Jake E Lee's STRETCHIEST RIFF!?

[@slimbob777]

Badass riff😎

[@rayrodriguez8255]

I always wondered about how to play this riff. Great job. Thanks.

[@joshwmusic6838]

Reminds me a little of Lightning Strikes Again by Dokken

[@muleblues71]

At half the speed

[@dantana8570]

Rock and roll Rebel was out way before lightning strikes by Dokken

[@xavierl.sanacore6188]

Listen to 'Lighting strikes' which has been released one year after 'Lighting strikes again' by Dokken. He's not even trying to hide it lol...guys were always ripping each other out when something was good.

[@richardwilson8053]

Brilliant as always! Great riff choice and to have Master the Riff back too

[@Guto-df3hq]

Muito bom! Parabéns pelo trabalho e obrigado pela dica 🎸

[@jeff6969]

Jake said he used his thumb because in his words his fingers were short!

[@tommyibanez3958]

Didn't Jake use his thumb on the board to write this? I forgot which guitarist he was one-upping with- Lynch (?) and he started using his thumb on the board (like all his other fingers) to get insane stretches.

[@mastertheguitar]

No thumb for this riff. He started mucking about with his thumb when he was a roommate with Warren DeMartini who was showing off some of his own stretchy playing himself.

[@tommyibanez3958]

@@mastertheguitar That's right it was DeMartini, I was thinking Lynch due to the similar stretchy riff in Lightning Strikes Again

[@waynegram8907]

What are those stretch chords called? not slash chords

[@mastertheguitar]

Well it's more of a typical expanding choral idea from Lee, with a static bass note and an upper note climbing up and down. You could view it all from the F# tonality with stripped back voicings of F#m7 F#m11 F#m7 and F#m7b13 (or Dadd9/F#)

[@waynegram8907]

@@mastertheguitar I think in classical theory they call this Open Voicing or Compound voicing I think.

[@patdelaney5341]

What model Charvel is that?

[@mastertheguitar]

It used to be a Pro Mod San Dimas, check out - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHXSoKiId9x1pKM

[@patdelaney5341]

@mastertheguitar Thank you. Sounds great, and I'd never seen one like that before. Now I know why.