5 EASY SHRED LICKS That Sound Advanced!

Welcome back shred gang! Since almost all of you  requested it on Patreon this month we work on some   amazing sounding shred licks together today and  great news: they all sound and look quite advanced   but they are actually not that hard! Here's how  this works, who knows maybe this will become guitar   youtube's favorite show - so first I will play  a fast and slow version of each lick for you   followed by a quick tutorial and explanation  concerning the techniques you will use and   there's also twist with every single one, a small  but very important detail that makes each lick   sound much harder than it actually is - it's really  almost like revealing a magic trick in some cases... after watching today's video until the end so that  you get to know each lick you should head over to   patreon.com/bernth because there you will find video  play alongs, tabs, guitar pro files, and backing   tracks for each lick and also 5 additional  killer exclusive licks with the complete   shred lick package - that way you will never run  out of awesome shred ideas again - let's do this! This is a pretty cool and unique sounding  lick and here's why you should learn it   So first of all the main focus with this  lick is on the note repetitions in there   so right at the beginning I'm playing  A on the 17th fret on the high E string   E on the 12th fret on the high E  string and E once again right here   on the 17th fret on the B string - this is  because I'm stretching pretty far for the   entire lick and I end up with a lot of note  repetitions and that sounds pretty crazy I'm actually playing the E minor pentatonic  scale but instead of the classic 2 noe per   string approach that you're probably  familiar with I'm extending it for a   three-note per string approach - so this  is the popular stretch pentatonic shape   so the exact same notes but I'm playing  three notes per string instead of   two notes per string and here's the little  extra trick and secret for you: I'm not playing   the note in the middle and that's why I'm  ending up with this crazy shape right here! And one more trick for better and more  creative licks - I'm also working with odd   note grouping right here so I'm playing groups  of five instead of your usual groups of two or   four so i'm playing... ...and that's obviously more  interesting than just playing it up or down And why is this actually easier  than it looks? First of all the shape   is really really easy to memorize, it's  almost the same for every single string   with the exception of the G string where I need my ring finger   but for all the other strings it's exactly the  same and the second reason why it's easier than   it looks and sounds is because I can work with  economy picking right here maybe you've seen   it already - instead of alternate picking everything  I'm playing down, up, down, up, down, down so there's a   small sweeping motion in there and this pattern  is simply repeated throughout the entire lick and here's why you should learn this one! So first of all this is the really cool and  kind of dissonant sound of the whole tone scale   sounds pretty crazy and this one is really  good for your hammer ons and pull-offs, as   you could see I'm not really playing  a lot of picking strokes with this lick So you get this really cool fluid and  kind of liquid sound with that one   if hammer ons and pull-offs at high speeds are  still problematic for you I made a full legato   online course for Patreon recently, make sure  to check that one out - but the coolest thing   right here is the sound of the whole tone  scale which you probably don't use too much   and it's actually quite simple - here's how the A  whole tone scale looks like when I just played on one string... so as the name suggests  really just whole tones   so once again the scale is really easy  to memorize and once you start thinking   like this across all strings you get  this really easy to memorize fingering...   so once again a really easy but extremely cool   sounding scale shape you  should definitely memorize! But I know what you're probably thinking - this lick  looks pretty hard, what's actually easy about it? Well first of all you're really just moving  the exact same fingering so index finger middle   finger and pinky finger in my case to different  locations on different strings so it's the exact   same pattern all the time and since you're not  picking every single note you don't have to worry   about hand synchronization or mastering those  string transitions with fast alternate picking   you can really just focus on your timing with  your fretting hands and making all of those notes   audible with your hammer ons and pull-offs - you  can just train the basic pattern on one string and then as soon as you get a feeling for it you  just spread it all across the fretboard with the   exact same fingering and get this awesome  sounding but actually quite simple lick!   