Licks Guitar
How do you figure out how to play Electric Guitar licks from chords?
If I was planning on playing a lick when the song is in G and progresses: G,C,D... How would I form a lick? Would I use the G Pentatonic position scale?
There are many levels of theory involved in playing over a set of chords. The more you play guitar, the more you will learn about the options available to you, and of course the more you will develop your ear and start to 'hear' what works well.
But where is the best place to start?
The minor pentatonic scale is the first place for most guitarists and it is a great scale for many reasons, one of the best things about it is sounds good over a lot of chords. So in the key of G, playing a minor pentatonic scale will sound good a lot of the time (even when playing G minor pentatonic over C and D).
As you learn more scales (the G major scale would sound good over this too), you'll learn to mix your playing so you might play a G minor pentatonic lick followed by a G major lick - that will vary the tonality that you are bringing out of the underlying chords.
But to get started
1) Learn your G minor pentatonic scale in first position (i.e. starting at the third fret of the thick (E) string)
2) Learn the other positions of the same scale - so you can play it anywhere over the fretboard
3) Play over the chords - record yourself, jam with a mate or Play Along with a CD that has those chords - a song you know goes G, C, D
And buy guitar magazines, books and maybe even DVDs. There's also great websites out there that you can learn from for free (e.g. http://www.guitarpracticeblog.com/ )
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