Looking for a Shawn Lane tab? This simple diminished guitar lick will expand your repertoire and help you start to understand Shawn Lane’s unique style.
Diminished Arpeggio Shawn Lane Tab
Shawn lane liked to use 3-notes-per-string diminished patterns.
Diminished patterns and licks are very simple to create due to how simple diminished harmony is. The easiest way to visualize diminished harmony is on a single string.
Choose a root note, such as the 3rd fret of the low E string (the G note), and continue to move up 3 frets at a time, which = moving in minor 3rds.
This would give you frets 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, and 24, resulting in a diminished arpeggio.
As you can see in the Shawn Lane tab, as you move to the left on the fretboard, and move from one string to the next string, you’ll move down in half-steps but continue with the same left-hand diminished pattern/fingering.
Shawn Lane Diminished Arpeggio Tab PDF
What’s next?
I featured Shawn Lane’s awesome song and solo with Brett Garsed, Hey Tee Bone, in my post about the top 10 hardest guitar songs to play.
If you want to learn more licks and exercises similar to this, then check out these hybrid picking exercises.
