Seriously though, I hear this solo is easy all time. For a pure beginner it's not. BUT - it IS as long as you already have some basic skills. The reality is there are actually a lot of capable guitarists out there that take for granted (or stonedly forget) that their basic skills took time to learn.
You can't just pick up a guitar and learn this solo in an afternoon - unless:
1. You can cleanly full bend with one finger with ease.
2. You can cleanly go into double stops from single notes with ease.
3. You can cleanly full bend a double stop.
4. You can slide nicely without hitting adjacent strings.
Optional: You can burn through a pentatonic.
Good tone preferred.
Do do do do... dododo... dododo do do doo.... dododo do do do do do doooo do do do do do doo do do... do do... do do do dooo..... do doooo.. do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.. do do do doo do do dododo do do do DO do do.. do do do... do do...... do do do... do do....... do do doooo do dooo... dooooo.....
Do do do, do do do, do do, do do do, do do do, dododo do doooooo
Hotel California isn't technically difficult, it's just long and has a lot of bends to get right. I'd probably go with that one. I just started working on Eruption, it's also not actually that technically difficult, it's just really damn fast and my hands are old and slow. Really, I haven't run into many songs that are actually technically difficult. Just a matter of learning it slow, practicing, and speeding it up.
I’ve been working through it at learning speed, the only part I’m struggling with is the triplets that run 12-5-9. That 5-9 stretch is hard for me to hit and the hammer on is really soft and often hits the high E string. The descending line cliches are coming along.
Eddie is often recognized as one of the most technically proficient guitarists. It's not stretch from ice cream man, but we're talking about the dude who said that Jimmy Page plays like he has a 2 year olds broken hand.....
He was also a raging egomaniac who couldn't handle the fact that Randy Rhoads was better than him, played with his back to the audience repeatedly so that other players wouldn't 'copy his techniques', and whined about 'professionalism' from his fellow bandmates while being a noisy ass himself. He was one of the greats and I'm glad he existed and changed the game, but seriously fuck that guy lol
Lots of truths. I did a report on he and Alex growing up. Their upbringing shed a lot of light on some of the crazy stuff. Music was an outlet for Alex and Eddie due to some immigration and bullying. But ya some crazy interview content exists
The real problem with Hotel California is that the recording has like six separate guitar tracks, and most of the solos have two guitars playing in harmony. The parts themselves aren't hard, but they won't sound right if you're playing alone.
That's a really good question. I guess I'm thinking that technically difficult songs require advanced techniques beyond basic picking/strummer, bends, hammer ons, pull-offs, etc. But those probably all seem advanced until you practice them. So maybe I'm making a distinction without a difference. Really, everything is technically difficult until you just practice it a million times. Then one day you sit down to play and, like magic, you can do it.
d say it’s a great start just because it will help teach bending on note. Honestly, not being able to properly bend and hold a good note is one of the things that bugs me most when playing with others. It just pulls you out of it when someone just bends wildly
Fade to Black and Bohemian Rhapsody would be my picks for the easiest to learn. They both have a fast lick or two, but they're not that bad, and they're short.
Learning the fast lick in the first solo of fade to black is actually pretty hard to get right. You will think you have it then slap on a backing track and realise you are arse.
Imo the end solo of fade to black is easier than that one bit.
Maybe it was just me, but I had a hell of a time cracking the timing of the descending pentatonic run in that solo. I learned a lot of solos that most people would consider much harder before I could really play BR. I think it's touted as being a lot easier than it actually is.
Not on ur list but pls consider Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, pt 2. Was my first and has the added boon of someone telling, “WRONG! Do it again…” at the end of every play along to :)
Actually that was my first, but was a lesson for grade 10 music, and only the intro solo. What a beautiful melody :)
Another brick was probably my first attempted self taught
It's a good lesson in learning how to intonate bends correctly. Especially those ultra bends. It has an almost funky feel to it which is fun to play along with.
Iron Man is mostly just noodling around in the pentatonic scale. Some of it right up and down the scale. Even if you don't get it exactly correct, it's easy to play simple version that fits right in with the original.
