guitar solos

[farquharson]

Here's one for you!
what do you think is the greatest/memrobale guitar solo
ever written?
my choice is as follows
sweet child 'o' mine
knockin on heavens door (part 1 and 2)
most of metalica's work
live forever
boys are back in town
cumftorbaly numb
gets me through
and lost that i've heard but been to pissed to remermber.

[lalimacefolle]

All of Jimi's can be hummed

[markpro]

Just thinking the same thing earlier and came up with the solo in Rock around the Clock. Very progressive for its time.

[Josh Redstone]

I like Humans Being by Van Halen. The use of the whammy bar in that solo is cool, but you have to listen close to hear what I mean.

[Alan Green]

Brighton Rock from the "Queen - Live Killers" album.

A :-)

[Cavefish X]

Favorite solo: "Crazy little thing called love" - Brian May/Queen. Its perfect.
Favorite shred style solo(s): "In my dreams" - George Lynch/Dokken and all solos by Vinnie Moore.

[Dejan Sajinovic]

Stairway To Heaven is famous. One (the first clean solo) is famous as well, November Rain by Slash, Final Countdown by Europe.

It´s funny that there´s no famous shred solo but than they all sound pretty same. But, I think Yngwies Rising Force solo is pretty famous thanx to those 2-string octave arpeggios. Under A Glass Moon by Petrucci is startin´ to get real high standard.

[jedi817]

Would definately have to put Peter Frampton's Do you feel like I do solo as well as The infamous Freebird solo. Besides no one mention old slowhand himself, the Crossroads solo is one of my favorite.

[u10ajf]

I recommend that any guitar player hears the soloing on the song "LA Villa Strangiato" by Rush (ideally the live version from EXIT.. STage Left). Dont' be put off by Geddy Lee's high voice, there's brilliant playing by every player in the band throughout the album.

Having been a guitar freak for years I still feel that the "Ghost of the ARagon" solo is the definitive guitar solo. It has everything a solo needs, it starts with volume swelled ghost bends, has several really classy lyrical bars of beautiful and sophisticated phrasing, gets angsty with tons of bends and pinch harmonics and then Lifeson lets rip with a shower of notes that equals Malmsteem for shred factor and is still really beautiful.

You know that warm headed feeling you get when your brains had a good musical work out? That's what it does for me, makes my eyes water.

Get it out of a Library. You'll love it, trust me. I know!

[Tele Master]

Sympathy For the Devil : Rolling Stones is one of their best.

[Polera]

two words:
freebird :P

[u10ajf]

Originally posted by Dejan Sajinovic
Under A Glass Moon by Petrucci is startin´ to get real high standard.


If Petrucci's solos are only startin' to get a real high standard then I quit. Fat chance of that! Ever heard Ytse Jam (which spells majesty in reverse), that was on Dream theater's first album. If you like Dream theater try also Liquid Tension experiment; same lineup but for replaceing one brilliantly talented bassist (John Myung) with another (Tony Lavine I think).

[shavit7]

red hot chilli pepets - funky monks
great intro ! and all the sond basic on thes part.

also this song... ammm...
ho yEA.

carlos santana n' pOd - america !

[magicninja]

I put
1. Layla
2. Hotel California
3. Freebird
4. CrazyTrain
5. Jump (VH) I dont know why?

You guys know who wrote these songs :)

[Digit]

> Get it out of a Library. You'll love it, trust me. I know

Get 2112 too. :)

Actually the best solo I ever heard was a synth solo by the original keyboard player for Saga. I think the song was Give Em the Money on the first album... it starts off with synth and then the guitar joins in. Great solo to learn cause the patterns are really hard to duplicate on the guitar.

[Dejan Sajinovic]

For u10ajf:

I´ve ment that it gettin´ pretty famous ´cause there are lot of pople talkin´ about it. Petruccis solos are truly amazing, very very high standard but you can´t compare ´em with Npvember Rain and Stairway To Heaven. Petruccis stuff is much more cooler (for me) but they are not as famous as Slash stuff for ex. But Under A Glass Moon is gettin´ pretty famous and I think that it´s Johns most famous solo but not the best.

About Liquid stuff, some of it is really cool like P. Shift, Acid Rain, Univ. Mind, Another Dimension but there are also some crazy stuff like the last song on the first Tension album where I wonder do they self know what they are doin´.

[u10ajf]

2112! What a BRILLIANT album. Rush, Dream theater! you guys talk my language! If you haven't heard King Crimson's album Indiscipline do so, its fabulous and weird at the same time.

