ZZ Top Box of Tricks Lesson

- Canis26th April 2009
  First!
  
  Great lesson ^^
  Nice to see you with another guitar as well =)
- Procyon26th April 2009
  Yeah... but I like the Parker more... and ZZ Top of course! Great lesson, David!!
- Marcus Siepen26th April 2009
  Awesome, Billy rules big time
- playaxeman26th April 2009
  Hi David,
  
  Very grooving lesson,
  
  Mr Billy is a great guitarist.A bit underrated i think. Good to put a spotlight on his playing
- chmilew26th April 2009
  I love this kind of stuff, great lesson David !
- Pragomatic26th April 2009
  Cool lesson, Billy was the man. Hell, even Hendrix said he was his favorite American guitarist.
- Jesse26th April 2009
  0:4/0:5
  
  har har har
- Bogdan Radovic26th April 2009
  Awesome licks David!
- David Wallimann26th April 2009
  Glad you like this!
  The guitar is the Gibson SG I won from the guitar rig contest a little while back.
  I thought it would have good use on that lesson! :-)
- Red26th April 2009
  Nice guitar!
- jenik26th April 2009
  really awesome! i wish i was a teenager in these times... nice SG anyway:)
- kaznie_NL26th April 2009
  Great Riff and licks David!
- Lian Gerbino26th April 2009
  great lesson david, well done
- Jerry Arcidiacono26th April 2009
  Awesome! Great tone on this lesson David
- Ivan Milenkovic26th April 2009
  Rock & Roll! Great stuff!
- berko26th April 2009
  Taaasty! Haha, great to see your prize guitar featured here! Awesome lesson
- Jad Diab26th April 2009
  Great lesson, ZZ (ZiZi) Top rules, you nailed the style
- Pedja Simovic26th April 2009
  Great style coverage David !
- David Wallimann27th April 2009
  Thanks a lot!
  For this one I used Guitar Rig 3...
- fkalich27th April 2009
  You play that style very well, and authentically. As is typical of your play. You sometimes can sound more like the guy you are covering than the actual guy himself does, if that makes any sense.
- David Wallimann27th April 2009
  QUOTE (fkalich @ Apr 27 2009, 06:41 AM)
  You play that style very well, and authentically. As is typical of your play. You sometimes can sound more like the guy you are covering than the actual guy himself does, if that makes any sense.
  
  Thanks a lot! What a nice compliment man!!! :-)
- Muris Varajic27th April 2009
  Gibbons, hell yeah!!
- Nazgul27th April 2009
  Great lesson! And in my opinion this guitar suits you very well, even more than the other one(s).
- David Wallimann27th April 2009
  Thanks man! :-)
- Sensible Jones27th April 2009
  A very fitting lesson in the stylings of the Reverend Mr G!!! Great stuff David, as always!!!!
- David Wallimann28th April 2009
  Thanks man!
- Sinisa Cekic28th April 2009
  ZZ are great ,these licks also !
- Emir Hot28th April 2009
  you got this style just perfect David. Great one
- Sergio Dorado28th April 2009
  Love the phrases. Really cool lesson!
- Piotr Kaczor28th April 2009
  Sounds excellent, David! Great lesson!
- David Wallimann28th April 2009
  Glad you like this! :-)
- Dejan Farkas28th April 2009
  Nice SG
  
  You got his vibe
- EGMONT 196329th April 2009
  salut david
  
  quand j'entend cela,je reprend du gout
  pourrais tu m'expliquer l intro stp j arrive pas a trouver les tabs ;( ( dans ton premier video parlé )
  si cela n'est pas tro demandé
  many thanks
  udo
- David Wallimann29th April 2009
  L'intro, tu veux dire la rhythmique?
  en gros c'est qqchose come ca:
  
  E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
  E||----------------------------|--------------------------|-----||
  B||----------------------------|--------------------------|-----||
  G||-----2-----2-----2-----2--|-----2-----2--5-----7-----|-----||
  D||-----2-----2-----2-----2--|-----2-----2--5-----7-----|-----||
  A||--0------------------------|--------------------------|-----||
  E||---------------------------|--------------------------|-----||
- EGMONT 19631st May 2009
  merci
  c est bien ce que je m imaginais
  thx
- Berglmir8th May 2009
  As always an extremly nice lesson!! THX.
  I´m a very big fan of the ZZTop Sound - I have a question regarding that - posted in the forum.
  Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
- Berglmir8th May 2009
  Link to my question ;-)
  http://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=27284
- David Wallimann8th May 2009
  Answering right now!

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- Tags: ZZTop, Blues, Licks, Pentatonic
In today's lesson, we'll take a look at some tasty bluesy licks in the style of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. Before you start working through the following ideas, make sure you are comfortable with the minor pentatonic scales we'll be using to build our lead. Check out the diagrams underneath if you are not comfortable with these scales.

Don't worry about speed but strive for a clean and accurate technique. The goal in this lesson is to equip you with ideas that will improve your musical vocabulary.

Once you are done with the written solo, take some time jamming over the looped backing track and try these ideas in your own personal musical way.

Have fun!