What are legato licks?

On the guitar, legato means that notes should be played with hammer-ons and pull-offs – a great way to bust out your most rapid licks without the added pressure of picking at speed. Legato is most useful when there are multiple notes on one or two strings.

Why is legato important?

Legato playing is an important skill for any serious guitarist. It adds fluidity, expression, speed and interest to lead guitar parts—and sometimes rhythm parts too—and is vital in all but the simplest of songs.

Should you learn jazz licks?

But the idea of learning a lick is not to feel good for the moment that you played something a jazz hero of yours played. The idea is that you can incorporate those sounds into your playing. The more licks and lines you learn, the more your vocabulary grows. But it doesn’t work that way.

What scales do jazz guitarists use?

The Dorian scale is often used in jazz and the pattern is “whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half, whole.” Altogether, there are 7 modes which are derived from the major scale, and each one adds a very different tone or feel to your solo: Ionian: the familiar major scale that is most fundamental and basic to use.

How do you write licks?

Writing Guitar Licks

Step 1: Identify the core pitches of your new guitar lick.
Step 2: Identify the note grouping/rhythm.
Step 3: Invent possible patterns.
Step 4: Improvise.
Step 5: Add some melody at the end.

What is a lick in jazz?

Licks are short phrases, usually extracted from a particular chord progression or chord. They are bite sized chunks of jazz vocabulary that we can learn, memorize and use in our playing.

What is a jazz guitar lick?

A II V I lick is a guitar phrase that fits over this chord progression, often containing a mixture of arpeggios and chord tones to be used for improvising. By having a few stock phrases that fit over this common chord progression, you will be well prepared when tasked with improvising over a jazz chord progression.