The TOP 10 HARDEST SONGS to Play on Guitar (according to WatchMojo)
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What do you think the hardest song to play is?
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Hardest songs for me would be technical difficulties (Paul Gilbert), or Rising Force (YJM)
No Polyphia? No Symphony-X? No Satriani? No Andy McKee? No LTE? No Archspire?This list needs serious upgrades ..
Sultans of Swing
Hardest for me is everything because I'm new at it lol
Would go for Castles Made of Sand. Hendrix must've basically lived in the studio long enough to find a way to make his parts sound perfect in reverse.
Oh, and can we have "Habits of Brian May?" or Blackmore?
Hardest song to play: anything once you start recording
YES
Underrated comment haha!
Hahahahahahahahaha. So true
Story of my Life
Facts 😂
Hardest song to play: literally anything after someone asks you to play something
So true, but when you’re playing by yourself you pretend to play for a crowd of people
Yes
Agreed
Brilliant!
Gish 😳
"Stairway to heaven" is the hardest song ever.
Its hard to play guitar while fighting the shop owner.
No stairway, denied😎
shoot for the double leg and transition into his back then go for a rear naked choke. then play the song while he's sleeping, works for me though.
Ha ha true story
Weak.
Along with Enter Sandman :D
With Hendrix riffs I think you have to go with something he said himself: "Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel". It's the same with Hendrix's riffs. A lot of them are easy, but to play them well you have to feel them, and Little Wing is no exception.
What impresses me most about Hendrix is his composition. Truly inspiring and imaginative at times. Thats where I think his genius lies. The guitar was just his vehicle for expressing those ideas. Imagination cant really be learned i dont think.
to play them well you need a fuzzface... facts there are harder songs to play from around that time and before especially with classical Barrios and Terrega like comparing how hard it is to roll a joint vs translate greek and arabic... faster, more technical, using more complex music, from all over stuff like Misirlou(greek, jazz, surf, rock, Dick Dale was also left handed like Hendrix but he left the strings reversed BB King style instead of fixing them around like Hendrix), you had guys like Jose Reyes & Manitas De Plata some of the greatest gypsy guitarists ever they combined all sorts of musical cultures and languages french, spanish, portugese, roma combined multiple styles of flamenco playing and invented abstract rhythms not found in flamenco before so many parts of the world with so many people making all kinds of attempts at greatness, gods envy men for we can truly fail and everything is more beautiful because we're doomed yet some still reach out and shake greatness.
@@greatbingus didnt you mean Albert King?
@@tago69mago yeah sorry about that Albert King and What I was trying to explain is Dick Dale and King would use lefty guitars strung up like a right, Hendrix would use a right strung up like a lefty like Paul McCartney
@@greatbingus no worries. Prefer hendrix univibe sound personally and the backwards guitar sound which was a pain in arse to accomplish in those days
Hardest song is definitely Wonderwall. Everytime I try to play it everyone yells and cheers and it's hard to focus.
Or Stairway to Heaven in a guitar store
@@peterbaan9671 yeah it’s hard to play when people are grabbing at your guitar and screaming for you to stop!
mik3ymomo yeah, I know!
@@peterbaan9671 or smoke on the water
I play that in my sleep
"top 10 rock songs we think are hard because they're popular"
My thoughts exactly
Lmao
True
Exactly
Factual statement
I'm sorry Tyler, but having never heard "This Charming Man" before just feels wrong haha. Definitely a classic. Johnny Marr did a lot for guitar in the 80s and his influence still carries on to this day with the plethora of quirky indie rock bands.
I agree that it is not an especially hard guitar line, but a guy making a music critic video doesn't know one of the most famous Smiths songs, come on, how can I take you seriously.
I'm a rather new guitarist (playing for 3 months) and I'm learning This Charming Man as my first riff
GODDAMN IT'S HARD
I love Johnny's playing
This charming man has a
a lot of subtleties and ghost notes which are particularly hard to nail. Never seen anyone play it exactly like Johnny Marr.
@@onyx747 youll get it down. it is a bit tricky but its so rewarding to finally play it.
