How to Build Riffs on Lead Guitar

Okay, I want to show you how easy it is to build the beginning of a guitar solo of a couple of licks. We will take three licks playing for it slowly and then we will start piecing them together. We are going to stay in A minor Pentatonic in Blues, okay?

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That is already a cope of passing tones but here are the licks that we are going to play. Keep one finger per fret and we are going play. This is our first lick

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What I am doing is I am playing; I am bending up on the D note to the E flat which is a blue note

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And then pulling off on the G note

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Which pulls off,

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To sound an E note so it is

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Very common linking rock. You want to just practice at one lick

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That so you can get it really fast but for now just practice it slow

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Strong pull-off. I am not picking that last note I am pulling off

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With the pinky

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Okay that is the first lick

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Now the second lick is going to be a

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We are going to bend this note again

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And then pull off

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To our C note with our first finger

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So you are bending up a half step

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So you match that blue note with that E flat

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Pull of then go up to the D string. And play the A note

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With the first finger you are going to play the G note

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Then the A note twice

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If you are not comfortable with that pull off. You could just pick this, this note here on the G string.

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So that is the first part of the lick, I’ll try to get my pinky out of the way so you could see it a little better

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And then right above the rupee of A

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Then the A twice

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So here is the first lick

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Second lick

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Now you are trying to string them together. Play the first lick twice

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Okay, and then you build up the speed,

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Okay.

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Okay then lick 3, the third lick is which is going to descend right down that minor pentatonic blue scale. So we are going to go first finger on the G

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Then we are going to play the E note with our third finger on the A string, the eight blues note E flat second finger, first finger on the D note, C note goes down the whole step. Here is our rupee note on the low string of A,

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G note,

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Sounds like a lousy with replayed and that is fever. Listen to our fourth sound and you play like this

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So that is how to descend right down the scale

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Try to get my fingers out of away a little bit so you could see where those kind a hard. Here we go.

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So let us play all three licks very, very slowly and connect them together

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Lick one,

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Lick two,

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Lick three. Little faster,

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Little faster,

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And so on and so forth.

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So, you want to just practice, practice, practice.


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