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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?
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.
@@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
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.
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
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 :)
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.
"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.
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 TH-cam 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. 🎸
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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 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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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 TH-cam 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.
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
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.
Eddie learned tapping from people like Brian May, who played it on the 1977 song It's Late. Brian used it after being in a bar in Texas and seeing a guy in the band at the bar doing it. Eddie also saw and used the style from Jimmy Page. Eddie used it and improved it and made it his own signature style.
Chet Atkins fingerpicking is super intense. The melodies he plays aren’t exactly my flavor but anyone trying to advance their game in fingerpicking would definitely see how he may be the greatest fingerpicker probably ever. Another great video man, thanks!
Steve Howe was largely influenced by them. I mean the guy who won best guitarist by his peers in Guitar Player poll 4 times in a row and was declared Hors Concourse.
You got my respect, man. You're clearly not another egocentric bigot who would shout "It's not even hard to play, my mother could play it, looool!". It was hit or miss basically, but you thoroughly considered all the songs on the list, shared your honest opinion, and even gave the Watchmojo, not a music channel, credit for making the effort to put something significant there. This is the way.
Hi, well said. I don’t agree with 100% of the video’s content. We all remain very different after all. I must totally agree with your comments posted here though. It appears in you we have a gentleman amongst us. Rare indeed. I’m not a prolific visitor here but the more I see of this guy and his work, the more I like. He comes across as genuine and unbiased. I leave feeling views I hear on this channel are his own and importantly honest. Bags of talent too. Christ, don’t you just hate people with so much talent? 🤨 Cheers, Si.
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.
Smoke on the water is literally the hardest song to play on TH-cam. If you even try to play it, you get struck down into oblivion... which is a much easier song to get away with.
@@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.
@@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...
I’ll just add that Fracture by King Crimson is what Robert Fripp says is his hardest song to play and takes so much concentration he can’t always play it without being in the right mindset
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.
La Villa Strangiato’s intro is pretty tough. Alex Lifeson does like to string a lot of unorthodox chord fingerings together, like the interlude part in The Trees is 5/4 but the starting note for each measure is a different one. The one that took me a while to nail down is the one he does in Xanadu that’s the repeated riff for a minute right before and during the part when Geddy and Neil come in. So there’s some technical things there.
Can we take a second to appreciate that this man is sponsored and doesn’t depend on AdSense completely? Because of that he can play full parts from songs and not care as much about being demonetized here.
Man, you basically proved mojo were right to feature this charming man. Judging by your versions of each of the songs it seemed to be the most difficult for you! Great video and super playing!
@@kaydgaming hard Possibly Top 10? If you really limit what you considee rock Because lets me honest keeping the rest of the list intact Fracture - King Crimson and most of Polyphias discography deserve a spot on the list far more
@@gagelink4963 Was he really? For all we know he could have searched up the tab, then just attempted it a few times and hit record again for the video. The only way we’d know if he attempted these by ear is if he did an uncut take
How about an honorable mention for Kyle Gass of Tenacious D -- that INSANE lick at the end of "Wonderboy" after Jack yells "Come fly with me, FLY!" The lick/solo is not long, but it is really hard-- especially because he plays it on an *acoustic.*
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.
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.
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”
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.
@@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.
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.
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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.
@@InuranusBrokoff Brian May was even doing it in the 70's. Eddie didn't invent tapping. Brian said himself Eddie took the idea and turned it into his own thing.
I mean not that this charming man is very difficult, not even the hardest smiths song, but Johnny's playing is very intricate and to play note for note as in the studio recording it's definitely very hard
I’d say it’s up there with the most difficult Smith’s songs to play, but if I can play it, I don’t think it deserves a spot on this list 😂. Good song none the less.
Yeah it definitely feels like the hard part about that guitar line is getting it to sound right - the notes themselves aren't the only ingredient that make it tough. This list makes a lot more sense if you count playing the song as playing it perfectly
@@bassbase8144 if you have watched his videos long enough then you would know he is a big fan of metallica and he was joking like bro come on who tf doesn't know master of puppets is by metallica?
@@RandomPerson-ui3xv fair enough. It must have been a fairly subtle joke and I was so shocked he never heard of this charming man that I didn't even pick up on it being a joke 🤣
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.
@Lickah lmao indeed, its not bad at all for what was probably 20 minutes of tinkering around with the guitar because Tyler is great but that's not even close to nailing the feel of the song.
You would have to apply the same criteria to every song then. Which would mean that noone can play stuff that others wrote. You would never get the exact same tone.