Just a quick mission update before we continue  with the shredding - as you know we're trying to   get guitar to the top of the youtube charts  in Austria - right now we're number 90 and we   have to overtake a sports channel named Elias  Schwärzler - I'm sure that's a great channel but   we want to push guitar to the top of course - so  let's do this together, make sure to shred over   that subscribe button right now, let's show  the world that the guitar is still relevant! Pretty cool sound - but why? First of all  this one is based on E diminished arpeggios   so this kind of cool sound but instead of  playing just one arpeggio shape up and down   like we all do way too much you're interestingly  switching between different shapes with slides   and I know it looks crazy at first but once again  it's much much easier than it looks and sounds the first reason for that is the  symmetry of those diminished arpeggios   for this lick you really just  have to memorize one easy shape   you can just move this one up or down  in minor thirds so just three frets down   or three frets up to get the next diminished  arpeggio - so when I'm moving down with this lick   I'm just taking this shape then I'm moving it here  and then right here and then I'm just connecting   those shapes interestingly with slides but I'm  really just seeing this one shape that I'm moving   in minor thirds across the neck and here's a  really cool sweep picking trick for the first lick that is a really cool pattern and to escape  the dead zone between the strings that we   don't want to touch to avoid unwanted noise  I'm just working with upstrokes right here that makes it really easy for me to play this  pattern so I'm just playing upstrokes right here Okay so this one is a bit harder already   It's for all the alternate picking lovers out  there so this is the perfect lick if you want to   work more in this technique you're essentially  moving through three A minor scale positions   and it's a continuous pattern of downstroke,  upstroke, downstroke, upstroke, and so on the   first thing that's a bit tricky is that you're  skipping the A string so you're just playing   on the E and D strings, so not in the usual A  minor scale position you're skipping the A string   right here then you continue with 16th note  triplets and have this kind of cycling pattern   and then you switch to 16th notes for this pattern so the cool thing is that you're switching between   16th note triplets and 16th notes that  makes this one really really interesting   and then you're just moving it up to  the next position, the exact same pattern   so why is this one actually  much easier than it looks? The coolest thing about this lick is the  chunking method so you have different   chunks meaning patterns that are repeated  constantly in different scale positions   So once you master those three parts and patterns  in one position you can just move them all across   the neck through the entire scale so it doesn't  feel like learning one extremely long lick, you're   just learning chunk by chunk or part by part and  then you simply start moving those parts through   the scale of your choice - and another reason why  this is so awesome is that you can apply those   chunks and patterns to any kind of scale from now  on as soon as you have them in your muscle memory harmonic minor for example! This one is pretty cool maybe you recognize the  sound it's actually inspired by one of my songs   'Monolith' - that one is from my instrumental  shred record ELEVATION so make sure to   check it out if you're into all this  kind of crazy stuff! The reason why I recommend to learn this is because you're  fusing arpeggios with the modes right here   so I'm essentially thinking an A major arpeggio   but instead of just playing A the root C# the major third and E the perfect fifth I'm also   adding the characteristic Lydian interval in  there so the #4, D# in our case so   I get this really really cool sound...  so when you start combining arpeggios   with really interesting scale notes and  other intervals you will get much much   more interesting results and this is a great  starting point to explore this way of thinking   So the reason why it looks and sounds pretty  hard but it's actually not that hard to play... So I know, this one is based on sweep picking, a  very challenging technique but it's actually not   as hard as it looks and sounds mainly because  the shape is really small and you're really   just working with three strings so the top  three strings - usually when you think about   sweep picking you have these big shapes in  mind also with finger rolling and barring... so it's really not that bad with our example - you  really just need to spend a bit of practice time   to learn the picking pattern, the sweep picking  pattern for those top three strings right here   it comes relatively fast and then as always you  can apply it to any kind of shape from now on   and you will immediately sound like a sweep  picking professional with this small trick! So at the end please let me know which  lick you personally enjoyed the most   just leave a comment, I'd love to know - if you're  serious about learning these techniques and licks   make sure to head over to Patreon right now to  get your video play alongs, tabs, guitar pro files   and backing tracks and five additional really  awesome licks that I made for you - of course you   also have access to five online courses over  there and over 180 individual lessons and also   my personal feedback - make sure to subscribe so  that you don't miss the next video and leave a   like in case you enjoyed this one - I will see  you very soon have a lot of fun shredding, bye!

Channel: BERNTH

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Id: cyw06RUT_Qw

Length: 12min 54sec (774 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 28 2021