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Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Will you do the Queen instagram video lesson fandango?

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There's no better way to learn a classic solo than directly from the legendary player who wrote it, and that's exactly what Brian May offered fans on Instagram recently. It was part of a flurry of teaching activity from the Queen legend on Instagram Stories. Enjoy! 

This spontaneously turned into a ‘Star Licks’ type tutorial ... as an experiment, really. I don’t think I’ll Ever try to do it this way again, though - because it was ridiculously time-consuming trying to put it all up on IG ‘Stories’. Here’s a very rough potted version for posterity. Tell me how useful (or not!) it was. OK ? Bri Brian Harold May

A photo posted by @brianmayforreal on Mar 21, 2020 at 5:10am PDT

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Reviews Editor, GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.