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Okay, let us take a look at lick number four now. The idea for lick number four is just to demonstrate a technique that we spoke about which is the idea of the Tapped Harmonics. And what I chose to do because we are on the key of A is to just take note of C and we can mix this.

That is the idea. Hit the note and then just give it a little bend so play the C note. And then we are just tapping out the 17th fret but we are not making contact. We are literally just hitting the harmonic and the same with 14 and then on the 12th fret and then the 10th fret and then we are going to move up a whole tone and do exactly the same thing but tapping the whole time higher and bending the note to the note of E.

That is the lick idea. Kind of a nice musical application for using these tapped harmonics. When I am doing the 7th fret on tapping at the 19th, the 16th, that is the tricky one. The 14th and the 12th fret and I am just pulling the note if it is slightly - it is kind of anticipating. It is not like musical. It is more about you are kind of jerking the note. It is kind of hard to explain in a verbal sort of context. That kind of idea.

Okay, let us take a look now at lick number five. Lick number five is one of those kind of half and half licks that I mentioned earlier on. This was a lick actually that I stole from an unaccompanied solo that I found but I really kind of like the idea of it over the top of the 8th chord. It demonstrates with some of these extensions that I already used. So I am going to apply it for you first of all and then we will take a look at it. Here we go.

Now, the idea behind that lick is to apply seven, eight, ten on the top two strings and you are picking the last three notes like so and then we move the upper whole tone and play eight, ten, twelve, eight, ten, twelve, there you go. And then we put off seven to seven and then we go seven, eight, ten, eight, seven then back up to eight, seven and then ten of the base so it is like that.

And then pull up from the base string, ten, eight, seven, slide down to five, seven, eight, seven, five, eight tone of G, five on the B, eight, seven, five, and seven up. We bend up and then we tap the 12th fret where we hold the bend and then tap 12. Pull up seven, pull up five and then we are going to replay a lick that we saw in the intro but it is just going to fit in the end of this round. I need to actually apply it this way in this little snip that I saw. I think it is just the same twelve, seven, six, twelve, five, three, base, and release and then re-tap on to the 12th fret. So, you go. You can obviously extend that as well and move it, follow up the fret board for more scale positions or drop it down to other pairs of strings as well.

Okay, let us take a look at lick number four now. The idea for lick number four is just to demonstrate a technique that we spoke about which is the idea of the Tapped Harmonics. And what I chose to do because we are on the key of A is... click to read more