Chords for EXPAND your Playing! 4 Smooth Jazz Guitar Licks

Hey everybody, welcome to this video.
Today I'll be showing you four smooth jazz guitar licks.
So click on the link to grab the [C] tabs and here comes lick number one.
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_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ Lick [B] number one is something that I heard Lee Rittenhauer play.
Now before I get to the lick,
let's first check out the chords.
The chords are F major [F] 7,
_ _ [G] G and A [Am] minor.
And [C] all of these licks happen on the A minor chord.
Now the lick here is based
out of [F] the A pentatonic minor scale starting on the E. _
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[A] _ _ [G#] _ [E] And what you're going to do is you're
going to descend by a semitone.
_ _ _ Then the next note in the [G] scale.
_ _ [G] _ [E] Next note.
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_ _ _ _ [C#] One more [Em] time. _
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_ Lick number two is in the style of George Benson and it looks like this. _
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_ _ There are two parts to it.
The first one is this _ [D] _
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[E] _ _ _ [C] and the [Dm] second part is the part with the double stops.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ [B] So you're going to
keep your pinky here on the [A] A note.
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_ So together. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Now if you are interested in this type of guitar
playing a mix of jazz, pop and R&B, well then I encourage you to subscribe to this channel because
that is my area of expertise.
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[Am] _ Alright lick number three is in [N] the style of West Montgomery and it uses some octaves played with
your thumb.
So to do that I take my pick and I put it inside my fingers like this and I'm ready to
go with my thumb.
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_ _ That's [F#] the lick.
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_ [A] _ _ _ [C#] Again use the side of your thumb right here.
It's going to
produce a nice soft sound.
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[Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F#] In general it's a good idea to get a handle on this type of playing and
to make some nice melodies you can use the blues scale.
It'll work.
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_ _ [A] _ _ [Am] _ _ These little slides, half step
slides go a long way.
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Lick number four is in the style of Pat Metheny and it uses the blues scale.
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_ [Em] _ _ _ Now it's important that you play these notes as chromatic notes.
_ _ [E] See that? _ _
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_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [F#] That's a straight blues
lick.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Alright everybody that is it for this video lesson [G] smooth jazz guitar licks.
[Am] You can't go
wrong.
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