Uploaded October 2014 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Iron Maiden 'Run to the Hills' style Em 80s heavy metal / rock guitar solo backing track E minor.

Scale:
E minor pentatonic for the whole thing

This is an Iron Maiden style backing track, influenced by the solo sections in 'Run to the Hills'. You can use this to work on the actual Iron Maiden Run to the Hills solo or just to improvise over the aggressive chord rotation with your own ideas! The whole thing is in Em.

Basically the chord rotation is
Em - G - C (with B)
There's also an F#5 leading chord into the G.

Guitar was a USA Charvel So-Cal through a Marshall JCM 800 Mk2 head, bass a Fender Jazzbass through an Ampeg SVT head.

Party on! :-)