Lick #21: Angus's Repeater - Blues Rock (Guitar Lesson LK-021) How to play

lick plays

Hi how you doin'! Justin here

In this lesson today

we are checking out a lick I call

Angus's Repeater 'cause it's quite

commonly used by Angus Young.

It's a very usable little trick

This is only a short lick, the idea

it's just the first part that of the

little thing I play that I put a

little tag on the end

which I'll probably show you anyway but, uh,

Yah the main thing we're after here is

this bend and then this little flurry

and then back to the bend again

'cause you can use it lots of different ways.

Let's get to a close up

check out the lick

and, uh, then I'll show you some

variations and stuff on it.

playing the lick

Ok, so this is the lick

that we're looking at really

We're starting off with a big bend

15th fret, 2nd string, 3rd finger

Upper time, put vibrato on it

all that up to you

But then we've got this little...

...thing before the next bend which is

12th fret on the thinner string

15th fret second string

flicking off to the 12th fret

and then back to the bend

demonstrates

Now, you can use it

lots of different rhythms

The one I would recommend

you start off with

is a group of 6.

So you'd have

one, two, three

four, five, six

one, two, three

four, five, six

one, two, three

four, five, six

That would be the way to count it

plays at moderate speed

But of course you could totally

have it whatever rhythm you like.

plays allegro

y'know, you can put 'em fast together

whatever you like, you know

And it's, it's a really good fun

little trick like that

you, you don't have to just

this is kind of a common

AC/DC kind of style-y one

but you can

plays at lower register

move the same thing over here

onto the second string

You can use a semitone bend here 14th fret

demonstrates

Lots and lots of different ways

to use that thing

Um, just while I'm here on the close up

uh, sure some of you are gonna ask

about that lick I did

at the end of the intro.

plays ending intro lick

Just really groups of 3

plays ending intro lick slowly

with a little... at the end

plays again slowly

very common pentatonic

while it works nice after...

plays Angus Repeater

improvises lick over backing track

Short licks like this

are generally easier to work

into your playing

than a big long complicated run.

So the next task for you really

is to try and work it into your playing

and explore it.

It works in lots of different styles

and lots of different contexts

You can use it in all sorts of

different notes as well, like,

meaning that the

you can use it with the pentatonic scale

you can use it with the major scale

It's really quite a clever one

'cause it's so simple

There's lots of ways of kind of

changing it about, you know?

So, have a bit of fun with that

and I'll see you for another lick very soon

Take care of yourself, Buh-bye!