The Guitar Solo That Changed My Life | Steve Stine 

My eyes and ears were opened when my old teacher Glen Gerini (R.I.P. buddy) explained the modes... I knew them but I didn't REALIZE I knew them... It was an epiphany!!! God bless you Glen, I miss just BS'ing with you.... Steve, you're cut from the same cloth as Glen and that's the best compliment I could give you.... Keep doing what you're doing.... Peace...

Every solo by Angus is exciting and inventive. No million notes a minute, just straight ahead rock. Great vid which explains a lot. Thanks Steve, you never fail to open doors

Steve Stine is by a long shot the best solo/lead guitar teacher

I can tell, Steve is a sincere and nice guy.

Hi Steve My name is Ron I’m from Pittsburgh and have been following your lessons for the past few years and just wanted thank you for your patience and sharing your knowledge

Cheers Steve, I swear you must be the greatest guitar instructor on earth. If these videos had been around when I was 15 I would have been like Jimmy Page by my 21st birthday. Oh well, you're here now, never too late to learn. ✌

You’ve blown my mind like 30 times over the past few years.

another great lesson. this happens to be one of the few solos I play note for note. learned it from tablature decades ago and waited thirty years to ask why. I appreciate your insight and instruction in finding those answers.

Something that has made a big impact on my playing is Steve Stine. Adding the B on the first string in a minor pentatonic blew me away, and made my solos more interesting. The hammer on exercise (you're right, it sucks) created a lot of strength in my left hand that was never there before. You're a great teacher!

Thanks, awsome video. I don't think people realize how good Angus's ear is and how outstanding his phrasing is. We see him running around like a mad man and wonder how he plays at the same time but we should also be amazed at his note choice and phrasing. It's outstanding. Thanks for bringing that to our attention... Cheers.

I can't help but think that Angus was channeling a bit of Mississippi Queen in that solo.

Yes I too had the same experience in the same spot and can definitely relate to this. Steve you have a great way of explaining these techniques thank you and please don't give up... I lov your videos

Same thing happened to me on this same solo. It was mindblowing. Angus is one of the greatest at this.

Oh my god! This was also my favorite solo. Steve I’ve had 3 months of lessons about 40 years ago and I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know this. Thank you Sir!

Wow this video blew my mind. I was wondering all these things for years now.

I love that Angus was the guy here. I feel like too many guitarists nowadays tend to shrug off the excellent guitar in AC/DC so always great to see some love there. So many times Angus taught me something on guitar. And always in some of the most subtle ways. I think between the solo in Squealer and Rough Boy by ZZTop my early guitar brain was scrambled by the use of pinch harmonics. I had no idea what those sounds were but they were one note gems that just drilled into my musical brain.

THIS right here is the explanation I've been searching my whole life for lol. Wish you were around when I was 15 (a lifetime ago!!) Great instructor.

Thank you for such a great video!

Dude, this is my jam. I learned that solo when I was 15 too and it was only in the last year or so I finally figured out what was going on in it. One of my all time favorites. I'm 30 now haha. Thanks for breaking it down like that.

Good information... love the Young bros....

Another great eye opening video. Love Angus too.

Great lesson, take a classic blues rock solo we all know note for note in our heads and demonstrate how it uses both minor and major pentatonic. Thanks Steve

Excellent video, excellent tutorial, excellent musicianship...EXCELLENT!

You are amazing Steve! Thank you for all your great tips , how one can move up & down the guitar neck & combine both scales you Rock!

Man you have just let me discover a new dimension that I wasn't able to see before. it's like playing in the dark then finding a light that shine the whole place. I'm feeling that I've been illuminated.

Thank u Steve Great Stuff.. please keep posting more videos like these... Amazing

Hey, haven't watched the whole video yet, but I started playing guitar not too long ago and it didn't even occur to me how fun and cool this solo is, will definitely give it a shot.Keep it up!

As a beginner , I am struggeling exactly with those kind of things, when to play what , how to combine etc.. Very helpful information. Thanks Steve

You are a great guitarist Steve, thanks

Another slam dunk!!!! Thanks for sharing Steve!

