Hardest solo?

[Manurack]

You guys have it all wrong. The most amazing master of the guitar is LIL WAYNE!!

 

[Given To Fly]

What's hard for one person may be easy for someone else and vice versa. Also, many of these solo's are built on the idiosyncrasies of the guitarists' own personal style. So what's natural to them is insanely hard for everybody else!
Having said that, I've been revisiting some Dream Theater from Systematic Chaos and while its not my favorite album to listen to, John Petrucci plays some really insane stuff. Someone mentioned "Dark Eternal Night" and they are right! That's a crazy solo! But my favorite is on the Dimarzio website. It's the "Fortress" solo track, no accompaniment, and it freaks me out how clean and crazy it sounds by itself. Here is the link, its at the bottom:

Crunch Lab 7

 

[TIMEwaveXERO]

Caus he is my fav guitarist currently.. I've been trying Per Nilsson's stuff.. dead set my hands are not big enough. BUT I WILL PRESS ON!

 

[jbab]

I've been trying to learn Children of Bodom by Children of Bodom. I can play most of the song at regular speed, but I have to slow it down to 50% for the solo... And I completely .... up faster than that . The hardest one I can pull without being sloppy is probably The Lepper Affinity by Opeth.

 

[GiveUpGuitar]

I've been trying to learn Children of Bodom by Children of Bodom. I can play most of the song at regular speed, but I have to slow it down to 50% for the solo... And I completely .... up faster than that . The hardest one I can pull without being sloppy is probably The Lepper Affinity by Opeth.

Two most excellent jams

 

[Sudzmorphus]

skip to 1:36

I can't play it to speed, Would love to see it done though.

And heres the man himself playing it live

 

[erotophonophilia]

Devoured by Vermin

You guys have it all wrong. The most amazing master of the guitar is LIL WAYNE!!

Proof rappers have no musical talent.

 

[Jakke]

Isn't this, you know, extremely subjective?

Anyway, I second that something written by Lane is probably going to be extremely hard. Also Jason Becker

 

[MetalMike04]

3:20 on this prepare your anus....

 

[ChaNce]

I like that you mentioned that song; I'd forgotten about it. Here's something I recorded almost 5 years. It's the part at 1:15. It could have been done better, but I still can't believe I was 17 and playing that... where have my chops gone now?

You have a life now? My chops started dissolving when I left for college.

When I was 17, I gave a shit. I'm 40 now

 

[ChaNce]

It starts at 2:20

Fuel: never has one singer accomplished so much singing through his nose.

Oh, wait:

 

[heregoesnothing]

I find that a lot of jazz/fusion solos (anything from Guthrie, Holdsworth, Garsed, Metheny, Bireli, etc.) are way more challenging than metal/shred or neo-classical solos

 

[Murmel]

Something that's really, really, really, really fast with a shuffle feeling.

 

[PureImagination]

I was finally able to play Fermented Offal Discharge by Necrophagist a couple of months ago, it's still the most technical solo I've learned.

 

[Alberto7]

You have a life now? My chops started dissolving when I left for college.

When I was 17, I gave a shit. I'm 40 now

That's exactly it . I just don't have the dedication I used to have before, and I'm only (almost) 23 nowadays. My mind is on too many different things these days. Having moved 4 times (going through 3 continents) since then, being in university, and being more independent have definitely taken a toll on me . My skills did develop quite a bit since that video, but I haven't made any real progress in a LONG time.

 

[Decapitated666]

3:20 on this prepare your anus....

I'm pretty sure the singer from Dark Fortress actually did this solo, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[will_shred]

I used to be able to play the first 6 measures of arpeggios from hell.

But... Then I stopped practicing.

 

[SoItGoesRVA]

Cursory look over, saw that there was a need of this:



This entire song is ridiculous, not just the solo.

 

[TheFerryMan]

2nd for Mattias Eklundh. He writes some nutty stuff.


Both Bumblefoot (1:40) and Mattias (2:40) have insane solos in this song.

i remember trying to learn the solo for razor flowers...

Jesus.

 

[daschy]

I picked up Shouting Fire at a Funeral by Jeff Loomis by ear, and I was thinking "Hmm, maybe this guy isn't such a great technical player after all"

Then I tried Miles of Machines... I admit defeat, and I now bow down to Loomis