"Good list"? They have Yngwei, Jason Becker, and Buckethead in the intro. They had Steve Vai in the honorable mentions. And they have The Smiths on the list. You can take 10 consecutive songs off of a single album from any of those players and it would a better list.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah its only hard because of the speed and repetition. Its a lot of finger movement in a small amount of time. I think its a shitty riff and a shitty song, although the chorus is pretty awesome.
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.
Also one additional opinion on cliffs of Dover. The song itself is difficult as hell, but also the fact that he plays it like that on a Stratocaster is personally impressive to me. Strats are one hell of a gurthy instrument and you have to fight against it a bit to play it (kinda like how you would have to do the same with a p-bass). And yet, he ripped such a darn song. Bless.
Band teacher when I was in high school had a Mexican strat, and as much as I love Gibson I gotta admit it was one of the smoothest playing guitars I’ve ever picked up
My Waterloo is Fleetwood Mac, Big Love....I guess it's not a rock song but I have tried to learn the live version of it for close to 35 years before I gave up :) Lindsay Buckingham just has to be one of the most underrated guitarists in the world. Kudos! Oh yeah, and I agree, it was quite an interesting list and nothing to hate :)
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?
"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
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 😳
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
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
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 :)
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.
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
"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 TH-cam 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. 🎸
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"
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
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.
“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.
tremoulo picking
Saw the comment right as that part came up 😂😂
tremoulo is a common technique here in Mojovia.
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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
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
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?
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😂😂😂😂😂
“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 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.
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".
'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"
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
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
IVE BEEN SAYING THIS
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.
"top 10 rock songs we think are hard because they're popular"
My thoughts exactly
Lmao
True
Exactly
Factual statement
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.
It also sadly doesn't compare to the fretboard acrobatics of many of his peers in LA just a couple years later, namely George Lynch and Jake E. Lee.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
"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
You should do a video about Johnny Marr’s playing, such a unique and cool style but not massively known outside of the UK
Johnny Marr simply is one of the best imho
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.
Starting the clip with Jason Becker and Malmsteen, then going immediately to The Smiths is a huge bait and switch.
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.
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!
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 TH-cam 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.
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
The this charming man part hurts so bad.
¥ Plays a song that vaguely resembles This Charming Man ¥
"Mastered it!"
Terrible wasn't it.
@@Limeysports 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"
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.
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.
Eddie learned tapping from people like Brian May, who played it on the 1977 song It's Late. Brian used it after being in a bar in Texas and seeing a guy in the band at the bar doing it. Eddie also saw and used the style from Jimmy Page. Eddie used it and improved it and made it his own signature style.
Chet Atkins fingerpicking is super intense. The melodies he plays aren’t exactly my flavor but anyone trying to advance their game in fingerpicking would definitely see how he may be the greatest fingerpicker probably ever.
Another great video man, thanks!
Man Les Paul , is insane with his fingers.
Absolutely
All good points guys! Thanks
Steve Howe was largely influenced by them. I mean the guy who won best guitarist by his peers in Guitar Player poll 4 times in a row and was declared Hors Concourse.
Agree to disagree on this one dude. And Greg Howe - Jump Start should be on there
Absolutely, what that guy can do is just insane
Hey What's up Mike?
Definetly
your video on this was hilarious
Greg Howe is a fucking boss. For sure under-appreciated!
You got my respect, man. You're clearly not another egocentric bigot who would shout "It's not even hard to play, my mother could play it, looool!". It was hit or miss basically, but you thoroughly considered all the songs on the list, shared your honest opinion, and even gave the Watchmojo, not a music channel, credit for making the effort to put something significant there. This is the way.
This is the way.
@@aidanfogleman2060 I see you're a man of culture.
this is the way
This is the way
Hi,
well said. I don’t agree with 100% of the video’s content. We all remain very different after all.
I must totally agree with your comments posted here though. It appears in you we have a gentleman amongst us. Rare indeed.
I’m not a prolific visitor here but the more I see of this guy and his work, the more I like. He comes across as genuine and unbiased. I leave feeling views I hear on this channel are his own and importantly honest.
Bags of talent too. Christ, don’t you just hate people with so much talent? 🤨
Cheers,
Si.
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 TH-cam where a guy play tapping in the 60's.
“#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 TH-cam. 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 ;)
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
I’ll just add that Fracture by King Crimson is what Robert Fripp says is his hardest song to play and takes so much concentration he can’t always play it without being in the right mindset
And if Fripp says something is hard to play... it's hard to play.