It both crushes my soul AND makes me as proud as a Father can be that my 14-year-old son can play quite a few of these Little Wing (S.R.V Version), Eruption and The Cliffs of Dover (intro...he's working on the rest!) The kid is a true virtuoso. Loaned him my acoustic a couple years back and told him I'd upgrade him if he stuck with it (He had been playing Bass since around 10 when he asked for one for his B-Day that year and got pretty good!) I've since bought him a new Fender acoustic...a Strat w/tube amp...and gave him refurbished a Sigma acoustic I got for $5 and a 12 String Yamaha I had given to me. He comes to my house every 2 weeks and shows me what he's learned in that time frame. Unfookinbelievable.
Radical, but all of it though? When i was fourteen i could remember playing the entire tapping part of eruption, but not the beginning, anyway your kid seems to be good, So tell him i said good luck!
Dude I wish I had started learning that young! I just started a week ago with an acoustic guitar from the pawn shop😂 I'm 22
That's awesome! Hope he keeps going with it!
My 14-year-old son is better than your 14-year-old son.
Be there for your son more than once every two weeks time is the most important thing
“Has to be a difficult song entirely not just the solo”
“#1 is a solo without a song”
lol
Title says songs, not solos
If only the comment were a joke
that’s what I thought, it’s like saying O Baterista is the hardest song to play on drums
This is pure ignorance. The solo rolls into You Really Got Me. Fool.
'Top 10 rock songs we found on google that we can't play'
lmao
Loool
👍
Haha
"Top 10 songs on guitar that *SOUND* hard to play"
I remember 'Hot Kross Buns' and 'Merrily We Roll Along' were two REALLY hard songs back in 1st grade music class.... much harder than all these.... its why all these songs have been covered, but nobody has EVER covered either 'HKB' or MWRA', they are just too hard so nobody wants to take on the 'Hot Kross Buns' challenge and inevitably look stupid.
Lmaooo my daughter brought a recorder home from school this year and I had to hear those fucking songs everyday, and as you can imagine, not tremendously accurate. 😂 Great comment. I got a good laugh out of it lol.
Very easy on piano.
i had no problem with those two. it was "it's raining it's pouring" that was THE hardest song ever.
@@85geoffm Atleast you dont have to listen to 30 of the buggers playing it all at once but somehow none of them are in sync
I love his guitar, has such a nice clear but deep sound and the design and colour is lovely.
Agreed I hope to acquire one of these paul reed smith guitars.
Guy at a party: I know a really hard song to play
**puts capo on the second fret**
Em7
Oh,
we’ve all met that bloke.
That arsehole gets everywhere.
Cheers,
Si.
Glen Campbell, Chet Atkins used a capo, Frets are closer together, easier reach for a smaller hand?
WoNdEr wAlL
Here’s the thing. You must do it at this point
“Ive never heard this charming man “
: indie kids preparing to dislike -_-
"indie kids"
Do you mean "indie middle-agers?"
That was me. LOL I grew up in the 80's and The Smiths were huge in the modern rock genre--like often ranked #1 in various lists. Johnny Marr was one of my early guitar influences, along with John Squire of Stone Roses, Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, Edge of U2, etc.
Lmao very tru
I like Tyler but how can he not know about The Smiths? 😂
I was throwing up when he said that! 😩
I’ll always say Never Going Back Again, at a pace that is so incredibly hard to keep up with, It’s basically playing 2 polyrhythmic guitar parts on one guitar with lots of accents and a beautiful blue grassy/swing feel to it
YES YES YES! The first time I heard that song I had only been playing for about 2 years and I was like, I am pretty sure if I practice this song a lot I can play it..... NOPE.
That's what I was going to write. That Merle Travis picking pattern and syncopated rhythm along with chords that are an uncomfortable stretch and position especially for those with smaller hands. And Lindsey Buckingham sang while he was playing it. That's one of those pat your head while rubbing your belly at the same time kind of songs.
Listen to (big love live the dance)just Lindsey Buckingham on stage and his guitar.Definitely a phenomenal guitar player
I beg to differ. Eddie Van Halen did NOT invent fret tapping. It has been used for many years (even in classical music) and by many different players and I don't mean just one wayward note.
Please watch the video again, also maybe the video about the origins of tapping in rock. What he said was, Eddie did "invent" tapping as to how it is used in modern rock songs. It's a similar baseline technique but much different in practice compared to what's done in music prior to that, especially in classical.
