your favorite MELODIC solos?

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Killer Queen-Brian May
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon-Brian May
The Ocean-Jimmy Page
Love Child-Wolf Hoffmann
Screaming for a Love Bite-Wolf Hoffmann
Easy Street-Ronni Le Tekro
Lots of Thin Lizzy
Lots of Kansas
Amanda-Boston
Fade To Black-Metallica

A lot of good ones already listed.
70's Strathead has some good Blackmore listed.
 
Scorps ..many but Still loving you come to mind
Shotgun Messiah -Living without you
XYZ -Souvenirs
Dokken-Jaded heart
Zakk -No more tears .Mama im coming home.
Harem Scarem -Justice

I will agree though with White Lion to this day Wait I would say is just one of the best
 
One of my favorite (and most influential) solos that I definitely consider melodic is Alex Lifeson's lead break in Red Barchetta.

At 3:25

 
Cause We've Ended As Lovers-Jeff Beck...the whole song is one big melodic feast
most of Elliott Easton's solos with The Cars
Kiss On My List- H&O
most all Thin Lizzy solos
a lot of Dimebag's solos are really melodic
and as far as shredders... Yngwie, Sykes, Moore, Schenker all deliver both chops and melody in one bag
 
there are many but I've always liked the intro solo to Fade to Black.

 
Melody being subjective and all that here goes...

pretty much anything and everything from Michael Schenker, Neal Schon, Gary Moore, Yngwie, Brian May,Eric Johnson. Jimi has a ton as well

Wait-Vito Bratta
Hold on Loosely-Jeff Carlisi
Living the Hard Way-Paul Gilbert
Talk to ya later-Steve Lukather/The Tubes
Roseanna-Lukather
Tonight She Comes-Elliot Easton/The Cars
Cryin in the Rain-Sykes
Daydream-Robin Trower
Yhe Bubble shuffle-Larry Carlton
Stairway to Heaven

Too many to list but those are the ones that come to mind...
 
La Villa Strangiato - Rush (yes instrumentals have solo sections)
Xanadu (exit stage left version) - Rush
Lakeside Park - Rush
No One At The Bridge - Rush
I'll wait - Van Halen
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Arizona - Scorpions
No One Like You - Scorpions
Revelation Mother Earth - Ozzy
Don't Know What You Got Till It's Gone - Cinderella
 
Comfortably Numb.
If Heartaches Were Nickels- Bonamassa
Slo Gin - Bonamassa
 
This solo to me BRINGS the melodic!!! :rock:

Yeah its Cheesy....but what a Killer solo! :thumbsup:
Go to about 1:50 for it if you dont know this song! ;)

 
A lot of great solos already mentioned.

I'll kick in Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan.
 
Wasted Years and Stranger in a Strange Land - Iron Maiden. Smith rules!!
Just about anything by
Neil Schon
Brian May
Mark Knopfler
Don Felder
Keith Scott
Dan Huff
Pete Lesperance
 
Nuno: Rest in Peace
May: Killer Queen, Millionaire Waltz
Bratta: Goin' Home Tonight
Gilmour: Mother, Time
 
psychodave":21v7sybz said:
Yngwie Malmsteen - Soldier Without Faith

Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
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Wow... I can see what we all have different ideas of what "melodic" means. Soldier is actually one of my favorite Yngwie songs, but when I think of melodic, I generally think fairly slow stuff that a non-guitar playing audience could hum along with, or at least become very familiar with because it's very lyrical. As cool as the solo(s) to Soldier is, I can't think of a single non-guitar player who would be able to get that solo stuck in their head. What with there being 5 million notes in there and all. :lol: :LOL:
 
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