Ever had a song which you've told yourself, "I really must get around to learning that..." ?
I've got loads. But this one is special cos tbh I've forgotten most of the other "must learn that" songs but not this one.
Michael Schenker's second solo album had a track called "Looking for Love" (it's not even one of his popular songs; it has never been a staple of the live sets) -- but...
it has 8 bars in the second guitar solo which caught my ear back then and I've never forgotten them... just never got around to learning what he played till now. Job done. 37 years later.
So the point of this post is: LEARN THAT THING YOU WANT TO LEARN. It has been fun. I'm really glad I've finally nailed it.
This is
my thing that I've wanted to learn. I don't even know if anyone else knows or likes this the song, possibly Jon
@FelineGuitars , but the point is, it's been a good few hours work (only cos transcription is fiddly) but totally worth it. I'm posting it here so I don't forget it now!
The original track: [2nd solo: 2:40 to end]
The eight bars:
The transcription:
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In fact this whole album is a firm fave even if Ron Nevison did leave one of Cozy's bass drums out of the mix
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Thanks for the transcription. I think I have the Japanese bandscore of that album. I will look out the tabs for that page and post the part for comparison.
What's interesting about this solo is the string skipped licks he plays. He plays a similar lick in the outro to Rock You To The Ground and he plays similar string skipping patterns in, I think, Love To Love. Schenker was the first guy I heard doing the string skipped stuff. At the time I didn't even realise what it was until everyone was talking about how Eric Johnson was doing it. Quite a lot of string skipping is in Schenker's playing and he never got the credit EJ did.
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I have that American book, published by Chrysalis in the late 80s, and the quality of some of the transcriptions aren't great. While most of the notes are there, some of the fingers are awkward and you have to reconfigure things a bit.
The Japanese books tend not to be as accurate as the American books, or even some online tabs. The good thing is that there are huge libraries of Japanese scorebooks around and most of the transcriptions will get you started with what you want to play. The other good thing is that there are a lot of Japanese Schenker tab books around!
been thinking of taking transcribing on in the new year hoping it’ll help improve my playing and theory
thanks again