78. Love of My Life - Queen/Brian May - Guitar Solo Cover

Such a pretty song written by Freddie, with another huge guitar arrangement at the end. Recorded in delightful HD so you can watch my Red Special and weird hands do their thing in more detail than normal. He finds a harmonic in this that doesn't appear to exist on my guitar, I'd tried to do it justice but this is as close as I can manage. Don't think this song needed a harp though. Still learning Vegas, none of the things I want to do are where you'd expect them to be...
/ joeobrown
Stolen from Wikipedia:
"Love of My Life" is a ballad by the British rock band Queen from their 1975 album A Night at the Opera. The song was written by Freddie Mercury about Mary Austin, with whom he had a long term relationship in the early 1970s. After performing the song in South America in 1981, the version from their live album Live Killers reached number 1 in the singles chart in Argentina and Brazil, and stayed in the charts in Argentina for an entire year.
Freddie Mercury wrote it on the piano and guitar first, and Brian May rearranged the song for acoustic 12-string guitar for live performances, also lowering the key by a semitone. May contributed occasional guitar phrases to the original recording and played the swooping harp glissandos by pasting together multiple takes of single chords. The song is an example of Mercury's familiarity with rubato phrasing, showcasing his classical piano influences, notably by Chopin and Beethoven.
With its similar lyrical theme, the Roger Taylor penned single "These Are the Days of Our Lives" would later hearken back to "Love of My Life", twice using the line "I still love you". At the end of "These Are the Days of Our Lives", Mercury simply speaks those words, as he would often do in live versions of "Love of My Life".
During the voyage of the space shuttle Columbia (STS-107), Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, asked to play the song. The song was played in the shuttle and Ramon said: "A special good morning to my wife, Rona, the love of my life." Ramon died in the Columbia disaster shortly thereafter, during its return to the atmosphere in 2003.
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[@santiagohernandez5429]

0:38 eargasm

[@spencerfil]

Santiago Alejandro Hernandez Vasquez for me 0:19

[@jazzram_]

For me none, it’s all beautiful

[@adinkruger5918]

Haha thats y i came to this vid

[@CrossCuntryFranco]

The harmonic is basically feedback. If you were to play the solo with a sixpence and let the string ring out, the feedback would come. :)

[@712rocketman]

Yes.

[@wanderboii]

I was searching for this

[@712rocketman]

Thank you! I was actually looking for this by Brian May, however all his live versions seem to be on acoustic, not the Red. In my opinion, not only his most beautiful, but one of the most beautiful solos ever. Well done!

[@camiloandresgonzalezcorrea8066]

Excelente punteo mi hermano

[@Samsungdreameternity]

Now 8 years to now

[@yonilokful]

Una obra de arte 🤘🎸🎼🎵🎶

[@robsonsilvaoficial6954]

Magnifico

[@ThomasBrunkard]

That was amazing! Great work Joe!

[@konstapelwalander]

That tone is fucking great! Well done!

[@Samsungdreameternity]

Are you Mike Portnoy

[@LaupiasSamarialainen]

I love the low tones at the end. They feel make me feel so weird

[@kaat7702]

beautiful cover !😍😍😍

[@DaltonCoker]

Obrigado!

[@shdshshd2690]

Thank you so much aha I was looking for this

[@jordanortegagarrido4917]

What is the tab for this song bro?

[@jill4470]

So beautiful

[@jaxparrow1794]

MAGNIFICENT!

[@inge.lamboo]

awesome!!!!

[@743c.lalremruata3]

NICE FINGERWORK!!

[@Ario_Satyo_Anggoro]

Amazing!!!!!

[@JuanCruz-ei3eu]

Majestuoso

[@bwedwards67]

Love the sustain your getting

[@thealouise30]

Full version please

[@franci5co]

Awesome !!!

[@MynorSacheco]

Que hermoso!

[@GabrielOPadoan]

Powerfull!

[@kmleonardokm]

0:10 creo que en un show habia escuchado ese solo de brian, pero estuve buscando y no me aparecio, hasta creo que no existe ese solo en un show o en la pelicula

[@davidcoronel4791]

Genio

[@eddisosa8197]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@DasTarD]

What is used for your distortion?

[@goku-gi1ri]

Good! (Your shirt is beautiful, where you have buy it?)

[@tuana8595]

What are the effects/ setting you use ? Can someone please help ❤

[@743c.lalremruata3]

👍👍

[@manueldollynainggolan9448]

can you make the tab bro? i wanna to learn this solo guitar...thanks :)

[@enchonggo3254]

tabs pls bro... TIA

[@joebennett4293]

Your a god

[@kennshi15]

Where did you buy the Red Special?

[@jonatheil1332]

Pero,Pero Soy Batman just search up Brian May guitars

[@smitasowani8623]

You can also search it on eBay I saw it on eBay ...

[@federicofaridgase4297]

great! can you tell me how you do it to get May tone? any effect? any pedal?

[@Joeobrown1]

thanks - i think it was just the vox vbm1 amp, no pedals or anything

[@federicofaridgase4297]

just amp and a guitar?

[@Joeobrown1]

i might have used the vox as a boost into my old blackstar ht5r amp, was a while ago and i don't really remember, sorry! it sounds like i might have used the vox amp as a treble boost, either way i wouldn't have bothered with pedals on this one

[@ringmerscience7969]

please joe cant you make a page that shows the tab of the four guitars part thanks!

[@Joeobrown1]

I have a feeling I used a guitar pro tab for this one

[@ringmerscience7969]

+Joe Brown Can you show me the link?

[@Joeobrown1]

+Ringmer Science it was version 7 on ultimate guitar. I also added a low G and F chord to fatten it up a bit

[@ringmerscience7969]

+Joe Brown thats the acustic version though

[@ringmerscience7969]

+Ringmer Science oh sorry never mind

[@ting6161]

tutorial