Learn the Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo from Brian May

By Rob Laing
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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 (opens in new tab)

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

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar. I've currently set aside any pipe dreams of getting anywhere with my own songs and I am enjoying playing covers in function bands.