The most difficult piece of music you can play?

[BluesShredder]

What is the most difficult song or solo you can play?

[Raskolnikov]

I'm not sure...
Things don't seem that tough after you've learned how to do them.

[BluesShredder]

I think the most difficult song i can play is All along the watchtower, i have tried to learn Yngwie's Black Star but its not possible for me

[skee1]

I really don't have one that is more difficult ,
than the others.
I think any song can be difficult if you can't play it,
well or good.
Also what bugs me is after you play a solo somebody,
comes up to the stage and says hey' that was pretty good.
What gets me is the word "Pretty to me i take the word,
as like Fair not to bad ect-ect.



Markzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[THE PHYRGIAN LORD]

I found smoke on the water solo quite difficult because of the phrasing its hard to copy and also little wing intro is very hard but ill just keep on praticing

[Zeppelin]

it took me awhile to get the highwaystar solo (deep purple) and still i cant play it to perfection, usually i dont really learn solos but improvise on their scale, so i dont know much solos

[Christoph]

Caprice #5 by Nicolli Paganini

[Christoph]

I don't think I spelled that name right, but he's that violinist that everone thought was insane.

[Joseph]

I never thought that I would master the entire solo to "Fade To Black" with the exact rhythm and pace, but sooner or later songs like this just stick in your head. With enough practice, and patience we can just about accomplish anything. But still, no matter how good I get, no one can match Kirk Hammett when he plays this solo live! There are so many guitar parts that I never thought I could learn growing up, but I proved myself wrong time and time again. When you learn something that really seemed impossible at first, it really has a way in building your confidence as a player, and as a person!

-Joseph

[Barreta_jetstream1]

lil' wing. i'v been trying for years anbd still can't play it

[stratman42]

There are a few songs i am quite proud that i can now play which may not seem that amazing to the rest of you, but i am still learning, and i found some of the chord shapes a bit wierd

Ozzy Osbourne - crazy Train
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the opera
Guns n Roses - Sweet child o mine
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Queensryche - Revolution calling

These are full songs with solos, so i am quite proud

[Raskolnikov]

The toughest songs I play right now are probably Goldenboy and To Defy the Laws of Tradition by Primus, as well as a couple of my band's songs: Standing and Flourescant. Moose Hunt is gonna be a royal pain too when I get the lyrics done and the band dives into it.

[chris mood]

If you think Little Wing is difficult try playing Castles Made Of Sand, Jimi continues to inspire

Check out Stash by Phish for some cool diminished licks

The hardest thing I ever learned was the melody to Donna Lee by Charlie Parker, it took close to a year to get it up to speed, Check out Jaco's version on his solo album & try playing along

[metalbob69]

my most difficult solo i can say is... jason becker's
serrana the guy is a genius he rock to bad he als that disease.

[Led Zeppelin]

The hardest thing I ever learnt was the intro to Stairway To Heaven. It was the the first thing I ever learnt on the guitar. No actually I knew G and E Minor first. I know its pretty remedial but try learning it with totally soft fingertips and no strength in your barres. It was the first piece I ever learnt and I stand by my decision.

[guitargod420]

i dont really know what the hardest thing is i can i play cause like the one dude said its not really hard if u know it but it would have to be 1 of the 3

flight of the bubble bee
no more tears solo
where ever i may roam solo

[markanewguitarist]

everything is a struggle for me i have got fingers like pigs tits. i used to be a pannel beater but lost my eyesight kept hitting my fingers so had to pack it in. been playing for just six months struggling with cavatina at the moment, almost there. but it tades a long time reading braisle. Mark

[mc9mm]

Actually the hardest thing I can (or could actually)
was one of my own solos.
Listening to Yngwie inspired me to do this
8 min power-scale-phrygian-hard-ass-blablabla solo
where I jammed in all the different styles
and techniques I knew, and then I tried to play it
faster then light.
One thing lead to another, I almost broke the amp
with my knuckles.(In other words it didnt went well)

Now I guess its Cavatina, a acoustic piece by Stanley Myers.
Its the soundtrack to "Deer Hunter".
I learned it about two years ago, but there can still
be trouble with some grips.
Now there we can talk about some serious stretching.
If your fingers doesnt hurt afterwards, you
played it wrong.

[markanewguitarist]

you must try Akaskero by Thomas Leeb a friend of mine plays it it is awesome lots of harmonics and tapping look it up it will be a good challenge for any guitarist

[chris mood]

sounds interesting...can you tell us a little more about this peice?..is it for solo guitar?..what style of music...where can we find it?

[Vertigo]

Have a go at 'Dyers Eve'

surely the most difficult song to play by Metallica (excluding the solo)

About soloing...Probably something by Yngwy Malmsteen.

But people should not forget, that it's not all about speed.

