MOST DIFFICULT TECHNIQUE

Wich techinique do you think is hardest to master. I think sweeping and especially picking arpegios is hard.

I think sweeping is totally hard, but I've only been atempting it for a day or so. I'll get it.

writing memorable melodies.

Originally posted by lalimacefolle
writing memorable melodies.

And Yo-Yo'ing with the other hand!

lol

i can't yo yo with 2 hands...:confused:

Well their's a technique you can work on, look what it did for Tommy Smothers......

What about legato playing? I hear that's a pain, but I don't even know what it is really. Just really fast right?

Legato is just a kind of Dynamic. The word legato means smooth and flowing together, so if you were playing a passage of music that said legato under it, you might use hammer ons, pull offs and slides to make it sound more smooth.

I've never been able to do it right but I think the hardest electric guitar technique I can think of is playing one or more notes, bending one up whillst pressing down the whammy bar so that that note stays the same while the others fall in pitch.
A similar thing could be done by prebending and releasing one note whillst bending another up. Horribly difficult I think.
Roy Buchanan used to do some crazy stuff with bending two different notes by different degrees at the same time, that's manically hard.
Violining pinch harmonics isn't easy either but I can do it now I've put in hours of practice.

that's true, 'oblique bending' the technique you are talking about, is mighty hard! Jerry Donahue is the king there.

That's not so easy to do either!

yeah!!

Just a post to say thanx, I've never thought of doing that.....there's tonights practice sorted :)

i would have to say that eight finger tapping is hard at first, and takes awhile, also sweeping and then adding taps to those sweeps can be tricky.

jesse sutton (canada kicks ass)

Its not hard if you do it the easy way. Dont tap with all the fingers on your right hand at once, do it like one finger at a time. Its hard to explain.

oh yeah i know how to do it now, but i found that at first it was super difficult just because i didnt have anyone to show me an easier way. but now its a cinch.

Yeah, tapping is one of those things that looks harder than it is. Thats why people are so impressed by it. Once you get the co-ordination between your hands down your good.

It's hard for me to pinpoint what technique is hard for me to play...but I'm constantly always on the search for classical music and playing it on the electric guitar because to me that type of music uses the most challenging of many different techniques combined and to me the most beautifull music ever created.

I would say that for me what is harder than any technique would be phrasing..something that I'm always striving to perfect.

Another thing that I'm always striving to do is to perfect the tone in my hands.

I guess if I had to pick the single most difficult technique to perfect would have to be vibrato.

I'm also a sweep whore :-p

any technique that's not yours is the hardest to play...because if you stumble upon it naturally without striving for it, how can it even be learned? it is just picked up in that way. If you want to go for who has the most elaborate and impossible to emulate technique, it would depend on what style you're talking about. Jimi and blues/r&b/rock/etc? gimme a break, no-one has a rat's ass chance in hell. Jazz? McLaughlin will dispatch your sorry ass time and time again for as long as you live. The most impossible is definitely John McLaughlin, the all-time grandmaster of grandmasters on the guitar. A lot of guys play sweeping patters with sudden pauses and direction changes, but at the heart of it they are playign sweeping patterns and areggios and the whole lot - McLaughlin is the most jagged stop and start plus CONSTANT IMPROVISATION ON AN ALTOGETHER UNATTAINABLE SCALE - it's not a stone's throw away, it is not even worth your time trying to learn how he does it...even with his new DVD coming out in 2003, where he will be breaking down all his technique and styles he derived over his lifetime, elaborating and shedding his every trick, everyone will be in the dark for he still has that improvisational edge that basically only Jimi can match as far as modern guitarists. It is finished...that's the sign of the greatest kind of artist - the one who spills EVERYTHING for you, each and every little bit, but you still have no chance at getting there...