Guitar Challenge - Play your favorite short lick or riff here!

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Trond ,
Pay attention at the place where you are working now. Maybe I am your Siren
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Hi @tRONd
I’ll answer you here to try to maintain some clarity :smile:

not for me… :smile:

I only played it for about 5 hours I think and made 2 recordings with not many mistakes (that 6th trick)… BUT my biggest problem is that I can’t get rid of the squeaking of the strings while playing the 6th trick , hopefully it’s the factory strings because otherwise I still have a lot of work to do,
no it is really a lot of fiiiiiiep fiiieeeup … and of course that one include a lot of slide over the string, but still :flushed: … and the best acoustic sound I get out of strumming …
I will post soon… :blush:

Hahahaha… well, if you are stupid enough to swim around in that freezing water… :joy:
like that acoustasonic of yours… looks like a very fun instrument… Best lick ive ever heard by the way!

Edit Rogier… that came out wrong. that supercool Fender deserves a way bigger introduction than this… ive seen what you are capable of… please make an proper introduction on it… i am curious on how it sounds…

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Great topic.
It is somewhat revealing of the need perhaps for Justin to explain in his early beginner riff lessons the difference between a riff and a lick.
Multiple people (perhaps half of the uploads) are posting riffs here.

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And I’m probably going to end up being guilty on that score as well Richard with this one!! Until this thread I’d only learnt the first half of this, before the walk up, so been a good catalyst to revisit this introduction lick (or riff, who knows anymore!) :slight_smile:

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Lick or Riff what is the difference

You’re lucky that I’m so easy-going :rofl: Nooo I’m way too happy that so many people want to play along with me. :blush: :sunglasses:

Greetings,

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Maybe @roger_holland should amend the title to reflect increasing riff content ? :rofl:
Anyway, well done to those folks posting riffs and the odd wolf whistle lick, since my last visit.
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No no no ,that`s not the way :thinking:
TEACHER (don’t) leave those kids alone…

Now many more people are taking a crash course and be be more consciously (? I can’t find the right words)… :sunglasses:

Yes, you were joke…ing, but I know that and Joke can now almost walk here :joy:

Greetings

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5 posts were merged into an existing topic: RE: the lick challenge - what is the difference between a lick and a riff?

@roger_holland great challenge idea Rogier and great to see you playing again :smiley:
Loved watching everyone’s riffs/licks :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I’ll throw in my lot with a riff not lick folks since I don’t know how to play those yet :smiling_face:

Hey Joe - Riff

From Justin’s easy version lesson for the song (at around 5:45 mins).

I’ve been working on fleshing out Hey Joe (albeit very slowly), as I hope to be able to play all the parts of the song (rhythm, riffs, lead, solo, etc.) one day (long term goal) :smiling_face:

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Some think he’s a ‘space cowboy’…
Some think he’s the ‘gangster of love’…
From now on I’m calling him Maurice :rofl:

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Catching up on the latest licks & riffs (whilst putting that discussion fully to one side for now :wink:)…

@roger_holland (or is it Maurice?) Outstanding, my friend! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
@HappyCat So cool! :clap: :astonished: Had a (unsuccessful) crack at that one myself in the past (great song!) and nothing simple about it from my perspective :laughing: Loved it! Whole song soon???
@Notter Sounding down right filthy there mate! Really dug that! :metal: :sunglasses:
@firasR Oooh yeah, you got that one going real well! Instantly recognisable :clap: :smiley: The ol’ little finger likes to travel though :wink: mine does too, been struggling to rein it in myself recently, something we can work on together! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thanks Jeff :blush:

Thanks for pointing out the rebellious pinky, hadn’t noticed that. Seeing it now clearly in this clip, it looks like it’s trying to detach itself from the rest of the hand and run up & down the fret board yelling “I’m free! Free falling…” :rofl:

We’ll have to trade “pinky videos” and see if we can reign them in (I’m definitely expecting @brianlarsen to make some weird & hilarious comment about that at some point :rofl:).

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Here is my lick try (first attempt at letting anyone but my wife hear me play)
Hope you recognize

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Hey Daniel,

Cool little riff. Sounds like the one from Tennessee Whiskey.
Congratulations on your first video. You’ve broken the ice now mate. :+1:

All the best.

Cheers, Shane

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Thanks Jeff @nzmetal.
Ya really want the whole song? I’ll post it up (in it’s own thread) if folks really wanna hear it. It really is a fun song.
I did a collaboration with another guitarist (from a forum my wife won’t let me go to anymore) of that song.
I did several with her and I think Long Cool Woman was likely the hardest song we did. It was hard to play the guitar part and my collaborator said it was killer to sing (collaborator did all the singing, which she did very good at). It for sure was the song we spent the most time in doing (of about 10-15 songs). About a month and a half to put it together for it to be mostly satisfying.
It was hard enough to do that I think it’s the only song that I did it in two parts. That darn into killed me. I just couldn’t do the whole song clean through so the into was done sepeate than the rest of the song and my collaborator, a skilled producer, put the two parts together for it to be a pretty transparent splice.
It was also the first song I did that I did hybrid picking on. It’s a simple bridge, but near as hard to do as the into was. For me anways.

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@roger_holland I have edited the topic title. There are so many riffs in here now that it seems churlish to continue a conversation about the difference between a lick and a riff and it seems mean spirited to not allow riffs as there are already so many to enjoy in the topic.
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Fine for me , it did gave a nice insight into the music knowledge of many :smile: and the rebellion of others by completely ignoring my wish :roll_eyes: :smile: … I first wanted to open a Riff topic the next day after opening this topic, but when I realized how popular this was and it caused a lot of fuss in my notification system so I thought …no way :sweat_smile: (how do you deal with all those notifications??? :exploding_head: :man_bowing:)
Greetings

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@firasR Ah the iconic Hey Joe walk up !! Great to here this one added to the fray. :+1:

@dwalms Nice on Daniel, not one I recognised 100% but something very familiar for sure !

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Holy Diver, by Dio… (Riff… May return with a lick later )

The lick, which I believe is of my own devising

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