Dokken - Dreams Warriors - Guitar Solo Tab

About Dreams Warriors

Written by guitarist George Lynch and bassist Jeff Pilson for the "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3" soundtrack, "Dream Warriors" gives you a front-row seat to Lynch's melodic hard-rock lead style. The song sits in E minor, which suits his blend of pentatonic runs and diatonic phrasing particularly well. Getting the main guitar parts under your fingers is satisfying but not trivial: Lynch moves between clean, hooky single-note lines and heavier rhythm work, so keeping your picking clean across both textures is the real challenge. The lead breaks reward close attention to dynamics, where the note choice matters as much as the speed. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop those lead sections slowed down until the phrasing feels natural rather than rushed. Dokken built much of their sound on Lynch's ability to write guitar parts that serve the song, and this track is a textbook example of that discipline.

• The song is in E minor, giving the guitar parts a dark, melodic quality that suits both the rhythm riffing and Lynch's lead phrasing.
• George Lynch's lead work here blends pentatonic and diatonic ideas, so practising both scale shapes in E minor is directly useful preparation.
• The track moves between clean melodic lines and heavier rhythm sections, making smooth tone and picking control a key thing to work on.