The Beatles – Drive My Car

George Harrison was not a shredder but he could craft a perfect eight-bar melody on the guitar that would become the hook of a song. Any solo from the Beatles’ catalog would be a great way to work on your phrasing and note choice, but this one is particularly interesting in that it will allow you to work on your bottleneck technique. 

Bottleneck or slide playing was developed by the Delta Blues cats of the early twentieth century, and consists in putting a tube of metal or glass around your ring finger or pinky in order to slide from note to note on the fretboard. 

This simple D minor pentatonic solo is the perfect way to get started and work on all the things that make a good slide player: intonation, playing clean and vibrato.