THE WAY ALTER BRIDGE guitar virtuoso Mark Tremonti sees it, you can never know too many cool licks. “A great guitar lick is like part of your personality,” he says. “It shows something about you. It’s almost like your vocabulary. And just like no two people are the same, no two guitar licks are alike. There’s always something a little unique about each one.”
Whenever he’s around another guitarist, Tremonti makes it a point to soak up some new licks. “I come right out and say, ‘Give me your two or three favorite, most useful licks,’” he says. “By that I mean not the hardest, most technical thing you can play; just show me the things that you play all the time, even the ones you don’t think about. It’s a form of communication. And don’t show me some crazy
