The best way to close out a week of technique work is to apply everything to actual musical material. Here’s a collection of licks from the week’s livestream to give you something concrete to dig into and to spark ideas of your own.
What you’ll get out of this lesson: A set of ready-to-use licks that put the week’s picking and dexterity concepts into a musical context, plus a jumping-off point for creating your own variations.
How to Use This Lick Pack
These aren’t just licks to memorise and move on from. Use them as a way to build dexterity, but also as inspiration for your own lines. Take a lick, learn it cleanly, then ask yourself: what if I changed the rhythm? What if I started on a different note? What if I applied a different picking pattern from this week to the same fingering? That kind of active engagement turns a lick pack into a genuine creative resource.
Getting the Most from the PDF
Download the PDF below and work through each lick individually before trying to chain them together. Pay attention to the picking directions marked in the notation — they’re there for a reason. If a lick feels awkward at first, that awkwardness is the technique gap the lick is targeting.
Taking it further: Once you’re comfortable with the licks as written, try transposing your favourites to different positions on the neck, or applying the non-economy picking patterns from earlier in the week to the same fingerings to hear how the feel and tone change.
Your homework: Choose two or three licks from the pack and learn them cleanly this week. For each one, write out (or mentally note) one variation of your own — change the rhythm, the picking pattern, or the starting position — and practise that variation alongside the original.