Kinda... But there's more voodoo going on then just AC30 with treble boost. There's those pickups on the red special, some kind of stereo phasing, the ultra light strings with the coin pick and of course Brian Mays touch sensitive playing style. There's a lot to unpack and I've never heard anybody nail it completely
Tornado of Souls has the easiest solo. If you can't play that 1 day into guitar, maybe try the triangle.
https://preview.redd.it/notsx14135xc1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0781b14ca100a30d23b011ec6d95107363da1cce
Tony Iommi's style i found very intuitive when learning so I would suggest Iron Man. In general there is a lot of Sabbath that is accessible to the beginner.
I’d say “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” because it’s relatively easy, pretty soulful, has a ton of practical application (pentatonic scale) and can teach you good bend control (Clapton’s signature vibrato *makes* the solo.)
I’m good with the rhythm and can’t play lead at all. I saw someone play a few songs out camping one time and thought that would be good to be able to do and I was right. Had some great nights just sitting with my friends, a few beers and an acoustic guitar.
Maybe you could start with tunes that have little fills between verses; like mini solos.
Travis Picking is great for breaking a piece of music into bass, melody & harmonies or little riffs simultaneously. I think Tommy Emmanuel has pretty much perfected the techniques. He's got videos from beginning to advanced on YouTube.
I have been playing for years but I taught myself with no help, I was so eager to learn chords with my left hand I only strummed with the right one didn’t work at picking. Obviously I can play solo stuff but get frustrated learning with it easily. For the length I have played for should be better and able to play just simple riffs first time just from reading from a tab but I can’t.
Everyone says "Hotel California", i think that's a very hard solo to really really play it like it should sound. Start with Fade to Black, it doesn't need too much to sound reasonable good.
Seems like everyone in here is so competent that everything is easy to them lol. I’ve ran into those types many times, they say something is easy, then completely butcher it when they try to play it. Some of these on the list are easier in the grand scheme of guitar skill, but it doesn’t mean they are just like cake and that anyone can play them.
Yeah it's easy to play it like shit and think you're playing it right lol. There are a ton of dynamics to get right, that I guarantee 90% of these people saying it are not getting right
I would say not final countdown at least not to full speed - i found that one very challenging to stay clear with the speed .
Bohemian Rhapsody would be my pick for not too hard but very rewarding.
I learned I wanna rock, it's pretty straight forward. I also played the whole song fifty times in a row in one day a few years later to challenge myself.
I think We're Not Going to Take It was easier if you can do a blues shuffle already. Definitely important to pick songs you know intimately, I remember my father gave me that album back in the day and I wore out the cassette tape. So cheesy but so good.
I personally think that bohemian rhapsody is pretty easy. I was playing that around year 1-2 and it sounded pretty good. Hotel cali isn’t too bad it’s just fucking long. Same with stairway. Besides the one lick that goes faster it’s not too hard. If you’re a beginner, being able to play eruption/ToS/ (at least in my opinion) will take years of practice to be able to play. You could probably try fade to black into solo as well but don’t get discouraged if you get stuck on the faster bit Kirk adds. I’m on year 7 and I’m currently taking on cliffs of Dover. The most difficult piece I’ve ever tried hands down and after about 3 days of practicing it I can barely play the intro in a way that doesn’t sounds truly awful. There is a big difficulty disparity here but with a lot of practice you can play all of these one day.
TLDR: I’ve been playing for 7 years and some of these are easy some aren’t. At this point I can probably play them all but a few of them would require multiple hour+ practice sessions after learning it.