[JpEvhAf]

Most memorable solo(s) for me: Erotomania by dream theater (not the most melodic solo but just amazing)

and

Innocence faded by dream theater (the solo at the end)

[Seiko_Hejiro]

I'd have to say a lot of the solos by Chuck Shuldiner of Death rule and are quite individual, especially Trapped In A Corner and In Human Form off the album Individual Thought Patterns. Marty Friedman has done some bad ass soloing not only with Cacophony in Speed Metal Symphony and Concerto but wtih Megadeth, almost everything off of Rust In Peace is perfect for the songs. Countdown to Extinction is also packed wtih good musical solos that add to the songs. Jason Becker indeed rules and i'd have to say Perpetual Burn is by far the best solo, that or Serrena. Good songs with good soloing. Very melodic and clear as well. Also the excessively long solo at the end of Secured Limitations by Morbid Angel rules. Trey Azagethoth has done some interesting and repetative stuff but still he is up there. And last in my list of Metal solos that rule, the solo by Jeff Loomis in the Nevermore song Deconstruction rules. There are many Nevermore songs that have bad ass and memorable gutiar solos. Can't argue with the fact that Hendrix and Clapton rule as well at what they do. Malmsteen is good also but repeats his memorized licks too much, seriuosly maybe 10% of every Malmsteen solo is original and creative. Just my take on these great guitar players.

[Edited by Seiko_Hejiro on 12-17-2002 at 07:32 PM]

[Tele Master]

My fav solo is the one in "Time" by "Pink Floyd", i don't know why but this solo just did it for me.

[shreddplayr234]

the most famous solo for me would be anything from paganini.
he might have only written stuff for violin, but if you play it through the right guitar with heavy distortion....

[Josh Redstone]

Come to think of it, I like that guitar duel solo from crossroads. It was based on Caprice 24 by Paganini.

[shreddplayr234]

actually, that part from the guitar duel in crossroads is based on the 5th Caprice by Paganini.

[Josh Redstone]

Says right here in the book; "....the climatic ending (section N), which is based on Niccolo Paganini's Caprice No. 24 in A minor, is an excellent study in classical-flavoured arpeggios."
I also downloaded Vai's Duel and Paganini's Caprice 24 and compared them. They sound pretty simlar to me.

[canuck7]

you guys just need to go back to old-school metal and jimi hendrix to find some of the best solos ever.
stuff like early Metallica (now they are stupid bitches)
Crazy Train (Ozzy, Randy Rhoads)
Bark At The Moon (Ozzy, Jake E. Lee)
Over the Mountain-the solo really (Ozzy, Rhoads)
Enter Sandman (Metallica)
anything Metallica really until they got so commercial and ****-headed.
All Along the Watchtower (jimi) my favorite jimi solo.
and of course, ANYTHING jimi goes my friends.
but old-school metal is were real talent lies and not detuned guitar-flogging.

[Josh Redstone]

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is an awesome solo, and One would probably be my favorite metallica solo. Every solo in that song rocks!

[shreddplayr234]

i guess i made a mistake with that crossroads thing(oopsie!). i also think that jimi had some cool stuff. purple haze was the first song i learned on electric guitar, so i never get tired of listening to his brilliant guitar work. old school metal rocks, too. say, do any of you people remember when music used to actually mean something and not just show off people's looks? i understand that we all want to be a bunch of famous pretty people, but hasn't most of the music business turned a blind eye to talent and just looked at fake boobs and a$$es? please give your opinion.

[Josh Redstone]

In the 80's it was looks and the talent, of course, you can only take so much shredding.

[noticingthemistake]

I think the best metallica solo in my mind is got to be Ride the Lightning, I dunno I like that solo alot. Alot of songs off Kill 'em All have good shredding solos too. My fav solo ever has got to be Eruption, sorry I can't be more unique. :D That solo is just amazing. Vai, Satriani, Petrucci, Hendrix, Slash, Page all have/or had great solos and to go through them all and finger pick a few, I just can not do it. Yngwie, I dunno he's awesome but all his solo's sound the same, nothing but speed. WOW :rolleyes:

hey Shreddplayr, STOP WATCHING MTV THEN!!! haha There are some really good bands out there, and there not on MTV. Check out MP3.com, you can usually find some good underground bands that actually play good music.

[shreddplayr234]

true, i should stop letting mtv shove all that crap down my throat. that way, i can keep getting better at playing and hopefully get famous in the future. that way, i can go out and, if possible, put mtv out of business. (yeah, right. wishful thinking, as always :(

i think that noticingthemistake has a point about yngwie. all of his solos do kind of sound the same. did you ever wonder why he became sort of "unpopular"?(sorry, couldn't think of a nicer word)he does have some good slow stuff in there, too. look at the acoustic part in trilogy suite. also, there's the acoustic thing in the beginning of black star. i might be either right or wrong in the solo stuff.
oh well, how would i know?

[Edited by shreddplayr234 on 12-28-2002 at 05:34 PM]

[noticingthemistake]

Before all the Yngwie-maniacs bash my head in with a shovel. I like Yngwie's music alot, except his solo's :p, trilogy suite and pretty much everything he does musicially is amazing. I just think with someone that supposively considered to be the best, his solo's would consist of more than running up and down a scale at the speed of light. Come on Yngwie, where's the passion??? :D

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 12-28-2002 at 06:18 PM]

[Josh Redstone]

I find his playing kind of empty, emotionally I mean. Speed is fine but you gotta have feel to match. And I think you guys are right, all his stuff sounds the same. I got this video of him playing this big long solo off Kazaa. He plays the same speed through the whole thing! It drives me nuts! The only difference between one part to the next is the volume.

