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Lead Guitar Licks

A great way to learn how to improvise your own lead guitar solos, is to build a vocabulary of different guitar licks. A guitar lick is just music slang for a short melodic phrase. The online guitar lessons found here will help you learn many cool guitar riffs to use as building blocks for your solos.

Level: Beginner - Intermediate | Styles: Blues

Eric Clapton C Major Blues Lick

By in Blues Guitar Lessons, Lead Guitar Licks
Eric Clapton C Major Blues Lick

Learn a cool blues lick from Eric Clapton in the key of C major. A blues jam track is also included.

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Level: Intermediate - Advanced | Styles: Fusion, Jazz

G Mixolydian Jazz Fusion Lick

By in Jazz Guitar Lessons, Lead Guitar Licks
G Mixolydian Jazz Fusion Guitar Lick

This jazz fusion guitar lick is inspired by guitarist Larry Carlton and comes out of an E Mixolydian Mode.

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Level: Intermediate | Styles: Rock

Slash Style sus4 Licks

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Learn some lead guitar licks in the style of Guns n’ Roses/Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash.

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Level: Intermediate | Styles: Fusion, Jazz

Am11 Arpeggio

By in Jazz Guitar Lessons, Lead Guitar Licks
Am11 Arpeggio

This A minor 11 arpeggio shape is great way to add a little jazz fusion flavor into your guitar solos. Includes 2 jam tracks.

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Cyberfret.com Legacy Lead Guitar Lick Lessons

All guitar lessons on Cyberfret.com are in the process of being updated. Below are some guitar lick lessons from the old website that have not made it to the new one yet.

Video Guitar Lick: Major Tapping - In this video guitar lesson guitarist Kristofer Dahl shows you a very cool major guitar lick that uses arpeggios, and right hand tapping.

Video Guitar Lick: Minor Pentatonic Kirk Hammet Style - The video guitar lesson by uitarist Kristofer Dahl shows a minor pentatonic guitar lick in the style of Metallica's Kirk Hammett.

Video Guitar Lick: Major Sweeping - Guitarist Kristofer Dahl shows you a major key sweep picking lick

Licks & Tricks - Guitar Soloing Licks from the masters

Build your lead guitar vocabulary with these guitar licks & tricks from the masters. Each guitar lick has an explanation of the scales and music theory behind it. These are video guitar lessons, so you can see and hear the guitar solos in action.

David Gilmour - This guitar lick comes from the intro to "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.

Elliott Randall- This lead guitar lick comes from the intro to "Reeling in the Years" by Steely Dan.

Brian Setzer - Here is the intro lick from the song "Stray Cat Strut".

Stevie Ray Vaughan - This lead guitar lick comes from the main riff of "Couldn't Stand the Weather".

Jimmy Page - Here is the first guitar lick from the solo in Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin.

Brad Nowell - Here is the guitar solo from "What I Got" from the group Sublime.

Mike Campbell - Here is one from Tom Petty's right hand man. This is the intro guitar solo to "Refugee"

Randy Rhoads - Go off the rails on the crazy train with this lead guitar lick from Ozzy's most influential guitarist.

Billy Gibbons - Here is a minor pentatonic guitar flurry from ZZ Top's La Grange.

Neal Schon - Learn the entire intro guitar solo to "City of the Angles" by Journey. The guitar solo is broken down into 5 separate licks.

Carlos Santana - Add a little black magic to your minor key guitar solos.

Slash - Have a little "Patience" and learn this lead guitar lick from Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash.

Angus Young - Shake it all night long with this guitar lick from AC/DC's lead guitarist.

Mark Knopfler - From the Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing". This guitar lick will make it cry and make it sing.

Mike Einziger - Defy gravity with this lead guitar lick from Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger.

Kirk Hammett - Add some spice to your guitar solos with this one from Metallica's guitar wizard.

Jimi Hendrix - And the wind cries...Hendrix.

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