Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned pro, chances are you play along to your favorite guitar players from time time. It is a great way to further our guitar skills and often opens us up to fresh new ideas that we may have otherwise have never thought of. In this section, I hope to show you the limitless creativity that some great guitar players have displayed and hopefully it will inspire you to greatness!

Heaven Sent is one of many songs from Dokken's Back for the Attack CD that features mind-blowing guitar playing. There is no shortage of techniques being used in this solo. To pull it off you need to have fairly well rounded technique.

You can find the complete tab online - click here. I used the tab from this link but I disagreed with some of tab. If you look at the tab from the link, you will see that measures 10-12 involve tapping. I do not believe Lynch is tapping there and I think it sounds way better to use legato. So as you listen to my recording take note of those measures and compare to Lynch's playing on the studio version. I think you'll agree there is no tapping going on.

From measure 9 on is where Lynch goes into overdrive. In these measures there are a flurry of notes played legato style and at the very end it switches to strict alternate picking - this concluding riff is a scorcher and you will need to have your alternate picking chops in fine working order.

I have said it before - I personally find the most difficult parts of this and many Lynch solos to be the execution of the artifical harmonics. I highly recommend listening to the studio recording of the song to hear the way George Lynch uses screaming harmonics. You can hear the song on Rhapsody.

I hope you enjoy learning yet another great George Lynch solo!

Later,

Brian