 Hello everyone and welcome. Today we are going to be learning the guitar solo from the song Reckless by Glenn Tipton. This song appears on the Turbo album released in 1986 by Judas Priest. And in my opinion is Glenn's one of his absolute best solos ever. I was astonished to see that no one has actually broken it down on YouTube or had an attempt at doing so. So first we'll have a look at the solo being played at the speed that Glenn plays it and then we will break it down piece by piece and step by step. I hope it's of use to you guys. Without further ado this is Reckless. Okay so let's begin. The great thing about this solo is that it almost tells a story and before I even start breaking it down I'd like to explain a little bit about what that is. Rob Halford has just finished telling us that we're blasting out of the atmosphere of blasting like a rocket through the stratosphere. And that is exactly what Glenn then proceeds to do on the guitar. He actually takes you on a journey from the ground up into the stratosphere before screaming back down at the end of the solo. And for me it's just it's got so much character and so much so much feel in this solo and my performance there at the beginning of the video is obviously a homage to it and achieving what Glenn really achieves in this is not easy. So let's begin. We begin I like to think in the cockpit of the jet fighter inside the hangar we're taxiing out onto the runway with this delicious bend seven to nine on the G string. Now I should point out this guitar is in standard tuning and the performance at the beginning of the video is standard tuning. The song itself is recorded in E flat so if you want to perfectly replicate what's on the CD you need to turn your whole guitar down half a step I probably should have mentioned that at the beginning but whatever. So section one let's bend seven to nine and come back down and it's a gentle step up then to nine ten seven nine and then seven nine ten sliding nine seven when they're going to bend eight to ten on the B string bend and release full step voice ten nine on the G ten ten twelve release on the G nine seven on the G before finally finishing on o five seven five all hammer and pull on the G let's hear it again very very slowly eight let's go one more time seven to nine voice ten nine ten twelve full and release nine seven o five seven o five seven five seven one more time just at speed okay in that section one we've now taxi down to the runway we're beginning to pick up speed we're going to we're about to drop down to the open A string for the second section and it begins with o two three hammered on and pulled off again and the pattern is the pattern is a little bit funky we'll do it slowly so it's o two three o two three and voice two on the D and then three two o two three on the A before we go too far into the second section it's worth it just to make it a short note here about the transition from section one to section two after you've gone o five seven five seven don't linger on that seven this is something Glenn does through a lot of his solos he interrupts himself he doesn't he doesn't let the ear stay there like he immediately snaps to that o two three a little before the the beat of the the bar so it's so just have a listen to the solo have a listen to listen to have the way Glenn does it you can actually see the link in the description below to to be able to hear the original performance so let's go back to this second movement o two three o two three even that the second movement kind of over right steps over the first one it's a little bit of free time we then go two on the D three two o two three three we then go hammering o two on the D two o on the G it's it's hard to make that do it all with your index finger and make it not ring you could go pluck two two twos on the D four hammering five two five on the D so let's hear it from the o two three again making terrible mistakes this week o two two o two two five two from that position with your pinky um all we want to do is snap our third finger up to the five on the G and it's five four o four point pluck the zero again and then four o five four o four over hammer four five oh seven oh nine seven and then we're going to begin sliding on that seven so let's just go from the five four oh again from the o two three and that's a pull-off and that's the end of section two and I love that wandering part with that A and that high speed it just sounds like it just sounds so busy it sounds like there's a landscape rushing past as we're in the jet plane we're taking off of the runway we're about to blast up into the atmosphere uh as you can now see is we moved to section three which is a bend uh on 17 on the G string on the no it's not it's 19 bending to 21 19 bending to 21 so it's the transition is and then bending 19 to 21 let it come down and then voice 17 and then 19 21 19 17 pull off 20 on the D sorry 19 on the D so 19 pulling off to 17 on the G voicing D uh straight voicing the 19 on the D and then I'm sliding 17 16 on the G 19 17 on the D so 19 17 19 17 16 sliding back and then voicing 17 17 on the D not very well explained but hopefully you guys can see what else goes and this is the most this next bit is the most gorgeous part of the solo where we're up into this we're truly in the stratosphere at this point where we're sliding after you've made that movement what is that 15 to 17 on the B you guys can see what I'm doing is that there 20 on the E and you can see along if you've not if you know the