6 Great Standard Rock'n Roll Licks to extend your vocabulary

Example of soloing and creating phrases and melodies over simple 2-chord harmony!

Learn to bend more precisely and also in the minor scale. We'll use the minor and the pentatonic scale here and we'll see the difference between them.

We'll work over 4 variations on the chord cadence of the ultra-well-known Pachelbel Canon.

A classic 12 bar blues solo in the key of D, combining major and minor pentatonic licks. Suitable for beginner players who want to extend their lick vocabulary.

Drop-d riffing + pinky challenge.

A powerful song in D minor scale.

I took one the themes from "Pachabel Canon", turned it to minor mode and made it a bossa, so here it is.

We'll cover the key of D-Major and learn some cool licks you can use in this key, and also apply to a different key. Techniques which we'll use are Alternate Picking, string skipping and a bit of legato.