In this instructional video, guitarist Aaron Jaxon walks viewers through Vince Gill’s iconic solo from the 1990s country hit “One More Last Chance.” He begins with a disclaimer that the solo is transcribed by ear from live performances, emphasizing that the goal is to absorb ideas rather than copy Vince Gill verbatim. The lesson breaks down the solo phrase by phrase, highlighting key techniques such as chicken‑picking double‑stops, percussive muting, whole‑step bends, slides, and alternative fingerings that can be painful for some players. Aaron demonstrates the solo in drop‑D tuning, then shows how to transpose the main licks to other keys (E, C, A, B) for broader musical use. Throughout, he encourages learners to incorporate these ideas into their own repertoire, offering practice tips, a backing track at tempo, and links to tabs in the video description and pinned comment. The video blends technical instruction with a learning philosophy that values idea‑borrowing and personal style development.
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Hey y'all, it's Aaron Jaxon coming to you today.
With another country guitar, uh, chicken picking lesson here. And today I want to show you one of my favorite country guitar solos of all time. This is Vince Gill's solo to One More Last Chance. This is a big '90s country hit, and I've always loved this solo, and I always love teaching it to my students. And, uh, yeah, so I'm here to share it with you today. One of the things I always try to say, kind of a disclaimer at the beginning of these videos, this is me using my ear as best as I can to decipher these licks and these ideas. Now I've watched a lot of live videos of Vince playing this, so I'm pretty damn close to the way that he does it on here. But again, the purpose of learning these solos isn't just to be a clone of the particular person that you're learning from, but it's to gather ideas from different players and then eventually use these in your own playing. So if you'd like to get the tabs for this, you hit the video description. I've got a link down there for it, and I've also got a link in the top pinned comment. So let's jump into it here. All right, so as he's about to go into the solo, give me just one more last chance before you say we're through. And we're going to start off with something along those lines, and then we're going to jump into the first phrase of this. Um, all right, so, um, so a familiar looking little 6th that he plays with single notes to a bend, then we slide down to that 5th fret of the 3rd, and then I think he does that bend. So that is on that 5th fret, that's a whole step bend that I think he just does with his pointer finger, which is a cool thing because he slides down. So this is D, this is the 1, slides down to that dominant 7 to signal we're about to go into the 4 chord there.
So, and then we're going to do—
so again, another familiar looking 6 there.
And then we're going to do—
I think he plays it down there and not up here, but you could play it in either place and it'd be fine.
Um, or—
all right, so before we go on, let's kind of retrace our steps here. So, um, give me just one last chance before you say we're through.
And we'll do Or, all right, and then now we're gonna do—
so when I watch Vince play this one, he plays this lick, he plays the same notes, but the left hand fingering that he uses, he does And I know just for me, that is freaking painful. Um, so you can do it that way. I've seen a lot of people play that lick that way. I find for me that's a little painful, so I like to do— okay. Um, and And he might even— he might release that bend. I like to just hold that through the phrase there, or if you want to— so then after that lick, he's sliding back down. So we've got All right, so again, that's over D right there, and then we're going to go to A and he's going to do— okay, so a cool little kind of bluesy sounding lick there.
Okay.
So again, like I was doing a minute ago, before we go on and try to eat too much in one bite here, let's retrace our steps again here. So we're going to do, um, path. And then after that, he's going to do a little walk down with a familiar looking 6th, 6th passage.
We're going to do so.
All right, so okay, we see that pattern repeat a lot with different, uh, country guitar players here. And if you'd like to, um, check out another video that I've done that really, um, goes deep into that little sequence right there, kind of all over the neck and in a bunch of different keys, check this video out right here. So again, Okay, again, that's over D, and then we go to G, and he's going to do this. And so this down here, this is over G, um, but it's kind of so like your index finger across the, um, uh, first fret of the second and first string, you know, like you have to do whenever you're first learning that dreaded F chord, you know. So we'll do back up to this little 6. All right, so we've got— okay, and then it goes back to G and we're going to do— so, um, we're doing— and that's, um, ring finger, 7th fret of the 3rd string. Middle finger, 6th fret of the 2nd, and we'll slide into that. And it also helps— you could probably hear I'm putting almost like a little, like a percussive thing, and that's kind of what gives chicken picking, um, a a distinct sound. And what I do right there, since that's G, is you can just kind of, kind of hit the 4th string in between those double stops, you know, and it just, it gives it that chicken picking thing. All right, and then the next phrase.
All right, and then we're going to do— so we come at And then we're gonna do—
I think that's how he ends it. It's kind of hard to hear, like, the very last couple of notes of that solo. It sort of gets lost in the mix on the original recording, but I think that's what he's doing here. Okay, so kind of from this second half of this solo again, we'll do All right, so one more time, let me go through the whole thing. All right, so let's hear that again up to tempo with a backing track. Okay, so again, that's as close to that original solo as my ear can decipher it. You know, I know my tone's a little bit different than what Vince is playing with, and you know, I'm not doing this to try to be an exact replica. What I like about learning solos like these is you can start to, you know, kind of pick and choose and borrow and steal, if you will, from, you know, different players that you study. And add those licks to your repertoire. And that's kind of how you come up with your own style of playing. One of my favorite licks in this whole solo is the— I just love that. And like I said, the way Vince plays it, he might even release that bend.
I, I like to hold it the whole time.
Um, so that's a good one to kind of practice moving around a little bit. So that's out of D. I'm in drop D right now. Here, let me— I'll tune back up.
So like, kind of out of that, you could move that a E, C, A.
That's a great country lick to have in your repertoire. You can use that all over the place, and it just gives it a nice little kind of funky steel guitar dominant 7 chicken pick.
Now, C.
You know, in A, you also do that down here, a little harder down there. So that, that's a great one. And this one out of A that he plays, that's a great one.
Um, you can move it to B.
It's kind of a little bluesy lick there that's good to have underneath your fingertips. And then of course, um, you can use that all over the place, um, as well. And again, check out this video if you want a really kind of an in-depth analysis on that. So there's just, you know, there's other great licks in this solo. That's a great when you can move it up to A, B, playing Black Betty. But that's just another great lick to get underneath your fingertips and move that around. So it's, it's, it's, it's cool to be able to play solos like this note for note. It is, again, but we're not doing this just to become clones. We're not. The, the— what, what I love to do, and again, from what I can— what it seems like most of the really great players do is they, they, they learn a little bit from a bunch of different players and then kind of combine all that stuff to come up with their own thing. So, um, again, hit the tabs— or hit the tabs— hit the link, um, in the video description to get the tabs, and also in the top pinned comment. Learn this stuff and then start just, you know, start getting creative with it. Start putting these licks together and start coming up with your own thing. As always, thank you so much for hanging out, and I'll see you next time.
