I’m not gonna lie it seems like he would be a douche of a guitar teacher. Just because it’s not hard for him doesn’t mean it’s not hard for someone else and just because it’s hard for someone else that doesn’t make that person a “bad” guitarist.
Yeah! Like... I feel like Mike should've known that this is WatchMojo before his blood pressure goes up every time they talk about a song they think is "hard" to play on guitar, and I'm not a guitarist 😂.
@@rebeccassweetmusic4632 you heres the thing the man in the watchmojo video takes his job seriously he is a voice actor like the Knight doesn't take TH-cam seriously because he has a music career the guy talking is like a newscaster and one that makes enough money to not have to have two or three different jobs this is the thing I think people misinterpreted. Its a scripted video the person who wrote the script likely isn't the man talking
@@BecomeTheKnight Certainly tapping into that thing every guitarist has done in their lives of trying to find this ultimate quick method to get good. When all you have to do is "Fucking Practise"
After Master of Puppets came on, i immediately said to myself "Dyer's Eve is way harder than this song" and chuckled when Mike said it shortly after LOL
I agree, but master of puppets is by no means an easy song to play. The thing that really makes it difficult is the fact that it is played at a very high tempo (210-220 bpm I think) while all down picking. It took me quite a while to learn to play it confidently, mostly because i started learning it after only two weeks of starting guitar lessons. Yeah I know, bad idea for a beginner.
Without Johnny Marr, John Petrucci wouldn’t have a career. To overcome the sense of belittle-ment that Marr magic cursed him with, he decided to become a world class musician. He’s still haunted by Johnny Marr playing basic sounds with strange tunings though.
This is probably more directed at whoever wrote the script and whoever was directing the VA and not bothering about the pronunciation of certain terms and names.
people seem to forget that WM are a company. lists are voted on by fans, several people write a script, and then one of a few narrators gets chosen to read it. so yes, you're right.
Some archspire riffs are just fast riffing of power chords but when they arent playing power chords, they generally play really intricate single note riffs. Also they may not do super fast arpeggios but they have extremely well timed arpeggios that are hard to do.
Yep so true! But there are so many layers to the riff that people don’t even realise. I remember watching Music is Win cover the same watch mojo list and he thought he could nail it in minutes, but he completely flopped it 😂
Lol have you ever held a uke or a mandolin? As a bass player they just feel so small and fragile. Like making love too a little person when your used too 7ft tall Amazon women.
Met this guy a few years ago at a party. He was nothing but a nice and chill dude. Great convo about music Glad to see the channel growing and much love
I’m so mesmerised by the timing/phrasing in the riffing in that song, I’m too post nut to attempt it after listening to it. Easily my favourite on MOP.
It depends. Some of the fingerings of sus chords require more fingerings, and stretching your hand across more frets. But other times you actually remove a finger and play open strings. It depends on the chord really. I have never had an issue with most sus chords though. But sus chords aren’t inherently more difficult to play than major or minor chord. I think mojo.com is describing sus chords as more difficult to play because they think sus chords are a more exotic chord than a major or a minor. The use of a sus chord in a song doesn’t mean it’s harder to play. It might be more sophisticated as a song though. But that’s not about technique of guitar playing. That’s about songwriting. Some songs are more sophisticated while others stick to the same basic chords in their structure. And the same with time signatures. Once you know how to count time signatures then it’s not hard to play in those it e signatures. Mojo again is confusing the use of a time signature in a song versus the difficulty of playing in a time Singnature. 4/4 is much more common than 7/8 from a songwriting perspective. But just because it’s used less often doesn’t make it harder to play.
@@XenoMorphGaming79 I actually meant Sus as in Suspended rather than Sus as a stand in for suspicious, but go for it my guy, Among Us is a really fun game!
If the main criteria for difficulty in both fingering and speed, then Neon by John Mayer deserves a spot on any top ten hardest songs list. Combining difficult and unusual chord shapes with the speed the song has, as well as the difficult right hand pattern all make for an incredibly difficult song to pull off
True my friend that also plays guitar was shitting on me saying that metal songs are easy because they're primarily power chords but he doesn't understand that the multiple rhythm changes and bpm make them difficult to play.
@@memessavedmylife8574 yes but right hand technique is much more intuitive than left hand, imo metal is a much easier genre than alot of other 'simpler' genres.
