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Been jamming for a while and looking to spice up your rock playing? Mark Kroos invites you to get these 30 show-stopping rock licks under your fingers! He'll guide you through a host of useful techniques and tools to help enhance your playing over an army of scales and arpeggios that perhaps you've never played before to help create a more versatile and complete rocker!
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Mark will take you through a variety of different licks that are based mostly in the Dorian and Mixolydian modes utilizing bends and hammer-ons. We'll then move on to incorporate some new techniques such as tapping, cascading, and touch harmonics to enhance our skills in the rock genre. Let's grab our guitars and start rocking!
Mark introduces us to '30 Outside the Box Rock Licks'!
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0.0 Difficulty
For our first lick, Mark uses the Melodic Minor scale.
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2.5 Difficulty
This lick encompasses the Lydian Dominant scale which is very similar to the Mixolydian Mode.
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3.0 Difficulty
For this lick, we will be using the whole tone scale which will use a repeated figure throughout the lick.
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We move on to the diminished scale for this next lick which will be played over a C7 chord.
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This lick will use augmented triads and diatonic triads to create tension and resolution throughout the riff.
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For this lick, Mark will incorporate some triplets in the Diminished Scale.
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Mark shows us a technique that has us muting the strings with our right hand as we sweep with our picking hand.
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Using the last two lessons as a foundation, Mark helps us build our skills by incorporating triplets, muting, and sweeping in this lick.
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3.5 Difficulty
For this lick, Mark shows how to use a somewhat sloppy fretting technique to acquire the sound we are looking for.
We use triad shapes for this lick, incorporating arpeggios throughout the piece!
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We continue to use arpeggios in this lick but this time on alternating major chords, Mark also incorporates hybrid picking.
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This lick has a couple of different moving parts to break down, it's centered around an A minor 9 arpeggio and uses a bit of the pentatonic scale as well.
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We explore a few different voicings and a tiny tap technique in this lick, giving it a unique sound!
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For this fast-paced lick, we use a fully diminished 7th arpeggio that will be a moveable shape.
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4.0 Difficulty
For this lick, we will alternate between G minor sweeps and C major sweeps that will generate a C9 chord sound.
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Let's add some more sweeps to our toolbox! This time we will alternate C#m arpeggios and G#m arpeggios.
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For this lick, we use double stops on the Dorian mode.
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This lick has a powerful melody comprised of 6ths and 7ths that can be used in a lot of real-world playing minor scenarios.
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We move on to a lick that is based around an A7 chord as well as the Mixolydian mode.
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Let's pick up the pace with this next double stop lick that uses the Dorian mode.
Mark helps us add another tool to our musical toolbox by walking us through some harmonized bends within this lick.
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For this lick, we incorporate some tapping techniques along with a technique called cascading.
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This lick will have us building on our tapping skills as well as adding some bending into the mix!
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Ready for some more tapping? For this lick, Mark guides us on how to tap arpeggios on a single string.
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Now that we have the foundation for bending and tapping, let's build on that in this next lick where we will hold a bend and tap arpeggios!
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For this lick, Mark walks us through a tapping a legato which is a flowing connected melody.
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Mark helps us build upon our cascading technique in this lick!
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This lick will have us playing a fully diminished 7th Arpeggio over a dominant 7th chord as we add tapping throughout!
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4.5 Difficulty
As we near the end of our course, Mark adds another tool to our repertoire with touch harmonics!
For our last lick we put all of the skills together we have acquired over this course along with incorporating one last technique called harp harmonics.
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