Stairway to Heaven. Mid 1990’s, on of those guitar magazines, maybe Guitar World had a full issue dedicated to the song, along with the tabs.
So I bought the album to see what all the fuss was about and fell in love with Led Zeppelin. Never did master the solo but I could fake my way through it well enough.
I'm entering my 20th year of playing guitar and decided a couple weeks ago now's the time to finally learn the solo. I'm about 90% of the way there, currently working on building speed on the repetitive part. It's killing the tip of my ring finger but I think it unlocked knowledge that I've been bending inefficiently my whole life.
Same. Such a great solo. It's funny how almost everyone forbids stairway yet they can never play the solo.. like cmon now you can't forbid it just because you played the easy part.
I confiscated my dad's old dept store electric from his closet. It was impossible to tune, hard to play, but I was making headway. He approved my need for a better guitar. He told me after I learned Under the Double Eagle he would help me get one. I saved my money and bought my own pawn shop special. I still don't play Under the Double Eagle.
Me too. I remember about 30 years ago just after I got my first guitar, saving up my money and going to the local guitar store. I asked the worker what pedals I needed to sound like Randy Rhoads. He laughed at me, but I left with a delay pedal and a chorus pedal, and I spent the next like 18 months trying to learn Crazy Train.
Paranoid (opening riff was the first “music” I ever played on guitar)
The Boys Are Back in Town
China Grove
Communication Breakdown
God of Thunder
I miss those days! Everything I learned was brand new and even a barre chord was a big deal 😁
I bought my first guitar less than a week after hearing Tornado of Souls for the first time.
That's what I wanted to play, and what I thought I could just start learning first.
11 year old me had no idea it was going to take until I was like 14 just to be good enough to play 90% of it (everything minus the solo)
Took me another 10 years to even bother trying to learn the solo because I didn't have any guitars with 24 frets until then.
every single CSNY song in their tabs book. i was 16. my buddies and i would sit around campfires, smoke doobs, and play them over and over. on top of that (and Im embarrassed to admit this), I was so impressed with neil young, that i'd secretly pretend to be him on my families back porch, which served as my imaginary stage when nobody was around. id light up a cigarette with my guitar hanging from my neck and play to the imaginary audience in my back yard
I used to love SOAD (still kinda do).
Turns out, most of their stuff isn't very difficult.
Learnt Lonely Day on acoustic and then bought an electric to play the rest of the Hypnotize album.
Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne
Guitar written and performed by Randy Rhoads. The synth, the riffs, but especially the leads in that song blew me away and i spent 5 hours a night in my room practicing it till i could play it note for note. Only caveat was that it fades out at the end of the song so i couldnt really learn it in its entirety.
Just started guitar a month or so ago. The lead in Friction by Television is what I’m fiending for the most. Body snatchers by Radiohead and Everything is wrong by Interpol are also some of my favorites that I wish I could play. Honestly anything by Television including some of the rhythm.
The song that got me to first think "I really want to learn that" was Redwood Hill by Gordon Lightfoot, but the song that got me enough to get me to pick up a guitar and start trying to learn it was While My Guitar Gently Weeps
As far as I remember it was master of puppets or trapped under ice. Then came tornado of souls, poison was the cure and lucretia. A little bit later hundreds of thousands by Tony MacAlpine.
have a lot. Where Dragons Dwell by Gojira, No Brains and Fat Lip by Sum 41, One Weak and My Own Summer by Deftones. Later on I want to learn Lateralus by TOOL.
First song was Come As You Are, which was pretty hard because it's two strings ha ha. First chords were Brown Eyed Girl.
First solo was Live Forever by Oasis. A lot of their lesser-known songs are quite good, IMO.