If watch-mojo tried to explain the most basic drum groove they’d say: “First the drummer must lock in their time with everyone else’s in the band, then they must shift their hand from the rested position on their lap to hovering over the high-hat, tapping in the correct time signature after resting their left foot over the petal holding the two cymbals closed, next the drummer must then hit the bass drum on certain upbeats or downbeats within the time signature sequence, this is done with a petal operated by their right foot, the last thing the drummer must focus on is hitting the snare drum on proper upbeats or downbeats within the proper time signature sequence, this is done with the left hand, and all of these steps combined create a basic drum pattern that flow with the sway of the band, thus locking in a strong backbone to rely on” That’s it, that’s as complicated as I can explain how a drum pattern is done and gave no doubt that’s how watch-mojo would explain it just to make themselves sound smart smh
As a guitar player do you think synister gates from A7X is underrated because some of his riffs and solos are just mind blowing i think or is it just me?
Underrated because the band hes in is not respected by metalheads and guitar geeks. He’s extremely melodic and anyone could learn alot from listening to him play.
@@walmartian422 A7X my favourite band I havnt ever heard a guitarist like syn or zachy the both incredible talents but syns use of gypsy jazz into his metal is what makes it so good
I love Syn, he is my favorite guitarist. I don't really think he is underrated, he gets a ton of recognition and people love his work, haters will always hate him because they can't move on from playing the F chord.
@Cyberdemon Mike Leonardo is the most disciplined maybe, but Raphael is the largest, strongest, and most aggressive. Mikey is the most likeable, Donatello is the smartest.
no, he's not, a good guitar player, yes, a virtuoso my ass... he's just playing all the time in the style of Roger McGuinn and that's all, folk arpeggios.
The problem with most metal guitarists is that their "virtuoso" attitude is about speed. I have never seen someone playing any Johnny Marr's songs close to his tone. Dude seems to have silk in his fingertips
@@DiogoBianchi5 the obssesion with 'tone'... every guitar player has his tone, every guitar player has even various tones. Tone is important in acoustic playing (folk music, classical, flamenco...), because it depends much more on player's fingers than in gear, amps and so on... the guy has his tone? who doesn't? you like it? congrats to you, I simply don't care
@@JulioLeonFandinho That is why most metal bands are stuck in a niche for "purists" while other bands move forward. Take bands like Gojira and see how their technique is less about showing off and more about textures. Most metal guitarists I know had that moment when they felt a new world opening to them when they were already pretty good and tried to play something different. Their surprise was "This should have been simple. Why am I not doing this the right way?" That is because some styles are not about speed, but about how to add something to the song, and that is being implemented in metal more often
Fracture by King Crimson should be considered one of the hardest rock songs to play on guitar. Robert Fripp even said that one song alone takes up a majority of his practice time.
I applaud you for making that differentiation between "ten of the hardest" and "the ten hardest", because that use of "of" is a huge difference that's often and easily overlooked.
Our band actually covers This Charming Man, and the ONLY slight bump in difficulty is the time signature on the intro. Tab probably has it in 8/8 with a rest on 1, but what you hear sounds more like 15/8. So...if you can count to 15, you can play it.
I honestly don’t think that the people who came up with that list took it as seriously as you did. But there are people out there who would believe it. Thank you for pointing out there are harder songs. You should air a stream of you playing them all note for note
This is so funny. The reactions are ridding me of all the pent-up anger over various WatchMojo vids I had accumulated over the years.... Thanks brother!
Fair point. I was gonna say Octavarium too. Not technically the most difficult but god damn does that song take some consistency to pull till the end. Even getting slightly impatient can cause you to fuck up near the end and ruin it.
14:43 that is exactly what happens to all of the top 10 songs by literally any band. They don’t go by what songs people actually think are better, they only go by what songs are most popular (which doesn’t make it better)
Even as an extremely novice beginner guitar player I could realise that it sounded like he was just saying shit for the sake of saying shit to sound complicated
All I can say aside from that WatchMojo makes terrible lists is thank you Mike for introducing me to so many great artists at the end of the video. I stopped and listened to every single song you mentioned as they came up and ended loving most of them.
Metal is subgenre of rock (surely, with many sub-subgenres) that frequently does not even strain as much from original rock'n'roll conventions as, say, zeuhl or krautrock.
3:22 but Mike the narrator is clearly saying that it DOES NOT matter how emotive or majestic the solo is and they show Gilmore because his solos are generally described as that.
@@demianstohr2422 I’m talking personally, I found it pretty difficult mostly because it’s a ten minute long track. Although the eyes of the beholder is probably up there too. Altogether justice is a super difficult album for a variety of reasons.