Adding feeling to something is probably even more difficult.
for example: tin pan alley - SRV

[Vlahos]

The hardest solo to ever try and recreate is the tapping section at the end of steve vai's last song called rescue me or bury me on sex and religion. There is no way on this earth anyone could play that, with no mistakes, without any lack of cleanly played notes and without any slowing down whatsoever. This makes eddie van halen and every other good guitarist out there look like beginners. This is only my opinion but If you disagree with me then learn it and prove it to me or find another "god" of guitar that can play it (or even the first page!!!.

[i-vis]

There's no way that play a song from other person is harder than create your own music, without sound like a copy, or something you have listened before. Create your own sound. This is the harderest thing ever. (learn english is also a good one :)

just my 2cents

:]

[mesabooger]

The hardest thing I ever learned to play was "metropolis" by dream Theater from their Images and Words album.

I still know how to play Cliffs of Dover.

I know alot of Classical, but I always need the sheet music in front of me to play it, I can't memorize it so I consider that difficult as well.

[markanewguitarist]

Chris Mood
thomas leeb has a web site you can find him at thleeb@hotmail.com

[Ibanezshredda14]

id say the hardest thing for me to learn on guitar is Eric Johnson's songs because he slides his fingers up and down so much but he also stretches his fingers while going up and down scales a million times in one second!!
freakin hard man!!
im also still workin on the Locked and Loaded and Cracking the Whip solos from Yngwie Malmsteen off his album Unleash the Fury
freakin hard as diamond!! lol ok ill stop

[bigbuda]

I would have to say the hardest thing is to find the correct TAB of the song you want to play. I can fingerpick Metallica's Nothing Else Matters. I once that it was soo hard and now it's rather enjoyable. :)

[CW14]

Hanson's Mmmbop solo. It's insane


Seriously though... its either EVH's Eruption or Silent Night Bodom Night by COB. I dunno which is harder.

[Superhuman]

Most difficult track I WANT to be able play...
Theodore Ziras: "Virtual Virtuosity" (crazy sweep patterns and 7 finger tapping!!)

Most difficult track I can MOSTLY play (about 80%)
Michael Angelo: "No Boundaries"

Most difficult track I am learning to play:
"Flight of The Bumblebee" (tapping the length of the fretboard is pretty tough)

[Leedogg]

Probably Invention #13 by Bach. It's the most "musical" thing I know.

[Jolly McJollyson]

Probably Invention #13 by Bach. It's the most "musical" thing I know.
Hey, I know that one! YAY!

[gogogo]

Songs That right now i think are impossible but really hope to master are SRV's testify and texas flood

[mothertrucker]

its got to be the duel from crossroads for me the minute i picked up the guitar i rememberd that old film i seen years ago,and true to form its the buisness and still is ,i mean i can do it and all that but its still gets me excited when i hear it man that and all the old rock stuff from the 60s right up to to the day anyway keep on keeping on and let me know wot your tune was that inspired u to pick up the guitar

[FireAndIce24]

i tried to learn Scarified by paul gilbert's band Racer X but this section right here made me give up.

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not only is the stretch riduclous, the string skips insane but the actuall pattern of the notes is what killed me. The rest of it jumps around on the notes and its a bitch to follow and get used to.

[Akira]

i tried to learn Scarified by paul gilbert's band Racer X but this section right here made me give up.

e----9-----------------------------9--------
b--------------------------------------------
g-------15-12-9---------9-12-15-----------
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a------------------13----------------------
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not only is the stretch riduclous, the string skips insane but the actuall pattern of the notes is what killed me. The rest of it jumps around on the notes and its a bitch to follow and get used to.

Yeah, you have to remember that Paul Gilberts hands are HUGE.

[ericthecableguy]

Metroplis Pt.1 by Dream Theater

Dream Theater are robots programmed to play the impossible.
As you can tell, Im working on that song.

[3rd_degreeburn]

I can play like a minute of Beethovens 23rd Piano Sonata : Apassionata 3rd movement...afterwards I give up

[Jolly McJollyson]

I can play like a minute of Beethovens 23rd Piano Sonata : Apassionata 3rd movement...afterwards I give up
That's about 45 seconds more of it than I can play. :D

[ren]

Most difficult piece would probably be 'Eugene's trick bag', but as has been said, it's all relative. I can now play along with or improvise over more or less any piece of music, which is far more valuable to me that being able to copy some other guy note for note.

It is nice playing a Vai / Satriani song and keeping up with the masters though...

[myztic]

I think "For The Love Of God" was kinda hard.. but the intro was easy though..
i didnt use any form of Tab, or notes to learn it..
but when it came to the really fast part.. it became harrrrd.. i still havent got it all down yet..

[kill em all]

Mr crowley ( live version ) by Randy Rhoads. So fast and so hard to get all the right picks in time.