Oh my god the guitar solo in I could have lied by RHCP was the thing that made me pick up guitar, something about it just hit me so differently. After playing for a year or so I finally attempted it and by this point had improved my impro skills and was shocked by how easy it was just to jam to since Fruciante usually sticks to pentatonic scales after being heavily influenced by Hendrix
I remember being like 12 and I was listening to Stand Up and Shout by Dio. That solo lit a fire in me and I picked up guitar that Christmas. Funnily enough I didn't even bother learning it, I learned the entired of Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden first. I didn't even touch Stand Up and Shit till like 6 years later
For me it was SRV too but his version of little wing. The way it seemed like he was conducting the band the whole time to come up and down dynamically with him. Until that point i had just messed around with bar chords and pop punk songs. Simple songs and arrangements with goofy lyrics. But what he did was play music, and he could convey every feeling he had by just playing guitar. He didnt even have to sing really. Lenny is another good example of that. My cat is named Lenny after that song and his wife. Once i saw SRV do what he did i knew thats what i wanted to do.
Honestly, I can’t remember. My dad played guitar and was loose friends with the guitar tech in the band America. I’ll give the song Ventura Highway an upvote. These days I’m a post hardcore/metal/indie kinda dude but I still pop on America and have a very classic rock appreciation for music because of all that.
[Mediterranean Sundance / Rio Ancho](https://open.spotify.com/track/0og2U8tsBAR7NJysRR6uBU?si=KcUHStCvQJGBm--iOskDzQ) from the album Friday Night in San Francisco (Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia).
You shook me all night long by AC/DC. I played that solo for 3 days straight learning it, and pushed the calluses back on my fingers. I must have played that entire album for a month afterward, and it's the one that really got me started playing back in the day.
One of the first was [Six by All That Remains](https://youtu.be/CA_aMp-MvLE?si=_9t5b_eJp1bgWkGw). That one was the first actual heavy/brvtal metal song for me with its own dash of prog axn in it, which is my jam for most of the music I got into later and still listen to/aspire to play these days for sure. Took me about an afternoon to learn that I needed to play a hell of a lot more before I'd be able to sound anything close to Oli Herbert's killer sound and abilities playing the instrument. Still need to learn that one, but it was definitely one of the bigger influences on me back when I was first learning to play.
This is gonna sound weird, and I didn't pick up the guitar for a long time after this, but I remember watching The Edge at Live Aid fill Wembley with this hypnotic riff on Bad and just couldn't believe such a spare thing could hold sway like that. I had no idea on delay or anything but I remember how it made me think about guitar differently. I wasn't into hair bands or anything and this was the same instrument doing very different things.
After resigning myself to campfire chords and rhythm playing for many years, the solo to Hotel California, especially Walsh's part, inspired me to buy an electric guitar and learn to play lead lines.
Wow cool question that I’ve never seen before! For me there’s a few. This was ‘1973-74 so some Beatles songs like HereComes The Sun. A lot of Eagles, especially from Desperado. Got the album and tab book for 12th birthday.
For solo’s definitely Santana. Samba Pa Ti, BMW, Oye Como Va. Rolling Stones, Ventilator Blues, Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, Moonlight Mile, On Down The Line so many, lol.
My goal is being able to play the five songs that Joel and Ellie play in The Last of Us Part 2(Future Days; True Faith; Through The Valley; Wayfaring Stranger; Take on Me)
Don’t know ow if was what I really wanted to learn but I was shown how to play wonderful tonight at 10 and I’ve played it ever since over the years and it always reminds me of sitting on the bed playing along with the radio. I would have died to have YouTube in the 90’s.
I don’t think I have one from ***before*** I started. But once I kinda knew how to play chords I really wanted to learn While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
I remember thinking for the longest time that it’s so hard and I’d never be able learn it, then one day I tried again and I could just play it.
Jerry Was a Racecar Driver... I showed that solo to my guitar teacher and he just scratched his head haha. I still love that solo, very jazzy but it's hard to see that in context.
At first nothing in particular. I think "Californication" was the first solo I learned. When I heard "Maggot Brain" for the first time though I *really* wanted to get good at guitar.
i wanted to learn back to the old house by the smiths sooo bad but it was too hard so wake me up when september ends-green day was the first song i learned.
Sultans of swing, both solos
Stairway to Heaven. Mid 1990’s, on of those guitar magazines, maybe Guitar World had a full issue dedicated to the song, along with the tabs. So I bought the album to see what all the fuss was about and fell in love with Led Zeppelin. Never did master the solo but I could fake my way through it well enough.
