Check out Lick of the Day itunes.apple.com a free download for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch available at the App Store "Like" us on Facebook www.facebook.com for more exclusive Guitar World content! Today's lick pays homage to the playing of blues legends Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lightnin' Hopkins. It's a short but action-packed lick in the key of A, played out of the open position and incorporating lots of quick finger slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and open strings. You'll notice the fraction "1/4" at the top of the bend arrows for the high G note (high E string, third fret) in bar 1 and the low G (low E string, third fret) in bar 2; this indicates my use of microtonal quarter-step bends. With a microtonal bend, the string is bent just a little bit, approximately halfway between the third and fourth fret in each case here. It adds a little "sass" and attitude to the note, unlike a bend that raises a note up to a new, specific pitch. The tempo is 100 beats per minute, 64 for slow practice.
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