Jake E. Lee's hot-rodded Marshall: bright, tight '80s metal with more clarity than modern high gain — every note of the galloping riff speaks. Standard E tuning, D minor, fast (♩=150). Ultra Gain kept just saturated enough, with the TS tightening the open-string pedal tones.
Front of amp: Cheeky Pint (off) → TS Mini (on, tightener) · FX loop: GE-7 (on, '80s sheen) → Spark Mini (solos) → Flashback (on) → HOF (on).
Brighter and less gainy than it sounds on record — Jake's tone is a cranked Marshall, not a modern lead channel. The chord stabs over the open-A pedal must stay distinct; back off gain if they blur.
Low drive, level hot: keeps the palm-muted open-A gallop snappy at ♩=150 and adds the '80s upper-mid edge.
Off. The riff is all muted-pedal dynamics against ringing stabs — compression blurs that contrast.
On for both solos (mid-song and the outro). Jake's solos are busy — the clean lift keeps them on top without extra fizz.
The '80s sheen is real now: a subtle ~300 ms repeat under everything, a bit more audible in the solos. Delay 4 ≈ 300 ms on the Flashback Mini — use the audio-tap (strum while holding the footswitch) to match the ♩=150 tempo.
Jake's record tone is wet — hall reverb plus the delay gives it the proper widescreen '80s depth.
Rising top end = the glassy '80s Marshall sheen (Jake's record tone also has chorus/delay we don't carry — the 3.2 kHz lift fakes some of that shimmer). Small 200 Hz dip keeps the gallop clean.
Mostly neck with a little bridge brightness — the gallop needs definition without losing body.
Bob Daisley: galloping fingerstyle that mirrors the guitar's pedal rhythm. Tone ~60%. Keep the gallop even — it drives the whole song. (Mix stays at min — it's the line-in blend, not part of your tone.)
Standard E, D minor, ♩=150. The whole intro/verse is a palm-muted open-A pedal with ringing D-minor chord stabs on top — mute the pedal notes hard, let the stabs ring. Watch the little 3p0 / 5p0 pull-off turnarounds.
Main riff — PM the open A's, let the stabs ring B|--10---------10---------10-------------8---------8-----------| G|---9----------9----------9-------------9---------9-----------| D|---7----------7----------7-------------7---------7-----------| A|-----0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----0-0--0-0--0---0-0-0-0---0-0-3p0---| E|------------------------------------------------------------0| Turnaround lick (end of the intro cycle) A|--1-0-1-3-1-0------| E|---------------3-1-|
Two lessons with tabs — Ben Eller's covers every nuance of the picking:
Opens in a new window — Songsterr blocks embedding in other sites (X-Frame-Options), so it can't be shown inline. Use the "Jake E. Lee | Rhythm" track; switch to "Lead & Fills" for the solos.