Half of this list are actually hard songs
The other half are just tricky
More like 1/3 is actually hard
AAL is CLEARLY the hardest out of this list. And of course they go with some normie b.s. like Eruption as #1
@@elpolitemexa2272 Megadeth's Tornado is harder than most of them and it's an honorable mention. WM is normie crap so I'm not surprised although CAFO was a surprise I wouldn't have thought they'd include it.
my boy, dance of eternity is more than just tricky, lmao
@@MalFunktion2024 I know. The ones I consider hard from this list includes the Dance of Eternity.
No Lil' Wayne guitar solo? For shame WatchMojo, for shame.
The guitar god
Honestly though it could be difficult to get a perfect bad tuning and hit those horrible bends exactly. Just seems... unnatural.
Yeah its pretty hard to suck that bad, I couldn't do it
Hahaha
Lol lil wayne, never gets old😂😂😂😂😂
I really like how you mentioned how genesis flirted with the idea of tapping. A lot of people don’t realize how great early genesis was.
I love how he’s like “Charming Man isn’t really that hard” and still messes it up. I think it earns its place at #10
Agree. And of course it is hard to come up with the riff in the first place while reinventing guitar music at the time. I felt he threw a lot of shade on Marr with the disrespectful way he treated that song.
but for TOP 10? lol NOOO
@@TurfShifter He played it at first try, not exactly hard.
@@TheSteinbitt he played it very wrong on first try
@@droideca88 yeah ok, almost perfect on second try lol like that makes it any better.
"hardest rock songs to play on guitar"
> Discovers prog metal
Best day ever 😳😄!!!
Number of prog metal guitarists who have as much talent and skill as Robert Fripp: zero
@@MyNameIsBucket a challenger appears from the mist: MISHA MANSOOR - father of djent 🙏
Fusion...
@@ancasterguitar8171 life change moments hahaha
I discovered asking "who the hell is JP and DT?" I didn't knew what I was about to discover hahahahaha
This list is more just like “10 random tricky songs, of varying difficulty, in a random order”
As with so much art, it can be very subjective. They gave it a shot and made something for us to watch and discuss for fun anyway ☺️
LOL!!! That is a perfect title xD
Also anything heavier than blues seems to be considered rock to them
@@treystone1993 very subjective? When it comes to technique there is not that much space for subjectivity.
@@kyranstoecklin726 Space for subjectivity? I'm assuming you mean debating what can be difficult for one artist vs. what can be difficult for another. You may disagree. You are entitled to your opinion. That is the point. It's what makes the whole thing interesting.
I think the hardest part of playing Master of Puppets is the constant down picking. One of the first songs I learned (in case that sounds impressive, I still suck at guitar, lol). New to the channel, but I love it!
People always focus on shredding as the "hardest" part of guitar playing, but everyone underestimates the endurance you need to play stuff like James Hetfield's Metallica riffs.
There's footage of James (making of Death Magnetic I *think*???) where he tries downpicking like in the old days and can't do it, and he says something like, "Man, I need to learn how to downpick again" or something. It's funny
Johnny Marr (This Charming Man) flew under the radar with The Smiths. Not top difficult, but fun stuff.
Master of Puppets... downpicked, properly, can get tough. Fun stamina exercise, not particularly hard to play.
Simple song if you can down pick. If you can't? Forget it..learn!
Other than the right hand being the whole song itself. That's all...very easy
Yeah aside from the Kirk solo near the end, the real challenge is just down-picking at such a constant speed.
I think if any smiths song should be on here it should be girl afraid. Even watching people play that makes my fingers start sweating😫
It’s not one of the most difficult, but it is if you’re not good at downstrokes
I think they should've considered to put either Creeping Death or Blackened up there instead of Master of Puppets, Love the song but for me personally the other 2 are way more difficult than Master of Puppets imo.
Playing Master Of Puppets with all downstrokes is a rite of passage for guitar players
Imagine doing solo only downstroking xD
Pfft. Overrated skill.
Ah yes my warm up
@@11DNA11 no
@@11DNA11 depends. Can I do it just sitting at home? Yes. Could I do it at the end of an hour long set? Fuck no, I'd die quarter of the way through
This Charming Man is tricky, but Johnny Marr’s greatest accomplishment was being patient with Morrissey’s passive, frail whimpering.
Ahahahahhahahaha
Oh so much whimpering
its tricky but i feel like getting the same tone is a lot more difficult
Some would counter passionate, emotional, crooning.