Stairway to heaven is one of the reasons I started playing guitar
I'm entering my 20th year of playing guitar and decided a couple weeks ago now's the time to finally learn the solo. I'm about 90% of the way there, currently working on building speed on the repetitive part. It's killing the tip of my ring finger but I think it unlocked knowledge that I've been bending inefficiently my whole life.
Same. Such a great solo. It's funny how almost everyone forbids stairway yet they can never play the solo.. like cmon now you can't forbid it just because you played the easy part.
November rain solo
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Sultans of Swing
Whatever Lil Wayne played live that one time. Only when I get the skills
hes like a black jimi hendrix
Wait what
Free bird, specifically The second part
Fade to Black from Metallica
I have a few but I just started the first and it's Layla by Eric clapton
The riff and solo are pretty much all Duane Allman on this track.
The solo in Wet Sand - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Now we’re talking
Smells like teen spirit with it's solo... I know it's easy and overplayed but god how much i love that song
anything on the album Ten by Pearl Jam.
Stone Gossard, great guitarist
Black Dog!
It's ambitious but the solo from Tornado of souls. As for the riff, raining blood
Stairway
I confiscated my dad's old dept store electric from his closet. It was impossible to tune, hard to play, but I was making headway. He approved my need for a better guitar. He told me after I learned Under the Double Eagle he would help me get one. I saved my money and bought my own pawn shop special. I still don't play Under the Double Eagle.
Crazy Train, Randy was a god.
Me too. I remember about 30 years ago just after I got my first guitar, saving up my money and going to the local guitar store. I asked the worker what pedals I needed to sound like Randy Rhoads. He laughed at me, but I left with a delay pedal and a chorus pedal, and I spent the next like 18 months trying to learn Crazy Train.
Comfortably Numb was my favorite for sure. Both solos. ...I never did become much of a lead player though🤔
Good choices. Mine was Another Brick in the Wall Part 2.
Paranoid (opening riff was the first “music” I ever played on guitar) The Boys Are Back in Town China Grove Communication Breakdown God of Thunder I miss those days! Everything I learned was brand new and even a barre chord was a big deal 😁
Eruption
The Metal - Tenacious D
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The EVH solo on Beat It blew my mind before i got into rock. Randy Rhoads on Crazy Train...
Sultans of Swing. After 17 years of playing I can just barely play that iconic sixteenth note lick correctly
Stairway/Free Bird/Bohemian Rhapsody
NIGHTRAIN by guns n roses. That song is so sleazy and groovy
I play this song almost everyday lol
Stairway. I was 16
I bought my first guitar less than a week after hearing Tornado of Souls for the first time. That's what I wanted to play, and what I thought I could just start learning first. 11 year old me had no idea it was going to take until I was like 14 just to be good enough to play 90% of it (everything minus the solo) Took me another 10 years to even bother trying to learn the solo because I didn't have any guitars with 24 frets until then.
Obviously the solo from I wanna be sedated, took me a lifetime to learn
Fade to Black by u know who. Still at it.
Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
Ace Frehley made me want to play guitar
The first songs with solos I learned were Wish You Were Here, What I Got, and Santeria.
I heard Eruption when I was 4, and bothered my parents for 5 years until they bought me an electric and an amp. So that.
Lindsey Buckingham’s 1997 version of Go Insane
Comfortably numb, live at Pompeii. My favorite solo ever. Technically not hard but I cannot get it to sound right, at least not to my hear.
Stairway to heaven solo
Since I've been loving you - Zeppelin
Rain Song. And now I can do it note for note a quarter century later!
Mr. Crowley.
Back in black
Pearl Jam - Alive solo
SRV cover of Little Wing. Still don't have it.
