Here’s a guitar lick from Tom Petty’s right hand man Mike Campbell. This guitar lick is from the intro solo in the song “Refugee”.
“Refugee” Lead Guitar Lick
(Video Guitar Lesson)
Tom Petty Refugee Guitar Lick Tablature
This guitar lick is in the key of F# minor, and comes right out of an F# minor scale in the 2nd position. It also uses some slides, as well as hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Here is a guitar scale chart for the basic F# minor scale form this lick comes out of. So these are some other note choice you might add as you are improving with this lick in your own guitar solos.
F# Minor Guitar Scale Chart
If you wanted to play this guitar lick in another key, the very 1st note in the lick is one you can use as a reference, or the note that’s on the 1st string towards the end. In this case, both of those notes are F#. So if you want to play this lick in A minor, just shift all of the notes in the guitar lick up 3 fret so those 2 notes would be A.
Have fun with you new Mike Campbell guitar lick.
