How To Play Ace Of Spades Solo (Motor Head)

Just a short lesson of how to play the solo in ace of spades. Please coment and rate. Enjoy, thanks.

INFO:

Initially released as a 7" vinyl single on October 27, 1980 as a preview to the album Ace of Spades and autumn tour, Bronze Records also released a 12" vinyl pressing in special 'Christmas' picture sleeves, limited to 50,000 copies. The picture of the band in Santa outfits used on the cover was taken while the band were on tour at the Aylesbury Fair. In November the song reached #15 in the UK Singles Chart. The song is considered to be the definitive Motörhead anthem, and "put a choke on the English music charts and proved to all that a band could succeed without sacrificing its blunt power and speed".

Bronze also issued German and Spanish 7" vinyl versions which had a different sleeves, as well as a Japanese import, with a colour picture insert with song lyrics in English and Japanese. One sided test pressings (not mis-presses, used in the trade) escaped the pressing plant and are on the market.

For the lyrics, Lemmy said he "used gambling metaphors, mostly cards and dice - when it comes to that sort of thing, I'm more into the one-arm bandits actually, but you can't really sing about spinning fruit, and the wheels coming down".

On September 6, 1980 Lemmy was interviewed by Graham Neil on BBC Radio 1's Rock On Saturday show, "Bomber", "Ace of Spades" and "Love Me Like a Reptile" were played. The following month, on October 6 and October 20, the band played the song on BBC TV show Top of the Pops.

In 1988 another recording of the song was released - Ace of Spades (live) - and later withdrawn.

In September 1993 WGAF Records re-released the original 1980s track on CD-single, cassette single, 12" vinyl picture sleeve and picture disc versions, the song was covered with "Louie Louie", "Dirty Love", and "Ace of Spades (The CCN Remix)", and although the band were not too pleased with the CCN Remix version, this single reached #23 in the UK charts.

The song ranked in at #10 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at #27 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

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[salimw13]

awesome video man,this is one of the first songs i plan on learning anyways so im glad someone did the solo for it.

[metalmaniacemg]

No problem :)

[bonnytheclyde]

yeah bitch the solo sounds like this... you need more practice but your lesson is very good for a beginner! keep it up man...

[metalmaniacemg]

Thanks, yea i tend to do some parts off the cuff and it messes it up a bit but part of this is my take on the solo, the fisrt 3/4 is right but the rest is just very close.

Thanks mate !

[MaryChristmass]

Nice video dude, I bet it'll help a lot of people, keep it up.

5 stars for taking the trouble to post the songs info ^^

[metalmaniacemg]

Thanks :)

[Matheus666Rock]

thank you

[christiannewman1]

Cool lesson

[willboy1234]

Lefty :D

[lemmycro]

Let your guitar ring 

[loolooloodoo]

gibson les paul?

[TitaniumByFire]

Sounds slower and blusie. You must be influence by blue rock, whether you realize it or not.

[IQ5918]

what kind of kickass amp is this? xD

[brage0073]

same i am left handed but i play right handed guitar :S

[howZonator]

nice

apparently you're supposed to strum with the the hand u write with?

but i write with my left and strum with my right

[profriffenstein]

hey miisu come and have a lesson with me and see how much i can play.twinks that cant teach or play say that. maybe you should say that to Satch. Being as he teaches/ taught at G I T. Twonk !!!!