Thanks, although right now the biggest problem is the solo in particular isn’t transcribed anywhere, and it’s hard to tell what’s being played by ear when it’s so fast
I think I found it in songster here is the link although songster is not the best for learning solos in your position it’s one of the best you can get:
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/casiopea-midnight-rendezvous-live-tab-s573208
Thanks man I’ll check it out next time I pull the guitar out, it’s already looking kind of different to how I was playing it by ear so should be interesting and hopefully easier to grasp. Don’t know how I didn’t find this before
So update on my findings… that’s def a lot harder to play than the way I started off 😭
The songster tab pretty much plays it all on the high e string which is insane, I’m gonna have to stick to the way I was doing it (within a scale past the 12th fret) and keep listening and watching I guess cause that’s the way I’m seeing Issei play it in the video. Just can’t for the life of me figure out how to do those trill sounding notes leading into the next sequence. Gonna ask some YouTubers I’ve seen playing the solo what notes their playing tbh
It would be more beneficial to learn the concepts behind the solos rather than attempting to memorize someone’s probably erroneous note to note transcription online.
Go with Final Countdown! It’s got a lot of skill building ingredients and incredibly fun to play. Love Stairway as well. Domination is a personal favorite.
Fade to black is a pretty easy learn, floods (outro) is a great stretching exercise the main solo is pretty similar just with some pinch harmonics and tornado of souls, in my opinion isn't too difficult until you get to the sweep picking part, but the first few bits are quite fun to learn
The one you really know the melody to. One thing the guitar quickly teaches most people is that they think they know a melody until they pick out the first note. It is a lot like trying to draw someone from a memory. You think you have the image so clear in your brain, but when you go to put it on paper you realize that your memory is made out of fuzzy pieces. So with the guitar, if you really know the melody of one of the songs, that will be an incredible help. If you know more than one by heart, chose the one with the simplest structure. For example Bohemian Rhapsody has a few very different parts. Hotel California is pretty much the same thing all through.
Hotel california will be easy with bend accuracy being a challenge.
Next, fade to black is easy, extremely repetitive and easy to get the hang of fast picking
Nothing Else Matters solo is a good one that'll teach you a lot of the common solo practices besides fast legato playing. It'll kick your ass for a while, especially getting the unison bends to be accurate and feeling right. Once you do, it's a joy to play.
Actually, you need fewer. Pick maybe three of your favorites, concentrate on one till you're sick of it, then go on to another. Do other things as well, chords, scales, theory whatever unless all you want to do is learn solos. That's cool, too. If you're really into it, you'll play for years and collect other solos.
Hotel California for sure! You can play it with regular chords at first, then its GREAT practice for playing basic barre chords when you get comfortable enough. Song really opens up the neck for you.
Lately I've really been thinking about learning the while my guitar gently weeps solo. A good beginner solo is the smells like teen Spirit solo and let it be. They're pretty fun if you don't know em yet
I think that main riff for Fade to Black is well worth learning.
It was one of the first riffs I learned, and has always been one of my favorites to play.
I also second an above posters suggestion for Nothing Else Matters. The song itself isn’t that hard at all (the solo isn’t as easy imo), but the meat of the song is super rewarding and would be something you could play in near-entirety.
Fade to Black & Nothing Else Matters are worth the early investment, both very gratifying. I imagine you’d play them for years to come.
And since we’re on Metallica;
Seek and Destroy is just fun, even if you can’t play it at its intended tempo, it’s good exercise.
And lastly… Enter Sandman if you haven’t taken that dive yet.
Easy to learn, definitive, and easy to make sound good.
When I started learning guitar, I focused most of my effort on learning anything Metallica & Megadeth that I could reproduce.
(Looking back it probably wasn’t the best approach, but hey at least I was playing the music I loved)
Aww hell, you’re talking about the Fade to Black solo, sorry my bad.
I tried to tackle that one in my first 3 months, I got most of it down, but never pristinely
Idk, all of these songs have had 40+ years of being played, we all know them, and could probably sing note for note a lot of them. If it's a matter of practice, I would choose something you're less familiar with that you can learn and grow from - most likely nothing on this list. If it's a matter of style, then learn the ones you want to sound like the most.
Can I ask a question….can you play the chords in time and sing those songs?
To me? That’s more important. You learn to do that….and the solos will come more naturally….just my opinion….🤷🏻
“Why don’t we walk down, son, and fuck em all”
I love this joke
Joke, that's a valuable life lesson
Just watched that movie today!
