 Though the blues guitar sounds arent truly coming from Ralph  Macchios fingers, the actor is actually playing note for note the  music of Steve Vai and Ry Cooder. His fingering, slides and bends  are precise until the "main" solo, which incorporates Paganinis 5th  Caprice, in which it is obvious he is not fingering the correct  location on the guitar, as well with the patterns, this can be seen  since he uses mainly the same pattern (scale on the top frets, then  another one in the bottom frets) and all the scale portion of it,  the scales are shifting and changing sound, but his patterns remain  the same.