bigjon's entire Carl-Verheyen-style lick diary (3 licks)

bigjon

Came across this this while digging out my blank tab manuscript book because I'm teaching my first guitar lesson in 5+ years this evening. Carl Verheyen recommends keeping a lick diary to help you expand your repertoire. I see that I kept it up a whole ten days and came up with 3 licks!

DLM

I think you did better than I managed, Jon! In terms of both volume and quality! I tried it too after reading a Verheyen interview in Guitar Player and learning all his string-skipping licks. I've still got the scribbled transcriptions of my own ideas somewhere, but as I'm nowhere near as musically literate as you I doubt anyone would be able to get anything out of what I wrote down at the time. I'll have a dig...

Cool that you're teaching again, I hope the student is fun to teach!

bigjon

DLM said:

Cool that you're teaching again, I hope the student is fun to teach!

It's just a one-off lesson as a favour to a friend, and he's cancelled as he's too tired! I'm not complaining!

DLM

@bigjon

Bah. I'm glad you're not upset. And of course it's different if you're doing someone a favour instead of earning money with it. But the missus teaches music for a living and has plenty of hassle with flaky students.

Anyway, I couldn't find my "Verheyen diary" scrawls straight off. I did unearth piles of teenage poetry/song lyrics, but I'm not posting that!

bigjon

DLM said:

Anyway, I couldn't find my "Verheyen diary" scrawls straight off. I did unearth piles of teenage poetry/song lyrics, but I'm not posting that!

Dare you. First song I wrote was a 12-bar blues called "A Million Mice & Only One Piece Of Cheese" - I performed it at my 40th birthday party for a laugh

DLM

DLM said:

Anyway, I couldn't find my "Verheyen diary" scrawls straight off. I did unearth piles of teenage poetry/song lyrics, but I'm not posting that!

It's turned up. I'm not sure what's more embarrassing, that or the teenage poetry... The same book has my own transcriptions of Metallica songs for nylon-string guitar. I thought the snare drum was a muted high E string... :rolleyes:

I've buried it again while I sort out my cellar, but I might post the odd excerpt when I've had a proper look at the licks.

:shame:

bigjon

Sounds like an inspired arranging trick to me :-)