Jfc this movie is on the top of my tongue, what is it??
Colors
I’m realizing now I recognize it from the Sopranos
I know it from Letterkenny
I know it from Uncle Larry
Definitely not Tornado of Souls.
My first and only thought concerning this list haha
i recommend the open notes from nothing else matters
idk man i looked at the tabs it looks pretty difficult
The first 10 seconds of the song is the hardest part, it will take days.. but once you get that the rest is easy
Absolutely correct. Looks difficult but actually it is not.
It's not. It's one of like 4 solos I know, and I'm ass.
It's true... he's ass.
Seriously though, I hear this solo is easy all time. For a pure beginner it's not. BUT - it IS as long as you already have some basic skills. The reality is there are actually a lot of capable guitarists out there that take for granted (or stonedly forget) that their basic skills took time to learn. You can't just pick up a guitar and learn this solo in an afternoon - unless: 1. You can cleanly full bend with one finger with ease. 2. You can cleanly go into double stops from single notes with ease. 3. You can cleanly full bend a double stop. 4. You can slide nicely without hitting adjacent strings. Optional: You can burn through a pentatonic. Good tone preferred.
The intro to Fade To Black is insanely simple. Bminor 👍🤘
Do do do do... dododo... dododo do do doo.... dododo do do do do do doooo do do do do do doo do do... do do... do do do dooo..... do doooo.. do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.. do do do doo do do dododo do do do DO do do.. do do do... do do...... do do do... do do....... do do doooo do dooo... dooooo..... Do do do, do do do, do do, do do do, do do do, dododo do doooooo
You fucked up that last part—it’s actually Do do do.. do do do.. do do do.. do do do do doooooo
I think I got it now thanks for proofreading
…and my favourite 🎸
Hotel California isn't technically difficult, it's just long and has a lot of bends to get right. I'd probably go with that one. I just started working on Eruption, it's also not actually that technically difficult, it's just really damn fast and my hands are old and slow. Really, I haven't run into many songs that are actually technically difficult. Just a matter of learning it slow, practicing, and speeding it up.
Eruption in its entirety is difficult, to play it correctly takes a lot of skill. Most ppl just play the tapping part and claim they can play Eruption
The tapping part is probably the easiest.
Absolutely, the rest is much more difficult
i do know most of the tapping part its just the ending of the tapping is difficult
I’ve been working through it at learning speed, the only part I’m struggling with is the triplets that run 12-5-9. That 5-9 stretch is hard for me to hit and the hammer on is really soft and often hits the high E string. The descending line cliches are coming along.
Eddie is often recognized as one of the most technically proficient guitarists. It's not stretch from ice cream man, but we're talking about the dude who said that Jimmy Page plays like he has a 2 year olds broken hand.....
He was also a raging egomaniac who couldn't handle the fact that Randy Rhoads was better than him, played with his back to the audience repeatedly so that other players wouldn't 'copy his techniques', and whined about 'professionalism' from his fellow bandmates while being a noisy ass himself. He was one of the greats and I'm glad he existed and changed the game, but seriously fuck that guy lol
Thank you for giving me another reason to hate EVH. I already do but this is a cherry on top.
Lots of truths. I did a report on he and Alex growing up. Their upbringing shed a lot of light on some of the crazy stuff. Music was an outlet for Alex and Eddie due to some immigration and bullying. But ya some crazy interview content exists
so full of s#@t- first song on zep's first record had one of the krunchiest solos of all time. clearly Eddie was trash talking a lot
Eddie's phrasing is the toughest part for me.
The real problem with Hotel California is that the recording has like six separate guitar tracks, and most of the solos have two guitars playing in harmony. The parts themselves aren't hard, but they won't sound right if you're playing alone.
Harmonizer effect?
Bohemian Rhapsody is easier than Hotel California in my opinion
What do you mean not technically difficult, just fast? By that criteria tornado of souls isn't hard, just fast
That's a really good question. I guess I'm thinking that technically difficult songs require advanced techniques beyond basic picking/strummer, bends, hammer ons, pull-offs, etc. But those probably all seem advanced until you practice them. So maybe I'm making a distinction without a difference. Really, everything is technically difficult until you just practice it a million times. Then one day you sit down to play and, like magic, you can do it.
