Soloing Secrets - Billy Gibbons

Hey everyone! Here's the next episode of Soloing Secrets with a special look at the playing style of Billy Gibbons. I've had numerous requests to feature more of ZZ Top's music and Billy's ideas, so I figured featuring him in the new Soloing Secrets series would be a great idea - so let's dig in!

Billy Gibbons is a complete guitar legend filled with great licks, tricks, tones, and ideas for days. For a player that's been on the scene and vibrantly active since the late 1960s, it's really saying something that BIlly can still bring down the house with his emotive blues-rock playing. Complete with that signature soulful bending/vibrato attack, not to mention his outstanding gritty vocals that really deliver the ZZ Top sound.

The ideas in this lesson center around various common areas within Billy's lead guitar style and this includes hitting the core essentials with a few secrets sprinkled in along the way. The ideas shared here include using pentatonic "pockets" to build licks/phrases, exploring/using the pentatonic "highway" along the fretboard, a hybrid picking primer, various slip-n-slide licks/phrases, how to locate Billy's favorite double-stops, and much more!

Needless to say, if you're a ZZ Top and/or Billy Gibbons fan, or just a player searching for some insight into the playing style of an absolute guitar legend - look no further, this lesson is totally for you! Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!

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