Jack here, jbf music and guitar lessons,
back with some signature guitar lick goodness for you! From the Areane Rock icon that is Brain May
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Three licks in ascending difficulty exploring some different areas of
Brian May’s lead guitar playing style as well as some trademark traits you’ll find in his solos.
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This happens to me way too often, so taking heed of my own advice, lets just hop to it,
eh?
Killer Queen here, and a tonne of pre-bending a very Brian May trick; for a deeper look at
that technique, give the little I up there a click. I’m taking a guess at the fingering here,
couldn’t find any clear live clips so suggestion or corrections are more than welcome!
So feel free to refiner as needed as well. Tone pre bend, you want to play this very
staccato- I’d recommend pick, muting which is really handy for using bent notes- so stopping
the string from ringing out with your pick a quick minute breakdown on how to do that with
that I up there. Pick again, while still bent. Mute the string; you can pick mute; I tend to lift
my finger off the string a tiny tiny bit, just enough so there’s no note and probably shift my
palm over the strings as well. Pre bend, release it to pitch, pick this next note, add vibrato.
Another staccato note; I probably just lift my fretting finger up a smidgen for that one, pick
the next 3 notes, pull off, pick this one, add vibrato. He uses quite a wide vibrato,
so don’t be afraid to give it a good wiggle! I don’t want to derail this video by diving down
technique rabbit holes, so feel free to give that little I a click for some quick tips on
keeping a smooth vibrato. There’s a bit of string noise here; I’m not doing much about it, but
have marked it in none the less if you want to get the lick as authentic as possible.
Really similar to bar 1, Pre bend, pick mute, pre-bend, release, pre bending
on that second time, release to pitch and pick that 12th fret adding
smooth vibrato. Then we’ve got that awesome ascent, picking the first 3 notes,
then using pull offs; so pick these, then use pull offs
It’s totally up to you how to finger this, but what I find comfortable is; 3rd finger,
1st finger, 2nd finger pull off, 3rd finger pull off, position shift, 2nd finger pull off,
3rd finger pull off, reinforced tone bend.
Alright, pick these notes, tone bend & release, pull off, vibtaro on that 11th fret.
Pick these two notes, tone bend add vibtrao. Again to not derail this
tutorial you can get some great tips on a ‘adding vibrato to bends video’ with
that little I in the corner. Pick these 3 notes, repeating that,
but making sure to add vibrato on that 13th fret the second time. Tone pre bend with vibrato.
These ghost notes sort of sound like they’re there to my ears, by I think they’re more of a
by-product of the position shift than anything else, so you’ll probably find
if you’ve kept your fingers in positions those notes will just sort of happen-
but as always play at your own discretion. Pick these 5 notes, keeping the first 4 staccato
and making sure to pre bend that last one by a tone, add vibrato.
The note is still bent, so pick it and
let it return to pitch, pick these next 3 notes. Then we’ve got a gear shift! Now this
might sound intimidating, but it’s probably not as tough as you’d think; it might take a
while to get the speed fluid, but the trills really help make it a bit less strenuous!
Trill; pick, hammer, pull off; pick these 5 notes,
hammer. Another trill, again followed by picked 5 notes.
Ok, by my opinion this is the toughest of the lot- but they’re all pretty advanced,
so props if you’ve made it this far and a shout out to the lick squad elite-
you guys rock! And a special thank you to John Rambo for their continued support on Patreon!
So I think these notes ring out in each other a tad,
up to yourself if you do that or not! Either way, slide in pick these 3 notes, pull off,
pick, pull off, pick these 3 and vibrato. Rake in to that 15th fret, tone pre-bend and release.
Picking the next 5 notes, I’d recommend rolling your finger for those parallel notes here and
here Tone pre bend, release and pull off. These sliding notes, you want to try and
feel it as one movement; so instead of 14 to 11, pause, 10 to 5, just one sort of motion, So I’m
really just thinking about 14; 2nd finger; and 10 ;1st finger; and that 11
just sort of takes care of itself.
Sliding back up, picking all of these notes, again make use of rolling
your finger across the parallel frets. Slide up to the 17th fret, picking the
nest 3 notes as normal, than a gear shift into triplets, using pull offs;
I’m just lifting up or sort of pivoting my 1st finger here to stop the e string from ringing out,
but still maintain a sort of two string bar- pretty much like that rolling figner thing
we’ve been doing throughout this lick! Wrapping it up with these amazing
double stop bends; tone bend on the b string for each of them. Rake in to
that final note, quickly returning it to pitch and hitting it, then bringing in some vibrato.
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