Talk:Tonight She Comes

Notability of the guitar solo

I hope there is no objection to the paragraph I added about the song's guitar solo. I felt it was notable because, first of all, being transcribed in Guitar Player magazine in the first place (a magazine not noted for transcribing pop songs, usually sticking to jazz or metal), and secondly, that it was transcribed by Steve Vai, of Frank Zappa and David Lee Roth fame. Vai worked as a transcriptionist for Zappa before joining his band, and reportedly Zappa was very demanding to work for. And Vai was already famous in 1985, so it's not like he was doing transcription for the paycheck.

Interestingly, Vai's transcription has a major clunker. Right in the first bar, he notates a C (at the end of the solo's first phrase) as a B flat, and repeats the error when the phrase repeats in bar 5. I didn't put this in the artice -- too fancrufty, am I right? -- but I thought I'd mention it here.

I only started to edit the article in the first place because one of the sentences . . .

Although the song reached number one on the Top Rock Tracks charts (where it stayed for three weeks), it proved to be a straightforward pop song, although having a near hard rock standards guitar solo.

. . . seemed a little POV-ish: "Although the song was a hit, it proved to be a straightforward pop song [as if there's something wrong with that], although the solo was difficult to play [like that's the song's only redeeming feature]." This POV actually mirrors my opinion of the song, but it doesn't belong in the article. So I started to restructure the sentence, and then I remembered having this magazine with the solo in it, etc. I also added that the song is diatonic in F major. I think every article on specific pieces of music should mention the song's key (especially pop or rock songs that generally stick to one key). I don't know if that's already been discussed and rejected. --Ben Culture (talk) 14:45, 2 April 2012 (UTC)