TAB

Guthrie Govan

20 ESSENTIAL
LICKS
LICK 20

JTC SAYS

For this final Lick that we’ll look at in this package we’ll advance ahead a bit in the Too Cool
for School solo.

Guthrie continues to come up with new ways of playing chromatic ideas while keeping them
all extremely musical. The first chromatic idea here is a simple
simple walkup on the B string from
the 9 fret to the 12 fret (notice how he breaks up a 4 note chromatic run by throwing in one
note on the G string).
s tring).

The second chromatic idea here takes place in that 12th fret position of the all too familiar
E minor (or G Major) pentatonic
pentatonic scale. Between bending
bending the 15th fret of the
the B string up
to the unison note on the 12 fret of the E string Guthrie starts to throw in three chromatic
notes on E string (12th,
(12th, 13th and 14th frets). He plays around in this area a bit turning the
phrase around a bunch of times before he start s to climb chromatically up the E string while
pivoting off the B note 12th fret on the B string.

To finish this off he eases back into phrasing with the pentatonic scale.

Between just these last two “Licks” we’ve seen Guthrie introduce more then a handful of
ways to create interesting licks and phrases with chromatic movement at the heart of the
ideas. Never again should
should any of us be content to just play a chromatic scale straight up
 LICK 20
As recorded by jamtrackcentral.com
(From the 2014 Album GUTHRIE GOVAN'S 20 ESSENTIAL LICKS)

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