Hey everyone.  I've had a lot of request since I've been writing lessons for Christian Guitar Resources and I obviously haven't been able to write them all yet.  But rest assured, I'm trying to get to your lesson.  By the way, while I'm just talking, there have been a couple request for bass lessons, so if you can play bass with the best of them and have some spare time to help out the online community, drop me a line in my e-mail.  Thanks.
Where was I?  Oh yes, one of the request I received was from Rian asking for some Spanish Licks and I thought that sounded like a cool idea... so I'm writing it.  Here it goes.

Before I begin, I'd like to make it clear that I am no expert at Spanish guitar playing.  Sure, I've heard Burlap to Cashmere and watched Zorro.  But a week ago, the only Spanish thing I could play was the rhythm off of Shaded Red's Revolution.  So I learned Spanish lead as I was preparing to write this lesson.  :0)

First of all I had to figure out a Spanish scale.  E, F and G were the chords Shaded Red used in their Spanish interlude so I thought that would be a good place to start.  Out of those 3 chords, plus Am I made the following scale.

Spanish scale
in the key of E

Play up and down that a couple times to get the hang of it.  Alright, are you ready to do something with it?  Here is your first spanish riff.

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Pretty cool, huh?  You can use that same scale to do the following lick, which is in a higher octave.

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Here is one last lick for you.  It's kind of a laid back spanish lead.

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That should be enough to get you off to a good start.  Mess around with that scale in different keys and most of all; have fun with it.  Before you know it you'll be working at one of those Mexican restraunts with a classical guitar singing for money... (well maybe not, but you can at least play spanish guitar in your bedroom.)