 Hello and welcome everybody. Today we are going to be learning the guitar solo from Hot For Love by K.K. Downey. The song appears on the album Turbo, released by Judas Priest in 1986. It's a real cracker. Let's take a look. The solo down into sections, sort of staple every section together at the end once we've done each piece. We're mainly going to rely on simply playing the actual notes just really, really slowly and for you guys to just map down what's going on. The easiest way I find when I'm trying to learn a solo or somebody else. So section one, we begin on the bottom E string 22nd fret and we're going to be coming down to the 19. It's a pentatonic sequence, more or less pentatonic, coming down all the way to the top string. Every note that we play is going to be picked. It's actually a lot faster on the CD than it sounds. It's very, very easy to play slowly. Speeding it up is kind of the challenge for this first section. Let's hear it really slowly just to begin with before we step through it. Slight quarter bend at the end there on that last note. So it is actually now that I'm looking at a pentatonic scale exactly as we've all learned 100 times before. Basically, with each step we're playing each set of two notes twice on the way down except for the first on the bottom E string. So let's hear that again. We go 2219 and then 2219 on the B. But we play it twice and now 2119 on the G, 2119 on the D, 2119 on the A. Let's hear that again. Sorry. The rest of it is what I do is I slide down to 17 on the A to play the rest of it. If you find that too annoying and probably technically the right thing you should be doing is using your ring finger on 22 on the top E instead. So go like this. That's cool if you want to do that. Here's how I do it. Back up to 21 on the A, 21 on the E, 19 on the E, 17 on the E. Before coming back up to finish on 19 on 21 on the top E. The final statement at the end. Again really slowly, whole lot all together. The section two is down at this end of the neck we're moving our fingers down to sit on the second fret, your index finger on the second fret and lining your other four fingers up to the fifth. The sequence of notes is at the same speed as this sequence we've just done here. We're starting on open A with the down pick going 0234 on the A. We then do the same thing on the D all the way up to five, 02345. Then come back down from the five using the same sequence of notes until you hit the open D. Then the final four notes are 3, 2, 4, 2 on the A. Whole sequence, 0234, 0234 on the D. 5, 4, 3, 2, 0, 3, 2, 4, 2. 0234 on the A, 0234, 5, 4, 3, 2, 0 on the D, 3, 2, 4, 2 on the A. One more time with feeling. A little bit more feeling. So we're arm muting everything except for the very last note. And give that a little bit of vibrato, a little bit of wobble. You haven't got very long because you've got to snap up to the fourteenth fret on the G string to do a great big bend for let's call it section three. And this goes like this, full bend up to 16, release, voice the 12, pull off to the 12 and then you're trying to hit an artificial thumb on the 14. You can pull it that way if you prefer, I like to push up, you can pull down instead. So that's start of section three. The rest of section three is the large kind of guitar synthesizer awesome effect that they have where it goes... The tremolo on this guitar is terrible, so if I do that with the wavy bar and go out of tune immediately so what I do and you would have seen in the video at the beginning is I just hit the ninth fret on D and G and you're basically sliding to 11. For those of you who are using the tremolo if you've got a original Floyd Rose or something like that what I'd probably recommend you do is actually pre-dive with the bar then strike the 11s, D and G on the 11 and before releasing the bar up to parry. So we want to start from about the tone down if you accidentally go a bit too low it's probably not going to work. Probably still sound awesome. Really slowly release the bar up until you get an even flick of the bar out of the way and finish section three. So let's have a look at section four. It begins with our index finger on the 12th fret B string with either our pinky, for me it's the ring finger on the 16 and what we're going to be doing is plucking the 16, pulling off and then hanging on the 12th, picking on the 12th in this pattern as follows. So the first is a pull and then we pluck the rest just like that. We're going to repeat that sequence up the B string so we go 16, 12 two of them, 17, 14, do two of them, 19, 16, do two of them and then we're going to be on 21 and 17 but we change the pattern and do this 22 before finally landing on 19 on the bottom E string. So let's have a look at that again really really slowly and this is what I love about KK. I mean it's just, it lulls you sort of into a false sense of security as you go and you're expecting to hear it but that's not what he does. He changes the time signature just as you get to the top of the signature but he changes the pattern of notes just at the top to be just a series of straight quavers. So the whole sequence again really really slowly. We're going to be landing on that delicious 19 on the bottom E. The rest of section four is just to finish this off. Once we're here we bend fully up and go come back down and some dee dee dee dee dee dee If I could bend properly it would be great. We then repeat that process before moving into the awesome cadence that comes next. Sorry, pulling off, so we're going bending 19 up to 21 down to 16. So just that entire sort of bridging part at the end of the section is and we're now ready to begin the next section which is section five. So section five you're still here with your index finger just where it was before on the 16 on the E string and it's a sequence of four notes over three turns. That's 19, 16 and then 17 on the B and you can see what we're doing here is we're pulling off that first one and then backing the remaining two. The best way to do that is to just if you're just getting used to this kind of thing is just my index finger is