Awesome...The moving out of minor and into major is great but the understanding of how that major and minor neighbor and relate to each other in ways to infuse them was a milestone in my playing.

This is an eye opener. I've been battling with this for long.

Great lesson Steve!

Thanks Steve, great session and really valuable info. You are a very talented guy.

Your awesome man I've learned so much from your channel,your tone is awesome.Love the melodic soloing ideas 👌

Excellent sir.

This is some powerful knowledge! Thank you for sharing!

Great video! Thanks for doing this video!

Very nice and melodic sound!

Yeah, that solo is mind opening. I learned it this summer after I got my SG. I had the same thought.... what the heck was going on? Good video Steve.

Was never crazy about AC's schtick but always liked Angus and loved this solo. Thanks Steve.

Same here man! You're tutorial even taught me this!!! Thanks Stev'o!

Really helpful ! Thankyou.

Great stuff man, thanks!

I really need to dive more into the connections of major and minor myself. Awesome song, awesome vid. Thanks for sharing 🤘

Combining major and minor pentatonic scales in overlapping patterns is the Dorian Mode of a major scale.

I had a similar epiphany when I was younger. This was hands down the most difficult but most rewarding and valuable things I ever learned on guitar. It was like seeing The Matrix. If you can master this you're well on your way to being a great guitar player.

This was really valuable info. Thanks.

Great video Steve! Plz make more of these minor/major pentattonic combinations if you can. Very helpful !

Thank you, Steve!

Hey Steve... This is fantastic... you have explained in a way that is very accessible to my way of learning, something I have struggled with for years.... can you do the same for another well known piece?...so helpful... Cheers from sunny England

Awesome Steve !!!!

Good lesson. Thanks!

Great insights just subscribed

Thanks Steve.

My favorite ACDC solo because it sounds so FRESH AND bluesy ROCK all at the same time! He's basically moved to the "Gmajor" B.B.King box in a very slick move...I never learned this solo and it really would've floored and confused the hell out'ta me.Very cool lesson Mr. Stine.

I had a similar experience realizing the combination of both scales, and I have really clung to major pentatonc solos in the last few years

Good stuff Steve

Great share Steve !

One of the best classic rock solos. I would say Lenny from SRV is another great example of a solo that plays on major and minor very well.

Awesome bruh reverse bends from that point on in the video was a eye opener

Awesome steve

Thanks for this lesson

you are a fantastic guitar player,

Very useful Thanks!!!

Awesome! Eye and ear opening!!!

Isn't that natural guitar feeling? 👍Thanks Mr. Stine

WELL DONE STEVE

I have been chasing the minor, major combined play for a long time. The thing that helped me the most was back in the early 80s I was recruited by a country band that had a need for a guitar player. My name came up and long story short I was a rock/blues guitar player in a country band that was very in demand. The keyboard player sat me down one day and showed me the relative minor for every key on the fret board. Like you I played my ass off in minor keys but hadn't really any knowledge of major keys or the need for seeking them out. It took awhile before the aw-ha to take place. Because the way he explained it was backwards to me. Any way, my solos in that band always seemed to have the need for combined major/minor pentatonics, along with chromatics to fill in some gaps here and there. I've never been the same after that day. I played in two other bands at that point as well. The change in my playing was apparent in those bands as well. So that opened my stubborn mind to the other aspects of music over all areas that I was egnoring. I'm by no means a country style player but that bleeds out in playing a little now. My new challenge is trying to in corporate jazz/fusion in my playing and outside playing as well. So your insight to this area was awesome in that it can be just a couple of suttle moves and everything takes on a new demention. And the simplicity of it can be hard to wrap your head around as well. At least for me any way. Thank you, and take care. 🎸🤓🎸🇺🇸☮

It changed the whole World ;-))) You^re Great one

Great explanation man! Thanks!!✌🏻🎸🎼

The thing that REALLY helped me to advance up into LEAD guitar was simple blues licks. I played metal rhythm guitar for twenty eight years, gigged and recorded. Then I picked up the guitar one Sunday afternoon played about randomly with some single note melody lines in a Blues/Rock vein similar to 'Moby Dick' by Zeppelin, 'Behind The Wall Of Sleep' by Sabbath etc. Then I begun add to it, I already knew all five positions so I realised I could move up and down the neck doing this, then curiously add high gain, add little speed bursts, building little by little. Each day I moulded an extra session specifying this, I can contribute about thirty or forty percent soloing to my band playing material now after two and a half years doing this.

