Guitar Lick Factory Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines

by Gress, Jesse

• ISBN13: 9780879307349
• ISBN10: 087930734X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781617132353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Backbeat

Summary

There's nothing like the feeling you get when you add a new guitar lick to your musical vocabulary. An encyclopedia of hip lines, Guitar Lick Factory helps beginning and intermediate guitarists build their lick repertoires. In addition, it opens the door to jazz for blues and rock players of all levels, gives jazzers the key to authentic blues and rock, and shows the important connections among all three genres. It contains hundreds of ready-to-play licks presented as short melodic modules. Using Jesse Gress's ingenious grid system, players will learn how to extract dozens of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic variations from each module.

Table of Contents

Key to Notational Symbols	v
Introduction	vii
How to Use This Book	ix
BLUES LICK FACTORY
Blues Lick Factory Tour	1	(4)
Three-Note Blues Licks	5	(18)
Four-Note Blues Licks	23	(14)
Five- and Six-Note Blues Licks	37	(12)
One-Bar Blues Licks	49	(2)
Extended Blues Lines	51	(8)
ROCK LICK FACTORY
Rock Lick Factory Tour	59	(2)
Early Rock 'n' Roll Licks	61	(8)
One-Bar '60s and '70s Rock Licks	69	(6)
'60s and '70s Power-Trio Licks	75	(6)
Pentatonic Sequences and Speed Licks	81	(8)
Four-Note Contemporary Rock Licks and Modal Sequences	89	(8)
Contemporary Rock Speed Licks	97	(6)
JAZZ LICK FACTORY
Jazz Lick Factory Tour	103	(2)
Four-Note Swing and Bop Licks	105	(12)
One-Bar Swing and Bop Licks	117	(4)
Four-Note Jazz-Blues Licks	121	(8)
Extended Jazz-Blues Lines	129