Hi Jim! Thanks for the kind words.

Hitch A Ride has always been one of my absolute favorite Boston songs -- and I whole-heartedly agree with you about that outro lead section! Just killer stuff!

As for learning all the parts, I will do a bunch of research and preparation leading up to teaching a song. I'll check youtube videos, online tabs, and "official" transcriptions just to make sure I can be as accurate as possible. I've also been playing for over 30 years, so that helps too!

As your guitar vocabulary and chops improve, so will your ear, so that you will find things easier to pick out just by hearing them. It is like anything, the more time you spend learning songs by ear, the better you'll get at it.

Hope this helps! Keep rockin'!
Mike