Every GUITAR GENRE Ranked (easy to hard)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- If you're learning guitar, do you want to start off with easy songs or hard ones?
In this video we explore every single guitar genre and make a tier list based on their "best guitar songs".
Thanks to professional guitarist, @corybergeronrecordings, we were able to easily identify which guitar genres you should start with... Disagree???? me too.
Videos we watch: • Guitar Genre Tier List
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Bad idea bruh
Some of the newer bluegrass players like molly tuttle play some unhinged stuff
@@Tr1s PROVE IT
HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE PEARL JAM.
Your way off on bluegrass its one of the hardest. Look up billy strings. Or the flat picking national contest they are the most talented guitarist.
gfys
bro imagine making a guitar genre tierlist without including technical brutal goregrind blackened death metal smh
smh my head
Complete over site. Will delete vid
@@RedlightBlue with a mistake that bad, just delete the entire channel
These guys are such posers
Heavy metal is really easy to play, but take technical death for example, S tier will be needed here
wish we would've done this with someone who actually is familiar with any genre
These dudes have never heard of music.
It's mind-boggling to imagine a guitar player that "doesn't know anything about blues".
Also bizarre to see a professional guitarist refer to BB King as “this guy”
Why?
i mean it’s probably more concerning if they’re a professional but people just play a instrument to play it shocker right???
Yeah idk i know the bare bones
the tier list hurts but the content is unmatched
Yeah, the songs they used just weren’t very representative of the genres as a whole a lot of the time. Especially bluegrass. Bluegrass guitar is one of the hardest styles to play due to the immense speed and intricate movements required. Blues needs to be ranked a lot lower, since homespun blues music can be easily improvised around one or two chords. Easiest way to learn blues music is just to pick an E or an A chord and pick the notes around it
Estas Tonne for Flamenco is not representative at all
Song of the Golden Dragon is a great one but there are no tabs, notes, nothing, even Estas himself never plays the song the same, that one is 100% "street performance" improvisation 🙂
I know right look up the song Memphis by Marcy playground it doesn’t sound to bad but you have to be on point to play it
bluegrass is... really difficult. Like REALLY difficult. You picked a very funny example to showcase, lol.
and Bluegrass guitarists are to 99% flatpickers
@@2009framatwell yeah that’s what the prominent feature of bluegrass guitar is
The Carter Scratch is no joke.
I’d also argue the carters weren’t strictly bluegrass.
The Carters were more like proto country.
I am learning jazz and he is absolutely correct -> LOTS of chords. Diminished, augmented, etc. What I find fun but hard about jazz is arranging. You have to know your chord progressions backwards and forwards and I'm not talking pop progressions. It's hard. But to me, metal is brutal. Fast and fast and fast and accurate. Huge respect for metal guitarist.
Jazz requires much more learning than most genres and is genuinely difficult to get a hold of. And the amount of years you’ve played are absolutely reflected by your sound unlike other musical styles.
I think it’s an obvious S, it’s ridiculously complicated at some levels
@@Blockoumi Well said. And, it requires a TON of practice and attention to detail.
metal is physcically hard but jazz is so much harder in theory and everything else
For someone who is completely new to guitar, but loves jazz guitar and wants to learn this genre, what’s the best way to go about it?
@@coltengibson1102Well, I have to admit it wasn't a straight forward path. I think it's different for everyone. But for me, I picked up guitar and got an instructor right away to play like Paul Simon. I worked really hard at it and started to not like it. I loved hearing it but the playing wasn't what I wanted. The sound was off - if that makes sense.
My instructor then suggested electric. Try that. I did. Changed my life. The more I played it the more I got interested in it. Plus. he's into music theory so as I learned that, I really began to appreciate music. Then one day he played a jazz chord for fun. I said to him. 'what is that sound?" He said - Jazz.
It blew me away. So, I told him, teach me jazz and it went from there.
