Taught by the guitarist Brian May and Roger Taylor personally chose.
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What this is
There are YouTube videos. There are tabs. There are forums full of gear speculation. None of it comes from someone who has actually done this — played Brian's parts, with his tone, at the highest professional level, for decades.
I have. I was Brian May's personal choice for Guitar 1 in We Will Rock You across four international productions. I tour arenas with One Vision of Queen featuring Marc Martel. I was hired personally by Roger Taylor to play Brian's parts in Queen Extravaganza — the official Queen tribute.
I've played side by side with Brian. I know this music from the inside. And I've never put all of it in one place — until now.
14 Modules
The inside story of auditioning in front of Brian and Roger. What they heard. What it revealed about his playing philosophy.
Fat Bottom Girls, Tie Your Mother Down, Stone Cold Crazy, Now I'm Here. Power chords, pentatonics, open strings, attitude.
Parts, space, serving the song. An often overlooked part of his sound and identity — and perhaps the most compelling evidence of his mastery.
The coin pick, the volume control. Using these simple tools to create texture, dynamics — story and drama.
Why Brian avoids the top two strings for leads. The fat, orchestral tone this unlocks.
Triadic voice leading in the Bohemian Rhapsody solo — thinking like a composer, not a guitarist.
The major scale: the difference between blues-rock and something compositional. Adding colour with chromaticism and passing tones.
Pre-bends, microtonal inflections, the vocal quality of his lead lines. Killer Queen, Tie Your Mother Down.
Tapping — Brian was doing it before Van Halen. One Vision, It's Late, Cyborg. Whammy bar articulations. The sixpence as an instrument — scrapes and slides.
The out-of-phase tones of Bohemian Rhapsody, replicated on a Strat. Static flange, mic placement, impulse responses.
The gain structure. How to emulate it on anything — boost/OD pedals, plugins, modelers. And why most modeled AC30 captures fail.
Modulation as composition, not decoration. Champions, One Vision, Radio Ga Ga. Specific settings. Signal chain — order matters.
The one-man orchestra technique. Exact settings, ping-pong delay, specific scales and arpeggios and how they loop.
How to create that spectacular, colourful "guitar orchestra" sound with layered harmony parts.
The presale promise
I want to be straight with you. This course is in production. You're buying it before it's finished. Here's exactly what that means for both of us.
Why I'm the right person to teach this
"That moment — in an audition room with one of the greatest guitarists who ever lived — was the result of years of obsessive, forensic study. Not just the notes. The feel. The tone. The physics of a sixpence on strings."
Brian May and Roger Taylor have hired me personally on several occasions. I've played their music with them in front of literally millions of people on American Idol. I've played We Will Rock You across four international productions as Brian's personal choice for Guitar 1. I tour arenas with One Vision of Queen. I've played the parts, delivered the tones, the attitude, and what Brian calls "The Vibe" — for decades.
No one else alive can teach this from this vantage point. That's not arrogance. It's just true.
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