Jimmy Page Guitar Lick in E Minor

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Summary: Using the third position in the E minor pentatonic scale, it's easy to play a lick that uses open strings to achieve the sound of Jimmy Page or Jeff Beck. Find out how to play rock guitar riffs with help from a professional guitarist in this free video on guitar lessons.

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By Emilio Cueto & Howie Simon
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Emilio Cueto is a professional guitarist who has studio and touring experience with Sony International and EMI Latin. Howie Simon's experience includes studio and touring work with a...read more

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"Hi in this lesson we are going to learn a classic lick in the style of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck. It's in the key of E using the third position using the E minor pentatonic scale. What's cool about this lick is that is sounds real fast, but it's real easy. Listen in particular to the way it pulls off sound when using open strings. I will play the lick four times for you. Let's listen at full tempo, three four. Now let's break it down. This is a three note pattern repeated on the high E and B strings. What you are going to do is down stroke with your pick fretting the fifth fret with your third finger you are going to pull off to the third. And when you pull off you are actually snapping your finger off of the string so as the friction caused by your fingers sliding off of it creates the string vibration again. And you are already fretting on the third with your first finger. Then you are going to do the same exact thing again with your first finger pull off to an open string. So it is almost like you are snapping your finger off the string. And you are going to do that same three note pattern again this time on the B string. Now on the B string you have got to the be careful not to hit the E string again. So what I do is I take the back part of my first finger, and I rest it against the high E string. So that even if you pick it or you hit it with your finger it is muted. So when you pull off on the B string you are going to pull off E strings muted, pull off again, E string is still muted. Both of them together. Now you are also going to want to alternate pick. Down stroke on the high E, upstroke on the B. That makes a very natural up and down motion on your right hand, it stays in the same position, you are not moving it a whole lot. Just this right here, down, up, down, up. Let's listen again at a slower tempo, three, four. Let's here it one more time with a high speed back and track. Just remember I am going to end it on the fifth fret on the B string with a slight bravado."