"Under My Thumb" Solo- Lead Guitar

The Rolling Stones

  • Lesson Type

    song

  • Instructor

    Jon MacLennan

  • Time to Finish

    7:57

During the solo of “Under My Thumb,” the lead guitar plays a more active version of what is played on the verse. It uses the same progression and lyrical single note ideas. We’ll show you how to play this cool, bluesy break in this lesson.

By the end of this lesson you will have learned:

  • Alternate picking
  • Hammer-ons
  • Pull-offs
  • Slides
  • String muting
  • Syncopated picking