Not me mind you but some
I definitely struggled to play Master of puppets when I was 16. The list was appropriate but you could put hundreds of other songs on it and it would be valid.
There's a difference between something being hard when you FIRST try to play it, and you just need to get better at it, and something that is hard no matter what.
hearing the smiths with a distorted guitar isn't something that i though i'd hear today
Johnny Marr always has (at least a little) drive on his tone.
@@jackmeoff2376 does he? Or is it just loud P90s on a rickenbacker tuned up a whole step? I thought he famously didn’t use drive but I could be wrong
@@tobylewis6442 He's described his tone as having a bit of "attitude" - think Fender-breakup tone, but back on the Smiths debut he was using some pretty sparkly clean tones through a Twin/JC-120
@@tobylewis6442 yep he didn’t use drive unless it was natural. He used ricks fenders and 335s
I'm pretty sure there's some sort of drive in "Panic".
Number 1: Smoke on the water by Deep Purple.
Tyler: "Now this song takes years ... decades ... centuries to master. Many have tried and more have failed.
The song actually has some tricky parts in it. It’s just the intro that’s piss easy
@@coffeeenjoyer9099 Idk man... that 0-3-5 is easy enough but then they throw that 6 near the end and I'm like WHAAAT???
It is not as easy as it sounds
Ik he’s probably 15 years older than me and has been playing guitar 20 years longer, but I wish to be this good at guitar one day to just so I can sit here and play a song that I’ve never heard ever before by ear lmao. Him and Stevie T are the best CZcams guitarists of all time and are the only reason I’ve gotten any type of halfway decent at using my guitar since I started playing when the pandemic hit 2 years ago. Thanks for not only the excellent playing, but the ability to simplify music for a smooth brain like myself who barely has time to play for an hour or two a week let alone go to multiple hour long classes a week and pay 100’s of dollars for them.
3am by Bert Jansch was the hardest for me, the first alternate thumb picking tune I tried to learn, easy now but made my brain melt at the time
tremoulo picking
Saw the comment right as that part came up 😂😂
tremoulo is a common technique here in Mojovia.
?
I remember having a conversation about tremoulo with a drunk man in a bar a couple of years ago while a Steve vai song was playing... 9/10 would recommend
@@ianduncan459 watch the video my guy
The hardest guitar song is tears in heaven because playing while crying is hard
Needs more likes
True
You said it!
Holy fuck im dying
i am hysterically laughing while i know pure sadness and deep depression is to folow. i cannot will not and do not ever listen to that song ever. ever. EVER.
16:33 Ace Frehley did it live in 1974 or 75 before Van Halen was around. I think he can be seen doing it during Kiss's performance on the Midnight Special.
There is a clip on CZcams where a guy play tapping in the 60's.
I SO appreciate this breakdown. THANK YOU
He definitely did not nail this charming man, but I have to give credit that he learnt it from ear and in half an hour or so and it sounded similar. Still can’t believe he hasn’t heard this charming man or the smiths
@@chosenideahandle nah he’s a massive Metallica fan he was jk
@@chosenideahandle R/WOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHH
I don't know the Smith's either. I listen to a vast amount of music, but it never hit my radio I guess.
@@travisdelee8647 please check them out
Typical metal/rock licks is pretty straight forward - The Smiths/Johnny Marr style is whole different animal. You can't say "nailed it" if you did get the notes / chords right :)
Not heard of this charming man! Johnny Marr may not be massively well known outside the UK but is a legend here.
Maybe if they wrote some good music, they might be more well known! Just kidding UK, but they ain't no Iron Maiden.
Yup! All of his stuff is genius and tricky, especially "Girl afraid"
Everyone knows Marr around the world. It’s just this dude
@@iliketrains3495 oasis is more well known in the US. I hadn't heard of the smiths at all either. Not a big name over here really.
If he's good enough for Hans Zimmer...
To be fair on this one, it's more "intricate" than "hard"
How do you not know this charming man ? If you know Jonny marr, you know this charming man.
This Charming Man sounds easy, but for me to learn it perfectly with all the right staccatos and everything took me like 9 months (to be fair I have OCD though and that makes mastering anything on guitar tricky, but still)
Good luck with taming OCD, it took a while in the day, I worked it out from rank Smith's live album, meet Mr Marr in Manchester too.