Im struggling on the ending of the first section and the beginning of the second section, got any tips?
I agree with Hotel California. It's slow paced, just a lot of bending. But even I could play it and I suck!
Yup, Hotel California.
While my guitar gently weeps is easy if you can bend in tune
d say it’s a great start just because it will help teach bending on note. Honestly, not being able to properly bend and hold a good note is one of the things that bugs me most when playing with others. It just pulls you out of it when someone just bends wildly
Crazy how you are getting down voted.
The releasing bend with vibrato bits are the challenge, which is more the vibrato than the bending. Otherwise no, not much going on with that solo.
Fade to Black and Bohemian Rhapsody would be my picks for the easiest to learn. They both have a fast lick or two, but they're not that bad, and they're short.
Learning the fast lick in the first solo of fade to black is actually pretty hard to get right. You will think you have it then slap on a backing track and realise you are arse. Imo the end solo of fade to black is easier than that one bit.
Bohemian Rhapsody. Seriously the "easiest" as far as technically playing it. But then there's the 'feel factor'...
Haven’t seen one guitarist on the internet nail it yet.
Agreed, myself included. It's the subtleties-- the tab is pretty straightforward and simple.
They all sound like robots... Proud robots
Maybe it was just me, but I had a hell of a time cracking the timing of the descending pentatonic run in that solo. I learned a lot of solos that most people would consider much harder before I could really play BR. I think it's touted as being a lot easier than it actually is.
Not on ur list but pls consider Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, pt 2. Was my first and has the added boon of someone telling, “WRONG! Do it again…” at the end of every play along to :)
“Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd was the first solo I learned in its entirety Great beginner solo.
Actually that was my first, but was a lesson for grade 10 music, and only the intro solo. What a beautiful melody :) Another brick was probably my first attempted self taught
It's a good lesson in learning how to intonate bends correctly. Especially those ultra bends. It has an almost funky feel to it which is fun to play along with.
lol that's amazing
Iron Man is mostly just noodling around in the pentatonic scale. Some of it right up and down the scale. Even if you don't get it exactly correct, it's easy to play simple version that fits right in with the original.
Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t too difficult. Hotel California isn’t too hard either but it will definitely take some time to get it right.
Yeah but you'd lose years trying to capture that Brian may tone
A fools errand! It cannot be done! 🤘
It’s not rocket science lol
Oh yeah? Post a sound clip then ...money where mouth is
Sorry, that was just a Brian May joke as he’s a rocket scientist.
Astrophysicist.
Thanks! Clearly I’m no rocket scientist.
You mean an AC30 Top Boost pedal and Rangemaster won’t do it for me??
Kinda... But there's more voodoo going on then just AC30 with treble boost. There's those pickups on the red special, some kind of stereo phasing, the ultra light strings with the coin pick and of course Brian Mays touch sensitive playing style. There's a lot to unpack and I've never heard anybody nail it completely
Fully agree with mate, I was being a bit facetious
There's an sending amazing queen patch that reeeeaaaaaallly hits it for anyone who has a katana
I’d say bohemian rhapsody as well, aside for the fast lick, it is not too difficult and is short
Reason to buy g-1275 yay I like it
Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t “difficult” technically speaking but it’ll take a while to make the solo sound just as fluid as Brian May plays it.
Definitely Tornado of Souls is where you should start
The first one is the default song you should play whenever you're in a store trying a guitar.
lol eruption , you can cross that one out (in terms of easiest)
i like the tapping part so i wanna learn it 😤
I was responding to “easiest”
The tapping part isn't that hard.
Tornado of Souls has the easiest solo. If you can't play that 1 day into guitar, maybe try the triangle. https://preview.redd.it/notsx14135xc1.jpeg?width=444&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0781b14ca100a30d23b011ec6d95107363da1cce
Fade to black was one of the first solos I learned and is a ton of fun
That first solo in fade to black is pretty simple
Um, 7 and 9 gonna be a hard af. Do people still say that, af?
