This is a lesson for the solo from Girl From Oklahoma by 80's metal tribute band Steel Panther. It's a nice acoustic ballad solo that has some really nice phrasing and is a great solo to learn to show some nice phrase spacing, major pentatonic use and acoustic soloing.
“Alien” is a track off Pennywise’s “Straight Ahead” album that was released in 1999 on Epitaph Records. It was Pennywise’s first song that reached mainstream radio.
This song, written by The Offspring, was featured on the album “Ixnay on the Hombre” which came out in 1997. It is a fairly fast punk rock song typical of the 90’s punk rock bands.
The song we’re looking at is off of their incredibly successful “American Idiot” album and is the first track off of it. This is quite a fast track, clocking in at 176 beats per minute, but because the rhythms are all quarter and eighth notes, it’s quite easy to play.