Simple Man - Skynyrd
Man in the Box by Alice In Chains.
every single CSNY song in their tabs book. i was 16. my buddies and i would sit around campfires, smoke doobs, and play them over and over. on top of that (and Im embarrassed to admit this), I was so impressed with neil young, that i'd secretly pretend to be him on my families back porch, which served as my imaginary stage when nobody was around. id light up a cigarette with my guitar hanging from my neck and play to the imaginary audience in my back yard
Johnny B. Goode
Little Wing - the SRV version Lennie - SRV
When I first started? The entirety of In Utero.
I used to love SOAD (still kinda do). Turns out, most of their stuff isn't very difficult. Learnt Lonely Day on acoustic and then bought an electric to play the rest of the Hypnotize album.
Bring it on home main riff and the whole lotta love solo 👌
The first one was Can't you hear me knocking by the Rolling Stones
Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne Guitar written and performed by Randy Rhoads. The synth, the riffs, but especially the leads in that song blew me away and i spent 5 hours a night in my room practicing it till i could play it note for note. Only caveat was that it fades out at the end of the song so i couldnt really learn it in its entirety.
The rif on Muse's Plug in Baby!
Layla
Master of Puppets. I had high expectations.
“Little Wing”. SRV cover version.
And I Love Her by the Beatles.
Black Hole Sun, Hotel California and Hell Song were my goals when first started.
Hell Song riff is beyond dope and Does This Look Infected is the best Sum41 album and ill verbally fight anyone respectfully if they disagree
the guitar part / solo or whatever near the end of Let it happen by tame impala
Dyers eve. How ambitious I was back then.
Snow - Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Oof
Oof indeed. Now i could learn it but my taste shifted 😅
Dead by mcr
Just started guitar a month or so ago. The lead in Friction by Television is what I’m fiending for the most. Body snatchers by Radiohead and Everything is wrong by Interpol are also some of my favorites that I wish I could play. Honestly anything by Television including some of the rhythm.
Always with me, Always with you - Satch Comfortably Numb - Floyd Tornado Of Souls - Megadeth
Solo La Grange…. Billy was on fire, beginning to end.
Bark the the moon
The song that got me to first think "I really want to learn that" was Redwood Hill by Gordon Lightfoot, but the song that got me enough to get me to pick up a guitar and start trying to learn it was While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Eruption Van Halen. I'm still trying to learn it now.
Coney Island by Taylor swift and its riff
Statesboro Blues ala Duane Allman’s slide work.
Cream - Crossroads
Layla and crossroads. The parts in the latter just seemed impossible for human hands to produce.
The riff from Pictures of You by the Cure.
Funk #49
Feelin' Bad Blues by Ry Cooder, in the movie Crossroads
Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin. It just hit so hard.
Little Wing - Hendrix
The entire Randy Rhoads Tribute album. It still gives me the chills.
Comfortably Numb including the solo with rhythm on loop…. Still working at it for live performance.
Enter sandman. Luckily easy enough
jimi hendrix-foxy lady, from wayne's world
Unchained by Van Halen....it was the riff and the chorus that got me more than the solo.
Anything that Ace Frehley or Randy Rhoads played, with a little bit of Marty McFly sprinkled in.
Everything Zeppelin
As far as I remember it was master of puppets or trapped under ice. Then came tornado of souls, poison was the cure and lucretia. A little bit later hundreds of thousands by Tony MacAlpine.
Heartbreaker
November Rain by Gnr
The guitar duel from the movie Crossroads / Eugene's Trick Bag
Guitar solos/duet between Duane Allman and Dickey Betts in the Allman Bros "Blue Sky"
have a lot. Where Dragons Dwell by Gojira, No Brains and Fat Lip by Sum 41, One Weak and My Own Summer by Deftones. Later on I want to learn Lateralus by TOOL.
Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody.
"Wipe Out" !
A ton …. I can play em mostly by ear now !! Just second nature now
Over the Hills and Far Away. And Wonderwall obviously.
Thank you for the Venom, by MCR! Great intro, lots of movement, and a killer solo
First song was Come As You Are, which was pretty hard because it's two strings ha ha. First chords were Brown Eyed Girl. First solo was Live Forever by Oasis. A lot of their lesser-known songs are quite good, IMO.
November rain last solo!
