Let It Be - Radio Edit Guitar Solo - The Beatles (Patreon)
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It is time to learn the classic solo and unleash the new solid body electric ukulele on the world. Today we are going to learn how to play the solo to Let It Be, the radio edit version of the song. This 8 bar solo by George Harrison has some amazing phrasing and starts off very melodic, harmonic, and intentional, with certain melodic motifs repeated throughout the entire 8 bar, but also has some screaming bends up high on the fretboard, pushing the 2nd to the major 3rd way up on the 17th fret of the Ukulele!!!
As always we will break the entire solo down note for note, phrase for phrase, section for section so you can learn how to play it and rock it out, then at the end we will play through the entire solo together. If you really want to master the timing though make sure you play along with the actual solo on the recording, and do you best to play along with George, this is meant to build the muscle memory and familiarity that you need with the solo to do so.
George Harrison was an amazing guitar player, so this is also like a George Harrison Ukulele Tutorial and a deep dive into his style. This is all in the A minor Pentatonic scale, so the more you know about the scale the easier this will be to play. It is also good to understand techniques of this playing, slides, hammer ons, pull offs, etc, so these links will all help you with this solo.
Related Lessons
Finger Style Rhythm Song Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8RM2fvWN_4
Easy Strummer Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z05BhLF6boM
A Minor Pentatonic Shape - All 5 Shapes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBURg0RYij4
10 Slide Techniques - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOdqV0ap6Vs
Hammer Ons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJeIHTWLd5s
Pull Offs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRzdfupjqBM
String Bending Phrasing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5HtSwYURqo
Will Improve
Soloing in C Major
Melodic Phrasing
Bends
Hammer ons
Playing up the fretboard
Resolving phrasing
Creating motifs
16th notes
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