GUITARCHAMPION! What is the hardest solo that you have ever tried to learn? Let me know in the comments :)

@Guitarist19887

Ай бұрын

Sylosis I Sever or Out From Below. Out from below I had to stop I was getting pain in my picking hand.

@heitorsilva819

Ай бұрын

Spread your fire - Angra is very difficult

@heitorsilva819

Ай бұрын

The Ancestry is impossible 😂

@heitorsilva819

Ай бұрын

Man what do you think about some guitarrist that saying that is possible learn solos like the Ancestry, or Michel Romeo's solos in 1 day or less than that; its true ou not?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

@@heitorsilva819 the ancestry is hard to believe :D because the patterns are so new and different, but Michael Romeo Stuff is possible, I only need a few hours to learn a solo from Romeo. It has to do with how familiar you are with the style, the phrases etc. And Romeo is often repeating his licks and using a lot of the same phrases in his solos

Nice list. Thanks for the tab for Arcturus Prime! I am currently working on some Witherfall solos which are pretty challenging for me.

Now let me see you play a Shawn Lane song (e.g. Not Again)… or have a go at what Josh Meader or Matteo Manusco are playing nowadays

@johannlop1076

Ай бұрын

Matteo is hard using his technique but using a pick is normal hard.

Awesome vid. I’m a big Vai fan. I love learning his songs- I understand that they probably aren’t the “hardest” songs to play- However- they are beautifully composed- and as far as a challenge goes- to learn, that takes time, but to play them “perfect” is pretty much out of the question- for me- to nail every little bend and nuance- that’s where the magic is, and that’s what I like to do, spend months trying to master a single song. It’s fun to me. And I love it. :)

Great vid! was hoping to see Good mourning/ black Friday in here 😉

Great list!

I think you make a great point with the first solo. These days, as my skill on guitar progresses, I am more impressed by overall performance and being able to sit down and perform an entire piece(s), especially under pressure, as opposed to just raw technical skill

I’m so glad you’re trying to learn The Ancestry! I’ve been busting my arse with that intro for months and still can’t get my head around how anyone can play that up to speed 😩

9:00 Amazing to see Roberto Barros on this list! His lines are really complex, new and absolutely on another level.

The guitar solo from Shawn lane in the music "hey t Bone - mvp: centrifugal funk" Everytime i hear it my ears melt

@chicocrestana1938

28 күн бұрын

This solo is umbelievable.

Great list. Glad you included DragonForce, lately they've been one of my favorite bands. They have a lot of other incredibly cool and challenging solos like revolution deathsquad, cry for eternity, defenders or inside the winter storm

Surprised to see that there's no Bumblefoot here, his stuff is so outside and difficult to play that it's silly. Turn Around is a super tough track of his that I've tried to learn, what a doozy.

@Returnality

Ай бұрын

I tried to learn Turn Around many years ago and gave it my best shot. I just couldn't do it, hands aren't supposed to do that lol. There is just something about the stuff that he does that's so AWKWARD. Maybe it's time I give it another shot, wish me luck!

@Flyxolydian91

29 күн бұрын

@@Returnality Best of luck! I found it easier to break up the big run into two-finger tapping sections. It's still a complete nightmare, but a bit more intuitive.

Fantastic list, my friend🤘 Totally agree. I have to say the hardest among them is "The Ancestry", I won't even touch that as well as "Five's", Arcturus Prime or the Obscura sweeps and Tendonitis, I know you need to spend all your waking hours practicing, and I can't do that anymore since there's a lot of "hindrance" to the joy's of guitar playing which is my job😆… but in my teens were my only focus is guitar, I'm very much familiar with MAB's No Boundaries, the part you played is the hardest but 2/3 of the song is doable with hard practice 6 hours a day for 3 months., PG's intro can be done in 4 months of focused practice, It's very hard for sheer brute picking, but Paul's patterns are fun and repetitive.😅 same with the Glass arps sweep but only at lower BPM. I still have a wishlist of someday nailing all this crazy beautiful "hardest guitar solo's" I have heard, I started learning a few bars some 12 to 15 years ago and still just 3% or barely nailed up to now. All I need to do is quit and ditch the hindrance 9 to 5 job and lock in the room again for months and years.🤭 *Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn* *Yngwie Malmsteen - Now Your Ships are Burned* *Wintersun - Winter Madness* *Symphony X - Fear the Unknown* *Nevermore - The River Dragon has Come* *Mr Big - Addicted to that Rush (intro)* *Guthrie Govan - Waves* *Dream Theater - This Dying Soul (ending solo)* *Steve Vai - Eugene's Trick Bag* Cheers!🔥

Craaazy solos👍

Love the “Another Day” JPM in the background! Who made it?

