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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Just wanted to let you know that Part 2. of the Major Scale Modes Connections is now available. Judging from the feedback I’ve received from the first Mode Connections video, people are really  looking forward to this Part 2. video.

Don’t forget you can still get the complete Killer Rock Guitar Licks package before it expires. Keep your eyes peeled for Part 3. Coming Soon!

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Here’s a question from Klint

QUESTION:

1. Hey Robert… thanks for the lessons… I appreciate you going to all the trouble posting those lessons. I’ve got one question…How do you create a chord using the modes? I mean, your chord progression in the Lydian mode sounds sweet, and I wanna how learn to do it. How do you do it? thanks…

ANSWER: Another Great question! One of the things I teach all of my guitar students is that just because you don’t know the name of a chord doesn’t mean it’s not a chord… With that being said, every mode has it’s different shapes and petterns, which makes it slightly different from the one before it, or ahead of it. Although they are all the same notes as the original scale, the notes are in a different order and that creates different shapes and patterns.

EXAMPLE: If I’m playing in the Lydian Mode, it has a certain pattern that must be followed, and within that pattern you can experiment with playing any of those notes together. This is how you create chords within a mode. You can play two notes together, or three, four, five notes together, and then you tie all of it together with little runs from within the mode.

Overview - you’re playing several notes together using only the notes within the mode pattern, and stringing them together with single notes from the same mode as well. This all goes back to what I was saying about how it doesn’t matter whether you know the names of these chords or not, as long as you can apply them musically and be comfortable doing it. You can always learn the names later. This method gets the ball rolling much quicker in a musical sense.

Re-apply this method to all the modes and you’ll soon be creating some real musical compositions.

Hope that sheds new light on the subject…Please leave me a comment to let me know how this helps you. Be assured, others will learn from your questions and comments as well.

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Here’s a question from Tyler Davis, WI .

QUESTION:

1. I’m gathering information about building my own guitar and was wondering if you could give some insight on what the different types of woods sound like for an electric guitar body…

ANSWER: Great question! The wood tones from an electric guitar can really vary, because wood really does sound, and resonate differently from each other. It also varies from the shape and thickness of the cut. The best thing to do is research several different wood types and see what type is closest to the guitar tone you are going for. Then start with that wood.

EXAMPLE: If you want a real bright sound with lots of punch and sustain, you might lean more toward maple wood. If you want a real dark sound with lots of bass and growl, you might lean toward mahogany.

So you can see that the wood is the most important place to start.

Here’s a video to give you further insight…

Hope that sheds new light on the subject…Please leave me a comment to let me know how this helps you. Be assured, others will learn from your questions and comments as well.

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