Jack here jbf music and guitar lessons, what I’ve got for you here is a line that I think I stole
from Iron Maiden’s Dave Murray in his Ides of March solo probably the very first lick I actually
manged to get a bit of speed on, way back when, way back when, way back when, way back when…
There was supposed to be a flash back there…
Ok, I’ve done a tonne of videos on Dave and Maiden, so much so that I gave them
their own playlist- which you can check out with the i up there. This is a trick that
long term members of the lick squad elite will likely already know as the ‘embellished trill’
but I’m gonna show you some cool stuff you can do with it as well.
In a nutshell pick this note, pick this one; I like to use 2 down strokes for this up at
fast speeds; then hammer on and pull off. Stay as relaxed as you can; play this as fast as possible,
but as slow as necessary; loop it round and let that muscle memory start to build.
If you feel like going for a speed burst after a while, go for it,
but make sure to not tense up. I’d really recommend going round on this for a few
minutes and developing that comfort and familiarity with the hand movements involved.
Alright, let’s lick-ify this a bit, by taking it down through the pentatonic scale:
Same idea pick two notes, hammer on, pull off- just over different string groups.
Again, keep it slow feel free to try each part out in isolation
before threading it all together. The idea here is we want to build reliable muscle memory,
slow and steady wins the race here! Before I forget if you’re enjoying
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Nice one, let’s go the other way and switch things up a bit more:
Starts of the same, but in reverse, pick these two notes, hammer, pull off. Same idea
across all the string sets.
Then we get to the B and E strings. Here. I’m going between the 15th fret
for the 1st and 3rd times and the 14th fret for the 2nd and 4th times; like so.
Using my 3rd finger for the 15th fret and 2nd for the 14th fret.
A position shift here and while most of the notes stay the same, the 1st 2nd and second times I’m
using the 17th fret on the E string, then going up to the 19th fret for the 3rd and 4th times;
so that bar by itself.
This next bar is more varied again, but still using this embellished trill technique. Pick
these, hammer to the 19th, pull off. Pick these again, hammer to the 20th pull off. Position
shift, picking the 22nd and 19th frets hammer to the 20th, pull off, same idea but hammering
to the 22nd fret. Picking these last three notes and adding some vibrato to the bend
For a look at how I’ve been trying to get nice steady vibrato on my bends give that
video a click, or you can check out my other Maiden stuff in that playlist. But,
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