Song · 1989
I Want It All
- Artist
- Queen
- Released
- 1989
- Guitar
- Brian May
- Riff
- Solo
What makes the part famous
The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.
Riff
A short, catchy figure repeated through the song: the part everyone recognizes first.
Solo
The passage where the guitar steps forward and sings on its own, phrase after phrase.
The scale of the I Want It All solo
Here the guitar plays mostly solos and riffs. On the recording's isolated guitar, the studio picked out the notes that come back most: they sit in this scale, the box where you look for the phrases by ear and improvise.
- Tonic
- B
- Scale
- B minor pentatonic
- Position
- Fret 7
The phrases add the minor sixth (G).
Positions in standard tuning, to play along with the record.
Automatic analysis, checked by hand against the song's known key. No tab here: the scale tells you where to look, your ear finds the phrases.
Analyze your own recording
Record yourself playing it, or upload a version you have the right to use: the studio isolates the guitar and finds the chords, tempo, strumming and fingerings, with a fretboard video and a PDF.
Same guitarist
Same techniques
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