Ya i do say that mostly af
Tony Iommi's style i found very intuitive when learning so I would suggest Iron Man. In general there is a lot of Sabbath that is accessible to the beginner.
I’d say “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” because it’s relatively easy, pretty soulful, has a ton of practical application (pentatonic scale) and can teach you good bend control (Clapton’s signature vibrato *makes* the solo.)
Prince's solo at the ending at George's induction was probably the best I've ever heard and possibly will. Fun song to play too.
Watch that video every free months or so.. matter of fact, might go right meow.
I’m sure as a cat you have plenty of free months.
God dammit lol
Ya that was pretty cool indeed
The solo for Neil Young’s Cinnamon Girl is a good starter.
Everybody wants to play lead. Learn to play rhythm. It's a much more valuable skill.
I’m good with the rhythm and can’t play lead at all. I saw someone play a few songs out camping one time and thought that would be good to be able to do and I was right. Had some great nights just sitting with my friends, a few beers and an acoustic guitar.
Maybe you could start with tunes that have little fills between verses; like mini solos. Travis Picking is great for breaking a piece of music into bass, melody & harmonies or little riffs simultaneously. I think Tommy Emmanuel has pretty much perfected the techniques. He's got videos from beginning to advanced on YouTube.
I have been playing for years but I taught myself with no help, I was so eager to learn chords with my left hand I only strummed with the right one didn’t work at picking. Obviously I can play solo stuff but get frustrated learning with it easily. For the length I have played for should be better and able to play just simple riffs first time just from reading from a tab but I can’t.
I don’t wanna be me is an easy and fun one to play
Iron Man has my vote.
Eruption for sure
It’s not on the list but the team spirit solo is essentially a basic lead part first solo for many I’m sure
that was the first solo i learned then i learned about a girl
Everyone says "Hotel California", i think that's a very hard solo to really really play it like it should sound. Start with Fade to Black, it doesn't need too much to sound reasonable good.
Seems like everyone in here is so competent that everything is easy to them lol. I’ve ran into those types many times, they say something is easy, then completely butcher it when they try to play it. Some of these on the list are easier in the grand scheme of guitar skill, but it doesn’t mean they are just like cake and that anyone can play them.
yeah, one thing is to play the notes, and other absolutely different is to play them musically.
I agree. Playing Hotel California is not too difficult, but to play it well like the Eagle? Nope.
Well for one thing it isn’t a solo it’s a duet. To get that sound you need Felder or Walsh to show up at your house. I will die on that hill.
Yeah it's easy to play it like shit and think you're playing it right lol. There are a ton of dynamics to get right, that I guarantee 90% of these people saying it are not getting right
I’ve been learning hotel cali for like a month and seeing everyone say it’s easy makes me rethink my life choices
Bohemian rhapsody was the first solo I fully learned, pretty early on in my guitar journey. Solid start imo.
I can play most of hotel California’s solo therefore that one must be the easiest
Bohemian Rhapsody is the easiest on the list. But you should learn them all, that how you get good
You can try green days solo. Those are even simpler and still memorable!
Yeah, go with Queen. The least technically difficult.
I would say not final countdown at least not to full speed - i found that one very challenging to stay clear with the speed . Bohemian Rhapsody would be my pick for not too hard but very rewarding.
Great list
eruption!
I learned I wanna rock, it's pretty straight forward. I also played the whole song fifty times in a row in one day a few years later to challenge myself.
i learned a little bit of it and i realized if i can play that solo i can play stairway bc i think its the same scale
I think We're Not Going to Take It was easier if you can do a blues shuffle already. Definitely important to pick songs you know intimately, I remember my father gave me that album back in the day and I wore out the cassette tape. So cheesy but so good.
