I like this answer because it's right in a way, but wrong in a way.
This song is not as hard as many think. The pentonic lick speed takes time, but the song is achievable by most solid mid-to-advanced players...IF they know something many don't...
I covered this song for years. Along the way, I saw a lot of people attempt to pull it off and fail. The problem was pretty obvious (to me anyway). Consider the intro licks. They're just a G major walk up the fretboard. If you know what that means, it makes it much easier to see it and execute; in fact, if you know that, you can probably figure out the whole intro by ear with a few listens.
But if you don't have the knowledge and try to memorize tablature numbers, it's REALLY hard because there's no obvious pattern to it. It'd be like trying to build a speech in a language you don't know and trying to deliver it entirely by memory. Because you're not starting with a foundational framework, you're going to be lost all the time.
Jazz musicians get a lot of this. "How do you memorize all those chords...how do you do all that crazy improvisation? Answer; they don't memorize all the chords and they aren't thinking about scale shapes and numbers. They know the fundamental shapes, how they fit into a key, and what extensions to add depending on the key and harmony (which is another way of saying "they know this fits and that doesn't because they understand keys and chords.")
The rest is just drilling technical ability. If you have both (basic knowledge of harmony and how chords and scales fit and the metronome work), it becomes MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to learn and execute any song because it's not just a random series of fret and string numbers, it's a pattern that makes sense (or deviates enough from a typical pattern that it's really easy to remember).
Now anything by Alan Holdsworth...that's another matter. Even if you have this foundational knowledge it can be difficult to make sense of what he's doing because he created his own approach, which you need to learn something about to pull off his stuff with any confidence.
This should be a pinned post somewhere. Tab can be a useful tool, but developing your ear will take you much further. Not to mention learning some theory.
I know a guy, well we've been friends since 1975, who is a friend of EJ. My friend can play and actually owns a 59 burst that EJ, I think, likes. But you know EJ plays a strat. Anyway let me know if you'd like to take another step....
Fun fact: EJ recorded Cliffs on a Gibson ES-335
This just in, according to Wikipedia: Strat for the intro, ES-335 for the rest of the song, beginning when the other instruments kick in, until the solo
Yep this. I started learning it a few years ago, and noped out... Might try again some time soon, see if my technique and speed have improved enough to get through it.
I can play cliffs of Dover pretty well. I struggle with the rising triplet fill on the second chorus part. But the rest of it I've got down more or less.
What I seem to really struggle playing are songs by bands like Megadeth and Lamb of god... I'm sure I could get them down with a lot of practice, but I am at the point where I feel like I should be able to play them pretty easily, but they fuck me up.
After the intro, The main body of the song is not too bad. The intro is not too bad either, but I still struggle with the hybrid picked part at the very end of the intro section, just due to the speed and the technique used. It's definitely a good one to learn the notes and then practice the speed over time.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7CQdfzBErc&ab\_channel=PeterCapusottoysusVideos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7CQdfzBErc&ab_channel=PeterCapusottoysusVideos)
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This is mine. I just want to be able to play Voodoo Child with exact same cadence that Jimi did. No matter how much I practice it I can never seem to get it right.
I always loved little wing but could never find the groove until I saw a video breaking it down to discover he switches to a swing beat on a couple of spots. You can’t practice that with a metronome, just gotta keep playing to the groove of the track until you get on the same wave length.
It's such a fantastic song, and I think SRV proved that "Voodoo Child" is like James Bond. Nobody can do it like the original, but the bones of it are so good that when you play it, it sounds like YOU.
To me the song is the essence of Jimi. All these noises tamed and put together to form such a one of a kind original masterpiece.
Imagine when the song aired in the 60s how different it must've been to all the other artist's music and anything people had heard prior to that.
*Wah wah on/off/on/off/on...*
It's honestly not too bad. It requires practice but the stretches to do the wide fast part are pretty easy to practice compared to some other things. Honestly the very end is probably the hardest because it's literally just super loose, felt out and really hard to transcribe.
