I apologize, I didn't know who Tim Pierce was (playing over chord changes)

I shall have to view this later!

 

Tim Pierce said, "This jam track is really great, because it has different chords that require different scales"

Yep, I could tell from the intro solo! For example, you won't be able to play over that G# chord with the same E pentatonic. That G# chord has a B# (C natural) that ain't in any variety of the E pentatonic. You have to hop around between "collections of notes" and that means knowing what notes resolve into "money" notes from the next "collection".

Chords are E / G#7 / C#m / F#7 / B / A / E / E

 

I love it! Pay your dues. He showed how one could do that for the first six bars, and then take the freedom to unleash the smokin' signature lick.

 

Monster player

 

He's a great player, and teacher, and comes off really well as a person too. He's humble.
He has a ton of great videos on youtube where he's doing things varying from laying down tracks for artists, to showing his gear, and lessons.
He's one of the top studio players in LA and has been on a ton of stuff you have likely heard. Like Michael Jackson's Beat It, where I believe he plays everything except for the EVH solo. He won't come right out and say it I think for contractual reasons, and they credit Eddie for the whole song, but he hinted around in a video I saw. I think he went back after the fact and redid the parts save for the solo when it wasn't sounding like they wanted.

 

commenting here so I can come back to this and study!

 

He is also on a number of Joe Cocker albums.

 

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I did just that.

Peter

 

While Tim Pierce has has played brilliantly on more records than most folks even own, he didn't do Beat It. That's Steve Lukather on the rhythm and riff parts (not the solo of course). Steve is credited on the record (and the part in question even sounds like SL).
http://www.allmusic.com/album/thriller-mw0000056882/credits
http://www.allmusic.com/song/beat-it-mt0035412075

And yes, that little lesson in the OP is really great!

 

Maybe it was him and Steve was credited. I am pretty sure he was hinting it was him, but wouldn't come out and say it. I think he said "another well known guitarist" so I assumed he meant Eddie.

 

As I understand it - Steve play the riff, Eddie the solo and everything else was Tim

I've held Tim as my favourite guitarist from the time he was playing for Rick Springfield and **** Robin

Just unbelievably talented ear for the right phrase at the right time