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Posted by: Ben Higgins Apr 14 2013, 02:11 PM

Hello my guitar abusing buddies ! I've been meaning to upload this lick for ages but now at last I can present you with Lick 8 !!

It's a slippery legato run, going into an ascending A Minor sweep, sliding up to a pull off and a tapped high note ! Confusing ? Yep, I know ! Don't worry, the tab should explain everything.

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 CB_8.gp5 ( 2.25K ) : 164


Enjoy ! And steal, steal, steal !!

Posted by: DeGroot Apr 18 2013, 06:05 PM

Hey Ben, I gave this challenge a try. The tap/bend at the end was the toughest part for me. Most of my takes where scratched cause of that part!

https://soundcloud.com/degroot-2/ben-lick-8

Posted by: dark dude Apr 18 2013, 06:35 PM

Sweet playing, DeGroot!

Posted by: Ben Higgins Apr 18 2013, 06:36 PM

Wa-hey !! Well done, brave warrior for stepping up and laying it down ! Sounded very good to me.. works very well with your style and tone. That sweep part sounded so Yngwie !

Posted by: DeGroot Apr 18 2013, 06:46 PM

Thanks dudes!

Posted by: jstcrsn Apr 19 2013, 01:56 AM

and just so you know, I did steal one of your challenge riffs for cosmin's southern metal

Posted by: klasaine Apr 19 2013, 02:04 AM

Here's my interpretation of #8 ...

 IC_B_010.MP3 ( 417.12K ) : 207

Posted by: tonyk Apr 20 2013, 11:25 PM

Very good degroot

Posted by: Ben Higgins Apr 21 2013, 09:41 AM

Excellent, another jazzy interlude - love it !

I bet it was tricky to play on a clean setting ?

Posted by: klasaine Apr 21 2013, 10:54 PM

Ha, ha - yeah. I also did it (the lick) on an electric sitar. I didn't get it as legato and 'connected' as I would have liked to.
I obviously adjusted the key of the harmony (G7) and consequently I had to 'adjust' the lick a little. The elec sitar doesn't enough frets either and bending is funky on it above the 15th fret.
This lick's a keeper - it's good over dominant chords as well as both major and minor. I'm kinda lazy. I like licks I can play over anything .

*I don't listen to your version before I go about working them into something. I just read it.
The first one you posted you essentially said "do it any way you want to" ... which is pretty much where I live.
I listen to your's and anybody else's after I've uploaded my version. I'm always super impressed how friggin' clean and precise all you guys are. I cannot play like that (even when I use that much gain).

Posted by: Ben Higgins Apr 22 2013, 08:23 AM

Haha, hear ya.. I'm probably the same myself !



Extra respect to you then ! I think it's harder to learn a lick from just tab etc without hearing it being played.

Posted by: klasaine Apr 22 2013, 09:49 AM

I don't know if it's harder. I'm 50. I even pre-date soundpages with tab (or notation).
Since they are just licks/lines sort of 'in space' - no harmony and no rhythm behind them - to me they are just a collection of notes. Not hearing you do it first allows me to see/hear that collection of notes in at least a few ways. I didn't even read what you said about it so I missed the Am part. I heard it and visualized it in G7. I'm sure a byproduct of my 'jazz' leanings.