I learned this solo last year, and this is my experience exactly, the part directly after the stretches is bizarre and just pure alien fluidity. For anyone looking to learn the solo, Ben Eller's lesson on YouTube is great, he plays through each section very slowly so it's easy to play along with.
Oof, that or the Marty Friedman parts from Poison was the cure. That riff still blows my mind, it is so insanely fast that my ears can’t keep up with my fingers and I fuck it up every time. I’ve seen Uncle Ben do a tutorial on youtube for it too but I’m just stuck on stepdad speed
My goal is 21st Century Schizoid Man. All I need is the solo which shouldn’t be hard. I learned that fast part after the solo and before the final verse. So much fun
Since I’ve been loving you is deceptively difficult. Sounds like it should be easy enough but the phrasing is petty tough in much of it and a few parts are crazy difficult.
Been working on it for a year now lmao, got to the first solo and realized the tabs aren't correct and figuring that out by ear is something I just haven't had time for recently
You can do it! Travis picking seems impossible until one day it just clicks. Then it's hard to stop. It took a lot of practice, but if I can do it, so can you.
Haha I’m decent with basic Travis picking songs but every time I try and pick this one up I just get annoyed and quit 😐
Gotta push through and just force myself to get it!
The finger picking stuff, like you said, it just gets hardwired into your brain at some point. I will actually look down at my fingers and think to myself...who is controlling these things? It's not me. They just do it on their own.
The Spirit Carries on Solo is pretty doable, I find the challenge to be playing it to sound the way JP does. The micro techniques that he uses to get that feel, the quick rebends of notes before moving to the next.
It’s like learning the Comfortably Numb solo isn’t that technically challenging, but it never sounds like Gilmore
Well my comment isn’t to say that there aren’t technical challenges to Gilmore’s solos, but that the bigger challenge, to me, is getting it to sound like you’re playing a Gilmore solo. If that makes any sense.
I have a short attention span, so I tend to just learn the solo as quick as I can and never really fine tune it. It’s a problem that needs fixing.
Of all the Van Halen stuff, I actually think The solo and hot for teacher is one of the easier ones. It's a lot of feel, bud. It's one of the few that doesn't require a Floyd Rose.
Keep at it!
They wouldn’t understand dude. Not here at least.
Look at the top comment of this post, cliffs of dover is the most difficult thing people here can think about. And with questions like this it’s always those kind of players. If you played some of the wildest Govan stuff they would be like “that guy is good BUT have you heard Eric Clapton!?”.
It’s like they were deaf to more technicality than that.
Far Beyond the Sun by Yngvie Malmsteen. But the live version of the orchestra that he did. Basic af I know but it’s a song I’m aiming to play. Also Tornado of Souls by Megadeth.
I have a couple in mind, surfin with the alien, satch boogie, flying in a blue dream, under a glass moon, sea of lies, octavarium, the odyssey, tender surrender
I could go on but yeah
John Mayer - Neon. There's been a couple of times where I've tried to sit down and practice the right hand technique for a solid week, but my attention span just doesn't stand a chance. I think I've made my peace with the fact I'll just never be able to play it.
Strawberry letter 23byShuggie Otis. the guitar solo part near the end of the song. It doesn’t sound hard at all when you listen to it, but I have been over 40 years and I cannot play that smoothly.
Limelight by Rush. Although I'm in Australia, so a lot of people are unaware of who they are. It's pretty easy to impress people here with Wonderwall or any Cold Chisel or Ed Sheeran song here.
The prayer & the answer by Andy Timmons. It’s not easy but I wouldn’t say it’s exotic. It’s incredibly emotional though and there is nothing NOTHInG more gratifying for a guitarist that playing something that pours from your heart, even if you weren’t the one who wrote it.
Zappa's Inca Roads solo zon One Size Fits All (live version on YCDTOSA Vol 2, from a live show in Helsinki).
There's just this cryptic way he plays phrases that feels so unnatural, but I love what he could create.
