TUTORIAL - How to play Adrian's 2 Minutes To Midnight guitar solo

[@ligamentpull1]

Adrian Smith, One of the most soulful Hard Rock/Metal Guitarist of all time!

[@modernyobyvatel]

Great solo analysis. Very helpful!

[@waynecaissie9846]

Great video dude! I got it down solid,thanks ,keep em coming bro

[@ligamentpull1]

This track has one of my favorites tradeoffs from Dave and Adrian. The mood tempo is awesome, especially with Adrian's part.

[@Jonathan_Brose]

Nico, you are the man! Greetings from Brazil!

[@CC-qb9sm]

This is a great example of why Adrian is one of my favorite guitarists! Excellent lesson Nico! Great words of wisdom at the end too. Thank you!

[@alessandrobottelli7980]

Wonderful technic, licks, you are the best!!!!

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Too kind! Thank you 🤜🤛

[@marcosquintella4117]

Thank you!

[@GeoffSaari]

Bravo ciccio!

[@raisinbranman]

THANK YOU! I was playing it wrong this whole time, now I can actually play the 2nd riff haha!

[@ustazash98]

Great explanation and teaching techniques

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Thank you so much! Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@DerpTheory]

I've just started watching the video and I've already liked it cos I know it's gonna be GREAT!

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Very much appreciated and I hope you enjoyed it!! 😃😃

[@MatteoAn93]

Excellent as always!!

[@A.P.P.]

Amazing tutorial !!

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Thank you so much!

[@fedemaiden84]

Excellent as always! Can you do Omega’s full solos tutorial?? Roy Z and Adrian’s solos! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@suetruett3812]

another of my fav's by Maiden.. Seems most everything I'm hearing now ends up being a fav or a new fav. Could be worse I guess.. Keep them rolling Nico..

[@kiwisamurai69]

Another great lesson. How about a full cover of this master piece ?

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Glad you liked it! I will do a cover of the full thing at some point for sure. It's an awesome song!

[@omarliew1164]

Hey Nico. Been playing this solo for years now and it always sounded wrong to the original but kept playing it like i learned it ages ago. (like many other maiden solo's lol) recently i started relearning them all by listening closely to the records and build from what i allready have. Today i listened to this solo again and combined with this video (especially your way of playing lick 2, i always played the wrong way) i can finally play it correct. However, you miss 2 notes in lick 1 (atleast to what i can hear on the original). It seems that there are 2 more notes before the second part of lick one. so just before the 12-11 on the g string. sounds to me like he's doing 11-9 on the d string. Please correct me if i'm wrong though! But there's definately something more between the 2 licks that make up lick 1. Curious about what you think. Thanks for all the videos though!

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Sounds more like he slid away from the A after the wide vibrato and his ring finger accidentally flicked the B string as he let go of the G string and repositioned his hand for the rest of the lick. Adding two 16th notes there wouldn't make much sense with the slow and deliberate phrasing of that lick.

[@omarliew1164]

@@LicksOfTheBeast Thanks for the reply. Makes sense indeed. Could be that he played that second part of the riff from the lower position on the neck starting on the b string. Anyway, thought it sounded cool and prety pronounced on the record. intentional or not, it's a nice little detail i think. Cheers!

[@erivanrocha6551]

Cool

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Thank you so much! Cheers!

[@finrodgc3650]

thanks once again, as always the best, although I'll be honest it's getting very complicated for me, I just suppose it's to have patience and a lot of practice

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Patience, constant practice and perseverance will get you there, my friend! And sometimes when something is really beyond your skill level, there's nothing wrong with taking one or two steps back until you're ready to tackle it. 😊

[@tipusage]

2:17 Just as I suspected. That fingering position was too awkward. Thanks for showing the correct way.

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Yeah back in the day it made me crazy because I had seen it in a tab book like that and I could never get it to sound natural with that fingering 😁

[@alaoraf2360]

During lick 1 of the solo, strange to me is this option to pick an upper string from "inside" instead of using economy picking or "coming up and struming down"... will try this version here too :)

[@verneriperenius3526]

Nice playing, what you like about that guitar?

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Talk about perfect timing!! I just released a video review of this guitar where I discuss my likes and dislikes as well as the modifications I made 😃

[@giancassandra]

Bravo, complimenti! È la prima volta che vedo eseguire la diteggiatura che ha usato Adrian in Live after death. Posso chiederti che tab hai usato? Quelli che possiedo hanno la diteggiatura sbagliata

[@LicksOfTheBeast]

Grazie mille! Non ho usato Tab... In genere le evito perché la diteggiatura è spesso sbagliata e alla fine perdo più tempo a rifare tutto con il fraseggio giusto. Preferisco farlo ad orecchio e studiare le performance live quando non sono sicuro della diteggiatura.