King Crimson is a blocker. No way would I risk losing money by stating an opinion list.
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.
La Villa Strangiato’s intro is pretty tough. Alex Lifeson does like to string a lot of unorthodox chord fingerings together, like the interlude part in The Trees is 5/4 but the starting note for each measure is a different one.
The one that took me a while to nail down is the one he does in Xanadu that’s the repeated riff for a minute right before and during the part when Geddy and Neil come in. So there’s some technical things there.
“Castles made of sand is much harder than little wing.”
-Tyler Larson
Hey, you said it.
Can we take a second to appreciate that this man is sponsored and doesn’t depend on AdSense completely? Because of that he can play full parts from songs and not care as much about being demonetized here.
That's actually pretty fucking smart
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
"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
@@emailneilmurray magic number 109?
Has to pay the bills
Man, you basically proved mojo were right to feature this charming man. Judging by your versions of each of the songs it seemed to be the most difficult for you! Great video and super playing!
@Joey Macaroni therefore Watchmojo is right
he was learning them by ear on the spot
@@kaydgaming hard
Possibly
Top 10? If you really limit what you considee rock
Because lets me honest keeping the rest of the list intact
Fracture - King Crimson and most of Polyphias discography deserve a spot on the list far more
@@gagelink4963 Was he really? For all we know he could have searched up the tab, then just attempted it a few times and hit record again for the video. The only way we’d know if he attempted these by ear is if he did an uncut take
How about an honorable mention for Kyle Gass of Tenacious D -- that INSANE lick at the end of "Wonderboy" after Jack yells "Come fly with me, FLY!" The lick/solo is not long, but it is really hard-- especially because he plays it on an *acoustic.*
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.
Love your channel, but utterly astounding that you’ve never come across Johnny Marr and The Smiths! Every day is a school day eh!
I think he just wanted to say that he didn't knew this song
@@domeck6482 if you haven’t hear of this charming man they probably haven’t heard of the smiths
Smiths suck lol
@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 no
I'd say the Smiths were never that big in the US?
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.
I think any song by Animals as Leaders is very hard, Tosins a guitar GOD🎸.
Edit: I said this before they put CAFO on the list LOL nice job 👍
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.
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
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
Repent! The Kingdom if Heaven is at hand. Jesus loves you, He can save you to eternal life and break the chains of sin in you. Yeshua is coming back very soon!
@@ol0022 not when you realize it isn't pull-offs but it is all alternate picking
Herman Li is cool af, feel like he embraces the fact that dragonforce has been one of the older internet memes
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.
Yes, tapping was around a very long time before Eruption. Eddie took something that was done but was rare and made it famous.
Not so much buddy.
@@InuranusBrokoff Brian May was even doing it in the 70's. Eddie didn't invent tapping. Brian said himself Eddie took the idea and turned it into his own thing.
Come on, everything was invented by Les Paul...
🤣🤣🤣
@@oldrrocr Too right, lol
I mean not that this charming man is very difficult, not even the hardest smiths song, but Johnny's playing is very intricate and to play note for note as in the studio recording it's definitely very hard
I’d say it’s up there with the most difficult Smith’s songs to play, but if I can play it, I don’t think it deserves a spot on this list 😂. Good song none the less.
Yeah and what Tyler played vaguely resembled the song.
yeah exactly tyler kinda butchered it ngl lol
You've never heard This Charming Man before? How is that possible?!?!
i thought the same
Well... Neither did I
I’ve watched this video numerous times, and “James plays it on the 12th fret, bro” cracks me up every time.
The 14 yr old in me geeked out at you playing Johnny Marr (Smiths)
Johnny Marr and His Spangly Guitar is a win.
@@Whiskeyklone Maaaaan! Johnny Marrs Guitar used to sing.
Yeah it definitely feels like the hard part about that guitar line is getting it to sound right - the notes themselves aren't the only ingredient that make it tough. This list makes a lot more sense if you count playing the song as playing it perfectly
What I found most shocking is that he had never heard of This Charming Man !
I guess most British bands are not that big in America
@@eloiseripley Phil Anselmo of Pantera knows the Smiths. He even has a song called Cemetery Gates....
And didn't seem to know Metallica play Master of Puppets. I dont even like Metallica but I still knew that
@@bassbase8144 if you have watched his videos long enough then you would know he is a big fan of metallica and he was joking like bro come on who tf doesn't know master of puppets is by metallica?
