In an earlier post on the best “Stairway to Heaven” Youtube videos I had ranked the unknown instructor at Playguitarsolos.com as the best soloist. Tom Lane, the un-named guitarist and instructor is the man behind Playguitarsolos.com and he contacted me to clarify about the anonymity and why his video was not playing at guitar-appreciation.com. In the friendship that struck I was delighted to know that Tom was in fact a full-time C++ programmer who had only taken his passion online in his spare time.

From the links he offered at his YouTube page I was instantly hooked to the perfection of his solos, particularly the sitar guitar solo on Steely Dan’s “Do it again”, Boston’s “Hitch a ride”, The Knack’s “My Sharona”, the two solo’s on Dire Straits’ “Sultans of swing” to just name a few. Just check out the sitar solo from Steely Dan’s “Do it again” below.

There were even solo’s from blues great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Check out more videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/playguitarsolos.

As for instruction Tom offers both tabs and both regular and a slow-motion video of the solo he is playing apart from the instruction on video.

As a guitar player, if popular rock solos are what you are after, then look no further than Playguitarsolos.com. It is one helluva site!

Next check out their music here where you can listen and download their songs.

If you liked their music and would love to learn the chords and licks of one their songs “Sublime” check the video below.

If you like an intro to their guitarist Sunil Silvester here it is.

And finally catch the band and their debut album at www.evergreenrocks.com