That is really cool to read. Cheers! 🤜🤛

​@LicksOfTheBeast I love how dave plays this solo on the les paul he plays it so fluidly... you should try the les paul version ...from what I understand Dave likes a chunky kneck on a les paul as he tends to go for the classic and traditional les pauls with the uncovered pickups !! Try it !

Hahaha thank you!

Hey man, thank you so much 🙏 Your generous support is greatly appreciated! 🤜🤛

Thanks super nice of you. Thank you!

Dave Murray is the sound of Iron Maiden...

Glad to know it came across that way! Thank you 🤜🤛

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That's amazing! Thank you for watching and I hope it'll have been worth the wait! 😊

Dave's tone is definitely awesome and so unique, too! Regarding the fast trills and all that: As long as your technique is correct, you actually don't need a lot of gain for trills and legato phrasing in general. In fact, if your trills depend on gain and treble, they're also going to be quite noisy and inconsistent. 😬 I try to keep my gain moderate and my action a bit higher than what the average shredder might prefer so it forces me to play cleanly and correctly. 😊

You're 100% correct about Dave's odd phrasings being hard to learn when slowed down. Caught Somewhere In Time and his descending lick in Number of the Beast are two other examples.

This comment made my entire day! Thank you!!

Thank you, didn't realise how much I miss playing 🤘

Have the bias fx 2 do you have a video on your settings for it ​@LicksOfTheBeast found it 😂

Grazie a te!

Absolutely! I will be talking mostly about Powerslave for the rest of the year as we're celebrating its 40th anniversary 🙂

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Could be something cool to do on Nico's Guitar World! 😃

I mean... what kind of person wouldn't play air guitar to this?? 😅 Always appreciate your support a whole lot!

Thank you! The only effect aside from Distortion is a A little delay. I do use the chorus often but not on this one 😊

@@LicksOfTheBeastthank you again! I love that Piece of Mind sound. My favourite of all IM eras 😊

And a wah on the middle point. But thats secret, right? 😎

No, but the concept is somewhat similar... EQ 😁 But in this case, I just used the tone matching from Bias Amp to save time.

You could learn to play it using less force. Loosing stamina quickly it's a sign you are pressing with your fingers too hard. You could change your strings for thinner ones as well, for me going from 10s to 9s was a big change in comfort of my playing;)

@@Sebastian_Mroczek thanks!!!! I'm just playing from 7 months ago, so i think that i have to have a time to learn too. I'll try to play more comfortablier. Thanks!!!!!

@@brucedickinson8993 @brucedickinson8993 No problem, glad I could help! If you've been playing for only 7 months, this could actually be quite challenging solo to learn, so give yourself time please. I can also recommend a channel that helped me a lot with HOW TO ACTUALLY PRACTICE things on the guitar. Here's the link to 1 good video, but definitely check them all out! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbJiddGmrNWydqc.htmlsi=LJiSDrizyB6fDxKJ

It's mainly a combination of correct practice, consistency, and time. After only 7 months of playing if you can already get as far as the first solo, you're already far ahead of where I was! 😃

@@LicksOfTheBeast Hahaha I'm still trying to balance college with guitar studies, the love for iron maiden manages to unite. Thank you very much! I will start adopting good study practices. I learn everything on my own, it's a little difficult, but I keep trying! I have a "short" video playing the 2nd solo of Flight of Icarus, if you could watch it and give me a tip on what to improve... thank you! hugs from Brazil.

Just in case Nico doesn't answer I will give you my answer. I have played guitar since 1983 and I have been exactly where you have been. The obvious answer is practice but you need specific exercises. Since Dave uses a lot of hammer-ons and pull-offs between the first and third finger that is what you should practice. One example would be using the E-minor pentatonic at the 12-fret. Start on the high E-string. Pick once and play 15-12-15-12 two times with hammer and pull between 15-12. then pick the B-string and do the same. I often don't even pick the B-string these days. I just do a hammer-on from nowhere. Anyway just continue the same pattern but use 12-14 for G,D, and A string. 15-12-15-12 for low E. Once you reach the low E you can then go up again by playing 12-15-12-15-12-15-12-15 then move on to the A-string pick once and the rest hammer and pull like this 12-14-12-14-12-14-12-14 etc... If you do this every day 10 min you will improve. Also play against a metronome and see what tempo you can play before it gets really hard.

There is a lot of great stuff on you tube. A guy named Jamie Robinson have something that might interest you. Search for 10 MINUTE LEGATO WORKOUT! (w/ Tabs + Bonus Lick!) I would also recommend to use a software that can slow down the speed of a solo. Then use that program to isolate the part you have problems with and slow it down to a speed you can master. You will get faster.

@@thomasanderson9202 thank you very much, I love Dave's style of playing so i will definitely practise it. Btw I dind't expect such a sophisticated answet tbh,

Only other thing I can add for now is practice hammer-ons and pull-offs without too much gain and be midful of when you're hammering on and when you're pulling off. Don't just wildly go back and forth between the two fingers. Legato can get a lot more complex but I think Mr Anderson covered plenty for you to have enough to work on for a little bit 😊

@@LicksOfTheBeast thank you so much for the tips, I really appreciate them :)