Of all the “tricks” that guitar players use to create more interesting lines, this one probably took me the longest to figure out…
And you can call them lines or licks, I suppose, but to me, lines seem to have more melody and more purpose behind them…
Licks are great, and we all use them often, but a line is more challenging to create and requires a little more thought ahead of time.
So in this lesson, we’ll talk about a couple of melodic devices that I often see used to move through a simple series of notes with a lot more interesting motion.
This is just one of the topics in my new “Modern Blues Soloing” course, which is here:
https://gobgu.com/getmbsbl
Enjoy the video, TAB is below:
2 replies to "Melodic Devices For Creating Lines"
Show some riffs and chords to classic songs that we might know the song but not the structure
Hi Griff. That idea of using a chromatic-note or a scale-note to approach the target note is something that sounds very nice. This line is a good one because it’s got a couple of instances to use; I’ll try to learn it and practice to use when I can get it right. To my ear, it sounds like the sort of thing that Charlie Christian used a lot – the kind of trumpet line that Charlie liked.