Here is a nice guitar lick from AC/DC’s Angus Young. This is from the solo in “You Shook Me All Night Long”. This is a great example of the mixture of minor pentatonic and major pentatonic sounds. This guitar lick is in the key of G, and can be used over any Bluesy G major key. And of course this lick can be transposed to other keys as well.
You Shook Me All Night Lick Guitar Lick Tablature
The red numbers are the notes that you should use as your guide. In this case the red note is a G. If you wanted to play this lick in the key of A, then you would move everything up 2 frets so that the notes in red would be at the 10th fret (A).
Angus Young You Shook Me All Night Long Lick – Audio Fast
Angus Young You Shook Me All Night Long Lick – Audio Slow
For more information on how to read this, check out the lesson on Reading Internet Tablature.
I am now going to break this lick down into 3 separate parts and show what scales are being used.
Angus Young Guitar Lick – Part 1
The first 2 notes of this guitar lick are coming out of a position of G minor pentatonic, and the next 2 notes come out of G major pentatonic.
G Minor Pentatonic Scale
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G Major Pentatonic Scale
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Angus Young Guitar Lick – Part 2
Part 2 of this guitar lick is completely out of a G major pentatonic scale. When you bend the note on the 2nd string 10 fret, up until it sounds like the 12 fret on the 2nd string, that is the same note as the 1st string 7th fret. And that note is in the major pentatonic fingering below.
G Major Pentatonic
Angus Young Guitar Lick – Part 3
Part 3 of this lick again uses a combination of G minor, and major pentatonic.
G Minor Pentatonic Scale
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G Major Pentatonic Scale
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