@@tasosdiaforetico7377 Thanks mate
"Every Breath You Take," by The Police, should definitely be on this list. Andy Summers' guitar part is not fast, nor is it very technical, but it is a crazy stretch for over 4 minutes. I have been playing guitar in all genres for over 40 years, and that song still hurts my left hand to play correctly all the way through.
now imagine playing something more challenging for over 4 minutes, how hard would that be! xD
I would add two Police songs- “Bring on the Night” and “The Bed’s Too Big Without You.” I believe Sting’s “Fragile” is also an advanced guitar song.
That song and Message In A Bottle have crazy finger stretches that go on for the whole tune. They might not deserve a “hardest” ranking but neither is easy to play.
I’m sorry, out of the worlds catalog, over a hundred years or so or when the guitar was invented, you say that? Every breath you take? That’s extremely narrow. I don’t mean to be harsh and I’m not. The backwards playing song and chord progression from Hendrix or other prodigies not even mentioned here like buckethead or page , srv, flamenco greats, yngqwie Malmsteen, list goes on. Just for fun search CZcams for Buckethead and say thank you later
@@augustwest5273JustTo be clear. I was actually looking for a song that is "deceivingly" hard to play (endurance, not technical ability or speed). All of the guitarists you mentioned are truly great, but everyone knows that a lot of stuff they play is mildly to very technical, especially Malmsteen. I am also very aware of Buckethead and his playing abilities, and have been for quite some time. No argument from me there. I listen to, teach and play many genres of music, and there are dozens of Guitar players we could add to this list, from Eddie Van Halen, Roy Clark, Al Di Meola, Brad Paisley, George Lynch, Dave Meniketti (my personal favorite) and Jimmy Page, etc. We both get that. However, saying, "I am not trying to be harsh" is like saying, "I am not racist, but......" lol. Thanks for your input though, my friend. I am always up for a good discussion about music and guitar playing, and everyone is entitled to their own opinions. 🎸
Johnny Marr’s guitar writing is so beautiful and all of the layers he does make a big and warm sound.
Absolutely an original. His book details how he approaches writing. Fascinating.
You mentioned Hendrix Castles made of Sand. That happens to be my favorite Hendrix song. I've never learned how to play it. Often times I seem to find myself subconsciously gravitating towards softer songs with hidden complexity like that one. I knew it was more difficult than it seemed, just not that I was among the hardest to play so now i want to learn it, thanks for the inspiration.
I’ve always been impressed with Mediterranean Sundance when Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia done live. I think the hardest song was done on an acoustic.
Yep, try playin a Paco song- all of these would be beginner to intermediate compared
@@shiftxrqt Supposedly the list was about *Rock* songs.
Agreed, especially if its played on acoustic, and the frets aren't constantly buzzing and the player's fingers aren't constantly scraping against the .052 E string.
WHO THE HELL PUTS SULTANS OF SWING AFTER CAFO, JESUS CHRIST
The dads at guitar world 😂 just for context, any metal video on guitar world gets a dumb amount of downvotes like Rivers of Nihil and Black Dahlia Murder even though they’re ripping it up. But I can picture someone in that audience being like “he has not feel, he’s just playing fast, unlike MARK KNOPFLER”
That’s my go-to song to test every guitar, even acoustic. Shouldn’t even be on the list
Knopfler is dynamics master best of his kind in the world few can copy that kind of playing so that beats meaningles arpeggios and scales at 300 bpm,in any means.
@@jacee8094Maybe more like: Mark Knopfler knows what „dynamics“ mean 😅
@@brassplayer8359 CAFO is not a good example, but Tosin absolutely knows about dynamics. Listen to The Brain Dance or the woven web. But the whole point was there’s zero reason that Sultains of Swings should be put above cafo on a list of what songs harder.
“#1 Smoke on The Water. Many fans have talked about how hard this song is and many consider it the hardest”
What about Wonderwall?
Hmmm
Smoke on the water is literally the hardest song to play on CZcams. If you even try to play it, you get struck down into oblivion... which is a much easier song to get away with.
Ive seen this joke since 2009 and im still wondering how people dont cringe on it
@@mir2678 The funny thing is, it's harder than you think if you're playing it correctly and complete lol it's more than just a chorus riff ;)
Love ur studio!