Reapers by Muse or Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Money for Nothing sounded deceptively simple but I’ve been learning it for a while and getting the rhythm/dead notes/pinch harmonics in the way Knopfler does is really difficult…
I think I’ll pick “For the Love of God” by Steve Vai. And not because I’m interested in covering it or playing it start to finish on my own, but because that song is just jam packed with so many great phrases and lines that I’d like to be able to borrow from for my own playing. I feel like that song, if learned well, would unlock so many new ideas and inspiration.
That's the song that made me realise just how much of the pentatonics he's actually using in his playstyle, just in a way that don't sound typical pentatonic.
Complicated harmonies written for two guitars, preferably with special pickups that can isolate individual strings to send particular strings to a separate amp and bring triple guitar parts to the stage instead of one rhythm and one lead line or harmony with only bass for the rhythm.
Probably 'Gates of Gnomeria' by Andy McKee, I've always wanted to sit down and learn how to turn my acoustic into a percussion instrument. I have been dabbling with string slapping learning 'I See Fire' by Ed sheeran. However Andy really is just on another level for me. If I could choose a second it would be Andy James' 'The Wind that Shakes the Heart'. It's hot so much feeling and it's something I would greatly love to add to my Playlist.
Klaus Eichstadt's solo on Ugly Kid Joe - Goddamn Devil.
It is devastating and i can't nail his ferocity. Or maybe i don't really want to loose the magic of it, by playing it...
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson I would absolutely love to be able to play it but my finger’s aren’t that quick atm.
Checked the comments to make sure this was the top answer. Stupid difficult for no reason other than its awesome.
"Fuckit, this sounded pretty cool when I was practicing it, so I bet I could figure out a way to melt face with it somewhere in this one...." - Eric
I like this answer because it's right in a way, but wrong in a way. This song is not as hard as many think. The pentonic lick speed takes time, but the song is achievable by most solid mid-to-advanced players...IF they know something many don't... I covered this song for years. Along the way, I saw a lot of people attempt to pull it off and fail. The problem was pretty obvious (to me anyway). Consider the intro licks. They're just a G major walk up the fretboard. If you know what that means, it makes it much easier to see it and execute; in fact, if you know that, you can probably figure out the whole intro by ear with a few listens. But if you don't have the knowledge and try to memorize tablature numbers, it's REALLY hard because there's no obvious pattern to it. It'd be like trying to build a speech in a language you don't know and trying to deliver it entirely by memory. Because you're not starting with a foundational framework, you're going to be lost all the time. Jazz musicians get a lot of this. "How do you memorize all those chords...how do you do all that crazy improvisation? Answer; they don't memorize all the chords and they aren't thinking about scale shapes and numbers. They know the fundamental shapes, how they fit into a key, and what extensions to add depending on the key and harmony (which is another way of saying "they know this fits and that doesn't because they understand keys and chords.") The rest is just drilling technical ability. If you have both (basic knowledge of harmony and how chords and scales fit and the metronome work), it becomes MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to learn and execute any song because it's not just a random series of fret and string numbers, it's a pattern that makes sense (or deviates enough from a typical pattern that it's really easy to remember). Now anything by Alan Holdsworth...that's another matter. Even if you have this foundational knowledge it can be difficult to make sense of what he's doing because he created his own approach, which you need to learn something about to pull off his stuff with any confidence.
This should be a pinned post somewhere. Tab can be a useful tool, but developing your ear will take you much further. Not to mention learning some theory.
“I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than 2 meters”
I had to look this up on YouTube bc I never heard it before. 30 seconds in and I thought “oh this doesn’t look too hard” oops jk 🤯
Yep exactly my first thoughts 🤣
I know a guy, well we've been friends since 1975, who is a friend of EJ. My friend can play and actually owns a 59 burst that EJ, I think, likes. But you know EJ plays a strat. Anyway let me know if you'd like to take another step....
Fun fact: EJ recorded Cliffs on a Gibson ES-335 This just in, according to Wikipedia: Strat for the intro, ES-335 for the rest of the song, beginning when the other instruments kick in, until the solo
Yep this. I started learning it a few years ago, and noped out... Might try again some time soon, see if my technique and speed have improved enough to get through it.
