guitar solos

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....

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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]

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]

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think you were taught right.

Excellent.