@@RandomPerson-ui3xv fair enough. It must have been a fairly subtle joke and I was so shocked he never heard of this charming man that I didn't even pick up on it being a joke 🤣
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.
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.
This charming man HAS TO BE PLAYED PERFECTLY.
its not right if its not the same tone
Yes I agree ...
@Lickah "who are these guys I've never heard of them" pain
@Lickah lmao indeed, its not bad at all for what was probably 20 minutes of tinkering around with the guitar because Tyler is great but that's not even close to nailing the feel of the song.
You would have to apply the same criteria to every song then. Which would mean that noone can play stuff that others wrote. You would never get the exact same tone.
"Fracture" by King Crimson. Even Robert Fripp has been quoted as saying it's impossible to play.
Was looking for this comment. It is without a doubt the most difficult song to play of all time.
I posted the same before looking. Agreed.
"Good list"? They have Yngwei, Jason Becker, and Buckethead in the intro. They had Steve Vai in the honorable mentions. And they have The Smiths on the list. You can take 10 consecutive songs off of a single album from any of those players and it would a better list.
Facts. The intro had music way harder than anything they put on the list
Racer X as well.
@@ethanlocke3604 LMAO
Honestly, they could've just filled the list with prog metal and math rock and I think it would've been a vast improvement
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)
Fracture by King Crimson should always get a mention in these lists
It should be topping these lists along with G.O.A.T by polyphia
Yeah, I was checking the comments specifically for Fracture… plus Larks’ I, III, IV, FraKctured, etc…
@@randyhammill9021 yessir
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
Let’s not forget, this is the same channel that said “Avatar Aang” the way Shyamalan had it.
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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.
Hell I have never played guitar a day in my life,and I could play every song on that list on air guitar.
Amen
Honorable mention for _Lenny_ by SRV and they play the solo from _Texas Flood_ .
uh...that was lenny in the vid
@@bach5150 by golly, you're right. I should have noticed that he was sitting. Lenny is the only song where he's sitting down.
Snow isn't majorly difficult, it just takes a lot of endurance. Most people could everyday get it at a slower pace, but at full speed it's relentless.
Yeah its only hard because of the speed and repetition. Its a lot of finger movement in a small amount of time.
I think its a shitty riff and a shitty song, although the chorus is pretty awesome.
@@beanlegume9965 i think those are pretty valid reason for being hard
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.
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.
Roy Smeck was doing tapping in the 40's-50's and yes, he did it really well.
I saw Eric Johnson live in concert a few years ago. By far the best concert I’ve ever been to!
How do you not know this charming man ? If you know Jonny marr, you know this charming man.
Also one additional opinion on cliffs of Dover. The song itself is difficult as hell, but also the fact that he plays it like that on a Stratocaster is personally impressive to me. Strats are one hell of a gurthy instrument and you have to fight against it a bit to play it (kinda like how you would have to do the same with a p-bass). And yet, he ripped such a darn song. Bless.
You're absolutely right
Yep, gotta agree with you. Strat necks are like trying to choke a rhino.
Band teacher when I was in high school had a Mexican strat, and as much as I love Gibson I gotta admit it was one of the smoothest playing guitars I’ve ever picked up
I’ve got a low-mid price range 95 mexican strat and the neck is pretty damn fat compared to all of my other guitars.
My 96 MiM strat has a pretty thin neck compared to my 08 Starcaster and 06 Squier
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
Every song is hard to play if you put your mind to it
Amen to that 🤣
Smoke on the Water is to hard, because if you try to play it you will be socially ostracized
@@bernardosantos8020 What about the solo tho?
@@bernardosantos8020 well actually "Smoke on the Water" IS pretty hard if you want to play it perfectly and exactly like Deep Purple did it...
My Waterloo is Fleetwood Mac, Big Love....I guess it's not a rock song but I have tried to learn the live version of it for close to 35 years before I gave up :) Lindsay Buckingham just has to be one of the most underrated guitarists in the world. Kudos! Oh yeah, and I agree, it was quite an interesting list and nothing to hate :)
Not a guitar player but to me it honestly sounds like he is playing Two different parts at the same time.
This charming man is hard but you should try Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others, the riff insane and is played throughout
AS ANTHONY SAID TO CLEOPATRA
Yep
“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.
I’m surprised that Satriani or Jeff Beck weren’t mentioned in this
I think Nadia sounds like it;s pretty hard to do well but I am not a guitarist just a lover of guitar based music.
Jeff Beck has composed a heap of his own stuff over the years...
oh yeah because jeff beck is so fast.