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Unaccompanied Bb Blues used as the intro to her “Bebop and Swing Guitar” video from Hot Licks. An obvious homage to Wes Montgomery’s D Natural Blues.  Emily swings!

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Here’s a solo guitar arrangement of 
Lennon and McCartney’s Yesterday.  Lovely song. 

Click here for an interesting read about the song. To think that Paul McCartney had “Scrambled Eggs” as the original title for song, and the in first draft the opening lyric was:

 ”Scrambled eggs, Oh, baby how I love your legs.”

Bill is an artist that is difficult to categorise.  Interesting to hear tunes from 60’s onwards getting solo guitar treatment.  

This tricky little riff comes from the Chet Atkins song ‘Maybelle’

Chet plays this banjo esque line at the end of the 2nd bridge section.
You can watch Chet playing and teaching the outline of the song here.

Triplet banjo line from \’maybelle\’

 This is the second chorus of Keith Jarrett’s solo on the Eb blues tune Sandu as found on the album Whisper Not.

Note: Targeting device on beats 3&4 of the third bar that sets up Eb on beat 1 of the 4th bar. 
Also the rhythmical phrasing in bars 9-11 is effective also.  Simple pentatonic line but phrased so well.