What the World Will Never Take Acoustic Ending Solo

Here's the ending solo for Hillsong's What the World Will Never Take acoustic version that many of you have been asking for. It is really tough, but worth a try!



Also note how Nigel constructed the solo - he started with the song's melody, did an impressive run, and then deviated from the melody with some blues licks.

Tabs
I didn't play these first few notes:
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----9-9h11----
-11-----------
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-9h11p9-9-s9-9----9b11r9----------
---------------11--------11s12s11-
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---------------------------9------
-s11-11-11-11-11-11-11-9-9---9s11-
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-----------8--------------
------9-11---11-9---------
-9s11-------------9s11----
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----------6b7r6--------
-s9-9-9-7-------7-7----
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---------------------12--------14-
-s10-10--10-10-12-12----14--17----
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Here's the fast lick! Use lots of hammer ons and pull offs for the first part.
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-17b19-17b19r17p14h17h19p14h17p14-
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Still at the fast lick - this portion is from the original solo.
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-17p16p14----14--------------
----------16----16p14--------
----------------------16-----
-------------------------17--

The blues licks start coming in from here.
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-s10-10-10---10--------------
-s9--9--9h11-9---------------
----------------11----9------
-------------------12---12---
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Use some palm mutes for the last four notes.

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-----10-------------------
-----9--------------------
-9s11---11-11h12-11-9-----
----------------------12--
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To 'remain in the song', Nigel plays a riff similar to the first half of the solo.
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-9b11-9-4s6-6s4p2-4-2----
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Do an artificial harmonic on the last note to excite the solo. See this post for more on artificial harmonics.

We switch to a more bluesy scale here.
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-s10-10-7b8r7p5------------------
----------------7-5--------------
--------------------7-7-7--7-7---
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Unfortunately I didn't pull this part off too well in the video!

Some mutes to pre-empt the chords, then strum
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-7--10--
-7--9---
-7--7---
----0---
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To end off
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-8p5------------------------
-----8p7p5---5--------------
-----------7----7p5---------
--------------------7p5s3---
--------------------------3-
followed by an A chord.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

thnx for tabbing this out helps me a lot theres just one thing:

If u look on the god he reigns workshop on youtube u can see that there is a little part that was cut of fin the hillsong acoustic version can you plz tab that out

thnx in advance

Anonymous said...

omg kenny, nice work there. when i watched the workshop, i was so eager to learn the instrumental.. now its out here, thanks for blessing us kenny! GOD BLESS YOU DOUBLY! :D

Anonymous said...

Eh, overall its not bad.. But quite a few wrong notes. Such as after the fast shuffle, after the 'E,A'hammer on F#, you play C#,A then B,A. I just tried out, its D, C#, A, B. Yeah. There is wrong harmonics also. But overall its good

Anonymous said...

woah!
kenny changed shirts halfway through that!
magic!!

renz said...

hey bro, may you also post a downloadable video for this one, especially with your remix in tell the world and for all you've done coz i don't have a pc, and i seldom going to a netshop. tnx in advance.God bless you more!!! this is my favorite page actually. :-)