Trills and Pull Off Licks

This free heavy metal guitar video lesson by Peter Vogl will show you how to play several guitar licks in the key of E. We'll use the E Minor Pentatonic scale and the E Blues Scale. We'll use these licks to cover how to play trills and pull-offs on your guitar. We'll also practice these licks over track 9, Raw Power, of the Let's Jam! Hard Rock.

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Here is the Em Pentatonic Scale

E minor Pentatonic scale

The first lick is a trill

This is a Em Pentatonic Scale up the first string plus we add a C# to this scale which is what we call a Dorian note.

e major pentatonic scale 2nd position

Here's Lick 2

Let's look at the E Blues Scale

E Blues Scale

Here's Lick 3

E Blues Scale

Now practice playing all of the licks over track 9, Raw Power, of the Let's Jam! Hard Rock.

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