just ever so slightly coming off I'm still whole, I'm still touching the E string but it's just coming off as I hit the 17 on the B string. It's ever so slightly coming off just to make sure that there's no ringing. So we do do two of them, so there's eight notes in total. We then repeat that three more times in different positions. So it's 19, 16, 17 at the beginning 17, 14 and 16 on the B 16, 12, 14 before finally 14, 11, 12 Let's hear all eight patterns together. So starting back up where we were 19, 16, 17 17, 14, 16 16, 14, 12 14, 11, 12 And that's the end of section five. There's still more solo to come. What we are now going to do is move into section six I think I'm up to, I'm losing count of the section numbers and they don't really matter that much anyway as long as you know roughly a bit of the song I'm talking about. And now we're ready to begin section six after we finish that sequence of very, very fast we're ready to come down to section six which begins on the ninth fret on the top string and it's a chromatic sequence all palm muted. So before we get to all the rest of that let's talk about the transition because you've just finished going and believe it or not that note comes straight after in the exact set there's no pause in between it's nearly impossible to do that wasn't even if you might speak very, very hard to get it I think probably when I'm playing what I'm actually doing is I'm just not bothering to voice that last 11 I'm just going taking a breath go get a cup of tea, come back sit down again, I'm ready to begin this next section of chromatic sequence on the ninth fret on the top string so again this section chromatic 9, 10, 11, 12 to begin with on the top E we then do the same thing starting from 8 on the A string zero again from the 9 the next part of this you probably want to do the same thing on the 7 on the D string but that's not what happens it's actually pluck the 7 twice and pull off 11 to 7 so let's hear the three strings together starting 9 on the E 8 on the A 7, 7, 11, 7 on the D again slowly next part is we are voicing the 9 with our middle finger on the G pulling off to 8 just that same sequence again and so what you've actually got there is four sets of four we then move to this hopping kind of movement on our way up to eventually getting to 11 on the E down to finish on 12 on the B and that section goes like this we begin by pulling 9 to 8 on the G again which we've just done, we're going to repeat it 11, 9 10, 9 on the B take a rest and pluck back 9 a couple of times before proceeding to the next chapter the final chapter of the movement which is to repeat 10, 9 12, 10 and then 11, 9 pulling off on the bottom E string to finally land on 12 it might be easier when you had speed actually to cause on that 12 so let's just hear that last section again and the whole movement together from the chromatic piece really slowly, on the 9 really slowly, that was probably a little bit faster and that's the end of that section what would have went up to section 6 I think after you've done that you've got to immediately snap to a big bend 15 to 17 on the B string now 15, so that's a bend for 15, 17 coming back off to 15 and 12 if you want you could probably get 16 on the G instead I come down to the index finger on the 12 you can see the rest of this in your head you probably already know what it's going to do so that's just simply exactly what it looks like it's 15, 17, bending up to 19 three times bit it in second pull off we then go 14, 16 on the G half bent and then you back up in that same position our official harmonic on the 17 on the B there so that whole section again is on 14 on G and then is just a power chord 7th fret on the top if I play it correctly and then we just return to our position and continue same exact bend as the 4, 15, 17 on the B and that's 15, 17, 18 all full bends so we go 2 of 15 shake if you can reposition now on the 19 on the E index finger this is very, very simple 19, 20, 19 on the top B middle finger on to 20 on the B and then 22, 20, 90 we then pluck 21 on the G and those same three notes again really, really slowly back up that entire sequence of notes starting first however on the 19 on the G we want to get the timing of that right they're not all the same space of notes between each other so I think it might be triplets on the way up and then and that's the end of that section we'll call that section 7 we're then ready to move into section 8 which is this descending movement and what this is it's a series of hammer and pull and so on there are two sets of 5 and each 5 ends in a pause on a final note so the first set of 5 begins on bottom E 19 and it's 19, 20 17, 19 15, 17 14, 15 12, 14 rest on the 10 so there should be 5 there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 now repeat all of that but starting on 14, 15 5 of these 14, 12, 14 10, 12 8, 10 7, 8 resting on the 5 so you can see that it's exactly the same pattern it's 5 hammer and pulls with a rest so let's hear those two sets of 5 again really, really slowly 19, 20 to begin and we're then ready for the very last section of the song which is kind of like a super charged version of the two sets of 5 we've just done there I'm not sure how many there are, we'll have to count as we go here you're on 5 already, don't move keep your hand in the same position put your ring finger and your pinky finger on 7 and 8, get ready for this the time signature is a little bit different instead of going di di di di di di di di di di that's not what happens classic KK once again, what we're doing is following pattern, I'll play it slowly in rhythm so it's the notes I'm playing are 7, 8 and you should try and make a squeal when you're became so at 7, 8 I'll just play it as normal 5, 7, 5 3, 5, 3 on the beat straight back up to where you were 7, 5, 7, 5 7, 6, 5, 4 on the beat so we'll do the whole thing really slow I'm really slow that's the whole thing so thanks very much for watching I hope this has been of use to you guys truly a fantastic solo one of KK's finest and I hope you'll enjoy and I will see you guys again soon cheers