Guitar Licks Are USELESS - Do This Instead

Hello Internet, it's a pleasure to see you. You go around and watch all the YouTube videos about cool

guitar

leaks and then you spend hours and hours learning all these cool

guitar

leaks and then you build

this

big library of cool guitar

licks

and then you go and buy courses that teach you they give 100 cool guitar lessons or 45 guitar saxophone lessons or 36 guitar BS or all that kind of stuff and you learn them all and then you find out you're no better musician than you were before. I studied those leaks but those leaks don't come to light in your improvisation you're spending a lot of time and you're not going anywhere you're not developing any real skills you're just learning a lot of leaks why is

this

happening when everyone tells you to study some leaks and get some vocabulary, why not be able to take what you learn and build on it and bring those things to light in your improvisation.

Well, a student of mine asked me exactly that and there is a very good reason. why is this happening and there is a very specific practice that people should do so that all the leaks that you know are actually useful to you and that is my answer. I would like to analyze your brain and see if we can work. Makes some great Blues Licks, fantastic, do you know any blues

licks

right now? Yeah, I do it well, so one, well, I studied 100 Blues Licks with another company and I only remember two, so that's what happens when you study 100 Blu licks and you study them. all there and you forget them because well, well, just a moment about that now because they give you this book or whatever with 100 Blu fugues or like 50 guitar saxophone fugues or 120 with leag and then you go and play them. and then you say do you remember two and they tell you no that's good no no it's not good if I have a 100 I remember 100 the problem is that they don't give you the context the context of that leak they don't tell you how they get to that and what it is More importantly, they don't tell you how to adapt the filtration now.

If there was a product like a 100th variation of a Blues, it can't be sold, of course, because no one will buy that, yes, but a 100th variation of a Blu. I'm into all that, yes, because that will show me how the musician behind of the leak is thinking about what the decision is like. Tre like after this note, you'll go there why and you'll go here why you're going to give me, it's going to be It's much more useful to see that, but no one is going to buy it because they say it's a leak, okay, and it's a leak , but that's the value, yeah, okay, so right now I'm going to show you how to do this yourself.

I mean, you can, you can choose my opinion, no problem, but I mean, take one of your Blues Leaks, any BL. Well, someone else's, but I'm sure it's fantastic. The beginning of this is right, yeah, fantastic, so I want you to play. just the first two, three, four, five, six notes, okay, until you come back until you come back here, play just this part, oh yeah, do that, yeah, again, make sure you're really better, fantastic , now we have this cycle if you want. 1 2 3 4 five six notes no it's just an accident that we start from this note because that's what was written in the original book where you read this but it could have started here now the lick sounds different it should sound different because that oh okay, the point is that's where the bat is Down, there's no one 2 3 4 or one two 2 3 4 oh 1 2 3 4, okay or one two three 4 it's the same leak, but it sounds safe, but we started at a different point, so it sounds different, okay, that's a good lesson.

I'm not done, but that would be the first thing I do with every leak I learn. I'm trying to loop the leak even if it doesn't. really naturally Loop I'm just thinking about it and then I'm going to continue, what if I start from the second note, the third note, the fourth note, the fifth note down? Sometimes it's a little difficult mentally to change, yes, but it goes. to give them more possibilities because in a real solo every time I put that fugue I put that fugue and I don't know if I'm playing the bass rhythm or not all the time, so I want to know the link also with different A little bit below, this is partly so that it has more possibilities and partly because the problem is adapting the escape, you learn to real life and therefore sometimes you can be late with the escape, what am I going to do?

Falla, yes, right now I love you. to take that escape, yes, and try to start it. I'm not going to put any temperature or anything, start from a different note, but play the same fugue, start from another note, now exactly St from another doesn't make sense again, it's the same circle, but it sounds different, no, it's more yours By the way, in this specific Leck, this has already been done. Remember another Pink Floyd wall break, oh yeah, it's this leak that goes back and forth a couple of times from this note

instead

of this one. note that it's a variation of that leak, yeah okay, and any other classic rock song you find, you'll find a variation of this leak anyway, okay that would be the first thing, yeah, the second thing is to think on the fugue as a starting point, okay, now you know the fugue and you gave me or something like that, right, but you don't have to do exactly that, you can do something else, yeah, well, yeah, so what I want you to do do well now and we're going to take the filtration more slowly, okay, it doesn't matter if it's too slow, we're just learning right now, you take this L, you start from a different note again MH, once you finish a cycle of this filtration, no No repeat it, just put in another two or three notes that you improvise on the spot, okay, then grab your bass, pick some notes and let's see what happens, try that, okay, um okay, me again, but different again, but different now. change the initial note of the lak again again very good change the initial note uh so a single fugue is one point of an infinite number of fugues okay, the idea of ​​the Leck is that your day you are improvising you have a common idea to start with and then it's up to you to go ahead and create something new, you can't rely on the original lick or else you'd be stuck exactly, so

instead

of relearning 100 different leaks etc you can learn one or two leaks.

You take the basic idea, you take it on the guitar, you try to start with different notes and then you think of it not as a fugue but as a starting point. Okay, from here, where can you go? This is how I want you to think about leaks. I will do that. Note that he also played, he started each fugue with the same basic idea, but because he was starting from a different note, it didn't seem like he was repeating it. Yes, okay, so you can take a basic idea, start from a note and continue. filter and then you take the same basic idea but you start from a different note and you play the basic idea and you continue in a different way and you can go on and on and on and before anyone realizes what you're doing, the Sun is finished in the next song.

I don't realize, okay, that's why we also say that that great guitarist doesn't know a thousand guitar links, he knows 10 fugues, but he knows them very well, that's how good he looks, okay, yes, you do it, you're unstoppable, I apreciate it. that thank you very much