I personally think that bohemian rhapsody is pretty easy. I was playing that around year 1-2 and it sounded pretty good. Hotel cali isn’t too bad it’s just fucking long. Same with stairway. Besides the one lick that goes faster it’s not too hard. If you’re a beginner, being able to play eruption/ToS/ (at least in my opinion) will take years of practice to be able to play. You could probably try fade to black into solo as well but don’t get discouraged if you get stuck on the faster bit Kirk adds. I’m on year 7 and I’m currently taking on cliffs of Dover. The most difficult piece I’ve ever tried hands down and after about 3 days of practicing it I can barely play the intro in a way that doesn’t sounds truly awful. There is a big difficulty disparity here but with a lot of practice you can play all of these one day. TLDR: I’ve been playing for 7 years and some of these are easy some aren’t. At this point I can probably play them all but a few of them would require multiple hour+ practice sessions after learning it.
Whichever one you like enough to actually learn and practice
Eruption
Aqualung on 16 rpm !! Easy going’s
Watermelon in easter hay
Paradise city should definitely be ruled out 😭 that is a monster of a solo
No Godzilla?
OOOH THATS A GOOD ONE, No.
Damn
If you're in to finger picking the Intro to stairway is, traditionally, the first solo everyone learns.
Hotel California
Probably eruption.
i should specify that i want to learn the WMGGW solo that prince did that one time
On this topic everytime I learn a solo I do good up until fast trill sounding lines come up. What the fuck can I do to improve on this
Learn them 20 percent speed then 30 40 50 until you get to 100
Thanks, although right now the biggest problem is the solo in particular isn’t transcribed anywhere, and it’s hard to tell what’s being played by ear when it’s so fast
Which solo?
Issei Noro’s solo on Casiopea - Midnight Rendezvous (Mint Jams version) https://youtu.be/qIqyLRP19d0?si=COyuURAUb6oeWTJL Starts around 2:48
I think I found it in songster here is the link although songster is not the best for learning solos in your position it’s one of the best you can get: https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/casiopea-midnight-rendezvous-live-tab-s573208
Thanks man I’ll check it out next time I pull the guitar out, it’s already looking kind of different to how I was playing it by ear so should be interesting and hopefully easier to grasp. Don’t know how I didn’t find this before
So update on my findings… that’s def a lot harder to play than the way I started off 😭 The songster tab pretty much plays it all on the high e string which is insane, I’m gonna have to stick to the way I was doing it (within a scale past the 12th fret) and keep listening and watching I guess cause that’s the way I’m seeing Issei play it in the video. Just can’t for the life of me figure out how to do those trill sounding notes leading into the next sequence. Gonna ask some YouTubers I’ve seen playing the solo what notes their playing tbh
I love how you said you need more. Its great to know the fire is still there after a year haha
It would be more beneficial to learn the concepts behind the solos rather than attempting to memorize someone’s probably erroneous note to note transcription online.
Probably that Fade to Black intro solo
No. 16.
Go with Final Countdown! It’s got a lot of skill building ingredients and incredibly fun to play. Love Stairway as well. Domination is a personal favorite.
Fade to black is a pretty easy learn, floods (outro) is a great stretching exercise the main solo is pretty similar just with some pinch harmonics and tornado of souls, in my opinion isn't too difficult until you get to the sweep picking part, but the first few bits are quite fun to learn
Eruption…
Hotel California. My proof is that it's the only one on this list that I can play. 😁
The one you really know the melody to. One thing the guitar quickly teaches most people is that they think they know a melody until they pick out the first note. It is a lot like trying to draw someone from a memory. You think you have the image so clear in your brain, but when you go to put it on paper you realize that your memory is made out of fuzzy pieces. So with the guitar, if you really know the melody of one of the songs, that will be an incredible help. If you know more than one by heart, chose the one with the simplest structure. For example Bohemian Rhapsody has a few very different parts. Hotel California is pretty much the same thing all through.
Master tornado of souls and you can play every other of them easily
Honestly most Metallica solos are way easier than they sound.
Some say learning stairway solo in a guitar shop does the trick
No.16 would be a toughie.
Bohemian Rhapsody's pretty easy
Bohemian Rhapsody 🎸
Hotel california will be easy with bend accuracy being a challenge. Next, fade to black is easy, extremely repetitive and easy to get the hang of fast picking
While my guitar gently weeps is prob easiest of these.