It took me about a year of just doing jazz to get somewhat comfortable with it. It just takes a ton of time and practice but you do get there. But, I'm also old. Depending on age, it will go quick.
Feel free to ask additional questions and I hope I was able to answer yours. If not, I'm happy to take another shot at it.
So, to summarize
1) get an instructor - who knows music theory and jazz
2) get an electric
3) work hard every day.
As a math rock guitarist, my fingers are bleeding and I suffer from extreme arthritis
It's a shame, and surprising, that Tony Rice's "Freeborn Man" didn't come up for bluegrass. Would have went straight to the A tier.
or Doc Watson
Facts that's what I'm saying, bluegrass flatpicking is on another level
I honestly don’t think you can call the Carter family bluegrass. People do but I don’t understand why they think that. No 3-finger banjo, no mando chop
@@aaronniehaus2224 yeah it makes no sense. The Carter Family were making music in the 1920s and 30s. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys started making music in the 40s, and you can't say there was Bluegrass before the Blue Grass Boys.
It's like calling Gil Scott-Heron a rapper.
I was totally expecting that Freeborn Man video to come up for Bluegrass. That would have been an easy A. Few players of any genre can outplay Mr. Rice.
If this man knew Nick Drake he would knew that folk can be as complex as some of the stuff on B tier
Ifkr even some of elliott smith’s stuff is tricky
Well they admitted that it wasn’t too serious, but surprised they didn’t go over Smiths work. If they had a decent look at 5 leaves left folk could’ve been more up there.
@@helpiamsuffering603 Yeah, I know, Im just kinda making a silly observation. But what I saw from the videos on this channel the dude doesn't really seem into alternative stuff so maybe thats why
@@alex11v3 yeah he seems pretty generic
Of course classical guitar kills them all
What music does the guy in the red hoodie even listen to? He's supposedly a guitarist, but he doesn't seem like he's even remotely familiar with the most basic genres
NO MUSIC
i was surprised at how many NOPES he had. i was thinking "what's left?"
Guitarist, more like coma patient 😂
Always happy to see your more scientifically rigorous deep dive videos
Jesus christ I’m about to cry at this horrific tier list 😭
They really picked one of the easiest bluegrass songs of all time
ikr they should have done the burning georgia down guitar solo
And they picked an atypical way of playing - bluegrass-players usually are flat picker
I wouldn’t really consider the Carter Family as Bluegrass. I would have picked a lot of other artists before them. There are a lot of country artists I would have picked before Johnny Cash as well. Someone like Carl Perkins, Don Rich, Roy Buchanan or even Willie Nelson would have been better picks.
did he literally put bluegrass as a D tier difficulty 💀
I agree with other people here, jazz is the real monster. It is just sophisticated.
Jazz it's the hardest when it comes to ear training and harmony. When it comes to physical technique, nothing even comes close to flamenco, it's on a league of its own.
@@pepincuatro2865jazz is probably on the same level as flamenco when you take the solos into account, they even can sound similar alot of the time
If you take into account the broad meaning of technique (harmony, improvisation, etc) then yes they can be equally hard.
But like I've said, when it comes to finger technique, nothing comes close to flamenco. And when I say nothing comes close, I don't just mean other guitar styles, I mean any other instrument or skill that you can teach your fingers for that matter.
Try to play a Spanish guitar with your fingers instead of a pick. Now watch a video of Paco de Lucía playing "La Barrosa" for instance. Now you understand what I mean. @@growskull
@@pepincuatro2865 So you have seen only flexing Jazzmens in bend, where they play with the help of other instruments. What about solo jazz guitarists, like Lucas Brar? He plays for all instruments, walking bass for contrbass, melody for lead guitar, rhythm and chord changes for rhythm guitar and even more, like fast arpegios and harmonics from classical guitar
I've seen plenty of solo jazz guitar performances, even learned some of Joe Pass's and Barry Galbraith chord melodies myself. Also Lucas Brar is an accomplished classical guitarist. All of that is extremely difficult stuff, but my point is clear: flamenco finger technique is unmatched.