[Fretfire]

The most difficult solo I can Now play:

No Boundaries (only 90%, the up and under part perplexed me alot. :( )
Eruption - EVH (I did not sleep for 1 whole day just to learn the tapping part)
Home - Dream Theater ( just the solo)
Frenzy - Paul Gilbert ( It took me 2 months to perfect.)
Trilogy Suite # 5 - ( this is so damn Hard !!, one of Yngwie's Fastest)

[Meta]

i tried to learn Scarified by paul gilbert's band Racer X but this section right here made me give up.

e----9-----------------------------9--------
b--------------------------------------------
g-------15-12-9---------9-12-15-----------
d--------------------------------------------
a------------------13----------------------
e--------------------------------------------

not only is the stretch riduclous, the string skips insane but the actuall pattern of the notes is what killed me. The rest of it jumps around on the notes and its a bitch to follow and get used to.

you realize of course you can move the 15[Bb] up a string to 11[Bb] it's the same thing.


e----9-----------------------------9--------
b-------11--------------------11-------------
g----------12-9---------9-12--------------
d--------------------------------------------
a------------------13----------------------
e--------------------------------------------

[SPL]

Neon by John Mayer. :cool:

[blizeH]

The introduction to Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

/runs off crying

[toolizm]

Mine is Leyenda, I'm not into shredding so I mess with classical for hard to play difficult pieces

[Ian Rossiter]

To this day, the last solo he does in Alan Jackson's "...don't even know your name." is the one lick that I can never phrase properly!!!
Now I realize that Country stuff ain't exactly the main thing round these parts, but the guitar playing those guys do is amazing. Been chasing that style for years,even though I don't really like the songs that have been comming out of Nashville for the last 10 yrs or so,the solos can be out of this world.
Brent Mason, for those of you who aren't familar, is a session player in Nashville and is probally one of the best guitar players on the planet. He literally can play any style. His playing is all over the Radio and TV,(all the music on Friends,besides the opening theme song, is Mr.Mason.) Not to mention commercials, Film , the list goes on and on. Do yourself a favor and check him out!!! Terry Couch has a whole bunch of lessions here in Brent's style. Check him out, even if you don't play that style cause the guitar playing is top notch.

[DeadInMagazines]

Er, I don't learn alot of peoples songs, but I'm almost done with the first movement of Bach's unaccompanied Violin Partita #3.

[g----rant]

Caprice #5 by Nicolli Paganini

yeh, that song is hard, but i find it harder to remember than it is hard to play, my most challenging one would be tumeni notes from the man, steve morse...impossible

[yugoslavianpunk]

aerial boundaries - Michael Hedges

hard to learn but truly amazing song

[aschleman]

Paganini's Caprices are challenging... most classical music that is transcribed from either piano or violin is pretty challenging though. Paganini's Caprices are a total collection of violin techniques thus you must learn a lot of techniques for guitar to be able to play them note for note. I would say the collection of Caprices by Paganini are some of the more difficult pieces for guitar.

I saw someone put Neon by John Mayer... and I would agree with that. That song is a little difficult at first... Its even harder to sing and play at the same time. Most people don't write pop songs that use sweep picking throughout the entire song... but John Mayer does...

[arska007]

most hard thing that i can play is possibly flamenco stuff or iron man's solo's

[antinazi85]

When I played a duet with my Music theory teacher at my highschools talent show, The song we played was respect the wind by Eddie Van Halen, but this is kind of a lame question as its a lot easier to learn someone elses feelings and notes but when you try to write something like that impossible, Respect the wind has way too much feeling in it, he makes that guitar sound ghostly, took all that school year to learn something that resembled the song as my guitar was nowhere near as good as eddies wolfgang so the squeals and feedback werent as crisp

[antinazi85]

Metroplis Pt.1 by Dream Theater

Dream Theater are robots programmed to play the impossible.
As you can tell, Im working on that song.


Yes that song took me a long time to learn but i was still young when i learned it, the run he does after the breakdown to me is still near impossibility as my shredding is not nearly as good as my blues style which is still not very good. John petrucci, to me is the best guitarist Ive heard, Although Synyster Grant is rapidly gaining my respect as one of the best young guitarists, if you havent heard avenged sevenfolds new album you must get it my friend had it and i thought i was listening to a new dream theater cd until that bat country song came on

[6stringaddict]

Whitesummer (Black Mountain Slide) by Zeppelin and i dont got it all yet

[Akira]

Probably the song me, PRSplaya, and silentmusic are doing. At the rate it is going anyway. :eek:

[CW14]

OMG i CAN PLY ANY MALMSTEIN SOLO LOL.

[Akira]

OMG i CAN PLY ANY MALMSTEIN SOLO LOL.

NO WAY LIEK LOL I CANA PLY MATT ANEGELO STUFF LOZORS PHAG!!!