I think "This Charming Man" one comes from someone who's not so experienced with hard guitar songs and tried to play the whole piece. I understand this person. This song requires endurance, like a lot of stamina and focus to not make any mistakes, because of the fast changes and different licks.
I didn’t even play guitar the first time I saw this video but hearing you nail the intro to castles made of sand inspired me and I’m now on my 3rd month of playing!
Rock on brother!
How’s the progress so far?
I am also on my third month of playing! I just recently learned the goat riff by polyphia and in practicing it and perfecting it! Hopefully I'll be able to play it perfectly in a month! I'm learning pretty quick lol.
LETS GOOO
Nice, dude! Almost three quarters of a year in, how’s it going?
“Castles made of sand is much harder than little wing.”
-Tyler Larson
Hey, you said it.
I’ve watched this video numerous times, and “James plays it on the 12th fret, bro” cracks me up every time.
Love your channel Tyler. I heard in an interview that Eric Hohnson was wearing his high school band jacket in that performance.
Seeing CAFO, and going "...okay what did they rank harder than CAFO?"
and immediately seeing Sultans Of Swing after, I almost threw my fucking phone.
Me too. That was maybe the worst part of the list.
@@nathandiefenbach1274 @Sterling Glover Then you probably don't realize how difficult it is.👍🏼
@@stevenholst Neither song is easy, and Mark is a legend, but Tosin absolutely blows him out of the water.
Musicality vs technicalities.
Fewer musical guitarists than technical one. So not too surprising to me
@@stevenholst Its only hard if you cant play fingerstyle.
They’ve never heard of math rock
Uncultured swines. Japanese instrumental math rock or death.
Dillinger escape plan room full of eyes 👍
@@Esb906 English second language?
@@Esb906 why’d u delete ur first comment buddy?
@@Esb906 Cool, that's a fair opinion to have. It's not an objective thing you can just say as fact, but if you don't like it, that's reasonable.
Laughin at this when playing flamenco guitar and jazz
Great guitar skills, Thanks
The this charming man part hurts so bad.
¥ Plays a song that vaguely resembles This Charming Man ¥
"Mastered it!"
Terrible wasn't it.
@@discofudge yeah it was very cringy.
Do you mean that he played bad? Or that the song is not that difficult?
@@pacosala5853 he played it wrong and said "nailed it"
I do appreciate that they at least went for that particular live version of “Eruption” rather than the album version. That live version has so much more to offer.
WatchMojo often does that, for copyright reasons. Live shit is not usually under the the UMG, etc umbrella.
Great analysis¡ you got yourself a fan¡
I was thinking of Eruption.
Love the sound of your version. Felt kinda bluesy to me.
"hey guys, a little break to talk about the spons-" *skip skip skip skip skip skip*
Yup
And the mans still gets paid
I would upvote but you have reached the magic number...nice
Go grab yourself the SponsorBlock extension. It's life changing. Just as valuable on CZcams as a regular adblocker nowadays.
@@emailneilmurray magic number 109?
top 10 hardest rock songs to play:
All the songs that are actually hard: Metal.
Fucking Mojo.
Have you forgotten about cliffs of Dover. to play it the way Eric does is incredibly hard
Dissing mojo ? Im in
Metal is a genre of rock
@@maxbeene927 metal is it’s own genre
@@james-en8yn it’s a genre but metal was derived from rock
No list of difficult guitar songs is complete without Fracture by King Crimson. Robert Fripp himself calls it impossible to play. His wife kicked him out of their house because he spent too much time practicing it. There's an entire book published about how challenging it is, called Failure to Fracture.
It's really got everything, from stamina to speed to difficult phrasing and fingerings.
And he doesn't even look at his hands while playing!! Defenitly have to agree with you
You have a great ear and i am learning alot
Let’s not forget, this is the same channel that said “Avatar Aang” the way Shyamalan had it.
Avatar Ong
How have you never heard of The Smiths? Johnny Marr is an icon (Cries in Mancunian)
Im shocked he’s never heard it.
@@t_mac41603 I'm not.
i know yeah i’m mind blown haha
They'll definitely be a band that's bigger in the UK but Tyler's taste is very diverse so I was surprised he hadn't heard of them with Johnny Marr being one of few innovative alt rock guitarists
@@jamiemacmillan4056 Johnny Marr was responsible for so many other musicians aswell
I love the smiths and Johnny marr is an awesome guitarist you should cover more of his stuff. not insanely difficult but some awesome melodies and songwriting
You have great string chops
Sultans Of Swing IS hard to nail precisely though... Look up the covers on CZcams, not many up to par with Knopfler’s style. And you wanted rock instead of metal so it’s a perfect choice.
