Alter Bridge: 10 Awesome Tracks You've Never Heard

8. Brand New Start (Blackbird)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6hOf7QlIA It's safe to say Tremonti's soloing skills saw a massive step up in between the first and second album, and it's tracks like this that really get you into his mindset of building any guitar solo as a defining part of a song. Brand New Start remains one of the only times - alongside Tremonti's solo album-cut Leave It Alone - where the structure of the solo is almost like a song in itself. There's a beautiful slow-build to some bends that come screaming in afterwards, and the whole thing ends on a perfectly executed series of patterns that double as some of the most satisfying things to play yourself.