Exhibit A:
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If you've never played a Spanish guitar using your fingers and you don't quite get how extremely impossible to play this is, I quote you arguably the best jazz guitarist alive, Pat Metheny, refering to Vicente Amigo (arguably the best flamenco guitarist alive) in an interview: "he's the best guitarist in the world".
Picking technique can be hard, but fingerstyle will always be harder by nature. And among all the fingerstyles, flamenco is unmistakably the hardest due to the sheer number of right hand techniques, the precision in tempo required, and the fact that the Spanish guitar, with all of its beauty, is an ancient instrument with limitations.
@@MrMyauro
Bro just insulted the whole classical guitar community like nothing happened ☠
Absolutely that’s not cool.
Does Rock and Roll/Classic Rock just not exist anymore or something
id say theyd go in D
Rock and Roll could be thought of as a specific genre of blues. A lot of 60s rock is also heavy on the blues (Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton). So, the difficulty is pretty similar to the blues.
Personally i think there're too many variables to make a genre difficulty tier list, like metal has so many subgenres that you could put it simultaneously in A and E tier.
Bluegrass should definetely been much higher, the same argument for Metal could be applied to Jazz.
Still those tier lists are fun to watch, just to see the different views people have on music.
Bro ranking Jazz not in a tier is crazy lol
Based on playing, I’d put metal and jazz at the top of the list. Complexity of arrangements
I’d say any genre has the capacity to too the list once you get into the uppermost echelons.
How can you play guitar and not know any of these genres 🤣
That's what I was wondering,surely he doesn't just play punk
some ppl just drawn to cool colorful flashy sounds and country blues isnt super fast so its not good to ppl who start with metal 💀 i mean music is subjective but goodlord atleast learn how to play guitar lmfao
The man obviously does not know loads of things concerning music genre or perhaps music as a whole :S
Yeah it seems fishy... Plus he said he knows pop country better and that funk is "what music should be" so probably a generic not very talented pop guitarist
Imagine making a guitar genre tierlist without classical guitar
guitar isnt really a main instrument in classical music i think
@@foeton3582 go on youtube and type in francisco tarrega or mauro giuliani
@@foeton3582 CLASSICAL GUITAR is literally it’s own thing. You know hpe there are steel string and nylon string acoustics? Yeah well the nylon ones are essentially classical guitars, most often used to play music from the 1800’s and 1900’s (sometimes even lute pieces from the 1500’s).
nobody actually plays classical guitar tho
@@myusernamewasinuse Quite a lot of people play classical. Check out Brandon Acker on youtube, he makes great content on classical guitar and other older stringed instruments (like the lute) :)
Couldn’t ask for better guitar content, so good
Couldn’t ask for a better viewer
Placing bluegrass in D is a fucking sin.
The best representation for metal guitar is holy wars or tornadoe of souls by Megadeth, iron maiden was good for metal in general, but metal guitar is definitely best represented with literally anything written by Dave Mustaine, so that technically includes all of Metallicas first album
The thing is, both Metallica and Megadeath are trash metal, and the specific genre that they were looking into was heavy
That's the problem, that's also why maiden is wrong. Maiden isn't heavy metal.
@@randomstuff4762 maiden is LITERALLY traditional heavy metal
Black Sabbath is the only option I see
sabbath is all metal
Bluegrass should have been A. Just look at Billy Strings or any modern bluegrass band, they absolute kill the guitar solos (or banjo's)
Withholding my angry comments about bluegrass, country, and metal is in A tier
Flamenco/rumba player here, listening while practicing my farruca. I"m surprised that clip is what google chose as the best flamenco piece. Flamenco and all it's sub-categories (buleria, solea, farruca etc.) is king of guitar, no question. And if you want to be guaranteed to make people dance, no mater their tastes, rumba rhythms will do it.
