Jack Napalm
Power User
Randy Rhoads played Iron Man, Paranoid, Children of the Grave and other Black Sabbath songs wrong too. Damn glad he did.
It's a shame people are more interested in critiquing the performance...
Really great tone, keeping in mind it's a thick, all-mahogany Les Paul, not maiden-ish stratocaster! Great skill also, as usual
Just one thing...
Looks like you're playing this solo a bit wrong way in two moments. It's pretty common case, I've also tried to learn it same wrong way from various tabs. Same mistake appears in the Lick Library series presented by Danny Gill. But if you listen very carefully to the original recording (or better - Adrian's mastertrack), you can hear the difference in first and third repetitive lick. Those pull-offs on the B string at the beginning are actually played by Adrian on two strings - B and high E Third repetitive lick is based on exactly same structure, just higher on the neck.
Check out this tutorial, this is the most accurate way to play this solo (concentrate on Figures 2 and 5):
Of course it doesn't change the fact, that your preformance sounds great and most of the people doesn't give a damn about those nuances But trust me, when you are aware of them and play those licks properly, the difference is clearly audible Give it a try
Total over reactions to a guy's well intended observation......
Kavoo, I haven't had much of a chance to reply. I've been away in Canada for the weekend. I appreciate that you play it note for note and I thank you for lending a hand. Like I said I've never been very good at note for note and just try to go for the vibe and then put my on take on it. I'm on old dog and quite lazy when it comes to figuring out solos..very lazy actually.
Kavoo, I haven't had much of a chance to reply. I've been away in Canada for the weekend. I appreciate that you play it note for note and I thank you for lending a hand. Like I said I've never been very good at note for note and just try to go for the vibe and then put my on take on it. I'm on old dog and quite lazy when it comes to figuring out solos..very lazy actually.
Me too have to defend kavoo a bit since was only trying to be helpful. And Mark understood that.
To give some more background for kavoo`s post. In the Maiden fan universe it`s always been debated how to play this solo just like the original, and I think nobody really knows for sure. So that`s maybe why kavoo wanted to share some of his experience and knowlwdge on this particular solo. That said, all above on expressing themselves different and playing it their own way, are great off course. Just like Adrian Smith does himself. This one from 2009 is almost a New solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNvPT8hT2Aw
I haven't had a chance to address many posts that appeared in this thread during last days, 'cause of the most important weekend in this year - an AC/DC concert in Warsaw + lots of beer/bbq/party on the occasion Actually I'm not a "note-for-note player" too, but in my case it's not about being lazy guitarist... it's about being crappy guitarist :lol The only Maiden solo I can play note for note so far is Murray's part of the Seventh Son, which I've posted here some time ago
I'm not a gigantic Madin fan but when did they add a third guitarist and why?