{"id":3158,"date":"2012-03-22T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2015-04-08T00:30:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:30:25","slug":"stealing-licks-and-stock-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/stealing-licks-and-stock-phrases\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing Licks And &#8220;Stock Phrases&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my Blues Guitar Unleashed members posted this clip up on the member forum and I think it&#8217;s just great.<\/p>\n<p>In it, Clapton talks about his use of what he calls &#8220;stock phrases,&#8221; but a lot of us would call them licks or riffs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So first, check out this video. It&#8217;s only a few minutes long and there&#8217;s some good information in it about how Clapton gets his famous &#8220;woman tone&#8221; and how he approaches blues soloing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3tZEXJXyXXY?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>So that&#8217;s all well and good, but it sort of gives the impression that you can just learn some licks and you&#8217;re good to go.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably already figured out that ain&#8217;t how it works&#8230; What you need to pay attention to is how the licks are used and where they are put.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve followed my rantings for any amount of time, you know how I equate learning to solo to a baby learning to talk. And babies have to learn how phrases are used just like we have to do in blues soloing.<\/p>\n<p>If my son says &#8220;Guess we&#8217;d better hit the road&#8221; when someone asks his name&#8230; that&#8217;s quite a disconnect and my son obviously hasn&#8217;t learned how to use that phrase yet.<\/p>\n<p>For me personally, once I learn or create a new phrase, it usually takes me 2 or 3 gigs to figure out how to really use it. If I don&#8217;t have any gigs coming up I&#8217;ll spend 2 or 3 practice sessions playing over a jam track and working with the lick until I&#8217;m using it in a way that makes sense and sounds good.<\/p>\n<p>So if it takes me 2 or 3 days&#8230; it may take you longer. When I was first learning it might take several days to get a lick the way I liked it. That&#8217;s just part of the process and there&#8217;s nothing wrong with it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s all for today. I&#8217;ll try and work on a video that shows better how to take &#8220;stock phrases&#8221; I&#8217;ve stolen and put them to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my Blues Guitar Unleashed members posted this clip up on the member forum and I think it&#8217;s just great. In it, Clapton talks about his use of what he calls &#8220;stock phrases,&#8221; but a lot of us would call them licks or riffs&#8230; So first, check out this video. It&#8217;s only a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}