 Hello my friends and welcome to Ram It Down. Man, this has been a long time coming, very long time coming indeed. I want to start by making a quick confession. The version you've just seen me play there at the beginning is at 90% of the true speed or the speed of the original. You can see a link to the original in the description box down below for comparison purposes. I tried pretty hard to get it up to 100% someone saved valiantly but I just wasn't happy with the quality and I decided that it was better to do what I can. So anyway with that out of the way let's let's get cracking. We've got a heck of a lot of material to get through so I'm going to go quite quickly through all of the sections. I will however respond to any comments or questions that you guys want to put in the comments section of the of the YouTubes. So in terms of setup we are on an electric guitar surprisingly. We are on 24 frets that does matter. For this particular work there is I don't have an alternative for 22 or 21 frets so if you guys are constrained that way you've got Kenneth Downing to thank for that. 24 frets what else do I have to say that there's also no whammy bar on this guitar. There is one whammy bar section at the end of KK's first lead break. I'll show you guys what I do as an alternative there and also we'll talk about what I think KK is doing with the bar at that moment as well which is hopefully in a few minutes from now we'll be talking about that. Finally just to say that we are in standard tuning EAD GBE. Okay right let's get started. The solo is broken down into six sections. It goes KK, Glenn, KK, Glenn both together where they go and then finally the last part is Glenn's extended section where he kind of goes bananas and is the most challenging part of the solo I think in absolute terms certainly for me anyway. Right so let's get started with KK's first section. Okay so for KK's first section we're on the B string, pinky on the 17, middle finger on the 14 and index finger on the 12 and it's a little something like this. Okay so that's just two 17s, two 14s plugged. We then have hammer on from 12 to 14 and pull off back to the 12. For the second one we do the same again except we introduce it again with an extra upstroke on the 17 so it's and there are two hammers on the 12 to 14 on the second one. We then have 16, 12 on the E and we're pulling off twice. 15, 12 and next is 14 and 11 but instead of just going 14, 11, 14, 11 and finally 12, 9. Instead of just going like that you can just do that. I'm hearing a lot more color in what's going on there and KK very rarely gives himself the luxury of just simple things that the ear likes to listen to. So I think there's some punctuation in there. The way I'm doing it is going so I'm voicing on the 11 and 14 one. I'm actually voicing the interrupting, voicing the 11 as an introduction to the way I do that. 14, 16, 17, 19 on the B string and I'm sliding from a long way down. We then have which is 17 to 19 on the E bending full. Come back down. 17, 16, 17. I can't sing it. And then and this is the whammy bar part. Now what I'm doing is I'm hitting the open A, sliding up from nowhere and shaking the 14 on the 14th fret of the A string. The way I shake then is use a finger where you can do the lateral vibrato to make it as to make it as good as sounding as you can. Now what I think KK is doing is he's getting the bar, he's hitting instead of the open A, he's hitting the open D, he's then going diving. So after he's hit the open D, he's going bow, and then he allows it to come back up. As he's coming up he hammers on to the 9, which is the same as the 14 that I'm doing. He hammers on to the 9 on the D and his vibrato, his vibrato is the bar itself. So it's bow. That's my fake way of doing it with no bar. That's KK's first section done and dusted. Let's move on to Glenn's first section. Okay, so for Glenn's first section we have quite a lot going on, a heck of a lot of notes crammed into a short space. So let's have a look at just this first part nice and slowly and then we'll talk about the notes. There is, we're anchoring 14 on the index finger on the B, middle finger on 16, ring finger on 17 and something on the 19, either your pinky finger or a tapping finger or in my case a tapping pick. It might sound like, why the heck am I doing that? Just use your pinky. I can't do the rest of the thing without tapping. There's another tap later on that you'll see. So because my hand's already going to be up here anyway, I find it's actually more reliable to tap the 19. So the way, we start off on the 14 and then we just pull off each of these in sequence. It goes diddy leedles, which is so 14 and then 17, 16, 17, 19, 17, 17, 17, 19. Oh no, it's not 19 at the end, it's 16 at the end. So it's diddy leedle leedle leedle leedle. And so yeah, you do finish the 16 to put the final 16 