@@demianstohr2422 difficulty varies from person to person. For example Jump In the Fire I learned that song in under 30 minutes (minus the solo). The other guitarist in the band struggled with the rythm for days. Same guy couldn't do the galloping part of damage inc. I didn't have any problems with the 16th note triplets and chords in damage inc.
Eruption is the opposite of a lot of the other songs...it's actually easier than it sounds (not that it's EASY, and it's got the most wow factor (except for maybe Hocus Pocus live) of anything in that era.
Fingerings are fucking hard man! On the lucretia intro, Daves, Martys, and Jr’s guitars are all doing crazy dhif and I think it is one of the trickyer megadeth riffs
You can randomly find 10 progressive rock and metal songs on youtube that are light years in difficulty beyond most of what is on this list in less than 30 minutes.
They should have chosen “Money For Nothing” for the Dire Straights entry. Rick Beato even said himself in a video of his “this is actually a really hard song to play” in one of his greatest electric guitar intro songs or something like that…
Yep this came up in my recommendations, thought I'd give it a try but no thanks - even guitarists who don't like the style can appreciate Johnny Marr has skills
18:14 sorry...drummer in the house....
THOSE ARE NOT TRIPLETS!!!!!!!!!!
Good call out! Can't believe I missed that!
Insert Samus66 joke here.
@@Ahalaya lol
Lol aren't those just straight up eighth notes?
@@numzdontlie2638 sounds like it
They forgot Smoke on the Water
😂😂😂
They probably didn't include it because it's only theoretically possible. Nobody's actually done it, it doesn't count
@@sethchestosky9903 Starway to heaven :D
@@SCBiscuit13 no one can play that because if it's illegal to play so no one can master it without a jail sentence
@@gaudetgaming I pitty the fools who have to work at guitar centers around the US
My nightmare has always been Mike repeating to me “it’s not that hard” in an increasingly angry tone.
It's my fetish
without blinking.
Uuuugh... curse you and your strained sexual puns
For real, imagine having troubles learning a song and Mike sneaks up behind you saying "IT'S NOT THAT HARD!"
I’m not gonna lie it seems like he would be a douche of a guitar teacher. Just because it’s not hard for him doesn’t mean it’s not hard for someone else and just because it’s hard for someone else that doesn’t make that person a “bad” guitarist.
I, too, use large words I don't fully understand, in an attempt to make myself sound more photosynthesis.
Me as well, I see you can rectify the situation of the anomaly in the supercalafragilisticexpealidosous.
Very accumulative obsession my male homo sapiens
@@poopytootsface3489 You have decided to phrase the letters of the sesquipedalian word rather unconventionally.
Lol I thoroughly venerate this utterance segment
That's a bit of a shibboleth
as a vocalist I laughed when they said 4/4 to 2/4 is difficult
LOL!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its literally the same thing😂
@@Abby-yx4ff oh god. I have to count to 2 instead of 4. how am I ever going to get through this song.
@@Bowling_Dude that tremOlo picking is too hard. I might as well give up
Hmm every other beat? my brain!
“This list already sucks”
The fact it’s a WatchMojo list didn’t give that away immediately???
Yeah! Like... I feel like Mike should've known that this is WatchMojo before his blood pressure goes up every time they talk about a song they think is "hard" to play on guitar, and I'm not a guitarist 😂.
This! Like how the fuck do they still exist?!
Imo their lists are normally not that bad
They make lists of stuff they don't know sh!t about or from random comments from their subs
@@rebeccassweetmusic4632 you heres the thing the man in the watchmojo video takes his job seriously he is a voice actor like the Knight doesn't take TH-cam seriously because he has a music career the guy talking is like a newscaster and one that makes enough money to not have to have two or three different jobs this is the thing I think people misinterpreted. Its a scripted video the person who wrote the script likely isn't the man talking
Coming in at number 1.... THE E MINOR PENTATONIC SCALE
lmao
The A minor pentatonic scale is much harder
Hey, don't dis the Pentatonic. Many know it, but few can make it epic, yourself included, I'm guessing.
Needing memorization and at least 700 years of mastery, the e minor pentatonic scale takes presicion, care, and a ass ton of caffeine.
this made me laugh so hard
Guys, everybody knows that the HARDEST song to play on guitar is Tenacious D’s “One Note Song”
Lmao
That fucking song made me throw my guitar. Why is it so damn COMPLICATED! 😂
Yeah you gotta do the bendy thing
Hey guy. I know you
Hey guy. I know you
Ah Watchmojo... God I miss when I forgot they existed.
