Here are 5 easy guitar licks that sound hard.
Table of Contents
Lick 1: Whole Tone
The first lick using a simple whole tone scale pattern on the G and B strings.
Use your index (1) and ring (3) fingers to play the hammer-ons for each string.
Lick 2: Downward Sus4 sweeping Lick
The second lick uses a downward sweep picking motion, or you can use hybrid picking.
Each shape has the “root-4th-octave” interval structure.
Lick 3: Pentatonic Double stops
The third lick uses double stops from the A minor pentatonic scale.
Play each shape using a barre with your index (1) finger.
Lick 4: A minor Pentatonic in 3 Octaves
The fourth lick is a 3-octave A minor pentatonic scale shape.
The fret-hand finger structure remains the same for each set of 2 strings (E-A, D-G, B-e). This makes it easy to memorize.
Lick 5: Diatonic Arpeggios in G Major
The fifth lick is a diatonic arpeggio sequence from the G major scale.
The arpeggio sequence is: Dmaj – Emin – F#dim – Gmaj.