pulls off and then we have the next part which is beddle, which is from that position I bend 16 on the G. One tone. You then need to ring out the 13 on the G, which is 13 hammering onto 16. We then have beddle leedle leedle leedle, which is sliding down to 11 on the G, hammer 13, 16 on the G which I'm tapping. So 11, 13, 16 back down again, which is 14 on the D bend up. Lot in there. Let's just have another quick look to take a break. I'm going too fast. On the B string, that's the 14, 16, 17 and 19 we're doing that with. After that we go, we move to the G string, which is 16 bend, 13, 16, 13. So there's four of those, 13, 16, 13, 16. Which is move to the 11 on the G, 11, 13, 16, 13, 11. And our final note is bending the 14 on the D, which you need to bend to the awkward 15. It's a discordant note there. And it's an abrupt stop as well inside the soloist's cleanse doing it. So he's just gone, beddle leedle leedle leedle leedle leedle leedle leedle, comma, and then we're going to do the next part, which is beddle leedle leedle leedle leedle leedle leedle leedle, and this is the easiest of the three of Glenn's sections by the way. Right, what's next, B, D, E, which is thankfully quite easy. 14, 11, 13, 14 on the G. Now this is where things get dodgy. And I couldn't work out a better fingering than this, but to do the next part it's so goes... and then be la ba da which is 14 on the B pulling off 12 10 and then 13 11 on the G okay so you've just gone and then you've got to go 14 on the B so that's a that's a bridge you're going 14 on the G to straight into 14 on the B which I hate doing but I don't know how I was to do it and that sounds terrible when I do it okay deal a little bit of data be and then we have deal a data deal a data which is 15 14 12 on the B and then which is 15 14 12 on the B into 14 13 11 on the G deal a data okay we then have 12 on the B 10 on the G both plucked which is and then 12 11 9 on the D 12 11 9 on the A before finally pulling the bend up from 11 on the bottom on the toffee string and it's wow another quick look from the so the second part in 11 on the G bridging up 14 12 10 13 11 15 14 12 14 13 12 do it twice and then okay and that's Glenn's first section again done very speedily hit me up in the comments if anything's not clear we'll go over that one and I can provide any other commentary but that's my interpretation of what he's doing for his first solo we'll move quickly there on to KK's second section okay folks so for KK second section we have our index finger on the 16 on the bottom string ring finger on the 19 and we're going to be tapping the 23 and then pulling all that off we then do the same thing except it's the 24 and we're doing all of that four times over so we then have 23 again and then pulling off 21 19 16 before going do which is 19 it's like a sing song 19 16 14 16 and then slide 14 16 so hit it hit it two more times and then which is 1916 on the B so you've gone we then have which is 19 18 16 15 on the G now the way I do this is pulling off and then slide the index 19 18 16 15 come back to 18 16 on the G voice to 18 on the D one 16 on the D and then which is 18 17 16 on the A for finally 19 on the top string back to 16 on the A that's the last note so let's have a look at it again nice and slowly from the tapping part we've got to keep moving so that's KK second section now we're on to Glen's second section let's check it out all right for Glen's second section let's take a look we are on the G string on the 13th fret with our index finger and where the first part of the movement is buddy which is yeah 13 on the index 16 with our ring finger and we're going to go just like that we then immediately snap to 1916 tapping with a tapping pull-off on the B so we've gone 1916 on the E we do that in almost free time about three times we then do 1916 on the B again and then deal a little deal again I think for four of them at the second time and then 1916 on the B for bending the 19 on the B up so the movement is but he's like that is you need to re-position again there's a pause though there is time to re-position you're reposition your hand down to four and six on the G string index and ring finger and we're I'm going to be bending the six up to the seven. And then, birdie doodie, which is 4-6-4-6 on the D-4. And you can hear the hammer and pull. Okay, so you've got, we then have 6-4-6-4 on the D pull-off. 5-6 on the A. 4 on the D. 6-5-4 on the A pull-pulled. And then, or plucked and pulled. And then, 7 on the top E. 4 on the A. 7 on the top E. So just hear that nice and slowly. Okay, so the next part of this, once you've arrived at that seven on the top string. Is the sequence of minor thirds that take us back up to the top of the neck again, which is doodly doodly doodly doodly doodly doodly doodly doodly. Each of them is a minor third, and they are hammered. The