Connect Your Chords With Riffs & Licks (Works In Every Key)

📚 Listen & Play course OUT NOW: https://andrewclarkeguitar.teachable.com/p/listen-play 📕 Free Guitar Music Theory Handbook: https://www.andrewclarkeguitar.com/free-stuff/guitarists-companion 🎵 Free Backing Tracks: https://www.andrewclarkeguitar.com/free-stuff/slow-pop-track-pack 🎸 Patreon for diagrams, tabs, & jam tracks: https://www.patreon.com/andrewclarkeguitar One of the most impressive things to watch a guitar player do is switch effortlessly between rhythm and lead guitar. In this video, I'll show you how to start playing solos, riffs, and licks in the gaps between your guitar chords. There are a thousand different ways to approach this topic, but here, we'll be making use of the chord roadmaps that you should be familiar with from other videos of mine. I'll even show you how to connect your minor pentatonic scale to your bar chords so you can start using a basic scale shape to improvise with as well! If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments below. Thanks for watching! _______________________________________________ -- Videos I referenced in this lesson -- Chord Roadmaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYs_0Rx3CTI _______________________________________________ – Guitar Gear (Affiliate) – Guitar: https://www.suhr.com/instruments/classic-s-antique/ Strings: https://stringjoy.com/categories/strings/electric-guitar-strings/signatures/6-string-signatures/ Amp: https://drzamps.com/product/ezg-50/ Tuner: https://www.turbo-tuner.com/ Fuzz: https://www.kingtoneguitar.com/product/minifuzz-v2blk/ Compressor: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/c/4024375/937020/11319?prodsku=Cali76CmpDlx&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweetwater.com%2Fstore%2Fdetail%2FCali76CmpDlx--origin-effects-cali76-compact-deluxe-compressor-pedal&intsrc=PUI2_7338 Overdrive: https://browneamps.com/theprotein Modulation: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/c/4024375/937020/11319?prodsku=UAAstra&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweetwater.com%2Fstore%2Fdetail%2FUAAstra--universal-audio-astra-modulation-machine-pedal&intsrc=PUI2_7338 Delay: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/c/4024375/937020/11319?prodsku=UAStarlight&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweetwater.com%2Fstore%2Fdetail%2FUAStarlight--universal-audio-starlight-echo-station-delay-pedal&intsrc=PUI2_7338 Reverb: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/c/4024375/937020/11319?prodsku=UAGolden&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweetwater.com%2Fstore%2Fdetail%2FUAGolden--universal-audio-golden-reverberator-pedal&intsrc=PUI2_7338 Load Box: https://www.suhr.com/electronics/tone-tools/reactive-load-ir/ IR: https://www.yorkaudio.co/product-page/dxvb-verb-deluxe Amp Sim: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/c/4024375/937020/11319?prodsku=UADream&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweetwater.com%2Fstore%2Fdetail%2FUADream--universal-audio-dream-65-reverb-amplifier-pedal&intsrc=PUI2_7338 Interface: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/c/4024375/937020/11319?prodsku=ApolloTXDHE&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sweetwater.com%2Fstore%2Fdetail%2FApolloTXDHE--universal-audio-apollo-twin-by-duo-heritage-edition-10x6-thunderbolt-audio-interface-with-uad-dsp&intsrc=PUI2_7338 – Video Gear (Affiliate) – Camera 1: https://amzn.to/3NZPB6U Lens 1: https://amzn.to/3riM2iU Camera 2: https://amzn.to/3NXj7dd Lens 2: https://amzn.to/3PznHjc Microphone: https://amzn.to/44suQ93 – My Links – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewclarkeguitar/ TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@andrewclarkeguitar YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8wczbrBpuyq5i6XqdXxukw/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/andrewclarkeguitar 30-Day Free Trial to Guitareo: https://bit.ly/guitareotrial My Thomann Gear Page: https://www.thomann.de/intl/thlpg_a520v0dpma.html _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - The problem (and how we'll solve it) 1:20 - Review of the 2 chord roadmaps 2:55 - Adding to the chord roadmap (A-string root) 4:14 - What's the point of this? 5:18 - Example with a chord progression 6:37 - One important rule 7:11 - This feels too simple 7:30 - Using the other chord roadmap (E-string root) 8:50 - Example with a new chord progression 9:43 - How to use this in other keys 10:44 - Taking things higher (vertical scales) 11:19 - Building a home base with the pentatonic scale 12:43 - Adding the 4 & 7 back into the scale 13:45 - How do we use this new shape? 14:31 - Example with another chord progression 15:48 - What comes next? (covering the entire fretboard) 17:00 - Same scale with the E-string chord roadmap 18:06 - Should we keep going with this series? (Let me know!) _______________________________________________ Music Credits: Smoothie by Popoi | https://soundcloud.com/popoimusic Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US #guitarchords #guitarlesson #musictheory #chordroadmaps