I mean, It’s not that hard. Just dont ever use a pick. Though the thing is the amount of feeling in his playing.
Sultan's is like 25 or 6 to 4. Easy to learn the notes, nearly Impossible to really play it right.
Frog Leap did a metal cover....it's truly enjoyable, everything sounding lke it should but with....more. It's at least one hgher.
All their songs are hard, but I wouldn't put this one as the hardest.
Nuances and finger picking the solo like stop and feeling its unusual song
I’m honestly and genuinely surprised that they didn’t put Thunderstruck on the list
For endurance, yes...only on the B string part. Not technically challenging though.
@@SethWorsham He mentioned it because people that dont play guitar think that it is hard but it is easy in reality
@@SethWorsham R/whoosh
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@@ol0022 not when you realize it isn't pull-offs but it is all alternate picking
I prefer my acoustic guitars but seeing as I can't play like half the songs on the list I wouldn't think it's bad. I'd be interested to see you do a list of hardest acoustic guitar songs.
Dave Matthews has some songs that are kind of difficult to play. He uses weird chords, and has some difficult stretches.
Tommy Emmanuel, Francisco Tarega, Django Reinhardt, Justin King, and Isaac albeniz play some really difficult acoustic guitar songs/pieces as well. looking at this comment reminded me that acoustic guitar can be just as hard or even harder than electric guitar.
"Never Going Back Again"- Fleetwood Mac
"Neon"- John Mayer
"Satellite"-- Dave Mathews(the unique strumming style should be noted)
cool video review...was surprised about not knowing about taps before eruption part tho
Tapping was not invented by Van Halen. It has actually been used by violinists for centuries, and was used extensively by jazz guitarists in the 1950s and 1960s.
Van Halen himself said he was inspired by Steve Hackett who was doing it in his guitar solos before Van Halen existed as a band
@Emanuel Schuh that ukulele guy is not Van Halen's dad, the guy's name is Roy Smeck🤦🏻♂️
I came here to comment this. Not sure why he said tapping wasn't around before Van Halen because it absolutely was.
@@ilhamakbar5482 Lmao, that shit had me cracking up. I remember watching that Roy Smeck vid, and some people commented it was Van Halen’s dad. Apparently some people actually believe that.
Wait wait wait there a minute sir. How do violinists use tapping??
I mean, they use pizzicato, but i don't think that the violin has any tapping techniques.
Again, maybe the left hand pizz, but i'm not seeing it as tapping.
“Top 10 hardest rock songs that we heard were hard from our coworker’s 12 year old”
HAHHAH
Yes officer, I'd like to report a murder.
Love to hear you do a Jazz guitar version of this.
@16:42 a little more research would've helped you out a bit. Eruption came out in 1978. Queen's song "It's Late", written by Brian May and released in 1977, had a killer 2-handed tapping solo!
Hardest to play: Stairway to Heaven in a guitar store.
Not funny
Overused lol
very overused
I actually just went to guitar center and played it on max volume.
Nothing happened.
Lol
Each of Guthrie Govan’s solos is hardest to play.
my guitar tech Timothy told me to learn Fives, that day i went silent and never spoke to him for a week
That's because they're all improvised
Here is an honorable mention for yall: "Kulingbarsel" by Øystein Sunde. He is mostly famous for catchy comedy tunes here in Norway, but man can that dude play guitar..!
Sultans of swing is on the list not because of the particular difficulty of the song but how good you'd have to be to play it as good as Knopfler. But then you could put any of his songs on the list
Exactly, he is the best guitar player ever for a reason
Starting the clip with Jason Becker and Malmsteen, then going immediately to The Smiths is a huge bait and switch.
Hell I have never played guitar a day in my life,and I could play every song on that list on air guitar.
Amen
Still wondering why Joe Satriani wasn’t in there, but this could have easily turned into the 100 hardest list. It’s truly incredible what people can do with a guitar. Great video, and the Mojo video wasn’t too bad either.