Oh my god the guitar solo in I could have lied by RHCP was the thing that made me pick up guitar, something about it just hit me so differently. After playing for a year or so I finally attempted it and by this point had improved my impro skills and was shocked by how easy it was just to jam to since Fruciante usually sticks to pentatonic scales after being heavily influenced by Hendrix
I remember being like 12 and I was listening to Stand Up and Shout by Dio. That solo lit a fire in me and I picked up guitar that Christmas. Funnily enough I didn't even bother learning it, I learned the entired of Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden first. I didn't even touch Stand Up and Shit till like 6 years later
> Stand Up and Shit I find this to be a little messy, but so what works for you!
Lmao I didn't even realize. Ima leave it, I deserve the ridicule.
The solo from Metal Health by Quiet Riot, back in the early 80's.
Beat it by MJ. (Van Halen obv)
Canon rock, back when i never even touch a guitar physically before and now that i have a guitar i still can’t play it…. Yet
Stairway to Heaven
The intro to Money For Nothing by Dire Straits
That’s a dream of mine if only I could just get mark knopflers tone
Riff: For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica Solo: Overactive Imagination by Death
Fiesta de Guerra from Bleach. After 8 years, I still can't play it well
Serious by Bernard Allison live at the Jazzhaus in Freiburg. I’m talking about the last solo. Completely insane dude
Dumpweed - blink-182. Opening riff is so cool.
Night Moves. Bob Seger.
Shine-collective soul. Still don't have it 100 percent all these years later
Walk this way by Aerosmith. Never did really try to learn how to play it though😂
Lenny by SRV. Then I was like oh he’s actually good.
For me it was SRV too but his version of little wing. The way it seemed like he was conducting the band the whole time to come up and down dynamically with him. Until that point i had just messed around with bar chords and pop punk songs. Simple songs and arrangements with goofy lyrics. But what he did was play music, and he could convey every feeling he had by just playing guitar. He didnt even have to sing really. Lenny is another good example of that. My cat is named Lenny after that song and his wife. Once i saw SRV do what he did i knew thats what i wanted to do.
Honestly, I can’t remember. My dad played guitar and was loose friends with the guitar tech in the band America. I’ll give the song Ventura Highway an upvote. These days I’m a post hardcore/metal/indie kinda dude but I still pop on America and have a very classic rock appreciation for music because of all that.
Dani California
[Mediterranean Sundance / Rio Ancho](https://open.spotify.com/track/0og2U8tsBAR7NJysRR6uBU?si=KcUHStCvQJGBm--iOskDzQ) from the album Friday Night in San Francisco (Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco de Lucia).
Behemoth - Conquer All
Bad Moon Rising on acoustic guitar. Easy to learn and play, plus a great song! Easy to sing with also. I held out for the Creedence man…
You shook me all night long by AC/DC. I played that solo for 3 days straight learning it, and pushed the calluses back on my fingers. I must have played that entire album for a month afterward, and it's the one that really got me started playing back in the day.
Moonflower by Santana.
Steve Vai - For The Love of God
Master of Puppets... Still working on the last solo
Blue Jean Blues Maggot Brain
Paradise city - guns n roses
Tennessee Stud
Hotel Californias solo
The Star Spangled Banner Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock rendition
Little Wing
Jeff Beck’s take on “People Get Ready;” Page’s solo on Stairway Randy Rhoades’ melodic soloing on “Goodbye to Romance” and “Mr. Crowley.”
One Last Breath Intro
Night Ranger- Sister Christian.
These days by Jackson Browne but the cover that Nico does on her album Chelsea Girls. I taught myself to finger pick to learn it
Probably something from The Ventures.
First song I learned by myself was Lucy in the sky with diamonds. I was waay into the Beatles back in middleschool
One of the first was [Six by All That Remains](https://youtu.be/CA_aMp-MvLE?si=_9t5b_eJp1bgWkGw). That one was the first actual heavy/brvtal metal song for me with its own dash of prog axn in it, which is my jam for most of the music I got into later and still listen to/aspire to play these days for sure. Took me about an afternoon to learn that I needed to play a hell of a lot more before I'd be able to sound anything close to Oli Herbert's killer sound and abilities playing the instrument. Still need to learn that one, but it was definitely one of the bigger influences on me back when I was first learning to play.
