Learn to play Take It Easy (Solo) by Eagles on JustinGuitar!
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What a hidden gem this solo is. Cracking fun to play.
I’m always looking for songs, solos, arrangements etc that can really teach me something specific, as well as being fun, and this solo is a beauty. Put those licks in your back pocket, and you can modify them, interval-wise, phrasing-wise, different chords, keys etc and suddenly you’ve got 100s of licks that sprout from this solo framework.
Reinforced for me too that just following the chord progression with some well chosen melodic tones and phrasing, can produce classics like this. Helps too I suppose if you’ve got the talent of Henley, Frey, etc 
There is an absolute enormous amount of info in this lesson. Looking forward to extracting as much out of it as I can.
Here’s my go at it after a couple of days. Couple of tricky areas to work on still.
Cheers, Shane
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That was great Shane. Couple of days, well done.
Hi,
Did this lesson change? When I looked at it last week there was more guidance with the licks specifying the string and fret to play.
Thx
PS I’m talking about the written guidance.
I’m really enjoying this lesson and appreciate connecting licks to chord shapes! I’m aware this is a level 6 lesson so take this with a grain of salt from a 4-ish level intermediate player (I’m nearing the end of course 4 slowly)… This is meant as constructive feedback, not criticism: my sense is that Justin speeds up as the lesson goes on. I’ve watched the part of the lesson that covers the lick following Em a few dozen times without being able to clearly get what’s happening. Earlier in the lesson he’s more specific about which string he’s pressing, and as the frets get closer together up the neck, it’s much more difficult to grok what he’s doing. I’m still sloppy playing licks 1-6, but I was able to learn them fairly quickly. I’ve been stuck at lick 7 because it’s much harder to follow Justin at that point.
It’s completely understandable - it’s an impressive skill to be able to do a lesson of this length and keep the beat steady, so to speak. Hoping it’s useful to hear.