[noticingthemistake]

The thing is, I find that so hard to believe. Cause Yngwie has Perfect pitch, and the most valueable attribute is learning how each note can effect a audience emotionally. Why certain notes are soft and some are bright. He's probably more into showing off his abilty of playing rather than getting people to actually feel his music. It's a shame cause with that abilty, he could do that so well. Some songs are but then ruined by a speedy solo that has no emotion. Sad

[Josh Redstone]

I suppose you could say he's not fullfilling his potential.

[noticingthemistake]

Yeah, or just wasteing it. He's an amazing guitarist, but he needs to slow down and give the listener the opportunity to hear what he is doing musically. I just don't hear anything special, except his speed and ability to play classical pieces on guitar. Everything is the same speed, like you said Josh. The points where he could emphasize a note, he just keeps going. It's just an almost endless solo without any rhythm feel or note articulation. I just don't feel it like I would feel a Slash solo, or a B.B king solo. The notes those guys hit are powerful as h*ll, you can actually feel those notes hitting you. In my opinion, I love that stuff. Not to mix match the 2, but I think more musically feel should be put into Yngwie's solos. Keep some of the speed, but make people feel the dynamics and explosions his music can have. Then again who am I to say.

[Josh Redstone]

I think your just the guy to say this stuff about artists, your the one who listens to them, after all. Although, I doubt Yngwie Malmsteen would be very open to constructive chritisism, from what I hear of his giant ego.

[noticingthemistake]

Yeah, I heard the same thing about his ego. About him taking my constructive criticism, I could give a horse's pa-toot. Man, I miss Chris Farley. :( But anyways, the man can do whatever he wants. I'm not one of those musicians who has an ego, or thinks his way is the only way, blah blah blah. Alot of musicians are egotistical or stuck-up, people on this forum excluded (as far as I know). :cool: I am comfortable with being humble about my playing, or whatever I do. I think you learn alot more when your open-minded. I think even Yngwie may have learned something, cause I read something about him being alittle more humble now days.

[Josh Redstone]

I dunno, I'm not an Yngwie fan anyway. But as far as being a musician goes, the smaller the ego, the better. Thats what I've always been taught.

[noticingthemistake]

I think you were taught right.

[Josh Redstone]

Excellent.

[shreddplayr234]

i agree with the thing about speed in solos. it's a really big crowd pleaser to be fast and amazing, but it's also great to be slow enough to make some sense. another thing is that if you play at slow or medium speed, it will be easier for your fans to play your stuff without skill. i know that someone is going to think that i only put that here because i myself am slow, but i'm not :). a good example of that would be joe satriani. he does slow and fast stuff in his songs. basically, i'm saying that instrumental stuff should be fast enough to drive people nuts, but slow and beautiful enough to move them to tears.
i'm a real romanticist, aren't i ;)

[Josh Redstone]

Yeah, I like people like Satch over Yngwie for those reasons.
I should learn some of Satches songs somethime, I've been listening to Flying in a Blue Dream a lot. It'd be nice to know how to play it.

[SLY]

Yeah, Satch is the most soulful solo guitarist out there.
And he has very nice technical skills as well.

That's why he's more popular than Malmsteen for example, bec. every body can like his music, unlike Malmsteen's stuff which are exclusively for guitar shredders only.

Also many shredders seem not to like malmsteen so much for the fact that there are many guitarists who can easily outplay him.

[Josh Redstone]

Ofcourse, I am more of a Vai fan.

[SLY]

Same here, I'm more of a Vai fan too... And I have to admit that Satch's music is better... But Vai is the most innovative guitarist ever.

[shreddplayr234]

here's something neat: vai actually took guitar lessons from satch once in the past.

[SLY]

Yeah, that's true and we all know it... but this doesn't make him better.

Vai is better technicaly, while Satch is better musicaly.

[Edited by SLY on 12-30-2002 at 01:58 AM]

[Josh Redstone]

Didn't Vai take lessons from him when they were both kids?
Anyway, I like Vai's music better. I just cant get into Satch's songs like I can to Vai's.

[HSlashRhoadsH]

The 2 solos that i will never forget are:
RANDY RHOADS: Mister Crowley
JIMMI HENDRIX: Star Spangled Banner

Even though Hendrix didn't write the song he did make it his own.

[Josh Redstone]

I like Voodoo Chile(Slight Return). Its my favorite Hendrix solo.

[bigmarty]

ok I really can't rate what's the best but I can tell you which ones I have been listening to as of lately

Jimi-Machine Gun
Clapton-Crossroads
Deep Purple-Child in Time from Made in Japan
Eagles-Hotel California
Santana-Black Magic Woman
Peter Green -The Supernatural and if you listen to the progression for this song you'll see where he got the idea for Black Magic Woman

[ainos]

direction by midtown
alive by pearl jam