In my opinion "akroasis" by obscura is waay harder than any of the songs mentioned, one of the craziest and most technical solos i've ever heard

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Definetly on number 11 or so :D but as soon as you have the fingering, it is not to weird anymore :)

@Martin-di5uv

Ай бұрын

@@justin.hombach Yeah maybe! I havnt gotten through the whole solo yet lol way too hard for me, especially the last half of it

@dissonancesurroundsus

Ай бұрын

Definitely, same thoughts here

@MetalGuitarShred

Ай бұрын

True. That song is nuts. Obscura! 🎸

@icarusblack892

Ай бұрын

I'd like to throw in Velocity solo from Obscura also. It just sounds borderline impossible to do with all the harmonics involved.

Speed kills, Batio. Grazie maestro, era ora che qualcuno gli rendesse giustizia!

I have been trying to learn Guthrie's solo in Fives for over a year now. With most solos I attempt, I can at least imagine I will one day achieve it with enough practice (for example, most Petrucci solos). In Fives, specifically the part beginning around 4:44 of Justin's video here, I just cannot see myself playing that fast. Not because of the sheer speed, but because these sequences are not just simple 16th note patterns. These are shreddy licks in different times, and with SWING to them, and with crazy fingerings. Just impossible

Nice list. What about some of Michael Romeo's or Kiko Loureiro's solos? They are difficult but also sound amazing which is the the hardest thing to nail.

The attitude song by Steve Vai is extremely hard to replicate.

Holy Gwyn! Those solos require a good amount of jolly cooperation between the hands! Not just dex - need some magic too!

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Praise the sun :D

Glad you mention MAB. I always see guitar vids about greatest guitar players, but he's never mentioned, despite being godly.

Hardest part of No Boundaries to me is the Paganini inspired arpeggio part. That is all alternate picked, and one-note-per-string alternate picking is my shred kryptonite.

I can't really say what is the hardest solo I learned. I worked on a lot of solos that I still can't play at the original tempo or that I do not replicate note for note. For instance, I spent much time playing Soothsayer (Buckethead) or Viking Kong (Paul Gilbert), but I don't really replicate the shreddiest moments... I just get loose and try to end up on my feet. I tried to learn erotomania (DT) and can play it note for note... But not at the original tempo... When I come close to it, it's like my technique is falling apart... So here are things I can actually play that are still hard for me : Sails of Charon, Mr Crowley, Lucretia, Smoke and mirrors (intro), Trolls in the Dark, Oops I dit it again CoB version... For the record : I tried to play the glass prison... And I gave up really quickly

“Sofa” - British for “until now” 😂.

Great solos. You shoul check Impellitteri - 17th Century Chicken Pickin. Impelliteri is one of the best alternate picking guys of the times with his strato. Sound incredible.

@jakejambor1

16 күн бұрын

He’s a legend!! I would suggest Spanish Fire too by Impellitteri

Would you consider miles of machines to be up there in difficulty for you?

Some insane solos that didn't make it to the list (yeah, I heard what Justin said at the beginning, but still): -Obscura - Velocity (composed, not truly recorded up to speed) -Jason Richardson - Warrior (insane string skipping) -Alkaloid - C-Value Enigma

New Sub. Dark Souls fan? Loving the content

Interesting. In my opinion: Buckethead - Jordan Kalmah - the Blind Leader

@dantesparda1326

Ай бұрын

Have u ever played guitar before 🤔

You have to check the solo of Digital Heart from Anima Tempo

It's really nice to see 2 brazilian guitarists

personally for me, the aviator is the hardest one ive come across so far. jason is insane.

For me, my Mount Everest has always been the intro to Seven by Symphony X. It seems borderline impossible sometimes

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, I can imagine why they have never played it live 😬😅

Nice list, but what about the Wintersun - Winter Madness solo?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Even if I love this solo, speaking of difficulty I don‘t know if this would be even in my top 20 😬😬

@MetalGuitarTimo

Ай бұрын

@@justin.hombach ayo really? even the picking in the intro riff to the solo is incomprehensible to play for me :D while on the other hand paul gilbert is just alternate picking with build up speed. but what do i know :) thx for the honesty

Mine was "Smoke on the Water" 🤘😆 Hey Justin, wie genau erkennst du bei diesen Beispielen, ob ein Solo improvisiert ist? Kann es nicht sein, dass sie komponiert wurden?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Oft anhand von entweder dem Interpret oder den Umständen, bei Guthrie zum Beispiel. Guthrie ist bekannt für seine Improvisationen und es gibt mehrere Takes von ihm von Fives wo er immer andere Soli spielt. Achtung, Improvisation bedeutet nicht freies Spiel. Natürlich sind gewisse Licks und Phrasen vorher geübt und vorbereitet worden, aber die Entscheidung diese Licks dort anzuwenden ist ein spontaner Prozess und kein lang erdachter.

