
The a cappella guitar solo in Heartbreaker — played with no backing track — is one of the earliest and most influential examples of unaccompanied electric guitar in rock. Page plays a cascading series of hammer-ons and pull-offs that predates Eddie Van Halen's tapping technique and demonstrates that Page was already exploring the instrument's solo capabilities years before the technique became mainstream.
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