Product Description

A superb variety of rock lead guitar licks for fingerboard exploration, technical development, and enjoyment.

Red Dog Music Books is proud to offer this very fine, packed-with-great-licks rock guitar book for your fun and learning enjoyment. This is the perfect book and CD for early intermediates and ambitious near-beginners who are looking for ideas on which to build an interesting and varied rock solo style.

And what a value this book is. The collection contains a goldmine of bite-size licks, all written in notation and tablature, each recorded note-for-note on a companion CD that also includes bass and drums.

Many types of characteristic licks and sounds are included such as major pentatonic, repeating riffs, psychedelic, Mixolydian, harmonized thirds, harmonized fourths, offbeat, octave, background riffs, sequences, triplets, call-response, mellow, blues rock, string bending, country rock, rockabilly, funky, speed licks, hammer-pull licks, straight-picking licks, chord riffs, rhythm-and-blues licks, and more.

The licks are not watered down; some are fairly tricky to play.

No need to work through the examples in chronological order. If a particular example is too difficult, try another one you like and return to the more challenging example later.

While the playing of licks in itself is only part of a complete guitar education, learning licks provides many benefits, including FUN!, advancement of technique, familiarity with the fingerboard, enhanced rhythmic skills, versatility in phrasing, and a more enlightened imagination.

A useful Guide to Scales Used in This Book is included. Scales include major scale, smajor hexatonic scale, major pentatonic scale, ragtime scale, natural minor scale, minor pentatonic scale, blues scale, mixolydian scale, lydian dominant scale, and Spanish scale.

If you have played long enough to discover like many others have that the eight-page solos in the rock guitar magazines are frustrating, impossible, and virtually meaningless, try this book and begin enjoying your guitar playing time again.

The bass lines in this book are found in our 101 Magic Rock Bass Guitar Patterns. Rhythm guitar parts are in our 101 Magic Rock Guitar Rhythm Patterns.

Another excellent, very cool hands-on learning book from Larry McCabe and Red Dog Music Books.

Contents

• How to Use This Book
• Projects for Students
• Patterns in 4/4 Time
• Patterns in 12/8 Time
• Patterns in 3/4 Time
• Scales Used in This Book
• Guide to Symbols and Notation

Prerequisite Ability

• User should have basic picking and fretting-hand skills, and know how to read guitar tablature or standard notation.

User Profiles

• Ambitious beginner electric guitarists.
• Early intermediate electric guitarists.
• Hobbyist guitarists.
• Reference and ideas for gigging guitarists.
• Electric guitar teachers.

Goals and Purposes of This Book

• Learn a large number rock lead guitar licks.
• Excellent for facilitating development of solid timing on the electric guitar.
• Excellent for fingerboard orientation and technical practice.
• Practicing licks provides good ear training.
• Practicing licks (phrases) facilitates the development of original ideas.
• Helpful for rock guitar students learning to play with a rhythm section.
• Valuable basic scales information is included.
• Excellent reference book of useful rock guitar licks is helpful for any person wanting to learn to play lead guitar.
• Guitar instructors will find the book to be a valuable and popular teaching tool.

About the Author

Larry McCabe’s credentials include an education degree from the University of Arizona, more than thirty years of music teaching experience, over eighty published music books, columns for Living Blues Magazine and Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, and authorship of the Roy Clark Fiddle Magic Method and the Roy Clark Bluegrass Banjo Bible.

He plays electric and acoustic blues guitar, clawhammer and three-finger banjo, fiddle, and other string instruments. During his career, he has taught blues guitar lessons, banjo lessons, fiddle lessons, song writing, music theory, music history, and other subjects.

Larry has played in numerous bands including blues, classic country, rockabilly, traditional Irish, and Cajun, and he served on the prestigious W.C. Handy Blues Awards nominating committee for many years.

With his wife, Becky, Larry is the owner and publisher of the popular roots music instruction book company Red Dog Music Books.

In the 1990s, he taught History of Jazz Music and History of Popular Music in America courses to adult education students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. As an amateur WWII historian, Larry collected and edited 160 interviews for his book Pearl Harbor and the American Spirit (2004).