[Cryptic Excretions]

NO WAY LIEK LOL I CANA PLY MATT ANEGELO STUFF LOZORS PHAG!!!
DOOD YOU GUYS NEED 2 SEE ME GO!!!! I CAN SHRED LIK MICK TOMPSEN!!!

[HDJ]

2 things for me, rhythm and solo...

Rhythm: Metallica's Battery b/c of the "galloping" at that speed.

Solo: Eruption

[ericthecableguy]

DOOD YOU GUYS NEED 2 SEE ME GO!!!! I CAN SHRED LIK MICK TOMPSEN!!!

YA BUT I KIK ASS LOL CUZ I CAN PLAYY ANLL MARK HOPPIS CUZ BLINK 1832 kIKZ A$$ LOL>

[alucard0941]

I CAN PLAY KIRK HAMMETT!!!!!!

[jeffhx]

AND I CAN ONLY PLAY THE GUITAR!!!

how sad

[Akira]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/Sean9/11069566nr.gif

[R. Shackleferd]

Hmm...song's don't seem that hard when you can play them, it's getting there that's the problem. So in that respect, the hardest song for me to "get down" so far might've been just this little classical diddy (http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=9074), but just because my picking hand wasn't used to that. Of course that doesn't count songs I gave up trying to learn due to difficulty, and I don't learn a whole lot of songs anyways.

[CW14]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/Sean9/11069566nr.gif
OMG OMG. That is awesome!

[Jolly McJollyson]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/Sean9/11069566nr.gif
That is the single greatest thing to ever grace this planet.

[ericthecableguy]

Hmm...song's don't seem that hard when you can play them, it's getting there that's the problem. So in that respect, the hardest song for me to "get down" so far might've been just this little classical diddy (http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=9074), but just because my picking hand wasn't used to that. Of course that doesn't count songs I gave up trying to learn due to difficulty, and I don't learn a whole lot of songs anyways.

Man, I hope that's true for metropolis. I'm working like mad on that song.

[Akira]

That is the single greatest thing to ever grace this planet.

Aint it just. :D

[damaged]

I find improvising would be the flashiest thing i can do, coz i always challenge my self.... either if im shredding or playing with feel.

[Akira]

either if im shredding or playing with feel.

You make it sound like they are two seperate entities that can never be one.

[axemaster911]

Its so dam difficult you must plug your ears so that I dont blow your little mind.
Copyrights I do not need, oh yes its that good indeed.
Play it for you, you know I would, If I thought you could handle something this damm good!

[ericthecableguy]

Its so dam difficult you must plug your ears so that I dont blow your little mind.
Copyrights I do not need, oh yes its that good indeed.
Play it for you, you know I would, If I thought you could handle something this damm good!

Intoxicated?

[deathlyill]

Probably the intro to Sweet Coated Sour by Dillinger Escape Plan. Very tricky fingering and arps.

[StratoFire]

I'm gonna say make a mistake or time warp by Brad Paisely

[BostonJohn]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1938099378022643751&q=guitar

[bardo2]

Mood for a day or The clap by Steve Howe

[heknowsnothing]

haha this is gonna sound stupid but I think the most difficult song I can play is Motorhead-Ace of Spades. Thats only because I tried it when I first started guitar and thought 'f**k this is hard'. It took me half a year to pick it up. But otherwise, anything by Randy Rhoads or Maiden.

[earthman buck]

Hardest thing I can play, huh? Hmm.....I used to be able to play "Georgia on My Mind" by Ray Charles pretty bitchingly, but I haven't practiced it in so long I've forgotten it. I'm gonna try and learn it again so I can play it in my music class. It's kind of toughy, that's probably the hardest one I know.

[robz0082]

I can play Sweet child O mine pretty damn well now...not that anything in the solo is extremely hard but getting the Wah right was a challenge for me and is something that I am still working on...I learned most of Little Wing a year or so ago...primarily the intro which is sick

[heknowsnothing]

changed my mind. the hardest things i can play .. master of puppets and gunshot to the head of trepidation (trivium)

[opethfan19m]

hmmm, well I agree with what someone said earlier, as you learn a song, it doesnt seem so hard anymore, its only beforehand, and practicing that make it seem hard, except for the odd song that you just can't get perfect...

Opeth - Benighted, and Face of Melinda
They're probably the hardest ones I know, I also know Night and the silent water is pretty hard, but thats only because its harmony almost the whole way through the song (10 minutes or so) and some of the string bends those guys do in time with each other would be a bitch to get right with someone else, yet you cant play the whole thing on your own unless you just record it (boring)

[R. Shackleferd]

hmmm, well I agree with what someone said earlier, as you learn a song, it doesnt seem so hard anymore, its only beforehand, and practicing that make it seem hard...
someone = me
Yea me! I'm agreed with! :D