Man, this really is the ultimate lesson on this. I know there are lots of blues guys - and jazz - that you could have picked, but this tune really has it all, Angus has it all: the show, the look, the chops - but a really lyrical quality about parts and soloing that really reminds me how most people can hum the guitar solo to tunes like Hotel California, Comfortably Numb, etc. Angus has that, too, but he never seemed to serious so I think we all did not notice how crafty it was/is. And speaking of crafty: I am 50 and I can play, It's fine. Whatever, but I think I never saw this part right. I always thought I was slipping into some sort of Dorian embellishment - and while that it kind of true in terms of playing around with min/maj 6th's and 9th's, thinking about it as major/minor pentatonic certainly makes more sense. It is sort of embarrassing to be a kid from Mississippi - on the river and from a blues town - and just really to have had the ah-ha moment from Steve Stine.

Very nice!!

He was a monster in his prime man no one in rock plays with more feel than Angus.

Good Lesson steve i learned a lot

Thanks so much brother for this one

Great stuff -- I've bought a couple of your courses. Would buy a whole course of this -- connecting the dots between great, well known solos and the structure of your basic courses (Blues for Life, etc.).

OMG I love Angus!

The 2 solos that motivated me to want to play the guitar were Thin Lizzy's EMERALD and Skynyrd's WINO. Listened to those over and over again.

Perfect explanation !

VERY VERY THANKS

Thanks man! Now I know how much I don't know! Feels like Im on the first step of the ladder of knowledge again! :D

Holy crap I have had exactly the same experience, trying to work that bit out, he sneaks some major into highway to hell as well, only difference is I'm 45 not 15 but still learning lol

Hello ,when i first started to learn guitar (35 years ago) some very good french musicien told my friend and i : "play 3,2,2,3,2 or 2,2,3,2,3,2," he purposly didn't mension de 1rst but we understood ,he said "that's your minor and major pentatonic scales ,now you can play rock 'n roll " so right ,good thing to start with . : )

Very nice Best teacher

Nailed it cheers.

Am an intermediate, got a long way to go, but... One of my fav moves (that I use sparingly) is to end a minor pent phrase on a b5, let it hang there, then resolve.

thanks so much

Very good.

I should learn this...

Page uses major pentatonic a lot also! Has that sorta country feel to it!

It's part of the C.A.G.E.D. system played as a C chord shape where the root G is on 5th string 10th fret & 2nd string 8th fret. Gmajor triad GBD. You can then play either Gmajor or Gmajor pentatonic 4th position. I hope this helps.

Hell yea Steve kip on rocking bro

For the sake of repeating myself, you, Mr. Stine have a flair for showing things on a guitar that no one and I mean no one else does. Thank you. My aha moment came when I figured out how to fret before I struck the strings. That's funny right there, don't care who you are.

I had something similar happen to me learning Crossroads...Clapton does that minor up to major at the end of the first solo. It took me a while of playing it wrong to figure it out.

Steve is a beast!

That's a great observation by Steve in the first place.I was woken up to same thing someone pointed out to me/minor to major pent.A player named Eric Clapton doing same thing.

I wish I had Steve Stine as a teacher when I was young... My entire life trajectory might be different (guitar would be a lot more prominent :-)

This is great, I too am always kinda like “eh, major isn’t as fun as minor” Anyway you could do a video that helps explain some connecting theory for blending the two? I think I could figure it out, I would just loves some solid rules/notes I could stick in my head to help me integrate. Good stuff and thank you!!