Yep
They still exist sadly lol
I miss when they didn't beg for subs on every single video, right before the number 1 choice.
@@Wisconsin222 As this video unfortunately reminded me...
they have made good stuff in the past IMO. I quit enjoyed their comic book origins series
To quote Jared Dines. For most of these its simple “Just fucking practise”
That was a good video
@@BecomeTheKnight Certainly tapping into that thing every guitarist has done in their lives of trying to find this ultimate quick method to get good. When all you have to do is "Fucking Practise"
'practise' lmao
And especially Greg Burgess or Ryan Glisan. Greg was my teacher for a while, and I believe truly virtuosic.
Thank you for that.
This list is clearly so wrong. I mean come on, they don't even have Come as You Are at #1.
Yo cool pfp!🥴✨
And at that, the Puddle of Mud cover.
After Master of Puppets came on, i immediately said to myself "Dyer's Eve is way harder than this song" and chuckled when Mike said it shortly after LOL
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Haha Good one Pal 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
That or Battery.
I agree, but master of puppets is by no means an easy song to play. The thing that really makes it difficult is the fact that it is played at a very high tempo (210-220 bpm I think) while all down picking. It took me quite a while to learn to play it confidently, mostly because i started learning it after only two weeks of starting guitar lessons. Yeah I know, bad idea for a beginner.
@@CrazyHeadassery i wouldnt say that...
Creeping death when it's live is the fastest song metallica got I think
I feel like I've been at a party stuck in a corner with this dude while he rants angrily at me about things I have 0 control over
This a mood I can really relate to lmao.
Hahaha I be laughing
Legend has it John Petrucci has to warm up to play The Smiths.
Source: Trust me
Hahahahahaha
Without Johnny Marr, John Petrucci wouldn’t have a career. To overcome the sense of belittle-ment that Marr magic cursed him with, he decided to become a world class musician. He’s still haunted by Johnny Marr playing basic sounds with strange tunings though.
Apparently according to the Watchmojo guy, guitar difficulty is either Wonderwall or impossible.
I can imagine it now. WatchMojo Top Ten Prog Songs.
#1: “You Suffer” by Napalm Death
“HYEAUH”
Underrated comment
Robert Fripp is rolling in his not-yet-existent grave.
And Top Grindcore songs: #1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42:00) - Dream Theater
I'm sure the narrator is just reading a script someone else wrote.
This is probably more directed at whoever wrote the script and whoever was directing the VA and not bothering about the pronunciation of certain terms and names.
@@conormurphy4328 What do you mean? TRA-molo and CLAY-ve is clearly how you pronounce those terms and names. Smh.
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@Tristan Lioi not knowing how a word is pronounced isn't a good excuse for pronouncing it wrong?
people seem to forget that WM are a company. lists are voted on by fans, several people write a script, and then one of a few narrators gets chosen to read it. so yes, you're right.
Master of Puppets is fast, but I’m thinking this guy Mike is reacting to never heard of bands like Archspire or Obscura.
Hellyeah, you're right.
Some archspire riffs are just fast riffing of power chords but when they arent playing power chords, they generally play really intricate single note riffs.
Also they may not do super fast arpeggios but they have extremely well timed arpeggios that are hard to do.
Mike, you’re the Gordon Ramsey of metal.
Sounds about right
A mix of Gordon Ramsey and Red Foreman
He's a fuckin bedroom snob. He doesn't represent anything of the "Metal World".
@Joshua Sharma that’s like, just your opinion man.
@@BigStrazz Thanks, El-duderino
my man here so mad he drank a v8 like it was a beer.
Johnny Marr is great and This Charming Man is an amazing song but it being on this list is one of the worst things WatchMojos ever done
I agree
It's a great riff but it's not that difficult compared to a lot of other songs
@@villiannewyork I love seeing this, but let's hear people ACTUALLY play it.
Yep so true! But there are so many layers to the riff that people don’t even realise. I remember watching Music is Win cover the same watch mojo list and he thought he could nail it in minutes, but he completely flopped it 😂
@@jasonrimmer5953 good luck with that if you ask any gutairist rn they only know how to play djent on a 12 string
"I challenge anyone to stretch this far on the neck"
Me: *Laughs in Bass guitar*
Well i can stretch 6 frets on a 27" scale, does that make me a pro? 😅
Edit: 12-24
My exact thoughts
yessss
hold the fuckin' phone, people think hitting the money notes is difficult?
