Jimmy Page Guitar Lick in A Minor

Video Transcript

"Hey how's it going? Right now we are going to check out a lick that is in the key of A minor using the A minor pantonic scale. This is a work horse lick, which means most guitar players should really know how to play this. It is in the style of Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. I am going to play this lick four times, and what you want to do is pay attention to the pull offs that I use. So let's see what it sounds like, three, four. Okay, let's break this lick down now. What we have got are triplets, which means groups of three notes for every one beat. So every time you hear a beat from the rhythm part you are going to play three different notes. One, two, three, one, two, three, and so on. And you don't want to have a stop between the three notes. You want it to sound like one smooth flowing musical idea. So what I do is I start out with a pull off, and then I go up one note in the pantonic scale, and start the next three notes from there. Using a pull off on the next string when I have got on the same string. So a note here, and then two notes here that are pulled off as well. A note here, and then two notes that are pulled off again. Now I'm going to play the lick for you with the back and track two times slowly. Three, four. Also if you noticed on the last note of the lick I used a nice slow, smooth vibrato, which means I shake the string back and forth to give it a singing quality. That way the note has a little bit of life at the end. Just simple motion where you are moving the string back and forth. Another thing to pay attention to."