Week 32, 55 hours of practice.
I learnt a lot and I am very happy I finished this. I feel a bit tired from the same tune over the past 8 months. 
I know it is far from perfect, there are number of things to improve, but it will take time for some of them.
Hi Boris.
I just watched a few parts of your first video after seeing this last oneā¦wow what enormous steps you have madeā¦really great to see such topics 
Greetings
Thank you Rogier! 
Great job getting all the way through this one! Itās such an iconic and fantastic solo, and itās such a shame that Don Henley is being a prick about people posting covers of it. Because there are sooo many things a guitarist can learn, not only from playing it but also for analysing it!
Itās chock full of example of playing over the chords and targeting chord tones in masterful ways. Now that you got the full solo under your fingers, I would suggest you spend some time thinking about how each lick is constructed. Just one example that comes to mind in the first āroundā of 8 bars in the solo. Notice how there are two cases of a half-tone bend, incredibly close on the fretboard? At around 0:15 he bends from 8 to 9 on the B string, and at around 0:26 he repeatedly have a half-step bend from 7 to 8 on the B string?
In both cases heās cleverly bending to the 3rd of the underlying chord - E major in the first case, and E minor at the later. A subtle detail, but one that makes all the difference and makes this solo sounds so nice!
Thank you so much Kasper, this is fantastic! I really appreciate it!
I heard people say this solo is great in terms of chord/tone targeting, but I didnāt go further from understanding why he plays 1&1/2 bend at the very beginning. He targets D as minor third in Bm chord. It looks like he continues targeting thirds throughout. Observing only these 3 examples (your two and the first 1&1/2 bend), I find it interesting how this is done. We have the third (1) at the very beginning of the chord change, (2) at the end of the phrase/bar and (3) repeated bends in the middle of the bar. I love this variation, it is not predictable at all.
I did some analysis of the solo in terms of comparing mechanically licks against those we learnt in Blues immersion course. There are a number of licks borrowed from blues. They are modified a bit, dynamics and context are different, but mechanically those are the same licks. One of the essential licks Justin teaches in BLIM and in Grade 4 (Lick 3 from ā5 blues licks from pattern oneā) is used in this solo in a genius way.
Well done Boris for seeing through to the end. I can relate to that statement. Back in late 90 when I first started out, this was the go to solo of a mentor of mine. Used to go round to his place a couple of times a month and get to lay down the chord progression while he did his thing. And his thing was mainly this solo every visit and at the sessions we had at work ! Happy days but you can have too much of a good thing ! Congrats. 
Thank you so much Toby!
Well done, Boris!
You were able to check out and leave? 
Thank you Brian! 
Yes, exactly right!
Targeting D right of the bat, then shoots for the Bb note (on D string, fret 8) just as the chord progression changes to F#. First fretted directly, and a second later he - again - bends to it from a semi-tone below. Cool stuff!
Very cool indeed!
I can hardly believe your progress, it is inspirational
This is in my top 5 Soloās of all time and gives me something to aim for one day.
Thank you for sharing all your hard work and your progress.
Thank you so much, Aaron.
It is legendary solo and I canāt recommend it more. It will be challenging and frustrating at times, but great reward at the end.
Im digging deep to find music from everyone listening & commenting on mine.
I bet you have this perfected now!
Nice playing, nice guitar!
Hi Aly, thank you for listening and kind words. I played it only few times in the past 2 months, I concentrated on some other things. I can still play it, but it seems more difficult than it used to be. I guess regular repetition has its merits.