Lol have you ever held a uke or a mandolin? As a bass player they just feel so small and fragile. Like making love too a little person when your used too 7ft tall Amazon women.
Why did they even make this video, it’s clear the person narrating doesn’t play guitar.
“Pinch harmonies, TREM-OH-LO picking” 😂😂😂
So that Mike could watch it and lose his shit. Which is incredibly entertaining to watch.
@@The_JustJoshing Yeah where tf did they get their information
@Cyberdemon Mike The person who wrote the script wrote pinch harmonies and a lot of the language they use doesn’t make a song harder.
WatchMojo will make a video on just about anything as long as it gives them clicks.
Met this guy a few years ago at a party. He was nothing but a nice and chill dude. Great convo about music Glad to see the channel growing and much love
DID THEY JUST PRONOUNCE CLAVE AS CLAY-VE?!? It's Cla-Vey, holy shit.
I mean they just pronounced tremolo as TREMOLOW. So yes they did just pronounce it like that
"Immediately the fucking smiths" had me dead
I would say the hardest Metallica song to play is Disposable Heroes
That downpicking at that tempo is fucking murder
I’m so mesmerised by the timing/phrasing in the riffing in that song, I’m too post nut to attempt it after listening to it. Easily my favourite on MOP.
Absolutely 100% correct! Fuck that song is impossible
The Down picking in blackened is way harder, even puppets
Drink a shot every time he says "substantially"
I tried that and im prwfctaley fien guyd
You're actually faking it right there.
@@archdukebigdogkoopa3821 no, no, no, clearly he is completely obliterated drunk and not making a joke at al.
@@appalachianexploration5714 I'm allergic to alcohol...
@@archdukebigdogkoopa3821 that has nothing to do with what I said.
@@appalachianexploration5714 How's this: If he's drunk, then tell me, did he just blank right out and go to sleep in that way?
Ah yes, Watch Mojo and their "10 random rocks songs we pulled out of out ass and needed some title for" video.
Here is the thing: "HARD" translates to "Awesome Skills". Not necessarily "Nice to listen to".
I wasn't paying attention and when they said Little Wing, I thought they said Lil Wayne.
I thought they were gonna have his solo on this list. Unironically.
lil wayne deserves to be on the list😅
The yelling in this video makes me feel like *I’ve* done something wrong. 😂
Dad is just angry again
Conor Murphy He says mom is the reason he’s always angry
You know what you did
This should be, "Songs normies know and think are hard".
"Songs normies know and..." should be the title of every single one of these lists.
Homeboy really said “normies”
Sus 2 chords are typically easier than standard major or minor chords
Every Breath You Take is offended by your claims.
It depends. Some of the fingerings of sus chords require more fingerings, and stretching your hand across more frets. But other times you actually remove a finger and play open strings. It depends on the chord really. I have never had an issue with most sus chords though.
But sus chords aren’t inherently more difficult to play than major or minor chord. I think mojo.com is describing sus chords as more difficult to play because they think sus chords are a more exotic chord than a major or a minor. The use of a sus chord in a song doesn’t mean it’s harder to play. It might be more sophisticated as a song though. But that’s not about technique of guitar playing. That’s about songwriting. Some songs are more sophisticated while others stick to the same basic chords in their structure.
And the same with time signatures. Once you know how to count time signatures then it’s not hard to play in those it e signatures. Mojo again is confusing the use of a time signature in a song versus the difficulty of playing in a time Singnature. 4/4 is much more common than 7/8 from a songwriting perspective. But just because it’s used less often doesn’t make it harder to play.
Y'all are missing that I said "typically" lol
YOOOO AMONG US
@@XenoMorphGaming79 I actually meant Sus as
in Suspended rather than Sus as a
stand in for suspicious, but go for
it my guy, Among Us is a really fun game!
They forgot “Every Breath You Take.”
Finger cramp
I'll be watching you
its not hard, its just painful lmao
And T.N.T
Alternate tunings ;)
If the main criteria for difficulty in both fingering and speed, then Neon by John Mayer deserves a spot on any top ten hardest songs list. Combining difficult and unusual chord shapes with the speed the song has, as well as the difficult right hand pattern all make for an incredibly difficult song to pull off
Become the Knight: reacts to Watchmojo
Me: Uh oh...
Me: this video may contain the roasting of a watchmojo list viewer discretion is advised
He should react to Top Ten Metal Songs. That list pissed me off.
that's what their videos usually do
I love that that even implies that such a thing can be measured and ranked
Huh same
25:26 shut up that’s just the Mario kart theme song
WatchMojo is not "Quantity over quality" they are "Quantity with no quality"
Playing a correct rhythm is a lot harder then executing a chord.
