#95 – “Yellow Ledbetter” – solo & tutorial

#95 on the list is Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter”. Mike McCready rips off “Little Wing” all the way here, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s a great tune with completely indecipherable lyrics and a wonderful little solo.

The whole song is a 4 bar loop. E B A E over and over. The solo stays almost entirely within an E major penatonic scale, played up at the 9th position using what most people would consider a C# minor pentatonic box. There are a couple big bends, but nothing too complicated.

Give it a try!

I fall a bit out of time on this one. The track is really quiet and I couldn’t hear it very well while I was playing, but you get the idea.