Here is a Rockabilly lick that sounds very cool. It’s short but sounds flashy when played up to tempo. It’s not that hard either, since this guitar lick uses a repetitive pick, pull-off, pull-off movement for the bottom 3 strings. Once you get used to this pull-off technique, there are a lots of cool and flashy guitar licks you can do, based on this.
This guitar lick is based on the style of Brian Setzer, one of the most successful Rockabilly guitar players around today.
The Rabid Rodent is a distortion pedal built my friend Bob at www.duhvoodooman.com. It is more or less a copy of the classic Proco RAT distortion pedal, but the Rabid Rodent has a lot more tonal options.
In this demo, I am playing a Michael Kelly Patriot Shadow, which has high output humbuckers in it. The amp I am using is a 4 watt GEM amp from http://www.mackamps.com . I did not use any other effects used in this video. The volume of the amp on this volume was very low, to avoid clipping on the camera microphone. I stunned at how good this setup sounds! I can get tone close to those of a Marshall stack, but without the ear splitting volume. I highly recommend this pedal if you are looking for a great and versatile distortion pedal. I also use it for blues. You get such a fat tone out of this pedal, and with single coils and low gain on the pedal, a sweet blues tone can be had.
Contact DuhVoodooMan and he will build you one too.
Here is an arrangement I came up with for my students. They really enjoyed playing it, and you can do it too.
Have a look.
This blog is about learning guitar, whether you are a beginner or an experienced guitar player. Learning how to play guitar is something anyone can do. It’s not about talent, it’s about motivation and sticking to it.
I teach guitar every week, and it’s amazing to see the progress of guitar students who really love to play guitar.
Have a look at my website with free guitar lessons. They are available in video format, and most come with PDF tabs and/or Guitar Pro 5 files.
