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which the most difficult song that you have ever learnt? and how long did it take you to get it right?

i worked on cream's crossroads solos for like 3 months (but i have to honest to state that i am actually quite lazy)! and also clapton's version of hideaway in his bluesbreakers album took me a couple of months. but even today i don't think i am up to the mark with either one.

currently i am learning the solo to hendrix's manic depression - i know all the notes - but simply cannot play it at the speed he does. maybe repeated practice for another fews months will get me upto speed.

funny thing is it is peter green's slow and sweet solo in "need in your love so bad" which i am also finding quite difficult. here it is simply the timing and the feel which is so difficult to get right.

ofcourse i have aborted certain songs after trying them out for a few days : prime example - stevie ray's pride and joy!
 
I'm trying to learn the solo from "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth.
Can't get up to that speed for the life of me...
 
The most difficult solo for me to learn was Billy Zoom's solo in X's "The Have Nots".  I think it's off of the "Under the Big Black Sun" album.

The solo is at a nice relaxed pace, but it has a lot of tricky double bend licks and the phrasing is really tricky to get it to sound right.  It took me a long long time to get it to sound good.  I learned to love/hate my metronome more than usual on this one!
 
Time in a Bottle.  Seriously, the original has at least three guitars and keys.  I learned, and worked it up, for a single guitar via fingerpicking.  I hate this song, but my band was playing a couple of weddings and everyone else in the band voted it in.  And I brag about being "pretty good for a hack", so I had to learn it in order to save face.

Dig my fanciness at 1:17, fretting a D chord, but doing 12th fret harmonics with a pointer finger and plucking the string with my thumb.  I'm pretty proud of that.  Not hard to figure out, but it takes a bit to train the muscle memory in the hands.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqJBIFM2_v4[/youtube]

I worked and worked and worked and worked on this one.  I was even caught at the the park by a reporter for the KC Star playing this song over and over who felt the need to bust my chops.  See pic....
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"Melancholy Melody" indeed.  The amount of light bouncing off the skin on my head makes me look slightly more balding than I really am...  or was at the time, this was two years ago...  And yes, I'm squinting, the sun was in my eyes.....  It was on a lunch break...  My boss saw this in the Saturday paper and called me into his office asking what I was doing in the park on a workday.  Everyone I know gave me crap for the next two months over this.  Alex Blume (bassist for Ares Kingdom http://ares-kingdom.com, and if you like metal, you'd do well to check them out, and I don't say that just because they're all old friends ) who I go back nearly 20 years with, sent me a message that read "GET OFF MY LAWN, HIPPIE!!!!".  The following sunday at church (All Souls Unitarian Universalist) there were multiple copies of the picture torn out of the paper and tacked to every possible bulliten board.  I paid dearly for having to learn this song.  Not only was it hard to learn, but everyone I know was hard on me for having learned the song.
 
Tunes by EJ:

- Camel's Night Out
- Manhattan
- Cliffs of Dover
- Trademark

Some I got close, others I got most except for various super-lightning-fast solo parts of the solo and Camel's Night Out only here and there.

Dat boy kin play!  :guitaristgif:

Someone mentioned "Symphony of Destruction" - Marty is a snake-y badass on the fretboard!
 
I don't remember.  Something alongs those lines though, a guitar player friend once uttered this statement that had me in awe, ".....it was the first album I could play all the way through."  Album!  Album?
 
hehe, I've been learning most of the misplaced childhood record by Marillion lately... + some from clutching at straws and fugazi... some of the solos and whammy-thingys in there I find pretty hard... then on the other side i'm not schooled or very technical at all:D hehe  :rock-on:
 
"Big Love" from Fleetwood Mac, The Dance live DVD. I love that dude, he just keeps it rollin and YELLNI! :blob7: took me like a month to get that sucka! I don't play much like that anymore...

"Holy Wars" and "Hangar 18" by Megadeth were a Summer Project one forgotten high school year. Dood, so shred it took me all summer! :guitaristgif:

There was this Hendrix graphic novel that had a CD of him playing clean demos of later songs, 1984, cherokee jam and others, Wow is that stuff simple and difficult :tard:
I'm steel vorkink un dat von :headbang1:

There's this awsome jam on Youtube of Clapton and... :icon_scratch: other people too...I know it's in black and white and about 8 minutes long.
I'll search for it, But its the HEAVIEST jam in the world! It Really shows what can be done with the blues. Once I got tuned to it, I tried to play along...then my hands melted :doh:
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OK, in all seriousness, hardest to learn, but not impossible.

"Cemetery Gates" by Pantera, that solo was a mother to get right. I put "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche as a strong second.
 
Death by Uberschall said:
OK, in all seriousness, hardest to learn, but not impossible.

"Cemetery Gates" by Pantera, that solo was a mother to get right. I put "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensryche as a strong second.
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Try Rude Mood or Scuttlebuttin' sometime.... :laughing7:
 
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