The songs is becoming the bane of my existence!!! :-). My band is playing out for the first time on Friday and we decided include Hard to Handle in the setlist. Our singer is in love with this song!

The tempo of the outro solo is right my max speed for playing triplets cleanly, so it's a bit of a challenge. I still have a few days to sort that out...I may punt and just improvise the entire thing...but then that's a whole different type of stress :-).

However, I STILL cannot work out the opening phrase of the first solo. I listen to Mike play it and it makes sense. I play it and it feels like there are too many notes! I've slowed it down to make sure I wasn't adding something that wasn't there.

I'll continue to work on it, but never did I think this song would be so hard! Is it because of the syncopation in the song? It sounds straight forward, but somehow it isn't...