Hotel California - Don Felder's first lead guitar lesson tutorial

The leads to Eagles' Hotel California are some of the few lead guitar parts that need to be close to the original recordings. It's not necessary to get every note just like the record. Even the artists don't play leads exactly like the original recordings. The notes taught in this video are pretty close to the original recording. Don Felder himself plays it a little differently live than he did on the record.

0:00 Intro
0:38 Lead played as an example
1:23 Close up - 1st phrase
3:54 2nd phrase - easy version
6:07 2nd phrase - hard version
7:18 3rd phrase - easy
8:43 3rd phrase - hard
9:54 4th phrase
10:37 5th phrase
11:26 6th phrase
You can play along with any of these backing tracks.
13:08 recording backing track with click
14:10 Backing track by itself
15:22 Hal playing with the backing track
16:09 End

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