hardest to play

dchladmar · Unread post by **dchladmar** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:12 pm

i was wondering is there a song, ( by any artist) that is known in the guitar world as one of the more challanging or hardest song to play? i know that asfar as dave mathews there is some that are more hard than others. im wondering in general though. all songs by all artists. is there one to be concidered to be very hard.

i know that there is know such thing as "hard songs".just people that have not practiced long enough to get them down. i have heard that "hotel cali" by the eagles was one of the hardest? though i would think anything classical would be very hard.

sunglassesatnight · Unread post by **sunglassesatnight** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:49 pm

I don't know who told you, but "Hotel California" is not one of the hardest things in the world to play.

I know of no such "Holy Grail" of guitar song. There are many songs that are very difficult. Difficulty, of course depends on experience. A trained classical guitarist would be much more able to handle a piece than I would.

Additionally, I doubt a trained classical guitarist would be able to pick up a Yngwie Malmsteem (yes he sucks, sake of example) song and just shred.

littlefriend · Unread post by **littlefriend** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:48 pm

I'd guess some rediculously fast metal song is probably the hardest to play.

While shredding may come off as cheesy or corny it takes some mad skillz to play that fast and accurate. It requires total independent control of each digit and complete thoughtless knowledge of the fretboard. And playing rhythm as fast as someone like, say, Dave Mustaine is crazy hard too. Playing chords as 64th notes? Madness. I'd love to have the skill that a lot of metal players have. Without the hair, of course.

p1trick_82 · Unread post by **p1trick_82** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:00 pm

littlefriend420 wrote:I'd guess some rediculously fast metal song is probably the hardest to play.

While shredding may come off as cheesy or corny it takes some mad skillz to play that fast and accurate. It requires total independent control of each digit and complete thoughtless knowledge of the fretboard. And playing rhythm as fast as someone like, say, Dave Mustaine is crazy hard too. Playing chords as 64th notes? Madness. I'd love to have the skill that a lot of metal players have. Without the hair, of course.

holy wars is CRAZY

Kahn · Unread post by **Kahn** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:31 pm

You Enjoy Myself

Been working on that one for a year, still not very far.

djwhd28 · Unread post by **djwhd28** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:04 pm

You want something hard to play? It's not a guitar song, but a lead line by Frank Zappa called "Black Page". We used to use it in our Solfegge class at the music school at CalArts. It's about the densest line I've ever seen. We use to use it for its rythmic complexity, with lots of metric modulsations and 7 over 12 figures and other cross rhythms. Some of the best players of any instrument in the world have taken a crack at it.

el Jammo · Unread post by **el Jammo** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:36 pm

You enjoy myself would be crazy

I've been working at crossroads for a while

Taylor614 · Unread post by **Taylor614** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:42 pm

Eric Johnson-Cliffs of Dover. Nuff Said. No seriously, I'm trying to learn this song and it is hard man. Check out the vid on Youtube.

Yakko · Unread post by **Yakko** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:50 am

It's gotta be "A horse with no name" -America :shock:

mattinbeloit · Unread post by **mattinbeloit** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:38 am

Stairway to heaven. I've only met one guy who could play it. I remember walking into a guitar center once and I heard the guy playing it and was like "Holy shit man! You can play stairway?? I wish I had your skillz!!!".

mlb1399 · Unread post by **mlb1399** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:18 am

If you can play Stream, Neon, the solo to Stairway then you get my respect.

Thomas · Unread post by **Thomas** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:34 am

mlb1399 wrote:If you can play Stream, Neon, the solo to Stairway then you get my respect.

I second Neon.

I consider myself pretty ok and I've been working on that song for 2 years now and still no luck.

Pizzle · Unread post by **Pizzle** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:02 pm

mattinbeloit wrote:Stairway to heaven. I've only met one guy who could play it. I remember walking into a guitar center once and I heard the guy playing it and was like "Holy shit man! You can play stairway?? I wish I had your skillz!!!".

matonfan101 · Unread post by **matonfan101** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 10:10 pm

Stairway to heaven? Its tricky but definitely not up there. I learnt the solo as a year 10 piece at school.

Twostep13 · Unread post by **Twostep13** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:58 pm

Taylor614 wrote:Eric Johnson-Cliffs of Dover. Nuff Said. No seriously, I'm trying to learn this song and it is hard man. Check out the vid on Youtube.

great song, i beleve he won a grammy for it... check out his austin city limits DVD, a bunch of great stuff on there....
it really depends on what you call hard.. i mean eric johnson gets CRAZY good tone from his guitar... makes it sound amzaing, and hes got some insane chord soloing ability...

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