Far beyond the sun end solo was my hardest attempt all in my life

What about "Retrospective monologue" released in Hannes Grossmann EP Echoes of eternity?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

It is definitely a hard one, but I can‘t judge it because I never tried to cover it… I heard that the solo in engraved in their shrouds is quite nice 😅

@joaovalenteaguiar1361

Ай бұрын

Totally agree 😄 I love the whole EP

I've never heard of Roberto Barros, and somehow I can't believe it. I clicked through a few of his playthroughs and am mindblown how he is not more well known? He seems to play with extreme efficiency at blistering high speeds at ease while still enjoying himself. Seems crazy!

In the live video for glass prison, it does seem like he alternate picks in one direction, but it's hard to see.

I would add any solo from Michael Romeo!

@justin.hombach The Glass Prison solo was definitely alternate picked in the studio version, Petrucci confirmed it. Btw there are other covers of it on YT: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioeYwbhxecmod9Y.html

These are all simple when compared to the solo for nothing else matters!

Have you ever heard the solo in Obscura's Velocity? That's probably the most difficult solo I've ever tried to emulate

arcturus prime intro lesson plzz!!

Try Fortress by Alter Bridge It is insanity when Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti are trading solos in dropC# and open C#5

Was hoping to see a buckethead solo. Interesting none the less

Ich bin am Gitarrenpart von "Home" (Dream Theater) gescheitert. Wollte eigentlich das ganze Album über die Semesterferien, ich glaub es war 2002, lernen. Aber da gings nicht mehr weiter. Ob das Heute anders wäre mit dem Wissen über Pickslanting, Burst Practicing etc? Hmm 🧐

Your point with Paul is considered, however, Buckethead recorded the Jordan guitar solo first take in a studio in front of hella people. And that’s better than Paul’s solo.

Have you tested to play Lil Waynes solo? It should definitely be on this list.

@justin.hombach

7 сағат бұрын

😂😂😂

Jason Becker Mable's Fatal Fable.... and honestly anything Goncalo Pereira. I challenge you to listen to the opening song of his album Upgrade and try to make heads or tails of what he's doing in the guitar solo (music.kzread.info/dash/bejne/h6qes6OLfMLZcbg.html roughly 2:30 to the outro of the song)... give you a hit - anywhere from 4 to 5 NPS. I can't even tab his stuff out because its so far beyond from what ANY guitarist has done with intervals that I can't tell where the hell he's grabbing his notes from without me seeing him actually playing it. It would be like trying to transcribe Tosin's repeating note stuff without seeing what he's doing.

I totally agree. Very very hard solos to play. But, When 8 out of 10 have no feeling almost at all, its not good. The technical shite is not so important if u got no feel. Late, Great Dimebag. 🤘🤘🤘

Tried to learn any Shawn Lane licks?

@Hhhlll7778

Ай бұрын

Shawn is pretty much untouchable

No warren demartini solos?

Before watching, I come in peace aka random killing by Buckethead is by far the most difficult solo on Earth. Not one person except for Buckethead can play it. Besides that, pictures at an exhibition transcribed by Yamashita is way harder than anything ever played. Not a solo but come on. Incredible. Then we have overall great solos like CAB by TMac, Proto Cosmos or Samurai Faith by Greg, Moscow by Feodor. Might be playable with tabs. You also have McLaughlin by himself in India. The famous video. Not sure who’s playing that at the end of the day. And honestly I’ve played some seriously insane solos before. On my channel. Not sure who’s playing them. For example Hydroplaning or Cosmic Symphony. But I’m curious to see who you pick. I’m assuming you’re gonna be playing these solos so they can’t be THAT hard. No offense. I doubt you’re about to bust out a Shawn Lane solo.

@Johnnysmithy24

Ай бұрын

Interesting, I always just think of Jordan cause it’s the obvious famous choice for Bucket. But you’re right that Random Killing is way harder. What other bucket solos you hard are really hard?

@elementsofphysicalreality

Ай бұрын

@@Johnnysmithy24 fun fact Jordan was done on the first take. It says so on the TDRS music website. Travis Dickerson was blown away. I would have to really dig to think of a harder solo than either of those. I’ll get back to you.

Govan played Fives from his album Erotic Cakes

@justin.hombach

12 күн бұрын

But the solo on JTC is a complete different one

@scalatheagorist

7 күн бұрын

@@justin.hombach BTW: Take a look on the details of Rock Is Too Heavy by Owane

The most difficult guitar solos are not the ones hardest to reproduce but those that are hard to produce in the first place. That's why the new guitar solos are totally unmemorable.

how is dream theater - lost not forgotten 1st solo?

Good list. My logic is that if something was composed / improvised by a guitarist, it's certainly doable. My biggest problem is learning violin and piano stuff on the guitar.

