Dude. Fantastic!!! Thank you!!!

Adrian is my favorite Maiden guitarist, his solos, melodies, riffs and just overall energy is always something to look forward to on any track. This was fantastic. Please do more videos on Adrian :)

Finally someone doing this, i'm a big fan of Adrian, thanks mate, cheers!

Man that ending was awesome, like if comfortably numb was recorded by Adrian Smith, So cool, thanks for the lesson also very nice stuff I use all those Adrian tricks

Hi. First of all, how have I miss this one for 3 years ^^ Secondly, a very good "Comfortably Numb solo" rendition. Congrats.

Thanx for showing...very interesting and pretty cool to play them over the jamtrack

For the first lick, I think we can also cite 22 acacia avenue as an example. Awesome video!

Glad I found you, subscribed. Adrian is one of my favourite players, I've been a maiden fan for 40 years. I think his solo on powerslave is phenomenal.

Super cool! Adrian Smith solos are masterpieces❤️

Oh boy, I will practice with this video for months, thanks master 🙌🏼

I love to see someone as big a fan of Adrian as me haha

I had an Adrian Smith style Destroyer in my hands a few weeks ago. Beast of a guitar from the 1980s

Me when the solos are cut in the middle: Nooo just keep playing! Now I gotta listen to all of these songs 😂 In my opinion, the licks are an essential part of Adrian's tasty solos. Thanks for the time and effort put into creating this great video. Amazing playing as always ♥️

Amazing lesson well done!

Great video! Especially how to apply the licks in different contexts. Comfortably numb jam track was a bullseye and very much what I am going for in my playing:D. It was great to see you can mix IM licks in slower tracks. I got here because of your IG reply to my comment on one of your videos. Thanks a lot!!!

Absolutely love your stuff. I keep sharing it with our Maiden tribute Ey Up Maiden. Brilliant.

Great video. Yeah I love playing the Rime of the Ancient Mariner solo. When I was a kid first learning guitar, Dave Murray was *the man* but as I've matured and improved, Adrian is the undisputed champion. Absolutely love his phrasing and feel. Even when he's playing comparatively slowly, it sounds awesome. Very bluesy with contemporary twists.

Absolutely fantastic lesson Nico! Thanks for this one! I completely agree about Adrian‘s guitar work on AMOLAD and BOS. I really really like those albums too. I very much wanted to see the AMOLAD tour to see them play the entire album. I really like your drawings/portraits of Adrian and Stevie behind you in the video. I actually got to meet Stevie and shake his hand just a few months before his tragic death. I was lucky enough that I met him after he got clean and he was very gracious and very humble, nice, and genuine as was the rest of his band. It was the most starstruck I’ve ever been and I’ve met quite a few famous people (and don’t typically suffer from being starstruck LOL). By the way, love your shirt! Such a great album! Once again thanks for this fantastic lesson, I will be working on the material over the holiday here in the US tomorrow! Thanks for reading my long message! Your content gets me really fired up! Wishing you the best!

6:16 and it reappeared recently in WOTW. I'd never connected it with past solos till watching this. He manages to reinvent them to sound new 🤯

I can't belive you only have 880 subscribers, your content quality it's perfect. Keep up the good work \m/ By the way i love your Adrian Smith signature guitar!

Great!!!!!!

Great analysis video!!!

very useful. Do more videos like this one.

Hi Niko, love your videos, keep doing that :) greetings from Brazil!

Nice video friend, Adrian has always been my favourite guitarist in Maiden, love his raunchy approach to his lead work, feel free to tell me I'm wrong but I don't think Maiden would have been as massive without his input, he's always added a touch of class to their sound, something that Ger's struggles to do, just my opinion...Cheers

Awesome man. Wish I could play half as well as this. Great video!

Adrian smith, give me chills since my childhood!! And of corse all the others!!! (If one day you could cover "Legacy" from a matter of life and death :D i put that there.. hehe)

Hey man, you put out some great videos and I really enjoy you breakdown of the types of licks Adrian uses. I think it would be really cool to analyse some more of his actual technique as opposed to licks if you get me? His picking style, how he holds the pick etc. The way I see him hold the pick almost looks as if it's completely perpendicular to the strings but he still manages to get a sweet tone. Keep up the good videos!

