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    SCHOOL OF ROCK

    Apr 21, 2020 2 minutes
    by Joel Hoekstra

    LOOKING FOR TROUBLE?

    How I play the solo in “Trouble Is Your Middle Name“

    I’d like to present the guitar solo I crafted for the new Whitesnake song “Trouble Is Your Middle Name,” as featured on our latest album, . The solo features some fluid-sounding multi-finger fretboard tapping, plus some cool, which is centered on the G string. I devised a twist on this phrase by replacing the B note with a high E, as shown in . In the solo, I follow that repeating lick with a whole-step bend from D step to E on “overbend the B string ” up ’s to 15 F th # (see fret , then a two ). -

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