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QUEEN I WANT IT ALL

Throughout their incredible career, Queen have touched on almost every style of music, from rock, pop and ballads to funk, trad-jazz and opera. This diversity reflects that each member was an accomplished songwriter – Messrs Mercury, May, Deacon and Taylor could all claim to have written a worldwide chart-topping hit. The band’s guitarist Brian May alone provided 22!

1989’s I Want It All marked a return to the band’s hard-rock roots. The track highlights Brian’s ability to create simple but powerful guitar hooks and showcases his wonderfully melodic blues-rock soloing. Our transcription is an amalgamation of the acoustic, rhythm and lead guitars heard on the record.

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Everything you need to know before playing ‘I Want It

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