Guitar Talk & Reviews with Bob Molton

Have you ever felt like you’re in a “rut” with your guitar playing, and can’t seem to get out? This is so very common. In a weird way it’s a good thing because it’s a sign of growth. The key is recognizing it when it’s happening, and then taking action quickly by adding fresh material.

Typically, when a person gets comfortable in a routine, and has a firm understanding of the routine, over the course of time the process becomes a bit boring and predictable.

In the case of a guitarist it represents the musical vocabulary. If you have a narrow musical vocabulary to draw from, your progress will be limited due to the lack of licks and chops.

Lack of inspiration also dulls a guitar player’s full potential, but keep in mind that lack of inspiration is usually the direct result of a narrow musical vocabulary.

The great news is there’s a powerful remedy for this. It brings back inspiration and widens your musical vocabulary. You’re simply going to feed your starving musical mind the food it needs to continue it’s growth and communicate better musically.

Doing this will keep you from ever bottoming out in a rut again.

Solution:

You need to gather up five to ten cool sounding, well constructed guitar licks and learn them. The thing you want to do is remember the techniques being used from each of the licks as you play them over and over. This is the main focus.

Now, as you start to understand and unlock the techniques being used within the licks, you can expand further by changing a couple notes within the techniques being used. Even if you only change two or three notes, you’re going to have a completely different sounding lick, based off of the technique you were using. This is super cool, and I’m sure you’ll also be surprised after trying it.

You’re now able to split many other lick techniques into several other sub-licks, all spawning from the main lick you initially learned. You’ll start developing many new ideas including a vast array of additional licks on demand. It will totally fire up your inspiration, because you’ll have all this new musical phrasing and cool new sound to utilize within your music.

REMEMBER: You need “quality” guitar licks, methods, and techniques to learn from; this assures everything that spawns from it will be just as killer as the quality lick you started with.

Once you begin working with your killer rock guitar licks and techniques, you want to be sure to only work with one lick at a time, and very slowly. You want to sketch each lick into your mind thoroughly and individually to get maximum long term results.

Play each lick no less than 100 times in a row. You’ll be surprised at how little time it actually takes to play the lick 100 times in a row, and the payoff is well worth it. Watch every move your fingers make and try to get as comfortable as possible with the mechanics between the right and left hand. As you continue on, you’ll notice yourself expanding upon the initial guitar lick without even trying. It’s works like magic every time, and gets you out of any rut.

Killer Rock Guitar Licks directly injects “Horsepower” into your guitar playing.

More Soon,
Bob

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