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How To TurnAverage Lead Guitar Licks Into Awesome Guitar Licks By Tom HessDo you struggle to play great lead guitarlicks? Chances are you’re making the same mistake as most guitarists: You addextra notes to your licks in order to cover up your lack of guitar phrasingskill. To make your lead guitar playing sound great, you must understand how toplay every single note in your licks with as much expression as possible. As you already know from reading the first part of this great lead guitar licks articleseries - you can add power and intensity to your lead guitar phrases by accentingthe final note in your licks. After practicing the exercise in the firstarticle, you have now seen the BIG difference it makes in your lead guitarphrasing. If you haven’t done so already, check out this video about how to play better lead guitarlicks, then use the exercise from part 1 of this series to apply what youlearn.Nowyou are going to learn how to get the most emotion possible out of allremaining notes from your lead guitar licks. Keep in mind that you can use thefollowing guitar phrasing exercise even if you did not read the first half ofthis article already. However, do not skip watching the video above (this isnecessary for understanding the ideas being used).Lead Guitar LicksPhrasing Exercise (How To Create Tons Of Killer Licks)Step One: Think of a guitar lick thatcontains only a few ‘slow’ notes. For example, use less than 5 notes with onlyquarter or eighth note rhythms. Do not make your phrase too fast, otherwise youwill not be able to hear the subtleties emphasized in the next steps of thisexercise. Additionally, it is important that you don’t make your phrase verylong either because playing a lot of notes will take away from your ability tofocus on the sound of each individual note. After you have come up with aguitar lick that fits the above criteria, continue on with the next step.Step Two: Afterwatching the video above, you saw (and heard) that the main techniques used toenhance the guitar lick were:·        Bends·        Vibrato·        SlidesComeup with no less than ten unique variations of your lead guitar phrase byemphasizing ONLY the first note in your lick with any combination of the abovethree techniques. For the time being, keep the other notes in your phraseexactly the same as when you made it.Remember: doNOT change any of the pitches of your guitar phrase – only change the way youapproach using the above techniques to play the first note. If you areable to record yourself while you are playing, do this and listen back toyourself so you can make subtle improvements to your approach. If you cannotrecord yourself, still continue through this exercise anyway. As you continuethinking of new variations, you will notice your guitar phrasing skillsincreasing. This is because you are forcing yourself to think creatively sinceyou cannot change the pitch of the notes in your lick. As a result, your guitarlick will sound infinitely more expressive than the way it sounded when youfirst began in step one. Also, don’t get caught up on trying to keep track ofevery single variation you think of (this is not the point of the exercise).Instead, continue working through the process of training yourself to get themost expression possible out of every note you play.In this step, make atminimum ten new variations on the first note of the phrase (ideally make twentyor more). This is not as difficult as you might think, so keep pushing forwardto come up with new ideas.Step Three: Use the same processdescribed in the previous step on each of the other notes in your guitar lick.Go through this process in a note-by-note fashion. When you create variationson any of the middle notes in your lick (by emphasizing it), play the othernotes in the same way you did when you first created the phrase OR by using oneof the variations you came up with in the previous step. Makesure that you focus most of your attention on the single note you areemphasizing. Do not let the other notes distract you at this point.After you are done with thisprocess, you will have come up with ten different ways to change the sound thenotes in the guitar lick you created from step one.Step Four: Now that you have made changes to the phrasing of eachseparate note in your guitar lick, begin changing the guitar phrase as a whole(to make new versions/variations of it) using the same process. To do this,simply combine together the different ideas you came up with in the previoussteps. You should have TONS of options/combinations to choose from afterfollowing the instructions of steps one through three. CRUCIAL: you must not add extranotes to your lick in this guitar phrasing exercise... only focus on gettingthe maximum possible expression from each note in your original phrase.You might be wondering why I did not begin thisexercise by telling you to simply do step four after step one. Here is why Idid this:A. The majority of guitaristswill naturally want to emphasize only the beginning and ending notes of thephrase while ignoring the notes in between. This common mistake in guitarphrasing frequently results in mediocre lead guitar licks.B. Unless you are an advanced guitar player (or havealready learned how to improve your guitar phrasing technique from a greatteacher) you would probably miss out on the full value of this exercise becauseyou would stop prematurely (after only thinking of a few variations for yourlick). It is for this reason that I told you to make at least ten differentvariations per note in your guitar lick.What Is The Value Of Using This Lead Guitar Phrasing Exercise?These are the two main reasonswhy performing the previous steps are essential for making progress to developyour guitar phrasing skills:1. You learn and understand exactly how to make anyguitar lick sound killer regardless of the notes you are using.2. This exercise will keep yourguitar licks from becoming overrun with excess notes that do not soundinteresting and are merely being used to cover up poor phrasing. By breakingthis habit, you will see drastic improvement in all of the lead guitar phrasesyou play.Here Is WhatYou Need To Do Next1. Practice this exerciseconsistently by using the concepts above on every new lick you learn. Keepdoing this until it feels totally natural and easy to implement.2. Study the playing in this great rock guitar licksvideo to get more ideas for how to improve your lead guitar playing.3. Use these lead guitarist phrasingresources to learn many new approaches you can use to create new guitarlicks.4. Find an expert guitar instructor who can show youthe best way to express yourself when you create lead guitar licks. Then worktogether with that teacher to identify and achieve your highest musical goals. About The Author:Tom Hess is a successful professional guitar player, composer and internationalguitar teacher. He also helps musicians learnguitar online and reach their guitar playing goals. Visit his rock and metal guitar lessons site to read morearticles about guitar playing,plus get free guitartips and guitarplaying resources.