![]() “I use the fingernail now a lot more and tonight it just seemed appropriate," May explains. ![]() The only quintessential piece of May gear missing from the performance? His famous six-pence plectrum. "I’m actually on California Metal at the moment which means that Queen must have been well ahead of their time.” “It’s got a lovely selector which sort of tunes you from 1970s to the present day," May continues. “It’s very small but it does lots of stuff,” he says. This one has a particularly beautiful grain so I’m going to keep this one for a while at least and play with it.”įrom there, May trains his iPhone camera on a Vox Mini5 Rhythm five-watt modeling amp. The Red Special he is playing, he explains, “is straight off the production line of Brian May Guitars, and I signed it and then I realized I really liked this one. “I’m taking the self-isolation thing very seriously, as I think you have to in order for us to stand a chance of keeping this virus in check.” “The answer is not very much, because I can’t get into my studio at the moment,” May says. OK ? Bri Brian Harold MayĪnd with that May, with Red Special in hand, tears into the iconic solo and then breaks it down step by step, which you can see in the accompanying video.Īs for what kind of gear he’s using for the MicroConcerts? Here’s a very rough potted version for posterity. 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’. This spontaneously turned into a ‘Star Licks’ type tutorial.
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