I think it's relative to who you are how big your hands are and where you're at as a guitar player
True my friend that also plays guitar was shitting on me saying that metal songs are easy because they're primarily power chords but he doesn't understand that the multiple rhythm changes and bpm make them difficult to play.
@@memessavedmylife8574 yes but right hand technique is much more intuitive than left hand, imo metal is a much easier genre than alot of other 'simpler' genres.
@@stevowilliams8279i will say it depends on the genre. Some right hand focused styles are HARD.
i see what you mean, meshugga's bleed comes to mind@@Blockoumi
If watch-mojo tried to explain the most basic drum groove they’d say:
“First the drummer must lock in their time with everyone else’s in the band, then they must shift their hand from the rested position on their lap to hovering over the high-hat, tapping in the correct time signature after resting their left foot over the petal holding the two cymbals closed, next the drummer must then hit the bass drum on certain upbeats or downbeats within the time signature sequence, this is done with a petal operated by their right foot, the last thing the drummer must focus on is hitting the snare drum on proper upbeats or downbeats within the proper time signature sequence, this is done with the left hand, and all of these steps combined create a basic drum pattern that flow with the sway of the band, thus locking in a strong backbone to rely on”
That’s it, that’s as complicated as I can explain how a drum pattern is done and gave no doubt that’s how watch-mojo would explain it just to make themselves sound smart smh
Washington is Next by Megadeth. There's a riff in the song where Dave stretches from fret 12 to fret 24. 😥
Edit: Opeth album tier list video please. 🙏
Yeah but he does use his thumb to do that stretch
It’s not hard
All stretches are hard when you have baby hands like me
@@Kostas_Zacharakis guys who can't even stretch that large because THEY CAN'T: allow to introduce ourselves
Into the lungs of hell - exactly the same thing. Everyone taps it which really grinds my gerkin.
I feel bad for that space bar... Those were some brutal pauses
As a guitar player do you think synister gates from A7X is underrated because some of his riffs and solos are just mind blowing i think or is it just me?
Underrated because the band hes in is not respected by metalheads and guitar geeks. He’s extremely melodic and anyone could learn alot from listening to him play.
@@walmartian422 A7X my favourite band I havnt ever heard a guitarist like syn or zachy the both incredible talents but syns use of gypsy jazz into his metal is what makes it so good
I feel like he's crazy well appreciated. Maybe not in rock and metal overall, but definitely in the 2000s metal scene.
I love Syn, he is my favorite guitarist. I don't really think he is underrated, he gets a ton of recognition and people love his work, haters will always hate him because they can't move on from playing the F chord.
The hardest thing here is to step outside with Michael Angelo's haircut and not get beat up.
Michael Angelo would beat your ass.
@Cyberdemon Mike rofl
@Cyberdemon Mike Leonardo is the most disciplined maybe, but Raphael is the largest, strongest, and most aggressive. Mikey is the most likeable, Donatello is the smartest.
You have the title backwards: "Watchmojo Top 10 hardest rock songs on guitar destroys metal guitarist's soul"
LOL
Fracture by king crimson should be number one but the fact that king crimson or anything by Fripp isnt even on this list pisses me off
I'm not saying that "This Charming Man" is top ten ever, but Johnny Marr is still an absolute wizard.
A true virtuoso.
no, he's not, a good guitar player, yes, a virtuoso my ass... he's just playing all the time in the style of Roger McGuinn and that's all, folk arpeggios.
The problem with most metal guitarists is that their "virtuoso" attitude is about speed. I have never seen someone playing any Johnny Marr's songs close to his tone. Dude seems to have silk in his fingertips
@@DiogoBianchi5 the obssesion with 'tone'... every guitar player has his tone, every guitar player has even various tones. Tone is important in acoustic playing (folk music, classical, flamenco...), because it depends much more on player's fingers than in gear, amps and so on... the guy has his tone? who doesn't? you like it? congrats to you, I simply don't care
@@JulioLeonFandinho That is why most metal bands are stuck in a niche for "purists" while other bands move forward. Take bands like Gojira and see how their technique is less about showing off and more about textures. Most metal guitarists I know had that moment when they felt a new world opening to them when they were already pretty good and tried to play something different. Their surprise was "This should have been simple. Why am I not doing this the right way?"