No "Winter Madness" solo by Wintersun?

@prathamdangi3388

14 күн бұрын

That's what I was wondering too 🤣

Yeah Roberto Barros is a legend

what was number 9 i got megadeth but cant understand title

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

We‘ll be back

Solos sin sentido...el mejor es child in Time de Blackmore....lleno de técnica, armonía y sobre todo MELODÍA....🔥🤟🤟

Hey Justin, thanks for mentioning me. Great video as always! All the best!

this seems more like a list of difficult guitar solos rather than the 10 most difficult.

Praise the sun!

Fracktured by king crimson??

Have you seen alip ba ta from Indonesia played bohemian rhapsody? Check him please

What is 8?

@MerlinShow

Ай бұрын

Ethereal Skies by Obscura

Audio problem

Why not Damian Salazar or Anton Oparin?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Never covered something from them, so I can not judge over these solos

Didnt petrucci say he picked thr glass prison arps, but he sweeps them live?

I forgot that I was on x0.75 speed on KZread and was wondering why he was talking funny

anything by mateo mancuso

People who put their own solos into a "best guiatrs solo ever" list is cringe

@justin.hombach

11 күн бұрын

People who clearly didn‘t understood the video are also cringe :D

No Petrucci? No Buckethead? No Bulblefoot?

@maximumentropyofficial9

6 күн бұрын

Petrucci is solo 7

@victorherrero4790

6 күн бұрын

@@maximumentropyofficial9 my bad...

Go fund him a new phone!!

I think you forgot Shawn Lane (kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4WCm8Gun7DQf7Q.html)

Yeah they're extremely hard and technically perfuse but they're not enduring musically to my ears.... BUT where is Alan Holdsworth...??

@robertodellavalle7884

29 күн бұрын

Who asked you?

@tracerammo

25 күн бұрын

​@robertodellavalle7884 nobody asked you to chime in, hypocrite. 🤷‍♂️

@jt4843

24 күн бұрын

Happens when it’s too hard for you to ever dream of playing… envy is crazy

@jeffreylong1478

23 күн бұрын

Allan Holdsworth sounds like crap lol

@ItzBotz

22 күн бұрын

Okay dude. You are not the center of the world. I think it's amazing and I love it

Good video but... Where are Paganini, Lizst, Mozart, and Bach? No classical players... these are the original shredders... these guys are all technically proficient, but all these ideas come from classical music. Try to do these with finger picking and not a pick... then you're talking... these... I play these in my sleep having played 23 years now I play both classical, blues, and neoclassical... I also play flamenco. I will tell you this... the hardest gigs are not the ones with a band... they are the solo gigs with you and the guitar... no backing and no Distortion to hide from... the more people I see using a pick makes it less impressive.... but rarely do people play classical and fingerpick. Thus, it shows how hard it is. And I love shredding... but no fingerstyle players? Try alternate picking with your fingers. 10x harder...

Great list, but too much talk for me

first!

Wearing a glove?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

You should check the video „why I play a glove“ from Christian Münzner, there he explains everything :)

I don't understand this style. It just seems soulless. It's like a computer is playing a guitar.

How are you selling a speed picking course? I can pick faster than you. And I don’t sell BS content because I have a real job. Attempt to cover my Spain solo at 300 BPM.

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

Hey man, first: The list is, as I have said, a personal list. How can I judge a solo that I haven‘t tried to play? And what is your right to judge people „uneducated“? Second, why is it a problem, that people are making a living out of education? If you can pick faster than me that is totally good for you, but do you know how to teach your methods? If yes, show me! Would love to learn from you ;) I have studied music education and have a master degree in Jazzguitar, so I take the art of teaching seriously. Why is this not a „real“ job?

@elementsofphysicalreality

Ай бұрын

@@justin.hombach I can teach. But nobody asks. What you and everyone else does is use clickbait to lure in the ignorant to make a buck off them. I just play for the thrill while living a normal lifestyle. But it’s been about 18 years and I don’t see anyone representing how I feel and it’s rather disappointing. And at the end of the day, a band like CAB ends up unknown because of it. Dennis Chambers is sad. You should be sad too. Best band on earth and not once have I ever heard them mentioned on social media. So the current methods are flawed. People judge me and talk shit about me all day every day for over a decade now. I’ve become numb to it all.

@MikeyTheVikey

Ай бұрын

I understand a bit what you are saying but damn you should look into therapy maybe

@oldskoolpaul75

29 күн бұрын

Not everybody is a at your lofty position on guitar douchebag, people like you are the reason some people don't get the best from themselves, be humble! Help don't hinder.

@Night1989-pw3fg

14 күн бұрын

@@elementsofphysicalreality bro are you okay?

What is 6?

@justin.hombach

Ай бұрын

I guess you mean „the ancestry“ by edu falachi :)