When I’m dis-assembling songs, I’m looking to see what makes them tick. A busier arrangement would overshadow not only the guitar tone but also the simple grace of the melody. Part of the beauty of this solo is the sparse arrangement gives the guitar room to spread its sonic wings. I touched on this earlier, but let’s explore this a bit further. Mike Campbell played the solo on the low A and low E string in both performances. I found two different live performances of “You Got Lucky” from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Once I’m pretty certain of what strings were used, I will often check for a performance of the actual artist on Youtube. It’s good to train your ears to the timbre of each string. Ex1:īut, you can hear it doesn’t sound as round and warm in 1st position. For me, this low octave 5th of the chord is in my guitar gumbo. You will collect musical ideas over time that become your own musical gumbo. As you’re learning guitar, it’s good to notice these melodic points of interest. Starting a phrase on the 5th of the chord in a lower octave is a very bold flavor. The starting note of the phrase is an E.The chord underneath is A minor.The starting note is the 5th of the chord. My attention was also sparked by the harmony of the line. Tremolo or vibrato circuits have an evenness that sounds safer. Where every bend of the note is imperfect. I think Mike wanted the wildness of the Bigsby. Where a lot of players gently wiggle the Bigsby, Mike digs in, making it sound more like an effects pedal. He’s very aggressive in his use of vibrato.
Campbell has a very particular attack on the strings. Ennio wrote the music behind what became known as spaghetti westerns.Ī lot of the ‘tude lies in the expression of the performance. The Clint Eastwood guitar they’re referring to is the compositions of Ennio Morricone. But most of the time, we just wing it on the solos and hopefully land something that's spontaneous.” On occasion, Tom has a part in mind he may sing it. It's just rocking the old vibrato as I play the solo. He said, "Why don't you do something like a Clint Eastwood kind of thing with the vibrato?" I call that my rip-boing technique. We had the track pretty well finished, and we wanted to put some sort of unique solo on there. “The solo in the middle of "You Got Lucky" was Tom's idea. Here is an excerpt from in interview Campbell gave to Guitar Player in August 1986: That character who inhabits the notes of that song is my fantasy of myself in a post-apocalyptic universe. “You Got Lucky” is one of those riffs that has stayed with me. But some ideas and sounds stay with us for life. As developing guitarists, we are always adding to that DNA through our research and development. I think that for any musician, including guitarists, there is a collection of ideas or sounds that make up the core of their musical DNA. The guitar part has a bold personality-a tone and style of playing that’s almost rebellious.
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