Attn: Guitarists - What really is the hardest solo?

[glen]

I have no musical ability, so it is all amazing to me, but who really does have hard solos that most folks can?t even play with practice?
Phish?
Allman Brothers?
Metalica?
Jimi?

 

[ElFenix]

freebird!

 

try the free bird solo. I dont play, but that is just cool.

 

[Red Dawn]

Al DiMeola

 

[ThePresence]

Some Satriani, Vai and Malmsteen stuff are close to impossible.

 

[glen]

Flamenco.
I had heard that was the hardest.

 

learn to play the banjo and go dueling.

 

[McPhreak]

Originally posted by: glen
Flamenco.
I had heard that was the hardest.

That guy that sells his music on Home Shopping Network....I fergit his name...

 

[zoiks]

Satriani.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: McPhreak

Originally posted by: glen
Flamenco.
I had heard that was the hardest.

That guy that sells his music on Home Shopping Network....I fergit his name...

Seriously?
Who is he?
Why were you watching HSN?

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Not exactly regular guitar but... I play bass guitar and most of the fast-work that Flea from the Chili Peppers plays is a b!tch to play... Its what I use as practice and i STILL cant get most of them.

 

[loosliptcomptrola]

Strumz and Farah. Spanish Flamenco. Fast as hell! Other than that I would say Joe Pass is a pretty crazy good guitarist

 

[mrCide]

i'd have to say thepresence.

 

[McPhreak]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: McPhreak

Originally posted by: glen
Flamenco.
I had heard that was the hardest.

That guy that sells his music on Home Shopping Network....I fergit his name...

Seriously?
Who is he?
Why were you watching HSN?

I read about him in the newspaper once. He makes a TON of money off HSN and he claims he's this master guitar player who took lessons under this MASTER master guitar player. And when the newspaper interviews the MASTER master guitar player, he said the HSN guy is a loser and a complete fake.

Dammit...now I gotta find his name...

 

[glen]

Ok, so besides Flamenco.
or rather what Rock solo is the hardest to master?

 

[McPhreak]

Originally posted by: McPhreak

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: McPhreak

Originally posted by: glen
Flamenco.
I had heard that was the hardest.

That guy that sells his music on Home Shopping Network....I fergit his name...

Seriously?
Who is he?
Why were you watching HSN?

I read about him in the newspaper once. He makes a TON of money off HSN and he claims he's this master guitar player who took lessons under this MASTER master guitar player. And when the newspaper interviews the MASTER master guitar player, he said the HSN guy is a loser and a complete fake.

Dammit...now I gotta find his name...

AHA!!! ESTEBAN!!!

 

[loosliptcomptrola]

Rock solo's aren't all that hard. Its pretty much just Minor Pentatonic scales.

 

[Harvey]

What really is the hardest solo?

A good one. There are more and less difficult solo styles and passages in all music forms. The best ones are tasteful and take the audience to another level of appreciation above the song, itself.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

meshuggah stuff is pretty insane.

 

[loosliptcomptrola]

Originally posted by: Harvey

What really is the hardest solo?

A good one. There are more and less difficult solo styles and passages in all music forms. The best ones are tasteful and take the audience to another level of appreciation above the song, itself.

Exactly, there's plenty of music masturbation but not enough tastefull stuff out there.

 

[yellowperil]

I think the hardest solo is probably some classical guitar piece played by Andres Segovia. He took works written by composers like Bach for other instruments and played it on guitar. As far as rock, "shredding" is basically it's one note at a time, with a backing band, distortion effects, and a low-action fretboard to 'aid' you. Not that it's not impressive but I don't think it's impossible for most guitarists (with enough practice)

 

[Damage]

Segovia...

 

[bbkat]

Back in the day.....

I remember hearing Randy Rhoads say he considered "Dee" his most challenging work. Personally, I don't see it....but I don't play either.

I also seem to remember Eddie Van Halen considered "Push Comes To Shove" his most challenging (at the time anyway).

 

[Damage]

Originally posted by: bbkat
Back in the day.....

I remember hearing Randy Rhoads say he considered "Dee" his most challenging work. Personally, I don't see it....but I don't play either.

I also seem to remember Eddie Van Halen considered "Push Comes To Shove" his most challenging (at the time anyway).

Dee = Easy

Headcuttin' duel from Crossroads (Steve Vai) = insane..

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Joe Satriani... just amazing.