Hey, what’s up? Neal here. Welcome back to the Guitar Tricks Channel from guitartricks.com. We got a fresh lesson and a tip of the week for you right here.
Tip of the week is screaming in your guitar. That’s right. These pickups right here will pick your voice. Try it out. Crank up your amp. Turn up the distortion and yell into the pick up just like this. And you’ll be amazed your voice will come out the other end. I can't do it here because I have a microphone on and we’re in a studio. I have to be kind of quiet. But go over to your amp right now and turn it on and then crank up your guitar and scream in your pick up whatever you want to say right now. Okay, right now. Okay, let’s do the lesson first.
Lesson of the week, we have a lot of request from you all out there on lick playing. Show me some licks. Show me some scales. Show me some metal leads. Show me some rock leads. So I’m going to give you a segment of Don Madison, one of our instructors at GuitarTricks.com, he’s got a whole slew of lesson tutorials on the metal style. And he’s a shredding riffanator. So I'm going to show you one of his licks right here.
It’s a basic scale and the pattern is your ascending starting from the twelfth fret on the E string up the pentatonic scale. Then you go up six notes, back down two, and then start that pattern over again on the next string. 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 1 – 2 and then repeat the pattern on next string D, 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 1 – 2.
Sounds really good with alternate picking, like I'm doing right here. But if you don’t have that down yet and you want to do it quickly, you can do hammer ons to. Sounds just as cool.
It’s pretty straight forward, try it out. Give it run and when you're done, pick up your guitar and scream into it really loud. And then do the scale. You can go between the screaming and then the scale and then throw some effects on it and see what you come up with. It sounds really cool.
Leave me a request at the forum at guitartricks.com. Facebook.com/guitar tricks. Twitter and MySpace. Have a rocking week. Don’t forget, try screaming in your guitar, it’s really cool.
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