first one is 4-7 on the top string. We're just gonna keep doing this. There's phrasing and bridging notes in between there. It's not straight minor thirds all the way. So here we go. 4-7. Second one is 6-9 on the A. six nine six on the D hammer and pull so pretty straightforward we then go the bridging note is nine on the A I like to reach up because you're gonna need to move your hand up here you know lift your hand do it or we can reach like a spider you're pulling off to the 8 9 8 and then it's 8 11 so and then not so you put you go 8 11 and then it's 9 12 on the D and then 10 13 on the G and that's the one that we pull back off again so you've got a little bit of it but it'll we then go bad which we reach up again and is 13 on the D and that's hammering 12 to 15 we then go 13 16 on the G finally 15 18 on the B and twice before sliding the 15 to the 16 hit that twice and then you're hitting 21 twice sorry 21 16 do-do-do-do-do-do-do very quickly let's do the whole sequence and that's it anyway that's Glenn second section and we're on to the second last section which is the shared section what is the shared section there's a melody in a harmony I haven't worked out the harmony I'm playing what I'm hearing is a melody and it's a system of ABC B deal-de-deal we're doing that four times and then we're moving position to four or five or maybe it's six different positions deal-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de and then we're moving battle battle battle battle battle and so on so the first one of those is 17 13 pulling off on the B string voicing 14 on the G back to 13 on the B okay and there's just four of them straightforward right the next part for the next one is 15 pulling off so your index finger in the same spot 15 to 13 on the B voicing 16 on the G the next one is a tricky one that it's not hard to do but tricks the ear it's 15 pulling off to 12 with no other notes so just pulling off and then voicing the 12 twice more we then have 13 12 on the B pulling and then 14 on the G we then need to do a bit of a stretch to get to 18 13 on the B to 14 on the G we then have 16 and 14 pulling off on the G string now we're coming down and it's 17 on the D still not done yet 16 to 12 on the G 14 on the D and now we're up to the last one which the way I'm hearing it and I think I'm right is you are switching down to your lifting and coming all the way down to use the open start using the open strings we're going to be going 5-0 on the top string and then 1-0 on the B and then finally 7 on the bottom string 7 on the E to finish let's hear the whole thing nice and slowly well actually I'm gonna go fast because and that's the end of section 5 or the second last section and now we are into Glenn's final section which is the extended section where things get a bit crazy so what is that we have that too carefully landed here on the 7 that happens to be the first note of the movement which is which is nice ok let's go that sing on so what that is starting on the 7 and we're getting a 78 five like that as we do what we are pulling off to the open so we're constantly all the way through the rest of this section we're going to be using the open ringing string on the well all four of these dgb andy okay so let's have a listen to it slowly okay so but we'll stop there so that's eight so it's seven eight five seven seven eight five seven seven eight ten because the next note is eight seven again but we are doing a tricky artificial harmonic there it is it's quite hard to get okay you're going pulling off again five three two yeah so five four five seven on the B and notice I'm pulling off again to the ringing B so four five seven eight repeat and then five seven eight well it's five seven and instead of pulling off the seven you go seven eight and take a pause let's have another listen from the top I'll never get it take a pause we then have the deal you little you little you little you leg which we move to sorry we move to the 12 on the B and we hammer to the 13 and now we lift so we go twice and then move your index finger to the 10 and it's 10 to 10 and 12 and move your tapping finger back to 19 so the whole movement is two of each the next part is the really fast tapping and the hammering part which is from that same position you're right on your left hand are in the right zone you are gonna need to move a little bit we're gonna be tapping 17 on the B string with 12 and 9 index and ring we're gonna be using these three notes and the open the pattern is as follows right and it's kind of triplets but inside semi-quaver time whatever dilly dilly dilly dilly which is 12 9 so there's 12 notes in total and slightly different sequence we use the open string the second time instead of the 12 and we just do that twice 17 and we move our left hand up to 13 and 10 so it's okay so that's so there's six in total on