most difficult song you learnt

[Volitions Advocate]

Hardest song *I* have ever learned...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnuplv051UA

The Badger.

I'm not much for solos, I find that I start to hate playing guitar when I try to learn them.  Not that its out of my grasp, but because of some sort of deep seated resentment about people telling me I'm not worth the wood my guitar was made out of if I can't play Johnny B. Goode beginning to end.

 

[DangerousR6]

This one's not that difficult really but fun.....MAYFLY you need to watch this one..... :laughing7:
[youtube=425,350]yt-ybUuZjLE[/youtube]

 

[tfarny]

Actually it was 'stagolee' and a couple others by Mississippi John Hurt, there is some serious unlinking that needs to happen amongst the right hand fingers to get that stuff going. I'm definitely not 100% there yet.
sorry I can't name a huge solo that I've tried hard to copy. I just can't get into copying other people's solos even though I do understand that it's good to build chops, I just don't care if I sound exactly like somebody else's record and I'd rather study guitar almost any other way than that. Reminds me too much of miserable piano lessons as a child. I'll play the main part of a song and launch into my own solo for better or worse.

 

[vtpcnk]

"Mary had a little lamb".... : :help:

Stevie Ray Vaughn version?

:headbang1:

mary had a little lamb from texas flood is probably the easiest song there (relatively speaking) - even the solo is quite lyrical in comparison to the other songs.

but i think buddy guy's version would be the tougher to copy, because it is more feel and timing, than straight playing.

 

[dbw]

sorry I can't name a huge solo that I've tried hard to copy. I just can't get into copying other people's solos even though I do understand that it's good to build chops, I just don't care if I sound exactly like somebody else's record and I'd rather study guitar almost any other way than that. Reminds me too much of miserable piano lessons as a child. I'll play the main part of a song and launch into my own solo for better or worse.

Big +1.  Though I must admit I would be a much better guitarist if I really worked at some Hendrix songs... it's just so boring copying a solo

 

[TonyW]

The best idea is just use the song as a guide and do it your way twist it around and generally you find you've learnt something.

I play alot of Delta style on a resonator and thats just my own rythms to blues time.

 

[Unwound G]

Clapton's solo on Sunshine Of Your Love from Cream's Disraeli Gear album.  Took me a few decades to get it right but still can't get it to sound as fluid.

 

[m4rk0]

sorry I can't name a huge solo that I've tried hard to copy. I just can't get into copying other people's solos even though I do understand that it's good to build chops, I just don't care if I sound exactly like somebody else's record and I'd rather study guitar almost any other way than that. Reminds me too much of miserable piano lessons as a child. I'll play the main part of a song and launch into my own solo for better or worse.

haha agreed! I am just too lazy to bother.
I was once asked to join a cover band and had to learn about 40 songs in about 3 weeks. I made the mistake trying to learn every solo the way it was originally played.. it was fun at the time, but a lot of extra work. if I had to do it again, I would just improvise
either way, at least I proved to myself I can do it.. even though they weren't the hardest solos.. the ones I remember were Jump, brick in the wall, black velvet, hold the line, refugee, alone, pretty much your standard cover band stuff

 

[vtpcnk]

Clapton's solo on Sunshine Of Your Love from Cream's Disraeli Gear album.  Took me a few decades to get it right but still can't get it to sound as fluid.

when i learnt it a year back i thought i could never play it right. now i think i am like at 90%. places where i struggle is the silent bend in the middle. and the second lick in the final four. sometimes i get it right - sometimes i don't.

 

[DangerousR6]

"Mary had a little lamb".... : :help:

Stevie Ray Vaughn version?

:headbang1:

mary had a little lamb from texas flood is probably the easiest song there (relatively speaking) - even the solo is quite lyrical in comparison to the other songs.

but i think buddy guy's version would be the tougher to copy, because it is more feel and timing, than straight playing.

I was being sarcastic...... :doh:

 

[buckallred]

Ice Ice Baby.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

"That's such a good song."
              -Stepbrothers.

 

[vtpcnk]

"Mary had a little lamb".... : :help:

Stevie Ray Vaughn version?

:headbang1:

mary had a little lamb from texas flood is probably the easiest song there (relatively speaking) - even the solo is quite lyrical in comparison to the other songs.

but i think buddy guy's version would be the tougher to copy, because it is more feel and timing, than straight playing.

I was being sarcastic...... :doh:

i only said relatively. i myself know only half that solo. it is so long that i didn't have the patience to learn it fully. someday ...

imo almost anything in that texas flood album is way difficult. in comparison the songs from the other albums of stevie ray are much easier. i think he started playing more like hendrix and so ...

 

[JerkyChid]

one and a half minutes of Surfing with the Alien.

 

[erogenousjones17]

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?

There are some albums that I can play through completely, but nothing terribly difficult. Social Distortion's "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell" is one of them. I really struggled to learn the solo from "Santeria" by Sublime when I was starting out, but now I don't really try to copy solos note for note, partly because I'm not very good at it and partly because it's less fun than improvising one and maybe copping a few licks here and there. 

 

[jay4321]

Most "difficult" song I learned all the way through was most likely "Big Trouble" from David Lee Roth's Eat 'Em & Smile. After that I pretty much gave up on the whole note-for-note thing. Which is probably a blessing, the more I think about it.

 

[nathan a]

For me, classical pieces are the most difficult because they are the only time I feel compelled to learn the music as it is actually written. Any other kind of music and I just kinda go with the flow  :icon_biggrin:

I felt very proud when I finally believed I could do this piece justice (starts off slowly, surely doesn't end that way). This is written by one member of my favorite guitar duo, Sergio & Odair Assad. The recording isn't great and the guy looks a little silly, but he plays it pretty well.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUEIOaJ5dk[/youtube]

 

[stubhead]

I spent a few years with "Coast to Coast" and "Southern Steel" from the great early 90's Steve Morse Band, definitely the hardest stuff I've ever worked on. To this day I still can't alternate-pick like that, but I did figure out a few neat ways to play that fast by cheating.... :laughing11: The single hardest solo was on "The Oz" off of "Coast to Coast." There's a section that's like triplets over four, but it's not... it's like inside-out 24/16 time or something :icon_scratch:, I had to quit thinking about it and just play it eventually. The way Morse plays, I have a feeling he could doubletrack any solo he ever played 20 years later, but maybe not that one.

These guys (both Brazilian!) nail the solo -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbDB88P6JlA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CbwbQ6VEwY&feature=related

At least Brazilians still appreciate real music... :laughing7: I doubt I could do it anymore, without a week or so work.

 

[Superlizard]

I've got most if not all the SMB albums... isn't it called "The Z" and not "The Oz"?

 

[justsomeguy]

For me it was Eric Clapton's version of Hey Hey from unplugged. The fingerpicking really took me along time to sync up.  :tard: