# Guitar Solo recommendations to learn with CtC technique
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/guitar-solo-recommendations-to-learn-with-ctc-technique/51127
**Category:** Masters in Mechanics
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/guitar-solo-recommendations-to-learn-with-ctc-technique/51127 "2021-12-13T23:47:07Z")
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### Author:  [@AriBoiangiu](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/AriBoiangiu)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/guitar-solo-recommendations-to-learn-with-ctc-technique/51127/1 "2021-12-13T23:47:07Z")
Ok, so after a few years on the forum, it finally occured to me to ask-what are some of the meat and potato solo transcriptions that I can learn with my pop-tarts and Volcano motions? I do some dsx too i think…I assume you’ll point me to some yngwie solos, but I love the idea of taking these skills and applying them to solos that use our mechanics directly…THANKS
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### Author:  [@tommo](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/tommo)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/guitar-solo-recommendations-to-learn-with-ctc-technique/51127/2 "2021-12-14T13:28:41Z")
Since you mentioned pop tarts and volcano, I assume you are asking specifically about upstroke-escape solo right? (USX)
Depending on the style, others may come up with valuable recommendations. For sure pretty much the entire Django Reinhardt discography shold work with that (see also Joscho Stephan interview).
I think a good idea is also to write your own USX solos, or modify a bit the solos you already know so they become playable with USX.
Quite a while ago I wrote a couple of short etudes along these lines:
> **[Short Yngwie-style etude for upstroke escape picking](https://www.soundslice.com/slices/P93fc/)**
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> To ensure clean string changes, make sure your upstrokes always get out (i.e. "escape") the plane of the strings. The first five notes are a tribute to Vinnie Moore's "Beyond The Door". The rest is a tribute to... well, you know who :-)
> **[Tommo's Magnet Blues](https://www.soundslice.com/slices/kKqcc/)**
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> A picking technique etude based on the "escaped upstrokes" technique (pick diagonally such that downstrokes rest on the higher string, while upstrokes go up in the air allowing for efficient string switching).
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### Author:  [@AriBoiangiu](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/AriBoiangiu)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/guitar-solo-recommendations-to-learn-with-ctc-technique/51127/3 "2021-12-24T00:45:15Z")
Thank you! I will give these a try! Anyone else? I was thinking maybe to try a JTC course and learn those?