25 Guitar Licks and Phrases - Greg Koch Page Three

OK lets take a look at a few of these licks shall we? Once you get in the mood to sink your teeth in, you can overcome obstacles if you know your pentatonic scales.

Even if you cant play these licks as fast as Greg is doing it - playing them slow will be good for you.

OK I better mention this before I forget. There is no pamphlet but there are fleeting glimpses of TAB during the course of each of the lick(s) presentation. Why they couldn't bundle these into a piece of digital paper for us is a good question? This tab isn't perfect but does help getting us in the same general vicinity of the lick. Much nuance here.

Number one is Jimi Hendrix whom we can't in good conscious skip over. If I had to analyze these two licks in one sentence I would say pentatonic boxes one and two but played fast. There is cool lick hammering activity on and off the high E string and notes A and C that you will want to cop. No wah-wah pedal or pyrotechnics to speak of.

Next is Albert King, an influence on many including Jimi Hendrix and S.R. Vaughan. With Albert we start out with a blues in the Key of A using pentatonic box three and four with a major third bend that will have you worrying about breaking a string or bleeding on your guitar. You start on the B string at the 13 fret and bend it up a step and a half to two steps. Cool lick but intimidating. The second lick is back to the first pentatonic box, also in A, and at the fifth fret. This one is a bit easier and is sort of a closing lick 4 to 5 move.

Stevie Ray Vaughan is our third guitar hero and Greg gives us two licks, the first of which is pentatonic box one at the third fret in G and Greg calls it "a classic Stevie Ray incendiary Salvo" - which is exactly what it is. A blues flourish is what I'll call it and brimming with SRV personality. Its pentatonic but played fast. The next SRV lick is from the song Tin Pan Alley which is a slow blues and involves a hammer on and sweep arpeggiated minor triad completed by raking the strings back up to the top of the lick. Tasty!

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