Here are the Licks you must know! From simple to hard. As a Beginner, focus on the first few. Advanced players, as you probably know the first set, please focus on the More Advanced section and practice bringing the licks up in an improvised solo, as well as via the Tonic and Dominant exercises.
Curriculum
- 2 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Basic LicksAll your essential Licks are below, in short lessons. Repeat them a lot, and keep coming back to them. And don't forget to transpose them properly, of course, so you can play them on all songs. Learn how that works in the first lesson.12
- 1.1The Leading Note Lick and how to Transpose all your Licks8 Minutes
- 1.2How to practice your Tonic Licks10 Minutes
- 1.3The Getz (Minor) Lick5 Minutes
- 1.4The Coltrane Lick4 Minutes
- 1.5The Universal Dominant Lick
- 1.6The Jessica Lick4 Minutes
- 1.7The Rhapsody Lick (Simple, yay!)3 Minutes
- 1.8How to practice your Dominant Licks
- 1.9The Universal Dominant Lick4 Minutes
- 1.10The Honeysuckle Rose Lick4 Minutes
- 1.11The Diminished Lick7 Minutes
- 1.12Transposition problems?3 Minutes
- More Advanced LicksIf you are an Advanced player, spend more time on these Licks please. You should make them just as comfortable and easy to reproduce as the Basic Licks above, in various keys!8
