20 Soulful Groovy Licks

Soulful, stylish and downright groovy! Learning these sophisticated and melodic licks by our incredible new artist Lari Basilio, will inspire and innovate your own soloing and finger picking ideas!

Lari says 'My goal with these licks was to highlight how you can incorporate finger picking into your playing whilst maintaining a great groove and always keeping things melodic.' She really hit the nail on the head there, as Lari's sense of groove and melody comes across with both impact and grace in equal measures!

These funky, fun and often surprising licks feature a mass of interesting melodic and rhythmic concepts that you can learn to add into your own solos. Be prepared for muted strums, rests on downbeats, accented notes on upbeats and some quite intricate picking patterns! You'll find creative use of the mixolydian, aeolian, dorian, pentatonic and harmonic minor scales in these licks as well as parallel 6ths, stacked 4ths, chordal inversions, open strings, cool chromatics and both partial and superimposing arpeggios.

For the technique side of Lari's new package the finger picking style is quite a main focus, but Lari also makes great use of alternate picking, sweep picking, tapping, double-stops, legato, pianistic style lines and a lot of cool bending!

Lari has really knocked it out of the park with these masterful licks; this girl really knows how to make a debut in style, and is an absolute pro! We're incredibly excited to have her as part of the ever growing roster of incredible artists here at JTC!

As ever, we have included everything you need to practise and perfect the material in this package. There are video and audio tracks for you to watch/listen and study, accurately transcribed TAB/notation for you to analyse and master, and backing tracks for everything! We've even included some text notes to help you really get these parts down

Note: These licks are played in Drop D tuning.