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Guthrie Govan Melodic Minor Lick Guitar Lesson - Part 2 of 3 - Guitar Instruction and Breakdown

After several guitar lessons based on the licks, concepts, songs and solos of the master Guthrie Govan ... we bring to you yet another Guthrie lesson this time based on a Melodic Minor idea he played in a video recently uploaded to youTube.

In this lesson I'll try to touch on some basic ideas of Melodic Minor. We'll begin by going over two scale shapes / patterns to get you started with the scale. We will then breakdown the cool line / lick that Guthrie plays note for note. And then we will briefly talk about how to begin to incorporate this into your own playing.

We will dive further into the many uses of the Melodic Minor scale in a series of future lessons. So please take a moment to subscribe to our channel and stick around for those and other free lessons.

As I've stated in earlier Guthrie Govan lessons that we've presented, I'm sure if you are checking out this lesson ... it means you are familiar with Guthrie Govan. So I won't dive into too much description about this guitar genius and what he's all about. But if you do like him please check out our "Guthrie Govan" playlist on our channel at the following link ...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA83786F719AE649D

... it is filled with lessons breaking down many of his solos, licks and songs.

And if you are interested in hearing some amazing players that Guthrie and many other great players have quoted as influences ... just do a search for players such as Larry Carlton, Scott Henderson, Michael Landau, Allen Hinds, Dann Huff, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Frank Gambale, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page. And then there all the country and straight ahead jazz players like ... Danny Gatton, Albert Lee, Jerry Donahue, Brent Mason, Chet Atkins, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, George Benson and Wes Montgomery ... to name just a few.

To hear Guthrie Govan play this cool Melodic Minor idea and also explain how he approaches using the melodic minor ( super locrian and lydian dominant ) just go to the following link.

http://youtu.be/uhz56icgQ0I

The lick that this lesson is based on begins at about 4:34.

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JamTrackCentral has some great backing tracks including this package ... "Total Blues Series 2" ... which has the "Robert Cray" backing track used here at the end of this video. The folks over there are really good people that offer some really great backing tracks.

I hope you enjoy this lesson ...

Taught by David Clayton

Alright ... Lets get to it.

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