Speed Up Your Soloing. Part II: Easy Single String Licks

In the previous lesson, I showed you some warm up and synchronisation excer-
cises that help you to improve the coorperation of your hands. You should do those excercises at the beginning of every practice. When you have done that for 5-10 minutes, you can continue with the next couple of practice stuff.

The first lick is a pull-off lick played in Triplets. The structure is very easy: You pick one note on the string, then pull of to the note under that note (in the scale) and then pull off to the open E string.

p=pull off

  Em

E-3p2p0-3p2p0-3p2p0-5p3p0-I-7p5p0-7p5p0-7p5p0-5p3p0-I
B-------------------------I-------------------------I
G-------------------------I-------------------------I
D-------------------------I-------------------------I
A-------------------------I-------------------------I
E-------------------------I-------------------------I

A variation of this lick, played over an Am Chord:

  Am

E-8p5p0-8p5p0-8p5p0-10p7p0-I-12p8p0-12p8p0-12p8p0-10p7p0-I
B--------------------------I-----------------------------I
G--------------------------I-----------------------------I
D--------------------------I-----------------------------I
A--------------------------I-----------------------------I
E--------------------------I-----------------------------I

The second lick is played over an Am chord, but it's still in E minor. But you can also use it in the key of A minor. The next lick is completely picked. It's an ascending E minor sequence and similar to the first lick. Here I play sixteenth notes.

E-3-2-0-0-5-3-0-0-7-5-0-0-8-7-0-0-I-10-8-0-0-12-10-0-0-14-12-0-0-15-14-0-0-I
B---------------------------------I----------------------------------------I
G---------------------------------I----------------------------------------I
D---------------------------------I----------------------------------------I
A---------------------------------I----------------------------------------I
E---------------------------------I----------------------------------------I

Important: use alternate picking!

The next lick is one of my favourite licks. It's a repeating lick with hammer ons and pull offs. I use it very often. It's also played in sixteenth notes.

h=hammer on    P=pull off

E-15p12h14p12h15p12h14p12h15p12h14p12h15p12h14p12-I
B-------------------------------------------------I
G-------------------------------------------------I
D-------------------------------------------------I
A-------------------------------------------------I
E-------------------------------------------------I

That's it. I think you will learn the licks very easily. The next lesson will be about easy multiple string licks. I hope this lesson was helpful. Goodbye.

Comments

[jooles]

yay! first comment ^_^

anyways, great job beatrocker, keep it up

[srvkicks@$$]

its pretty good man

[erickjbc]

great...

[Veroth]

good but you could have put some licks like

e]19p17p15p0-19-17-15-17p15p13p0-17-15-13

you know some stuff with hammer-ons and pull-offs along with picked segments. really good otherwise.

[fosdaddy]

not bad its cool

[Xxyousif343xX]

i think this is an angus young signature lick a lot of his solos r like that. he almost always uses h an p.

[GibsonGeorge]

I'm at my grandma's place over christmas, and the only guitar around here is an old acoustic which has lost all strings except for the B string. These licks are perfect for my to practise on right now! Thanks!