Hotel California (Eagles) Guitar Lesson with TAB

In this guitar lesson, you'll find the TAB for how to play the intro and verse, as well as the solo arpeggios which is great. However, the modified solo TAB is a goldmine!

Hotel California | TAB

Here’s Hotel California’s intro TAB (what Don Felder plays). You can play this for all verses as well.

The chorus is best half strummed, half picked. You’ll find a natural part if you learn the verse first and play along with the original recording.

Learn Hotel California’s solo arpeggios

When I was a teenager, this was one of those solos we all had to learn, it was like a benchmark, just like Stairway To Heaven and Bohemian Rhapsody are.

I remember clearly how memorizing the fret numbers felt pointless. I thought to myself, once I’ve memorized this, then learned another bunch of solos, I won’t remember it. If I only had something to connect it with.

Fast forward ten years and I discovered the CAGED system, now it all made complete sense, I have to visualize the chord progression as the solo is arpeggios!

Here’s the TAB, make sure you can see those chord shapes and you’ll never forget it.

In the playlist above, Don Felder talks you through how to play all this himself. He does play it all a tone lower than the original (very annoying).

Looking at the TAB you can see how initially, the arpeggios are sharing shapes, using two strings. The last three bars are all in one shape.

Learn from Hotel California’s solo arpeggios!

If you modify the first half into being in just one chord shape, playing Hotel California’s arpeggio solo would be even easier!

Here’s the TAB for this experiment.

Can you do this in other parts of the fretboard and what will this do for your playing in general?

You may have just stumbled upon a goldmine here… I’m going to shut up now and let you explore what this means, take your time, and come back tomorrow, maybe even every day this week!

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