I feel too many genres got left out
if you dig a bit into country youll find very intricate guitar playing
seriously underrated channel
Yes Punk is almost all power cords. As a Punk rock songwriter myself I can say this. But don't underestimate it. Some songs are fast to an extreme level. I still struggle to play American Idiot because of its speed. Anyone who says Billie Joe is a bad guitarist is wrong. Also he actually can shred, he just don't do it much because punk doesn't have complicated solos.
How long have you been playing?
bruh said bluegrass an played a carter family song 😭
BLUEGRASS SHOULD BE IN THE A CATEGORY!
the thing about the ramones is that, they played barre chords, downpicking only, at a high bpm for a long show, espeically in their later days. the style of punk they played wasnt easy. i forget who said it, but someone said something like "Those metal guys, Van Halen and Motley crue, they couldnt do what the ramones do every night for that long."
Of course they could not.... They´d be bored to death if they did 🤣🤣
@nerenahd no, they couldn't keep up.
Yikes….
Ain’t nobody checking out his channel
as a metal drummer metal seems like hardest genre, some of the tech death stuff some guitarists play is insane just look at necrophagist
the guitar style shown in the bluegrass example is harder than you think
Some things are harder to play than the "best guitar songs" from each category. "Ring of Fire" is by no means the hardest guitar song in country music to play. Even Cash himself had some more impressive guitar work in songs like "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Wreck of Old 97." If you want more advanced stuff than that, "Working Man Blues" by Merle Haggard or "Lonesome Ornery and Mean" by Waylon Jennings are good examples of hard, serious country guitar music.
Imagine if they had classical guitar
Ngl never put red hoodie back on here😂😂😂 jazz and bluegrass belongs in the A tier category the fact he think punk rock is harder shows a lot
3:18 "what do you know about country?".......what i know about country is that some country guitar players can SAW YOUR BALLS OFF on guitar lol(look up roy clark)
loved your take on funk xD i want other musicians to pitch in on this scientific research
Wonder how would you guys rate corridos especially new age mexican music on this list which is based heavily on guitar and string instruments
what the guy for the flamenco was doing is the easier part of flamenco
Big fan bruh❤
Metal should be a tier
Nice Switzerland-hoodie!!!
How'd you manage to leave out classical? o.O
he also left out rock, metal, hard rock, neoclassical metal..... and more
@@michaelmonsterrock and hard rock? Rock is far too diverse to include. They should’ve just chosen your average classic rock
@@Blockoumi it would be better for the views, and not everyone would comments why is not that genre in there... the only type of rock they choose was punk rock.
but who knows maybe they make a part 2.
you did NOT pick a song that truly represents the bluegrass genre. check out freeborn man by tony rice or foggy mountain breakdown those are two quintessential bluegrass songs that really show the genre well
Dude, bluegrass is extremely shredded. Don't know what you are talking about
CLASSICAL ?
Nothing wrong with his list. It's pretty good. But c'mon man! Why you gotta hate on grunge? It's so good!😭
NIRVANA FANBOY HERE
@@JamesMacTavish1688 I do like Nirvana a lot, I'll give you that😅. But I like other 90s bands too like Soundgarden, Rhcp, Foo Fighters, AIC, etc. The list goes on. I'm a 90s fanboy. (I just haven't gotten around to changing my pfp from like 4 yrs ago😂)
@@MusicManG21 thats what i sort of thought... I dont even remember commenting that, sorry :(
@@JamesMacTavish1688 It's all good man😀
I LOVE the idea of this video..... although its obviously gonna be sticky once u get into it
love your channel, terrible beard, great mustache 👍
whoa Im glad I watched this video because I was seriously considering subbing to this channel. Close call.
Anyone know what the song used for ska was?
