Hi there all UG freaks this is Christopher Doll and today we're gonna look at some Kirk Hammond inspired licks and try to come up with our own stuff stuff out of that as usual so it could look something like this the first Kirk Hammond style lick we're gonna look at is a typical rock cliche which he does a lot as well as many other other plays and it's this kind of thing we've looked at it before and what we're doing is we're bending on the 15th fret on the B string and on the 12th fret on the E string so we're bending the B string up to the same pitch as this finger so what's cool with this kind of technique is number one you get a real dirty sound out of this kind of double stop band and number two is let's say you have a backing or a riff where you know you have a scale or you have a couple of notes which you know work very well to solo with and let's say for instance we have a standard metal riff something like that and we have these three notes which we know work very well 12 fret 15th fret and the 17th fret then what we can do is we can use this shape and make sure the index finger is on the target notes so if the target note is in 12th fret we're gonna place our fingers like this and then go up to the 15th fret with the index finger and then to the 17th fret so what will happen is the notes you're playing on the with the ring finger will occasionally be out of the scale and that's what kind of gives it the cool effect because you're bending this once again you're bending the notes up to the pitch which you know sounds good so if we put it together it could sound something like this so let's say we want to take this a little further and do something more original out of it and we can use another kind of double stuff technique something which goes something like this so what I'm doing there is I'm kind of plucking the E and the B string simultaneously with my middle and ring finger on the right hand so something like that so that gives it a real crazy squeak so what's happening is we're first doing a pre-band so something like this just a tiny little band to make this note on the B string go a little bit out of pitch and that's what that's what gives us this sound which is a quite horrible sound so what I'm doing is first pre-band and I'm plucking with my right hand and then I'm damping again with my right hand like that and then I'm bending up to pitch so that's a really crazy sounding stuff okay so let's look at another kick ham and style pattern which is I think a little inspired from what he did on the first and talk album so what we're doing is actually a combination of two patterns the first pattern is a 16th note pattern which goes like this and the second pattern is this kind of thing so what happens is when we put them together we get something like this so slowly and then what you can do is instead of doing it with these three notes we can add or not not add we substitute the last note with this one which gives us the the flat fifth or the blues note and I just want to say that that's a scale that Kirk Hamlet uses a lot you know the standard pentatonic scale with an added blues note or the flat fifth and this scale looks like this now you can apply the same kind of pattern and mixing between two different rhythms to wider arpeggios or scale patterns or whatever and try to fool around with those kind of things so a third kind of trick ham and style pattern which Joe Satchie and he uses a lot too and once again they are just a few among many guitarists who use these kind of cliché licks it's this kind of thing it's pretty cool because it works nicely when played you know very fast and it also works nicely when played slow so in order to understand this it's really facilitates if we count to you know three because we're playing triplets so we can count like this for me when attempting to play this fast and it works a lot better if I start with an upstroke and so just start with an upstroke and then do 100% up and down how can we create some variations around this and how can you start to improvise around with these kind of pattern because that's the whole idea right and well one way I'm sure you've noticed that I've kind of ended all the fast phrases with the with the doubles that's a really cool way to end you know to end the phrase so that's an over