solo in your head I don't need to really tell you the sequence you can hear it now we're going 20 back to 17 and then it's 22 on the B pulling off and voicing the 20 on the B so slide from that 17 to the 18 on the B 18 and 20 that's 18 on the B 20 on the E and then 18 17 18 20 and then let that 22 on the B ring out it might just be one I like to do as many times I can when I'm in there and then you're reaching your index back down to connect with the 15 on the E and when you're playing it at speed it's so hard to replicate what Glenn's doing but there's so much liquidity between these notes there's no everything smooth and liquid so I like to try and maintain try and maintain that ring finger as I'm snapping down to hit the 15 on the E easier said than done and then once you once you've established yourself on that 15 of the E string it's uh it's it's between 15 and 20 on the E string so it's hammer and pull twice your voice the 15 twice 17 on the E so that's 15 and 20 on the E 17 on the B and then finally landing on 17 on the E then on 15 we do a quick sequence of notes I'm not sure if Glenn is actually doing semi quavers here or but it essentially sounds like this sliding that again um so where do we land there sorry uh so that's 15 17 15 on the B hammer that back up 15 70 do it twice so hammer 15 17 on the B and then do it again to release okay so so it's 15 I mean it's 17 on the G 17 on the B 15 on the B 17 G 16 on the G 17 on the D that's like let's hear it again just slowly so we now have this part where we're we're having slid down slid down the 17 on the D we now slide straight back up again with our ring finger on the top string 17 on the D and when that part I'm using 14 15 17 on the A and then 14 on the D 17 there just very quickly play 17 and uh 14 on the D again and then you need to quickly snap that index finger to 16 on the G and it's 7 you're hammering to 17 and then voicing 19 on the D so let's hear that again we're going to hear the section as it's done you then snap again it's like it's like a double movement he moves his whole hand he goes bang bang again so he's just gonna do the whole thing again but it's index finger are you've got to snap your index finger to the 18 on the E 19 on the E that's 19 20 22 on the B 19 E 22 20 then back up to 22 there section 4 again and then section 5 immediately snaps right back down at the bottom ring finger on the third fret of the top string arm muted and we're going to do this really running muddy kind of sounding thing as we start to build up to the final massive bending uh crescendo thing at the end when there's the you can picture the jet plane come screaming back down out of the stratosphere into oblivion of some kind so having just gone we now we know immediately voice that and it's the pattern of this the rhythm of it is which is three on the three and then oh one two three on the second string and then oh two three on the upstream oh one two sorry and then repeat that again from that same position with your finger except it's so first one is the second one is you hit the you hit the you hit that third fret three times and then run it up i think i've always i do two two open d two of the d two of the two on the d two of the zero two of the two we then go oh one two again two on the g oh one three on the b and we then go uh voice the open uh bottom string and then it's 4050 just pull off and what i actually do is i begin sliding off that five because once again we have to slide all help to finish at the end so let's just hear this i don't know if it's section six let's just hear it again nice and slowly and then the very last movement let's call it section seven or eight i don't know what i'm up to now is we're we're semi toning semi quavering even um uh the 22 on the bottom string down to 18 and 17 and it's just that pattern the blinding speed and then so that's 17 and 18 hammering and pulling voice the 16 and then bend that 16 at the end back up to the 17 and then of course blend doesn't rest there he just does this massive massive dive at the end so that last very cell section after the last section is after you slip from the five again so i just wrap my ring finger there over those three strings on the 17 sometimes i don't even i don't quite catch them all i only catch the top two um but now you've heard the um navel of the entire thing that's the entire solo from where to go in terms of my interpretation of it um so i hope it's been of use to you guys um what i would really love this is a second one of these videos that i've done i'm intentionally picking out um solos by mostly judas priests that have gone without any attention on youtube there's already spectacular videos out there for people who want to learn the really big hits like for example painkiller and stuff there's just no point me me breaking that down that's already been done by by people who have far more um capacity than i do to um to perform it properly for you at the beginning but also to break down the sections piece by piece so reckless that the previous video was hot for love both massive i'm a fan of a massive fan of both these solos and i'm happy to do more i would really though appreciate any feedback at all negative positive constructive hatred any of the above uh let me know what you think in the in the comments and i'll see if if there's enough uptake i'll continue to continue to do these um i really enjoy doing it um and yeah i hope it's a useful resource for you guys uh so enjoy and i will see you next time all the best