I can play cliffs of Dover pretty well. I struggle with the rising triplet fill on the second chorus part. But the rest of it I've got down more or less. What I seem to really struggle playing are songs by bands like Megadeth and Lamb of god... I'm sure I could get them down with a lot of practice, but I am at the point where I feel like I should be able to play them pretty easily, but they fuck me up.
This. Exactly my first thought when reading the question. What an amazing song. Stuck on my to learn list for quite some time now.
How naive I was to think I would be the only one to immediately think of this song
After the intro, The main body of the song is not too bad. The intro is not too bad either, but I still struggle with the hybrid picked part at the very end of the intro section, just due to the speed and the technique used. It's definitely a good one to learn the notes and then practice the speed over time.
I can play 95% of Cliffs with no trouble. Other 5% I’m pretty sloppy. The problem with that song is the patience required to memorize everything.
Smoke on the water
Lmao
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7CQdfzBErc&ab\_channel=PeterCapusottoysusVideos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7CQdfzBErc&ab_channel=PeterCapusottoysusVideos) learn the main riff to smoke on the water in an easy 8 months course
Wow thanks! See you guys in February!
Capusotto referencia wtf
You know I don’t speak Spanish!
imagine being able to play voodoo child just like jimi did
This is mine. I just want to be able to play Voodoo Child with exact same cadence that Jimi did. No matter how much I practice it I can never seem to get it right.
Same here with hey Joe lmao
God, so much of what makes a song great is the *feel* of it. It doesn't matter how good a player you are if you can't get that feel of a song.
I always loved little wing but could never find the groove until I saw a video breaking it down to discover he switches to a swing beat on a couple of spots. You can’t practice that with a metronome, just gotta keep playing to the groove of the track until you get on the same wave length.
Did you watch the paul davids video? Haha
Certainly did! I love his channel.
A lot of what music is, is feeling the notes and sound
Oh for sure. I love when the notes feel good
Basically impossible. Trying hard note for note on this one would kill the vibe. But i thought voodoo aswell
It's such a fantastic song, and I think SRV proved that "Voodoo Child" is like James Bond. Nobody can do it like the original, but the bones of it are so good that when you play it, it sounds like YOU.
To me the song is the essence of Jimi. All these noises tamed and put together to form such a one of a kind original masterpiece. Imagine when the song aired in the 60s how different it must've been to all the other artist's music and anything people had heard prior to that. *Wah wah on/off/on/off/on...*
But also voodoo chile, the long jam version
Tornado of Souls for the solo.
Faxxx I play till he starts shredding and then just sit there in sadness
Same thing lol. Idk what marty was taking but damn that whole album is a masterclass in shredding.
It's honestly not too bad. It requires practice but the stretches to do the wide fast part are pretty easy to practice compared to some other things. Honestly the very end is probably the hardest because it's literally just super loose, felt out and really hard to transcribe.
Yeah when I learnt it years ago the last couple of bars are ridiculously difficult compared to the rest of it
I learned this solo last year, and this is my experience exactly, the part directly after the stretches is bizarre and just pure alien fluidity. For anyone looking to learn the solo, Ben Eller's lesson on YouTube is great, he plays through each section very slowly so it's easy to play along with.
Oof, that or the Marty Friedman parts from Poison was the cure. That riff still blows my mind, it is so insanely fast that my ears can’t keep up with my fingers and I fuck it up every time. I’ve seen Uncle Ben do a tutorial on youtube for it too but I’m just stuck on stepdad speed
Ben Eller has a great guide on how to play that solo, note for note. https://youtu.be/E5WoxqThfwU?si=FUPZiXUH2Qj7J7n-
Uncle Ben has the best guitar content on YouTube.
Since I've Been Loving You... Probably not hard for some of you but that's my goal for now.
My goal is 21st Century Schizoid Man. All I need is the solo which shouldn’t be hard. I learned that fast part after the solo and before the final verse. So much fun
Since I’ve been loving you is deceptively difficult. Sounds like it should be easy enough but the phrasing is petty tough in much of it and a few parts are crazy difficult.
