Guitar Lick Factory: Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines

by Jesse Gress

There's nothing like the feeling you get when you add a new guitar lick to your musical vocabulary. An encyclopedia of hip lines ÊGuitar Lick FactoryÊ helps beginning and intermediate guitarists build their lick repertoires. In addition it opens the door to jazz for blues and rock players of all levels gives jazzers the key to authentic blues and rock and shows the important connections among all three genres. It contains hundreds of ready-to-play licks presented as short melodic modules. Using Jesse Gress's ingenious grid system players will learn how to extract dozens of melodic harmonic and rhythmic variations from each module.

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2003

Reviews

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some fun moments in this book. It details guitar licks in blues, rock, and jazz styles in kind of a silly theme. The author of the book seems to be more of a blues guitarist, because the blues section is pretty good. The rock section does great at early fifties stuff and then just becomes a bland selection of modal sequences. The jazz section continues like that for the first half, then gets into jazz blues and suddenly becomes halfway decent again, finished off by a fairly good capstone set of full bar licks. I wouldn't necessarily pick this up if you are looking to learn new licks for your rock solo, but if you want to teach your fingers to move in new ways, it's a reasonably good course, and I learned a few things along the way.