Lick of the Day: Guthrie Govan - Slinky Sitar-like Lick in E

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Today's lick is a slinky, East Indian-flavored cascading run based on the E dominant pentatonic scale (E G♯ A B D). Its main feature is the use of long grace-note finger slides, which give it a sitar-like quality.

By far the most challenging part of playing this lick is accurately performing the quick slides; it's all too easy to overshoot or undershoot them when they're played at such a fast tempo! Spending time isolating and repeatedly practicing some of the longer slides will help your fingers develop the crucial "muscle memory" required for traversing those particular fretboard intervals at full speed.

Memorizing the lick should be a top priority so that you can focus your complete attention on the fretboard without the constant distraction of having to look away and refer back to the notation.

The tempo is 147 beats per minute, 52 for slow practice.

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[PGROSYE02]

anybody else groan every time they see a chuck norris joke nowadays?

[JohnTouchstoneTV]

Kenny Wayne Shepard , Guthrie Govan , Tomo Fujita , John Petrucci , seems like guitar world magazine has all the top guitar instructors these days

God Bless America

[guitarslim56]

@PGROSYE02 No.

[rgt4all]

@fraud1980 read the comment i replied to jackass

[fraud1980]

@rgt4all Hi, you must be from 2009....

[CDGR31]

Nice

[jaretthale78]

"10% more Indian sounding"

[wagatabuchunga1]

@MrJuliorMedina w00t its settled then. not a penny

[MrJuliorMedina]

@wagatabuchunga1 @EpicDJTime

He plays Red Bear picks. (it was in one of his licklibrary videos)

[H057IL3]

This is E mixolydian, just to specify for anyone who wants to improvise.

[thefreezingmoon1]

"Hi, Jesus here.."

[wagatabuchunga1]

@EpicDJTime pause around 0:43 or 0:44 Just a good old shiny red pick, may take couple tries to get the video paused at the right time