Douglas and Tutchi,
The most important skill any guitarist can develop is the ability to hear. I will respectfully submit that one can't truly be a musician without this ability. It's possible to learn to play guitar mechanically but without the ability to hear music one can never truly be a musician.
If you were to enter college to pursue a music degree, you would spend a minimum of one hour daily for four years on ear training.
Tabs are nice to have but too many people become dependent on them. Many of us here on this website who learned to play back in the 60s learned to play lead by listening to records, slowing them down and picking the notes out one at a time. We didn't have tabs or DVDs. What we did have was an opportunity to develop our ears.
You have a wonderful opportunity here. Rather than wait for someone to drop a tab in your lap, take charge of your learning by humming, whistling or singing the first couple of notes in Kirk's solo. Then watch the video and try to find the notes. Keep repeating the process until you have it. Then move to the next few notes and add those. Continue until you can play the entire solo.
Kirk wrote out the chord progression. He's playing chord tones. He's playing slowly. You have all the information you need plus a video to watch. It may take you a while but the benefits will be huge. If you start developing your ears, your skill level will also increase.
To depend on an outside source for tabs is to be a slave. What will you do if no one ever writes out a tab for the song you're dying to learn?
Regards,
Monk
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