U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday

Talk about short but intense! In eight bars only, The Edge takes what was already a great song by U2 and turns it into a monument. The Irish guitar hero has a reputation for getting complex sounds out of layered effects, but this solo is something else. The sound is a regular Strat into a Vox amp with a little delay added to tie it all together, but it’s the way those are played that makes it great, while still being easy to play.

The Edge plays the melody on the high E string and plays along on the open B string as a drone, which makes sense since the song is in the key of B minor. A great way of filling up space without getting gimmicky