That is because some styles are not about speed, but about how to add something to the song, and that is being implemented in metal more often
@@DiogoBianchi5 Johnny Marr has his own sound that you can pick out instantly. Also has an incredible talent for making difficult guitar sound easy
The south park theme song is harder to play than any songs off of this list
Watch mojo: The Smiths make difficult music.
Necrophagist: Hold my metronome.
Fracture by King Crimson should be considered one of the hardest rock songs to play on guitar. Robert Fripp even said that one song alone takes up a majority of his practice time.
Fraktured is insane
I applaud you for making that differentiation between "ten of the hardest" and "the ten hardest", because that use of "of" is a huge difference that's often and easily overlooked.
Our band actually covers This Charming Man, and the ONLY slight bump in difficulty is the time signature on the intro. Tab probably has it in 8/8 with a rest on 1, but what you hear sounds more like 15/8. So...if you can count to 15, you can play it.
I honestly don’t think that the people who came up with that list took it as seriously as you did. But there are people out there who would believe it. Thank you for pointing out there are harder songs. You should air a stream of you playing them all note for note
I love The Smiths lol. Johnny Marr is one of my favorite guitarists.
Great guitarist. The list is terribile but this video is worse.
He’s a wizard but his stuff isn’t exactly hard I don’t think he was calling him shit more just a bad choice for the list
@Tyler Clark yeh that’s what I meant
Yeah, this guy really underestimated my man Johnny
I think the talent lies in having to put up with morrissy 's bitch ass rather than the guitar playing .
Fucking love you dude.. laughed heaps and you remind me alot of myself with general conversations had with people who don't know shit about music.
This is so funny. The reactions are ridding me of all the pent-up anger over various WatchMojo vids I had accumulated over the years.... Thanks brother!
BREAKING NEWS: Local man bombs WatchMojo headquarters.
Fair point. I was gonna say Octavarium too. Not technically the most difficult but god damn does that song take some consistency to pull till the end. Even getting slightly impatient can cause you to fuck up near the end and ruin it.
FraKctured by King Crimson. Robert Fripp himself says it’s impossible.
I haven’t seen Mike this pissed off since College Kids react to billboard
Bram Lackman-Mincoff that is my favorite video
@@michaelflorczyk1394 Mike at his snobbiest
@Cyberdemon Mike you mean the rolling stone ranking?
I’ll have to check that out now.
14:43 that is exactly what happens to all of the top 10 songs by literally any band. They don’t go by what songs people actually think are better, they only go by what songs are most popular (which doesn’t make it better)
This is basically kinda hard rock songs that are well known
that's how all "tOp SoNgS" are
I uh, am not really into metal and thus know ZERO of his Top 10 suggestions.
@@israeldelarosa5461 tsk tsk
Even as an extremely novice beginner guitar player I could realise that it sounded like he was just saying shit for the sake of saying shit to sound complicated
I think my "I'm done" was during a "soulsborne" boss video and couldn't pronounce Gascoigne without having a stroke during the process.
It has nothing to do with the video, but yesterday I watched your Separate Ways parody video. The best 4 minutes and 38 seconds I've had this year
"Tendinitis by Jason Richardson. A human being should not be able to play this."
You are not wrong good sir
So much rage and profanity.
With all the ridiculous overcensorship now, you sir, are a gem.
Subbed the shit outta this channel.
So basically it’s songs that are harder to play than they sound, songs that sound hard and popular songs
All I can say aside from that WatchMojo makes terrible lists is thank you Mike for introducing me to so many great artists at the end of the video. I stopped and listened to every single song you mentioned as they came up and ended loving most of them.
"Watch Mojo fucking sucks"
In other news: Water discovered to be wet.
I wouldn’t call Metallica, Dream Theater, Dragonforce, Animals as Leaders & Megadeth rock though! It’s more like metal actually
Considering metal falls under the larger "rock" umbrella i can grant them this.
Metal is subgenre of rock (surely, with many sub-subgenres) that frequently does not even strain as much from original rock'n'roll conventions as, say, zeuhl or krautrock.
It's all the same to shallow corporate boomers. Loud guitar.
@@ksquidplaysminecraft Pretty sure they're shallow corporate X/Y-gen ignorants.
@@ivanhozjan7137 Metal is just about much sub-genre of Rock as Jazz is sub-genre of March music.
40 year old man rages at the internet for HALF AN HOUR (WRONG GONE)
He is 31.
