Where do people share guitar licks/riffs/etc?

October 23, 2006 1:48 PM

I just bought a Telecaster but I don't know any country licks!

The question is a bit more general, but that's the motivation for it. A year or two ago I remember guitartricks was a fun little site with lots of riffs and parts and licks and such. Now it's gone commercial and may well be a great place, but I'm looking for something free.

Everything I can find is way too broad in its scope. I don't want full-fledged guitar lessons, scale theory, inspiration, lifelong advice on becoming a professional musician, etc. Have you ever heard someone jamming at a music store and asked him to show you some clever part he just played? (Well, I have.) That's about what I'm looking for.

I have recordings by Jimmy Bryant, Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, The Hellecasters, Brent Mason, etc, so I'm really not even asking for CD recommendations. Yeah, I can pick stuff out by ear, but I'm trying to be lazy here. Nor, really, am I looking for country guitar resourced in particular. Just a place where people share little riffs, licks, gimmicks, cliches, noodling, whatever.

posted by mragreeable to sports, hobbies, & recreation (7 comments total)

The closest thing I ever found to what you're looking for is GuitarGeek, but it was generally oriented towards a different style of music, and it's gone downhill in the last couple of years.

If you haven't yet found the TDPRI, though, you should definitely start there. I don't know that they necessarily share a lot of licks, but you could probably petition the management to start a sub-forum just for the purpose, and I bet it'd be well attended.
posted by ikkyu2 at 2:56 PM on October 23, 2006

How about these.
posted by gfrobe at 2:56 PM on October 23, 2006 [1 favorite]

On second thought, just go straight to the TDPRI Forum pages.
posted by ikkyu2 at 2:57 PM on October 23, 2006

I've always come away learning something new whenever I've read an article, lesson or interview on Line 6's GuitarPort online, particularly Wolf Marshall's contributions.

It does, however, require you own a pod variant, and you do have to pay a couple of bucks a month to subscribe, but you can try it out free for a month or so.

More info here.
posted by chrissyboy at 3:39 PM on October 23, 2006

gfrobe - Wow, that's some great stuff there. Youtube probably should've been the first place I looked, but I'm still living in the '80s, expecting to find something like I used to see in the back of guitar magazines. 1.6 billion dollars and worth every penny. You've cost me any chance I had of doing anything productive with my evening.

Oh, and ikku2 - yeah, I've been reading TDRPI.com a bit lately. It was based on some reviews there that I bought the pickups I just put in my tele - a set of Bill Lawrence Keystones. For the price I figured I owed it to myself to try them out, and they're much better sounding than the ceramic magnet-based pickups that my so-called reissue came with. And quieter, too.
posted by mragreeable at 7:22 PM on October 23, 2006

Yay Bill Lawrences! Those are great.

I can report with some confidence, though, based on my own research, that checking out a bunch of riffs on the Internet is not sufficient to make a person sound like Danny Gatton. :)
posted by ikkyu2 at 12:50 PM on October 24, 2006

Bit late I know, but i forgot about this.
posted by chrissyboy at 10:33 PM on October 24, 2006