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Practice Tip: New Ending Lick

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Sat, 07/30/2022 - 06:58
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Players commonly stumble at the end of songs to perform an ending lick that sounds good and is in time (lots of players improvise this, and the results are sloppy). A strong ending lick not only sounds good, when played with confidence, it’s authoritative enough to really pull the band together for a solid ending. Grab a new ending lick from one of your study songs or the list provided in Improvising Study 6 and practice placing it into your improvising practice (which should be 1/3 of your practice time at this point). Make this your default ending lick for a minimum of two month. If you do this, then by the end of the year you’ll have six killer ending licks in your vocabulary.

Reference: Improvising Study 6

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