Tbh, eruption is the only song/riff/solo on this list I know how to play, not like perfect and 100% up to speed super clean, but you know. It’s just the guitar hero memories that drove me to learn it.
Currently working on Dance of eternity
3:44
Did he say Lil Wayne?! Truly a guitar god for the ages to recall.
@@Mixalhsellada I know, I was joking, ha ha. I was just referencing the absolutely awful Lil Wayne guitar solo from some show he did.
@@jimmyliddell2072 it's a Stevie Ray Vaughn (one of the greatest of all time) called: "Little Wing". Lil Wayne, you guys are too much. All though Lil Wayne is definitely one of the best (easy top 5), in his genre.
@@jimmydavis9639 I was just joking, ha ha. See my follow up comment.
@@jimmyliddell2072 I didn't catch that part ! That makes it all the more funny, now that I paid attention and read your follow up ! Some times we just have to slow down a bit, right kid ? Have a good one Jimbo...
Little wing. Look you're looking at the album cover
For number 10, ‘The Smiths’ ‘This Charming Man is played with a capo on the 2nd fret in it’s original key.
One of the first songs I learned 💀
Best way to play is with f# tuning
this charming man is played tuned up a whole if it's in original key
@@neekbot highly doubt it “💀”
@@aaron4757 okay weirdo? I started playing because johnny marr is a big inspiration to me. I didn’t say it was my first song I learned but one of them
Wade into the Smiths. They have tons of tricky clean guitar parts. Plus they are great songs not just scale exercises.
Playing Tender Surrender the way Steve plays it. That live version, man...
I wish I had the confidence to be able to completely butcher "This Charming Man" and then say I nailed it.
Did he butcher it?
@@jimmymunz874 he did
Thank you!! At least he tried.
@jancsi 1 you would ve kicked out the band if you played like that
It’s on the list because Johnny Marr had a unique style of playing. I don’t thing that was understood by the presenter.
Herman Li is cool af, feel like he embraces the fact that dragonforce has been one of the older internet memes
After watching the list I think some ac/dc riffs should be there like thunderstruck. It seems easy but once you start playing, it is pretty damn hard to keep the fretting hand and the alternate picking in sync through the entire song.
thunder & lightning by Motorhead. After he says "thunder & lightning" x2 there is some seriously stellar guitar playing
The hardest song to play on guitar is Stairway to Heaven...only because Tyler will come stop you from finishing the song
Lol
Cliffs of Dover or Sultans of Swing for me. I have learned to play both as of now, but those two alone taught me a lot about what is even possible with a guitar.
Bruh Sultans is way easier than Cliffs of Dover...
@@arpitadutta4073 I would like to think both are difficult for their own unique reasons.
@@RC32Smiths01 Yup definitely! I didn't intend to hurt you at all😇. Sorry if my comment wasn’t appropriate... But yeah everybody plays Sultans of Swing in their own different way. The chords are normal but the way everybody plays them or I should say embellishes them is totally different. Even soloing is a big aspect too. I've understood why you’ve mentioned this song in your comment. Have a nice day!😄
@@arpitadutta4073 No worries! I don't mean any harm either. I agree that people can play the songs in their own ways, but to keep the foundation and feel of the song is definitely not easy.
You have to remember mark knopfler plays the lead guitar while singing too!
I was supposed to go to a Dream Theatre concert, but I got a really bad stomach bug that night… :(
James solo isn't EASIER, technically maybe, but the FEEL he has when he plays it is unmatched and not many can get that just right. I know I'm close but not quite there and have been playing master for TWENTY years.
PLAYS CHARMING MAN REALLY BADLY "I JUST NAILED IT"
It was rough.
The notes were all wrong but I guess he did only take a little while
Yeah that was awful
Yeah it’s was not perfect but it showed that if he can get the basic this quickly, it’s not something that going to take him month or years to master. So not list worthy
Glad someone else was thinking that. I thought he was totally off
I love that they call it "sychronized arpeggio", yet I'm still wondering what an unsynchronized arpeggio would be...
Its an arpeggio that's in the Assassin's Creed universe that goes through all the "desynced reality" bullshit lol.
Its the kind of thing Kerry King plays I think
@@Sergio-nb4hj Hahaha
@@Sergio-nb4hj lol
They are all hard for me 😢. Surfing after a guitar dream to find a progression. I found it right before this. But saw the video, watched, appreciated.