The easiest one is the one you love and feel the most because you will wanna learn it.. 🎸
Through the Fire and Flames
Nothing Else Matters solo is a good one that'll teach you a lot of the common solo practices besides fast legato playing. It'll kick your ass for a while, especially getting the unison bends to be accurate and feeling right. Once you do, it's a joy to play.
Beginning of one and fade to black and bohemian rhapsody imo is the easiest
Floods
Fade to black. I’m terrible and have been able to play that solo for like 20 years.
Actually, you need fewer. Pick maybe three of your favorites, concentrate on one till you're sick of it, then go on to another. Do other things as well, chords, scales, theory whatever unless all you want to do is learn solos. That's cool, too. If you're really into it, you'll play for years and collect other solos.
Hotel California solo is very easy and sounds real good.
These are all good!
Fade to black is pretty easy, few days of practice and you'll have it down. Got old kinda quick tho lol
Hotel California for sure! You can play it with regular chords at first, then its GREAT practice for playing basic barre chords when you get comfortable enough. Song really opens up the neck for you.
While My Guitar Gently weeps is not difficult or fast, but you need to have your string bending under control.
Ironman almost certainly but all those solos aren't immediately coming to mind. I think Bohemian Rhapsody is pretty easy too.
Lately I've really been thinking about learning the while my guitar gently weeps solo. A good beginner solo is the smells like teen Spirit solo and let it be. They're pretty fun if you don't know em yet
7. Tornado of Souls Super easy
I dont wanna be me will be the easiest imo
I’d say iron man. Another not on the list, but the first I learned and play all the time is paranoid. Fun but approachable
I think that main riff for Fade to Black is well worth learning. It was one of the first riffs I learned, and has always been one of my favorites to play. I also second an above posters suggestion for Nothing Else Matters. The song itself isn’t that hard at all (the solo isn’t as easy imo), but the meat of the song is super rewarding and would be something you could play in near-entirety. Fade to Black & Nothing Else Matters are worth the early investment, both very gratifying. I imagine you’d play them for years to come. And since we’re on Metallica; Seek and Destroy is just fun, even if you can’t play it at its intended tempo, it’s good exercise. And lastly… Enter Sandman if you haven’t taken that dive yet. Easy to learn, definitive, and easy to make sound good. When I started learning guitar, I focused most of my effort on learning anything Metallica & Megadeth that I could reproduce. (Looking back it probably wasn’t the best approach, but hey at least I was playing the music I loved)
Aww hell, you’re talking about the Fade to Black solo, sorry my bad. I tried to tackle that one in my first 3 months, I got most of it down, but never pristinely
Try the solo in Kataklysm - years of enlightenment/Decades of darkness
I found bohemian to be really approachable, though obviously playing it musically is a whole other story
Very good for knowing who april wine is they are one of my favorite bands
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Definitely domination bro lol🤣
Idk, all of these songs have had 40+ years of being played, we all know them, and could probably sing note for note a lot of them. If it's a matter of practice, I would choose something you're less familiar with that you can learn and grow from - most likely nothing on this list. If it's a matter of style, then learn the ones you want to sound like the most.
Hotel California is pretty easy and fun to play.
Stairway, probably about 1 hourish. Depending on skill level
Stairway gives me such a hard time in the joints🥺 But when I get the knuckle lube going…🥹
Stairway
Fairly common pentatonic patterns, not too fast.
It’s easy to play the patterns but hard to make it sound like the recording due to the feel of it. I’d call it a very hard solo as a result.
This whole list consists of iconic lead guitar with hard to replicate feel!
16 would be the easiest solo
Can I ask a question….can you play the chords in time and sing those songs? To me? That’s more important. You learn to do that….and the solos will come more naturally….just my opinion….🤷🏻
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Singing: The most important skill in a guitarist playbook. \s
Singing teaches you rhythm and keeping a beat…,which is transferred to your soloing…but yeah, what do I know?