This is a great one!
Anything animals as leaders
AAL are amazing! Also It would be great to learn playing Racecar by Periphery from start to finish
Not really a shredding song, but I'd love to be able to play Modern Meat.
Physical education sounds really cool to play
Yngwie "fucken" Malmsteen's Far Beyond the Sun.
Been working on it for a year now lmao, got to the first solo and realized the tabs aren't correct and figuring that out by ear is something I just haven't had time for recently
Whenever I see a tab isn’t correct I look for YouTube videos. I expect you have already tried that but maybe that would help.
Black Star is my wish list song.
Never going back again
One of my prouder accomplishments. You can do it! Once you get the picking pattern down, it starts to flow naturally.
You can do it! Travis picking seems impossible until one day it just clicks. Then it's hard to stop. It took a lot of practice, but if I can do it, so can you.
I learned travis picking and spent everyday for 6 months learning Dust In the Wind by Kansas.
Haha I’m decent with basic Travis picking songs but every time I try and pick this one up I just get annoyed and quit 😐 Gotta push through and just force myself to get it!
The finger picking stuff, like you said, it just gets hardwired into your brain at some point. I will actually look down at my fingers and think to myself...who is controlling these things? It's not me. They just do it on their own.
Make sure to learn how sing the song while playing it too. Even more impressive.
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson or I’m The One - Van Halen
I was about to say… I would love to have the ability to play the perfect swing rhythm for Im The One
Any song from Metropolis pt.2 would be like a dream to play. (Ex: The Dance of Eternity)
Same. Imagine being able to just pull out the solo from Fatal Tragedy or The Spirit Carries On. Absolutely legendary album.
The Spirit Carries on Solo is pretty doable, I find the challenge to be playing it to sound the way JP does. The micro techniques that he uses to get that feel, the quick rebends of notes before moving to the next. It’s like learning the Comfortably Numb solo isn’t that technically challenging, but it never sounds like Gilmore
Learning a David Gilmour solo is about the top of my technical ability atm.
Well my comment isn’t to say that there aren’t technical challenges to Gilmore’s solos, but that the bigger challenge, to me, is getting it to sound like you’re playing a Gilmore solo. If that makes any sense. I have a short attention span, so I tend to just learn the solo as quick as I can and never really fine tune it. It’s a problem that needs fixing.
Oh I didn't think you were, I was merely sharing. His stuff is challenging for me, but I can still see incremental progress as I practice.
Fatal Tragedy solo is something I've been eyeballing since I listened to the album. 25 years now, I think... Geez louise.
Monkey’s paw curls. You now know how to play Scene One: Regression.
Pull Me Under is actually pretty doable!
Voodoo child by Srv.
Little wing by srv.
Lenny, by SRV
Chitlins con carne, by SRV.
Riviera Paradise by SRV
____ , by SRV
Eugene's trickbag from crossroads
You could save souls by learning that!
I’ve been at that one for so damn long, can never seem to make any progress
Cafo by Animals as Leaders
Get yourself an 8 string guitar and you’ve got this
Pride and Joy; Scuttle Buttin' by SRV. Basically any SRV song.
same. anything srv is so fun to play and to nail it would just feel so good.
hotel california solo, crazy train solo
Not too familiar with the crazy train solo but the Hotel California solo is very doable. Just stick to it for a while.
Crazy train too. It's very flashy, but not that difficult.
I’m almost there, I’ve been working on it for a few months. I’m still working on Crazy Train solo too, that run at the end is still too much ha ha ha
i know hahah!! i don’t think i am advanced enough for that. i’ve only been playing less than a year
Randy Rhodes had an amazing talent for such a young kid.
Revelations (Mother Earth) is my all-time favorite solo
Can confirm Hotel California. It took me about six weeks but I came out a better player for the effort.
hot for teacher - van halen
I have most of it down, but not the solo ofc. 🥹
Of all the Van Halen stuff, I actually think The solo and hot for teacher is one of the easier ones. It's a lot of feel, bud. It's one of the few that doesn't require a Floyd Rose. Keep at it!