@@Gladijajator 31 is almost 40 ;)
@@dantee1138 not really
@@Gladijajator Fuck I'm old
I've never seen someone this upset about a Watchmojo video in my life
Mike should absolutely make a shirt that says “General Riffage”
8:11 For some reason I found that vape hit to be gut-bustingly hilarious
They didn't even include Greg Howe, Paul Gilbert, nor Guthrie Govan.
3:22 but Mike the narrator is clearly saying that it DOES NOT matter how emotive or majestic the solo is and they show Gilmore because his solos are generally described as that.
He just wanted to rip on Gilmour to make me sad 😢
“Jimmy Marr.... Johnny Marr. I don’t know because I’m a fucking good guitar player.”
EXXXCUUUUUSE MEEEE?!?!
I have heard literally 1 person ever besides Johnny play This Charming Man correctly
@@SilhouetteLifter same
yeah, he really said that...
Thank you man, for giving Michael Angelo Batio the recognition he deserves. It's a shame that guy is just too underrated.
Rosetta Stoned by tool was the bane of my existence for months.....
I'm gonna need a "treMoLo picking" sound bite to play all the time
"treMoLo" sounds like some Italian candy
Damn, I found some new bands to check out with your list at the end there.
Metallica’s hardest song is quite easily off justice, it’s probably between dyer’s Eve and the title track.
Nah the title track is prolly the easiest (with shortest straw, at least riff wise)
@@demianstohr2422 I’m talking personally, I found it pretty difficult mostly because it’s a ten minute long track. Although the eyes of the beholder is probably up there too. Altogether justice is a super difficult album for a variety of reasons.
@@demianstohr2422 difficulty varies from person to person. For example Jump In the Fire I learned that song in under 30 minutes (minus the solo). The other guitarist in the band struggled with the rythm for days. Same guy couldn't do the galloping part of damage inc. I didn't have any problems with the 16th note triplets and chords in damage inc.
@@demianstohr2422 I struggled with phantom lord while Jeff got it almost immediately.
Nobody gonna talk about fight fire with fire?
"Trimowlow picking and pinch harmonies" and dance of eternity on 6 had me crying
0:10 I think you're the only person I've ever seen be honest about that, I've watched a lot of things here on TH-cam and I've never seen that, thanks.
There is something charming about Mike just ranting.
On their Top Ten hardest instruments list, the had organ ranked lower than piano. I haven’t taken their music lists seriously ever since
Eruption is the opposite of a lot of the other songs...it's actually easier than it sounds (not that it's EASY, and it's got the most wow factor (except for maybe Hocus Pocus live) of anything in that era.
Hocus Pocus live is so damn impressive. The speed man. One of the first metal sounding shredding i’ve seen
People's tongues should fall out for pronouncing "Tosin" and "tremolo" that way
Tossin' some tromolo pinch harmonies at cha!
10:00 I cracked up when he said "it's like skipping rope on a trampoline while riding a horse". Seriously? 🤣
I think the most difficult part of Snow is trying to play it on that speed from beginning to end. But yeah...
Someone should make a list of the hardest songs to sing and play at the same time, but that award probably goes to josh homme
Easily Holy Wars
@@prometheustv6558 agreed, Dave is a beast
death, sylosis, Megadeth, necrophagist
Dave Mustaine
Any Vektor song
Tim Henson’s God Hand. Tosin taught him how to thump and it looks incredibly difficult.
Fingerings are fucking hard man! On the lucretia intro, Daves, Martys, and Jr’s guitars are all doing crazy dhif and I think it is one of the trickyer megadeth riffs
I find it funny that Mike isn’t really a nirvana fan, but deadass is starting to look like Kurt Cobain 😂
Lmao what? Looks nothing like him
Hide the shotgun from his girl
He wishes.
You can randomly find 10 progressive rock and metal songs on youtube that are light years in difficulty beyond most of what is on this list in less than 30 minutes.
They should have chosen “Money For Nothing” for the Dire Straights entry. Rick Beato even said himself in a video of his “this is actually a really hard song to play” in one of his greatest electric guitar intro songs or something like that…
"I'm a good guitar player I don't know alternative guitar players" I think that line sums up why I can't watch your videos anymore man
I'm new to this channel and after that part I stopped watching
@@alexandergunn5143 I used to really dig his channel but he's a real insufferable douche great musician but very pompus and narrow minded
@@overcookedchicken2109 that's a shame really
Yeah man, sucks to see when people are so close minded, especially when it comes to music.
Yep this came up in my recommendations, thought I'd give it a try but no thanks - even guitarists who don't like the style can appreciate Johnny Marr has skills