks: You should try playing these licks. As you can hear (if you play them), they capture the sound and ‘vibe’ of the scale, but they don’t sound like scales, they sound like musical phrases. Once you have learnt some licks for the scale that you are working on, you should go back to your one-chord vamp and practise using the licks while improvising. Remember, to get the most out of the licks, you need to experiment with them. Play them in their basic format first, but them modify them as you’re improvising. Creating Your Own Licks Creating your own licks, based on notes from a scale that you are working on is an important and valuable process. Firstly, it’s an exercise in musical composition. By deliberately crafting musical phrases, you are developing your creative skills as a musician and guitarist. In short, if you can’t create

Backing tracks. Just type a chord in to the search bar, as well as “backing track”, and you will get hundreds of results. The thing I love about this process, is that it’s a great way of really getting to know a scale, in a fun and challenging context. Scale practice can sometimes feel very monotonous, but when you use backing tracks, you can turn scale practice into a kind of jam session. You can spend time simply playing through the chosen scale itself, and you can mix that up with free improvisation within the scale. Using Scales To Create LicksWhile I highly recommend putting on a vamp and jumping in the deep end, you will eventually find that even though you have become very familiar with a particular scale, you feel your improvising sounds a bit ‘scalish’ and boring. This is where licks come in. A lick is simply a short, musical phrase, usually based on a particular scale. Think of it like a musical sentence. For example, here is an E minor blues scale played over one octave. Here is a lick, based off the e minor blues scale: Learning licks on the guitar is like learning phrases in a foreign language. While learning grammar and singular words is important, real conversation happens when you put it together in full sentences. The same goes with improvising. We can and should learn scales, but we can turn these scales in to meaningful music, by learning licks. Because licks are just short musical phrases, if you learn enough of them, they will eventually come out naturally when you’re jamming and improvising. Sometimes they will come out exactly as you’ve learnt to play them, but the real power in learning licks is that you will eventually be able to modify them,

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Country music is fun to play. The songs often contain elements of folk, rock, and blues. The lyrics are typically rich in story. This makes playing country music fun for everybody from straight country musicians to guitar players who simply enjoy getting into the groove. Finding easy country guitar tabs to play isn’t difficult. There are lots of guitar tab websites that feature easy guitar tabs for country songs. In fact, a lot of country songs are fairly easy the way they’re written, so a lot of them can be played by beginners without an easy version. Here’s a Contemporary Classic by Toby Keith called “Wanna Talk About Me”. This is a slightly easier arrangement of the song that shows both standard and tab notation. There are guitar tab websites that offer arrangements like this, aimed at beginning guitarists.If you’d rather play something a little more standard, you can find easy country guitar tabs like this finger style arrangement of the John Denver Classic “Country Roads” laid out in strict tablature.If you want to beef up simple arrangements by learning guitar licks and fills to add some color, you can take advantage of free country guitar tab licks like this example in the key of D. This is a typical country guitar lick you can use (changing keys when needed) to fatten some of your simple arrangements.Of course, if you improvise, you can find chord/lyric charts for most country songs and use them as a foundation, a chord/lyric chart is pretty simple. The lyrics of a song are presented with the appropriate chords placed over the words to indicate chord changes. Most country guitar songs sound good when you play them by singing and strumming along with the chords. If you’ve got a good ear, you can use lyric chord charts for the basic structure of a song, and then add some improvised licks to fatten up the sound. If you’ve developed a good repertoire of standard country guitar licks, you won’t have any trouble putting together easy arrangements of your favorite country guitar songs. You might even find it easier to sit down and listen to the country songs you like, then creating easy country guitar tabs yourself. Either way, playing country guitar is fun and a lot of the tabs are available for free, easy to play and can be found all over the Internet.