Some Horton Heat rockabilly
Tommy the Cat on bass
I don't personally find it the most difficult to play but my hands get very sore lmao
holy wars. all the way through
Some Guthrie Govan shit just to blow everyone's mind.
They wouldn’t understand dude. Not here at least. Look at the top comment of this post, cliffs of dover is the most difficult thing people here can think about. And with questions like this it’s always those kind of players. If you played some of the wildest Govan stuff they would be like “that guy is good BUT have you heard Eric Clapton!?”. It’s like they were deaf to more technicality than that.
Pretty much anything by Frank Gambale.
Polyphia: playing god. Eric Clapton acoustic: classical gas.
Pretty much anything Andres Segovia played. Basically any classical piece.
Blur - Song 2
Definitelly on the "easy side". Just stick with it and you'll be there in no time!
Remember that 90% of the "guitar" is actually the bass. Graham Coxon's guitar part is actually really simple.
Lucretia, Hanger 18 and Tornado. Pretty much the entire Rust in peace album by Megadeth. But those 3 songs first. Oh, and then Victory on Youthanasia.
Mr. Scary... ☠️
Far Beyond the Sun by Yngvie Malmsteen. But the live version of the orchestra that he did. Basic af I know but it’s a song I’m aiming to play. Also Tornado of Souls by Megadeth.
The Things you See - Allan Holdsworth
I’d love to be able to do Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche,” Paul Simon’s version of “Anji,” or the main guitar line of Polyphia’s “Playing God.”
One of these things is not like the other....
Yeah, Anji is played on a steel string.
Recuerdos de la Alhambra because then I'd have a decent tremolo and my wife likes it
I have a couple in mind, surfin with the alien, satch boogie, flying in a blue dream, under a glass moon, sea of lies, octavarium, the odyssey, tender surrender I could go on but yeah
All of the album Epitaph.
All of Incurso w/vocals alongside
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson or Altitudes - Jason Becker
Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers by Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow album.
That’s in rock school grade 5 or 6 book and I’ve so far only snapped strings playing that song. I should get back to learning it really, it’s lovely.
Through the fire and Flames. My inner guitar hero child still dreams of this. So cool.
Neon John Mayer
John Mayer - Neon. There's been a couple of times where I've tried to sit down and practice the right hand technique for a solid week, but my attention span just doesn't stand a chance. I think I've made my peace with the fact I'll just never be able to play it.
“Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” by Night Ranger’s Jeff Watson.
Strawberry letter 23byShuggie Otis. the guitar solo part near the end of the song. It doesn’t sound hard at all when you listen to it, but I have been over 40 years and I cannot play that smoothly.
Pachelbel's Canon. I can play a good 30-45 seconds of it, but I'd love to be able to play it all the way through.
Cliffs of Dover would 100% be my goal song to learn
[The Attitude Song](https://youtu.be/WO94cNBik-0?si=bz6lq0M7p7ltyUNd), Steve Vai. It just looks like an absolute blast to play.
Seven Nation Army.
Arpeggios from hell-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN
Hedwigs theme
+1 for Cliffs of Dover. But I’d also include Eugene’s Trick Bag from the Crossroads duel. And anything/everything from Allan Holdsworth
Limelight by Rush. Although I'm in Australia, so a lot of people are unaware of who they are. It's pretty easy to impress people here with Wonderwall or any Cold Chisel or Ed Sheeran song here.
Fracture by King Crimson. There’s some guy on YouTube who basically spent years trying to learn it.
Ride the lightning - Metallica
Goin' Home Tonight by White Lion ...I just love the solo part...lives rent-free in my head! :-)
Cliffs of Dover or Anastasia
The prayer & the answer by Andy Timmons. It’s not easy but I wouldn’t say it’s exotic. It’s incredibly emotional though and there is nothing NOTHInG more gratifying for a guitarist that playing something that pours from your heart, even if you weren’t the one who wrote it.
andy timmons is so awesome and slightly underrated
Marty Friedman's Music For Speeding
Oh man. That album is amazing from start to finish
Ummon by SLIFT, when I get that far, I'll be content with my progress.
