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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Carinal Lirola is the UK artist I’ve been working with as of recent months. She is signed to Steve Vai’s label. At Namm Steve and I met and shot this photo. Steve has been a big support system for Carina’s album. Big things are expected from this album’s release in Spring of 2009. Keep your eye on Top Fuel Guitar for the latest…

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Just hangin out with my long-time friend Dj Ashba. It’s always good to catch up with him when we can, as he’s extremely busy with his band Sixx A.M. as well as his media company. I’m really looking forward to checking out his new signature model Ovation Guitar. He’s got 4 different models designed to his specifications. I’ll be able to check it out thoroughly at the NAMM show in January out in L.A.

Myself, Gary Horrie, Cody Barra, and Dirk McCoy are all going to 2009 NAMM show in L.A. to support the UNK Guitar Release. We’ll also be playing a Powerhouse set with Andy Lee in Support of Carina Lirola’s debut album on Steve Vai’s Label.

The show is supported by UNK guitars and is on the same bill with George Lynch. I’ll be shooting footage from the shows, and doing several interviews as well. I’ll keep you posted on all the developments as well as reporting on the latest gear from NAMM.

More Later…
Bob
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Wishing all my Top Fuel Guitar players a very Merry Christmas!
Please share with me your recent guitar progress.
Let me know how I can help you get over your hurdles.
If you have any questions please ask.

I’ll be answering ASAP!

Thanks,
Robert