Rock You Like a Hurricane Guitar Lesson – Scorpions – Main Solo
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You are in for a treat with this one. This note-for-note Rock You Like a Hurricane guitar lesson series will teach you how to play this smash hit by the Scorpions in it’s entirety.
Released in 1984 off their Love at First Sting album, “Rock You Like a Hurricane” shot to the top of the charts and greatly contributed to the band’s success.
The success of this single was due in part to it’s opening guitar riff which is one of the most memorable in the history of hard rock music. It is simple but extremely effective.
In this first video lesson, I will demonstrate how to play all of the chords and riffs in “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, and I will also do a note-for-note breakdown of the intro guitar solo as well.
They use pretty much basic power chords throughout so if you can confidently play those you shouldn’t have much trouble. The solos in “Rock You Like a Hurricane” are a whole different story though.
The intro solo contains a lot of harmony guitar work. I will be teaching the main harmony line in those sections so you can play this with just one guitar and it will still sound great.
There is some tricky licks in there to contend with including fast legato, large bends, alternate picking sequences and an ending lick out of the blues scale that is extremely fast.
The entire second video lesson is dedicated to a note-for-note breakdown of the amazing main guitar solo.
In this solo we start with a unison bend that leads into a long drawn out bend. After that though, we are off to the races! Lots of guitar pyrotechnics abound in a fun, catchy, yet very challenging guitar solo.
This solo contains trills, pick tapping w/slides, tremolo picking, bluesy bends, double-stops, pinch harmonics, an extremely fast legato sequence that covers the entire fretboard, high position playing, string skips, rapid alternate picking and more. Whewww!!
All of this does sound very technical and it is. However, the solo is so musical that you won’t get bogged down in the learning process. It is actually very fun to play!
Simply learn it phrase-by-phrase like I teach it in the video lesson and you will be fine. And if you are into 80’s era hard rock soloing, you can’t do much better than this. 🙂
Enjoy!
Carl..
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U r helping me alot, if u come to my country food on me,
Carl, thank you for helping me finally break "RYLAH" into playing chunks.
Playing the chorus and verses on my Les Paul sounds awesome, but with these sausage fingers of mine, trying to play the solo on the 22nd fret is like trying to thread a needle with a hammer.
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It's real weird for me to be able to play Tornado of Souls solo yet so struggle to play this
Thanks!
I know this is an old video but I was listening to this song the other day and finally decided to learn the solo, lol. Years ago it was WAAAY out of my capabilities but thanks to MANY of your tutorials, I can finally tackle stuff like this. Thanks Carl!
Another great lesson, thank you!! When I have to learn solos quickly, I always hope YOU have a video on it!
This looks like one of those solos that is a pain to memorize but becomes really easy once you do.
Breaking it down into sections makes it more manageable
Superb breakdown
12,14 on the d ????
This solo is hard AF man ????
I haven’t learned this yet cause I’m honestly scared that I can’t do it
thank you
After 2y I am finally going for it.. I might be overestimating my abilites but wish me luck
FINALLY somebody that doesnt go too slow.my kinda tutorial! thanks dude
i thought it was super hard but you made me feel like i can play it thanks for the lesson
I´m always impressed because of your coolness and professionality! I learned a lot from you, thank you very much!
I find it hilarious how this one song has one of the easiest riffs to play ever but also one of the hardest ever solos too!! LoL
awesome!
Matthias Jabs is the most underrated lead guitar player. Bcuz he's not american
you are fucking good looking….no homo
7:49 ok 22 whole step on the high e, time to buy a new guitar?
7:25 also no 22 fret on a string.. hmm a19, d17,19,20,21, g19,20,21, b20, e17?
Umm I ran out of frets (squier Stratocaster … 22 on the b??) 6:35 can I play e string 17, 19, 21whole bend, 19 instead?
Nicely fabricated !
Took him two weeks to create this masterpiece of a solo, and it is still one of the best and hardest ever made! ????
Thank you man
I'm banging my guitar on my head ????
Thank you so much for teaching me!
TO EMULATE MATTHIAS JABS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICUL PLAYER TO COPY, HERE IS SOMETHING CRAZY ABOUT HIS SOUNDS, FLUIDITY, WAY OF HIS COMBINATION OF LEGATO AND PICKING, IS A VERY UNIQUE PLAYER HARD TO COPY… ALSO FROM AN EMOTIONAL POINT OF VIEW
"If you can work your way through this one its quite an accomplishment". Just about says it all really. Great lesson thanks Carl.
ya sure know how ta make things look ,easy, lol i finally learned the solo but to put it at the right speed is guna need some more practice, cheers for the lesson carl m/
Thankyou for your informative lessons its truley appreciated your an inspiration!
Carl, interesting choice in guitar. What draws you to it over most shred guitars. Does that Sterling bridge stay in tune like a Floyd Rose?
I don't know how you play a guitar but damn….if i was making those sounds, i would rock to the movement of my hands man. lawls. i would look like a fool.
sounds awesome!!!! ty for the lessons.
you are a legend !! 😀
How can it have just 488 likes?
Great job thanks for taking the time to post this!
this was one of the badass solo
Gnarly
Soo nice!!! thx for this lesson….. and all the others…..
Dude, where's the intro?!