Chords for Why You're Practicing Bluegrass Licks Wrong - Advanced Bluegrass Guitar Lesson

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_ _ _ _ [Ab] Hey, this is Marcel from lessonswithmarcel.com [G] and I'm here to talk to you today about practicing licks.
You're doing it wrong and I'm going to show you how to do it right.
Let's get into it.
All right, so let's say you learned a new cool lick and it's this Tony Rice lick right here. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ All right, well that's great and you can use it as intended of course.
You can use it at the end of a tune.
[D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
Works great right there.
But what you should [F] be doing is you should be taking it through some of your other positions.
Really one lick can turn into many, many more licks.
So let's take a look at it in your E position or your next shape of your pentatonic scale.
[Em] It would look like this.
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
Thank you bar right there.
Let's do that one again. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Works great.
You'll notice that all of the _ phrasing is switched.
So initially on our E string we had two notes in a [Em] row and now that is split between two strings.
_ _ And instead it's the B string that has two notes in a row [D] right here.
_ [N] If we take this one position further you'll be in your D position and that position is
really, really, really cool.
Of course you should already be familiar with it.
But it _ contains a really easy way to transpose licks.
So if you have a lick in G and it exists in your E, B, G and D strings like this lick
does, [G] this kind of area, _ _ [D] _ that's really easy to transpose to this position because [Em] if you
move up to the neck to that D shape you just start on 8th fret here and if you go down
to the pentatonic scale _ _ _ [Dm]
you'll hear those are the exact [G] same notes. _ _ _ _ _
_ So [Bb] really all you have to do is repeat the lick but with a little drag in it.
So when we transpose the lick up here it [G] sounds like this. _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] Let me do that one again.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Real nice and easy.
And you can use that in any other context too.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Sounds great.
You can also combine it with the scapegoat technique. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ Alright, now if we take that lick to the C position, the next position [Em] after D, it'll
sound like this.
_ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
Easy.
Also, it works great at the back of the [Em] neck here for [Eb] _
[Am] _ _ [G] _ [C] ending a song in C.
[N] _ _
_ _ And now we'll take it to its logical conclusion here with the A shape.
[G] Now you can see that the A [Em] shape, this shape, _
_ _ [D] _ this shape actually has a really easy way
to transpose too.
So if you have a lick that [G] happens right here, _ _ you just pop it into these.
_ _ Exact same notes.
So here's the lick right here.
Once again, I'm not thinking at all.
I'm just plugging it in. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Let me do that one again for you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] Taking this even further, when you learn a lick you should also do it in some crazy ways.
So let me show you some other ways you might apply this lick.
So here's the same lick with open strings.
A lot of people call [G] this floating.
So wherever in the original lick I _ [Bm] used an open string, I'm still going to use that open
string but I'm going to play it in a higher position.
In this case I'm going to do it kind of in the D shape and it's going to [G] sound like this. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] Now that's going to sound beautiful using it to end a [G] slow song especially. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Here are some kind of extreme examples that maybe don't work the best for this lick but
certainly will work for other licks.
[N] You can use them to of course descend and ascend the neck.
If you wanted to descend the neck with this lick, this is what it might sound like.
[Em] _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
Make sure you're all the way to the back of the neck.
Now if you wanted to ascend the neck, you could also do the same thing believe it or
not even though this lick is a descending lick.
This one once again is pretty crazy but this is what it sounds like. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Let me do that one [G] again.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ So remember the next time you learn a lick to walk it through all the positions of the
pentatonic scale, try to ascend and descend with it and then use open strings with it
if you can.
Now if you'd like to see all of the tabs and some position based stuff that went with this
lesson, it is all on my website on the online lessons tab and the lesson is called Transposing Licks.
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I'll see you [N] later. _