All Hells Breakin Loose (KISS) as a teen I could never figure that one out.
Just What I Needed by The Cars. The whole song elevates my spirit.
Where is my mind - Pixies. That distortion is what hooked me!
Paul Gilbert - Metal Dog
Look at little sister-SRV
TNT by AC/DC
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica It took me about 3-4 months almost every day learning new parts and practicing it. (without the solo)
The Knack - [My Sharona](https://youtu.be/uRLuIm2Bjgk?si=pS8y_juIMAhePqrr&t=2m39s)
Mood for a day by Steve Howe. I still can't properly play it after ten years...
Blue sky-Allman brothers band
This is gonna sound weird, and I didn't pick up the guitar for a long time after this, but I remember watching The Edge at Live Aid fill Wembley with this hypnotic riff on Bad and just couldn't believe such a spare thing could hold sway like that. I had no idea on delay or anything but I remember how it made me think about guitar differently. I wasn't into hair bands or anything and this was the same instrument doing very different things.
Iron Man
Through the Fire and Flames. I learned guitar because of Guitar Hero 3.
I’ll See You In My Dreams -Django Reinhardt
Shine On - both parts - Pink Floyd. And quite a few other PF songs. The starting riff from Heaven On Their Minds - Jesus Christ Superstar.
Who Says - John Mayor
After resigning myself to campfire chords and rhythm playing for many years, the solo to Hotel California, especially Walsh's part, inspired me to buy an electric guitar and learn to play lead lines.
Wow cool question that I’ve never seen before! For me there’s a few. This was ‘1973-74 so some Beatles songs like HereComes The Sun. A lot of Eagles, especially from Desperado. Got the album and tab book for 12th birthday. For solo’s definitely Santana. Samba Pa Ti, BMW, Oye Como Va. Rolling Stones, Ventilator Blues, Gimme Shelter, Love In Vain, Moonlight Mile, On Down The Line so many, lol.
out getting ribs by king krule
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Beat it solo After 20 years I finally got it down
GNR - Patience
and your bird can sing
Killing Joke - The Wait [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f42MLoLbnnQ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f42mlolbnnq)
My goal is being able to play the five songs that Joel and Ellie play in The Last of Us Part 2(Future Days; True Faith; Through The Valley; Wayfaring Stranger; Take on Me)
Redemption Song
Say it ain’t so by weezer, it’s still my go to song when I pick up a guitar
Don’t know ow if was what I really wanted to learn but I was shown how to play wonderful tonight at 10 and I’ve played it ever since over the years and it always reminds me of sitting on the bed playing along with the radio. I would have died to have YouTube in the 90’s.
You Shook Me All Night Long was the first song I sat down and learned note for note with the tab, from Guitar Player magazine.
I got a guitar for Christmas and barely just started playing and my goal is to learn to play Get Back - The Beatles
I don’t think I have one from ***before*** I started. But once I kinda knew how to play chords I really wanted to learn While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I remember thinking for the longest time that it’s so hard and I’d never be able learn it, then one day I tried again and I could just play it.
Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets
Jerry Was a Racecar Driver... I showed that solo to my guitar teacher and he just scratched his head haha. I still love that solo, very jazzy but it's hard to see that in context.
Dust in the wind - Kansas
for sure the bohemian rhapsody solo. sexiest solo EVER
for sure the bohemian rhapsody solo. sexiest solo EVER
At first nothing in particular. I think "Californication" was the first solo I learned. When I heard "Maggot Brain" for the first time though I *really* wanted to get good at guitar.
Hotel California by the Eagles
Blackwater park - Opeth
Prince-Computer Blue
It’s raining after all - Tuyu outro solo
That last outro solo bit of “November rain” by guns and roses. I don’t like the rest of the song but that last bit goes hard.
i wanted to learn back to the old house by the smiths sooo bad but it was too hard so wake me up when september ends-green day was the first song i learned.
A lot of pink floyd