I ran across this video earlier during the day, and it was just mesmerizing to see. I’ve always loved guitar solos, it’s one of the best parts of any Eric Clapton concert, and it’s always the part that I try to listen to intently.

This particular video is a classical rendition of a song that everyone is familiar with, Bohemian Rhapsody. What’s so nice about it is that it actually gives you a lesson afterwards as to how to play the notes.

(video after the jump)

“…Edgar Cruz is a wizard. How else can one explain how he captures the sounds of an entire band and reduces them to a single guitar? It’s that special gift, skill, magic – whatever you’d like to call it – that has produced such amazing solo guitar performances as Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. If Cruz caught the attention of the guitar playing and listening world with that masterpiece, then that world had better brace itself…”
– John Schroeter,
Publisher, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine

You can learn more about Edgar and playing the guitar at their website videoprogressions.com