Another thing I notice he does alot with his play is up stroke chords to make them punch a bit more, add vibrato the chords and use a hanging note with vibrato for dramatic pause

Dude i just found out your channel and it's amazing! Really great iron maiden content. Keep it up and up the irons lml

Niko you are another Adrian Smith keep it up

Good job!!! Would be useful if you could delve on other Adrian Smith solos (e.g. wicker man, hallowed be thy name or live book of souls solo) Thanks and keep going!

5:00 THE WRITING ON THE WALL!!! This is 100% future prediction omg

Yeah! You're a Maiden encyclopedia, Nico! Great video, as usual 👏👏... you could do a review video of Adrian's book 🤪

Hi Nico, what do you think of Adrian solo on "Isle Of Avalon"? I ask you because no one ever mention It. To me it's one of his best, if not the best!

Love your Adrian and SRV pictures on the wall...where did you get them? Some website we can order from?

Hi Niko! I just discovered your videos (Wicker Man Cover) this week while looking for information on the Jackson Adrian Smith SDXQ. Your playing is great and you have the teaching gift as well. What is your opinion on the SDXQ? I am also an Iron Maiden fan and I am considering getting a SDXQ I saw at a store. I already have the Dave Murray Strat and a standard strat, which will be modified to be Janick-ish. Greetings from Mexico City!

Sorry to ask but is your SDX a budget one or the USA made im asking cuz it sounds cool and i want to buy budget one , cant really spent 2000 now and also I subscribed bro !

how you play guitar so good.😲 i love it.

Keep the tab on the screen longer lol

In Maiden's history, remember the best albums Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time and 7th son of a 7th Son. And the best line up - Dave, Adrian, Steve, Nico and Bruice. This is my opinion eventhough other albums / line ups are good too.

There's no denying Murray and Gers who are both so very underrated but Adrian has always been my favorite in the band ( I squeezed up to front row on their first tour of America way back in the day "Killers" tour and Adrian was just a few feet in front of me. I yelled what's up Adrian between songs and he nodded to me, favorite ever since ) along with Bruce. So when those two get together and write Those are some of my favorite Maiden songs ever. Since that very first time seeing them I've learned that Adrian is much more likable for his excellent and amazing guitar playing than just a recognized nod to a 16 year old in the front row. Smith Kotzen is such an excellent release too and shows that Adrian is never a One Trick Pony.

Please ! I need to know how to play Adrian´s solo on Caught Somewhere in Time !!!!!

Can i ask you how you record with the amp sim and video at the same time? Is it possible to do with your phone as cam and amp sim ?

Top demais, que pedal é esse brother?

Janick proved his worth as Adrian’s replacement. I find the playing on No Prayer for the Dying very energetic and frenetic in the best way possible. He also wrote The Talisman which is up there with Rime of the Ancient Mariner to me. All this being said I LOVE Adrian’s style as a composer and soloist. One of the greatest moves Steve made as the band leader was keeping Janick when Adrian came back. The 3 guitar attack was a stroke of genius and obviously lends itself well to the Maiden’s approach to harmony. You have done a wonderful job of dissecting some of his shapes and stealing them for your own use. Remember, good musicians borrow. Great musicians steal…

That was really good, I have been a huge fan of adrian style and yes that is mostly true, about 80 percent, thanks for that that, I didn't hate maiden in the albums he wasnt in but I kind of don't like janeks tone so yes I did miss his sound on those albums although I was just a few years old, Dave well you know he is already so good and a very natural kind of player, Dave and Adrian when they play solos back to back even today it sounds amazing and both of them have changed things around, and just so you know adrian never plays the revelations solo anymore which I think is so sad to such a perfect song, janek doesnt fill the gap to it with his version also sounds sometimes out of tune and plays really fast but there is no clarity in it. So obvioisly it was great that him and bruce came back.

questo e' veramente quello che aspettavo!!!!

What book is that in the thumbnail?

What string gauge do you use