LAST MONTH, I broke down the first half of my 24-bar outro solo in “Ghost of You,” from the 2006 Andy Timmons Band album Resolution. It’s a fairly complex solo that requires attention to detail: there are some challenging passages built from long streams of 32nd notes, which are tempered by more melodic phrases articulated with precise string bending techniques like oblique bends and two-step “overbends.” So let’s get back to it!
This month, we’ll cover bars 13-24, shown here in FIGURE 1. As you recall, bar 12 ended with a fast, repeating phrase played up in 15th position and based on the G minor pentatonic scale (G, Bb , C, D, F), and that phrase “spills” into beat 1 of bar 13, the first bar of this example.