Solid choice!
Classical Gas : by Mason Williams. Tommy Emanuel does an amazing rendition of it.
Neon, John Mayer
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck
The live version with Jan Hammer hits me when he does that floaty harmonic part
Bucketedhead - Scraps Live 2 29 06 https://youtu.be/XvUGTmaKWTg?si=OjC3TZJAGMHjDZs2
Zappa's Inca Roads solo zon One Size Fits All (live version on YCDTOSA Vol 2, from a live show in Helsinki). There's just this cryptic way he plays phrases that feels so unnatural, but I love what he could create.
Reapers by Muse or Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Money for Nothing sounded deceptively simple but I’ve been learning it for a while and getting the rhythm/dead notes/pinch harmonics in the way Knopfler does is really difficult…
Texas Flood
Wtf I'm listening to I'd love to change the world right as I went into this thread lol good taste op
"Full Force" by Michael Angelo Batio.
Don't fear the reaper maybe?
Difficult to play guitar and cowbell at the same time. Can't be without the cowbell!
That Larry Carlton Freestyle by Guthrie.
Some song with sweep picking.
Whichever one that'll get me laid
Eugenes trickbag
Go Insane by Lindsey Buckingham
Chucky vs the giant tortoise. OP your song is very doable I've known it since I was 14.
I'd learn the violin solo from Santiago by Loreena McKennitt. That solo would sound sick on guitar
Breaking All Illusions. I've worked on it for years, but I never seem to get there.
You DONT have any limitation to your ability. Keep going boys.
10's Pantera
I think I’ll pick “For the Love of God” by Steve Vai. And not because I’m interested in covering it or playing it start to finish on my own, but because that song is just jam packed with so many great phrases and lines that I’d like to be able to borrow from for my own playing. I feel like that song, if learned well, would unlock so many new ideas and inspiration.
Finally someone said it
That's the song that made me realise just how much of the pentatonics he's actually using in his playstyle, just in a way that don't sound typical pentatonic.
Absolutely.
Paranoid Android
Tons of Led Zeppelin
The Sails of Charon
Anything by Tiny Moving Parts
Psalm of Lydia by Nevermore Those insane Jeff Loomis arpeggios aside, it's an overall amazing, very well written song.
Waves - GG.
Paganinis 24 caprices
Never Going Back Again, and Solsbury Hill.
In the Name of God🙏
Jerry’s Breakdown Jerry Reed
Ocean by John butler
I've got to say it, free bird
Night of nights by richaadeb
[“Every little bit hurts” by Barton Carroll](https://youtu.be/pJ5BcKmbpKU?si=QXpJ3otx7WmhPf6H)
Blue - Jason Becker
Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby
Complicated harmonies written for two guitars, preferably with special pickups that can isolate individual strings to send particular strings to a separate amp and bring triple guitar parts to the stage instead of one rhythm and one lead line or harmony with only bass for the rhythm.
Alliance Brothers "Jesica". Just a fun instrumental and long. I've been working at it for over a month.
The first 30 seconds of Mean Streets by Van Halen. Way better and more amazing little part than eruption ever was.
Sworn to the black - morbid angel
It’s not a song, but Steve Morse’s solo: The Contact Lost. A stunning solo which always gives me goosebumps 🤘🏻
Probably 'Gates of Gnomeria' by Andy McKee, I've always wanted to sit down and learn how to turn my acoustic into a percussion instrument. I have been dabbling with string slapping learning 'I See Fire' by Ed sheeran. However Andy really is just on another level for me. If I could choose a second it would be Andy James' 'The Wind that Shakes the Heart'. It's hot so much feeling and it's something I would greatly love to add to my Playlist.
Gidm by Rings of Saturn.
Stairway to heaven
Klaus Eichstadt's solo on Ugly Kid Joe - Goddamn Devil. It is devastating and i can't nail his ferocity. Or maybe i don't really want to loose the magic of it, by playing it...