The Pentatonic Shred Guitar Lesson
Playing fast guitar always gives a special feeling for most guitar players, especially if you can play not only quick but accurately challenging guitar licks cleanly. There are lots of methods of producing and practising fast guitar licks, In this edition Playing fast guitar always gives a special feeling for most guitar players, especially if you can play not only quickly but accurately challenging guitar licks cleanly. There are numerous methods for producing and practising fast guitar licks. In this edition, Rock-Expert shares a cool shredding lick that works well for young guitarists aspiring to become shredders or simply sharpen their skills. want to share a cool shredding lick that I came up with and believe would work well for a young guitarist who wants to be a shredder or just sharpen their skills.
The lick arranged below is based on Paul Gilbert’s tricky “Colorado Bulldog” intro lick, it is not a precise copy of it but basically, it has the same idea, though you can our version as a much simpler version of Paul’s. As some of you guitar heads might know Colorado Bulldog was written on E, and it has lots of “terrifying” pentatonic stretches, so I came up with a bit different pattern than PG‘s lick.
Pentatonic Shred is Based on Mr. Big’s ‘Colorado Bulldog’
I named this sort of ‘Colorado Bulldog’ style lick, “Penta Shred” which refers to a Pentatonic Shredding lick. It is pretty much based on A minor pentatonic lick that is rearranged in a sort of way that it sounded slightly similar to Colorado Bulldog, maybe because it uses the same techniques that PG did, which is hammering on the first string and picking that string after it.
As you can see from the lick picture below, In playing the “Penta Shred” I do a (what it’s called as ) sextuplet pentatonic of A minor/C major. The pattern is similar to Colorado Bulldog, as I hit the C note (downstroke) and hammer-on D and E than for the second part of the sextuplet, I pick another three notes (D-E-G) alternately, starting with an upstroke. That’s the whole pattern from top to bottom for the ascending part as for the descending part, I play the same note from the latter to the top and add A minor note in the end. The difference thing from the ascending part is of course instead of using a hammer-on, we start the part with pull-offs.
If you guys have practice, Colorado Bulldog then you would be familiar with this kind of lick, it is as previously said an easier finger exercise technique compared to Paul’s crazy stuff. I also believe that it would be good practice for any level especially for those at intermediate as it would still be a little tough for a beginner to play it cleanly. As for the tempo, I set 102 on my metronome as a basic practising speed that you can always speed up as fast as you can, due remember playing it cleanly is always your first goal rather than trying to speed things up but making lots of mess all around.
Although it is not 100% an original lick, I do hope that it will work well for those who are practising their skills and plan to be the next shredder, it may not be a spectacular lick but it would help your fingering and your speed control. Rock-Expert will keep posting another cool lick that we can come up with which might help young and beginner guitar players play fast and show that you can shred too!!!!! Rock On!
