Andy Aledort - How To Play The 'Save Something For Me' Solo
In Deep by Andy Aledort
SOMETHING IN THE AIR, PART 2
“SAVE SOMETHING FOR ME,” the second track off Andy Aledort's new album, Light of Love, is a slow ballad, in a style not unlike two of his favorite Jimi Hendrix compositions, “May This Be Love” and “One Rainy Wish.” Last month, Andy went over the verse rhythm part to “Save Something for Me.” This month, he looks at the solo.
SOMETHING IN THE AIR, PART 2
“SAVE SOMETHING FOR ME,” the second track off Andy Aledort's new album, Light of Love, is a slow ballad, in a style not unlike two of his favorite Jimi Hendrix compositions, “May This Be Love” and “One Rainy Wish.” Last month, Andy went over the verse rhythm part to “Save Something for Me.” This month, he looks at the solo.
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00:15 Hey, I'm Andy Aldert. In this edition of In Deep, we're going to go over the guitar solo from the song "Save Something For Me" from my new album, Light Of Love.
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01:59 Okay, let's go over this solo. It starts out relatively simple, then it gets really complicated, and it was hard to double it. So we'll get to all that.
02:10 We're coming out of our riff.
02:19 And the solo, first part of it is played over an extended version of that. So I do this repeated.
02:32 So it's all fourths. I was going after a Native American kind of a sound.
02:40 And Jimi Hendrix kind of a sound.
02:44 So we're in G, so this is like the major third and the sixth to the second and the fifth.
02:54 And then it's inverted. You have the second to the first and the sixth to the fifth.
03:07 And the first time, after three it's a pull-off. And then this time after three it's a slide.
03:19 And then here again. And this is the same thing. Third, sixth, third, sixth, to second, fifth.
03:34 And that's a repeat of second to first, sixth to fifth, like there. So it's like the same lick in two octaves.
03:51 And that's played four times. And the fourth time we come out of it with a different phrase.
04:03 So these are thirty-second notes. These quick hammers. And that's the end of that bar.
04:13 So, it's beat four. So coming out of this phrase.
04:24 Right on beat four of these fast hammers. And then I double up that one.
04:32 And then double up on the G again. So, it's a little confusing.
04:43 You don't have to play it just like that. But that's the basic idea.
04:54 So, beat four of that bar gets me into the next phrase.
05:05 So, let's just look at that. Starting from bar five.
05:15 So, it's this combination of thirty-seconds and sixteenths. And then.
05:23 So, after this, we go straight up. Straight up, G major pentatonic, that is.
05:34 And then back down.
05:43 And then right there I just tried to be creative by going from fourths to thirds, back to fourths.
06:01 And then. So, back to these Curtis Mayfield, Jimi Hendrix double stops.
06:16 More of that crossing over stuff there.
06:24 And then, now we're in bar nine. And then I go to eighth note triplets.
06:39 So, end of bar nine is bar ten. And then bar eleven.
06:52 And right here is where it changes. To the C chord, to A minor.
07:04 E minor. That's over G. So, don't forget you have.
07:16 Chord change. C, A minor, E minor, G right there.
07:28 And then A minor to C.
07:41 That's E minor there. And then. Over D. So, now we're up to bar sixteen.
07:59 And that's all D major pentatonic over D.
08:05 And then I anticipate this change back to G by going to G here.
08:12 And there's the lick comes back.
08:18 So, we get back up here. So, we have.
08:28 So, bar eighteen we're back on G.
08:33 And I do those double stop things again.
08:42 And then a sixteenth note triplet.
08:50 So, this fast sixteenth note triplet lick.
09:07 So.
09:17 So, work through each part of this solo slowly and carefully.
09:20 Because it is complicated when you get into the detail of it.
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