Lick of the Day - Marc Rizzo - The Jazzy Kraken

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Today's lick is adapted from the ending of the track "Release the Kraken," from Marc Rizzo's solo album, "Legionnaire." It's a jazzy phrase that implies a Bm7 chord with some precise picking, based on the B blues scale (B D E F F♯ A B), and also shifts chromatically up to Cm7.

With the exception of bar 4, the lick is played entirely in seventh position and utilizes a combination of alternate picking and rigid hammer-ons to create a more solid structure in the usually looser confines of jazz.

The first four notes of the lick make a great little pattern to practice repeatedly with alternate picking to ensure that your left and right hands are in sync. Try to make sure the change from the seventh fret to the ninth is locked exactly to each downstroke. It may seem repetitive, but it's a fantastic accuracy drill!

The Bm7 chord at the end of bars 2, 6 and 8 is most easily fretted by barring your ring finger across the D, G and B strings at the seventh fret, then adding in your middle finger at the seventh fret on the low E and using the fleshy side of that finger to mute the unused A string.

Bar 4 shifts the chord shape up a half step, to Cm7, and is played with the same "grip" as the Bm7 chord, except you add a high D note at the 10th fret of the high E string, which makes it a minor nine chord (Cm9). Try to allow the notes to ring together as much as possible in this bar to provide a contrast to the short, sharp bursts of notes elsewhere in the lick.

Bar 8 ends the lick with a brief whole-tone phrase played in seventh position, stretching up to the 11th fret, and running down to G (B string, eighth fret) before wrapping up with a Cm7 chord left to ring, followed by a return to Bm7 and a descending slide-off.

The tempo is 152 beats per minute, 100 for slow practice.

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[ArseLoad0fMetal666]

thats probably the cleanest, jazziest thing to ever come out of a BC Rich

[metalchannel96]

sounds alot better played slower

[7Anubisss]

I wonder who else didn't expect to hear something like that.

[LWRCftw]

Chimaira has a song called Rizzo.

[MatKiller1197]

@SevenisNine why they dont play these kind of jazz type shit things

[SevenisNine]

@MatKiller1197 Tell that to Chris Poland, Broderick, Emil Werstler, and other guitarists

[guitarsdave]

Cool!

[MatKiller1197]

wtf the worst sounding lick so fucking jazzy i thought he was a metalhead

[15viceandvirtues]

Sounds cool when slowed

[AllGunsnRosesCover]

hey im marc rizzo and im playing BRUTAL FUCKIN METAL ...

DA DA DA DA

:O WHAT THE FUCK ?

[Cpmaster4587]

I would love an Eagle Archtop.

[JerkyChid]

@metalmike04 I think Rizzo has a contract in which he can get a certain number of customs a year and/or any import he wants. Lots of other companies are like that and that's how most deals start out.