Where Do You Get Your Licks?

[SirTJ]

Where do you get your licks from? Do you study specific players/albums and mimic? Take them from tutorial videos (youtube, DVDs, etc.). Sit down and create your own?

I think most of mine come from tutorial videos. I'm trying to find some players/albums to study, however, to build a bigger repertoire.

[emusicme28]

Wow. This is my kind of thread. I usually try to listen to the guitar licks and try to mimic them. however, I myself have been wondering about new ways to learn different licks and fills so I plan on lurking around this thread.

[T-Block]

God, songs, youtube vids, pretty much from any and everywhere there's music.

[chevonee]

God, songs, youtube vids, pretty much from any and everywhere there's music.

This.

[rayjohnson83]

I listen to WEIRD stuff...ALOT of WEIRD stuff....I also listen to jazz, country, rock, and pop to get some licks and riffs.


oh, and guitarists....

[Ryan T]

I try to transcribe jazz solos from horn players and keys and I specifically listen to a lot of John Mclaughlin, Art Tatum, Dream Theater, and Joe  Zawinul since they have a lot of printed stuff and instructional materials.

[rayjohnson83]

I try to transcribe jazz solos from horn players and keys and I specifically listen to a lot of John Mclaughlin, Art Tatum, Dream Theater, and Joe  Zawinul since they have a lot of printed stuff and instructional materials.

YES SIR!!!!!!