the fifth one instead of coming back up to to the tap we hit the open and then allow it to come back up 11 13 up to the tap back down and finally pause on the 11 so from that from that tapping part back when we're on 9 12 let's have a listen dilly dilly which is move everything up a little bit and you're looking for the 20 20 and the 13 you're tapping 20 releasing to 13 on the B and that's 16 coming up to it so it's and that's where the tripletty part stops and we go back to be do be do so we go hey and then we're into bully daddle bully daddle which is a swept section swept section you need to lift and move 17 16 and 15 and that's on the GB and e respectively you see what my fingers are doing there 16 17 16 15 and we're gonna sweep that notice where my hand is it's already in the spot it's gonna need to be in a second where we go so we go we then tap the 20 back to the 15 that's on the then you pluck the 16 again so it's bully daddle bully daddle we then have the next section which is probably the hardest to transcribe figure out what Glenn's doing here what I'm hearing is after the sweeping section doodly doodly what I'm hearing is bully daddle doodly doodly doodly doodly doodly doodly daddle bro daddle daddle daddle so the way I'm going is I'm saying that it's doodly daddle daddle it which is 15 18 without the silly squeal 15 18 on the B hammered and then beat a little bit of it which is 20 18 15 let's hear it again 18 18 20 18 15 then hammer back onto the 18 after you've hit that hammer that 18 we're gonna go draw daddle dadda which is pull the 20 up to the 21 which is okay that sounds crap sounds crap around me okay so we've gone voice that 15 again twice and then da da da da which is 16 15 16 on the G okay from the hammer from the 15 and then we have daddle dadda which is move your right hand up and we're gonna tap 18 18 15 and 12 on the B all pulled off 15 so it's and then you're gonna go 13 12 on the B and slide your index finger down to 10 and then we're going to slide it away and come back up we're gonna use one of the notes in between to go 12 so it's 10 to 12 we slide away first let's just pause there go back and hear that swept section through to the okay and the next part is bower so that's just hammering back to the 15 from that 12 so we've gone hammering and pulling sorry about this to 11 so you've got your index finger on the 12 you've got to put your third finger on the 11 so he comes under makes room third finger comes down 11 10 and then 11 10 on the G so it's and then finally your voice in seven on the G there's no way to do that other than sliding that index finger in a lot you're overloading the index finger quite a lot at high speed here but that's the last movement that's the last part of it so you've gone doing out a little early a little bit okay so I could play it another time through but I'm gonna burn up too much time doing that so do a little earlier a little bit a little we then have the next section which is bodily bodily bodily a little bit sorry 047 is the first one 058 078 887 we then have doodly-daddly doodly-daddly which is from that same position opening the E string and it's 058 on the string and the finger tapping the 12 so you're nice and simple up and down we then go 07 117 hammered then pluck the 11 and then come down and then do the same again but it's five notes in the space of four so add the extra zero in so it's booty booty booty booty did it sorry we then go 90 and then have 75 pulling twice on the B okay so you pull it twice we then do 047 on the G and let it go again do the same on the D so we go then do hammer 05 on the top string so again you were bridging the index over 505 on the A so it's 05 on the top and then 505 on the A voice 5 on the D and after you've hit that 5 on the D you need to it sucks for the right hand but you've got to come back to the top string 05 on the top string and then the very last part of the movement is which is 9 999 very last note of the whole thing so I do that on 21 on the bottom string doing it at high speed you will often miss I often miss 21 like the version you saw me playing there was one of the times I've managed to hit it now accomplished guitarists don't have to do this right even though they probably could if they wanted to there is an alternative available so it's on the 11 it's not gonna sustain it very well for me so we did it we got there God I hope the video is still recording it's hard work thank you guys very much for watching if you're one of the 2% of my viewers who make it all the way to this part to the end of the instructional part of the video you have my thanks thank you very much really appreciate your company I hope this has been a useful session for you guys looking through this material very happy to answer any questions as I said before enjoy keep rocking keep shredding and I will see you soon