UFO - High Flyer - Guitar Solo Tab

About High Flyer

At 120 BPM in E minor, "High Flyer" sits in that mid-tempo pocket where UFO really shine: riffs that feel deceptively simple but demand a locked, controlled right hand to keep the groove from dragging. E Standard tuning means nothing exotic to set up, but the key of E minor rewards players who know their pentatonic and natural minor positions cold, since the lead work lives in those shapes throughout. The central riff is the first thing to nail down, and it is worth isolating the picking attack here because sloppy alternate picking will muddy it at full tempo. This is Hard Rock rooted in the late seventies British tradition, so the tone should be on the crunchier side without going fully saturated. Use the Practice Toolbar to loop the main riff slowed down until your pick attack is even on every note, then gradually bring the tempo back up to 120 BPM before moving on to the solo passages.

• The song sits in E minor and E Standard tuning, so no retuning is needed and all standard scale shapes apply directly.
• At 120 BPM the riff sits in a mid-tempo pocket that exposes uneven picking, making consistent alternate picking technique the key practice focus.
• The late-seventies hard-rock feel calls for a crunchy, moderately gained tone rather than a heavily saturated modern distortion sound.