I'm getting a bit of Charlie Kelly energy here and I like it
I practice jazz in the AM, Flamenco in PM. Equally difficult- jazz musically ( complex theory) and Flamenco by raw physicality. Poles apart but equally challenging. Jazz also has problematic physicality- sometimes impossible finger reaches and twisting for complex chords. Jazz probably wins as the hardest to sound decent.
i read the tier list as a genre and i have to say, id like to here some ska punk funk grunge music some day
Bluegrass being in D tier just hurts, look up anything else and it's not that easy .
he put punk to high
Nah punk is S tier
Didn't you hear him Punk = Fast and fast=hard
Putting punk above bluegrass is what i would think people who’ve never played guitar would do
I like how he says "if you can't play music, you can play punk" and then puts it in C tier
cool concept, terrible rating system. anyone that knows metal would know there is some seriously complex and FAST soloing and this should definitely go higher up. aside from that, just the examples used, some of your ratings did not make sense.... like the carter fam should have been higher. and some of the others, lower. *you guys should try this again where it's based on a beginner easy mode song & a complex song, for each, and isn't based on one song chosen from google like this* (i came here looking for an intro to the diff genres and i'm sure im not the only one. slim pickins on that. might get ya some vyeeeews. ;) not to mention seeing an easy & hard for both would be a great way to GET a genre and the difficulty.) ironically, that "play wrong stuff and it's still fine" i think does accurately describe punk and some ska haha. i like both. also, you did grunge dirty.
This is all very fair feedback
As a grunge guitarist, has anyone seen my heroin?
love your videos ❤
Love you
dayum, that's a *BEARD*
I didn't listen to everything you said, but I tuned in to the whole video because it put me in a good mood. You guys are cute. Very nice.Thanks.
This is a great example of how you can be a good guitar guy while also being woefully clueless about the 80-90% of guitar music outside of your preferred genre
Should’ve googled the popular vote hardest songs. I guarantee you power metal would be at the top thanks to Herman and Sam
Power metal and death metal fo me are the hardest style of heavy metal.
Dont underestimate black metal@@armonsoregaw2040
More and more you are beginning to look like a true Canadian lumberjack
I just have the wrong kind of axe
Punk too high, bluegrass and jazz too low, and a lack of gypsy jazz and math rock which need new tiers of difficulty outside of this list 😂
Great video but I’m not sure the select songs are good representations of their respective genres
I can't get a cord so I'm quitting
Jazz should be in A
I can confirm all of flamenco is that hard
You missed Classical guitar and Delta Blues. Delta Blues is a very different style than Electric Blues. In my opinion Delta Blues is very hard since you have to be very proficient with a guitar slide.
Wist Till Bro on the right learns about flat picking in bluegrass
you guys should check math rock! I think youll enjoy it
How is jazz alongside Metal TT-TT
On the ska part it was supposed to put an original jamaican ska band like The Skatalites or Toots & the Maytals
I was waiting for math rock lol
2:08 yes, though the Appalachian trail is on the east coast, 99 percent of the time that the term "Appalachian" is used, it means hillbillies which hail from a different region lol
3:08 um.. listen to 5 minutes of Tony Rice, or David Grier, or anyone who played in Kentucky Thunder, and tell me bluegrass is a d-tier difficulty level again?
Imagine calling rock and roll easy by citing 0-3-5. 😂
5 seconds of Jake Workman would change his mind
Punk should be swapped with blue grass and blues definetely 😅 whole point of punk is that it’s less from the technique and more from the rawness of the soul. Blues and blue grass neighbours to jazz more than punk. Has a lot more technicalities
And then we show Eddie Van Halen making Evan higher letters
Man yall got me fucked up when it came to the blues rating. You should've checked out some Kingfish or SRV live for some true blues. Fuckin chose a bb king clip from when he was like 80, sounding like shit 😂😂. Good rating I'd say for the genre tho, it's alot more than the pentatonic scale and alot of people fail to realize that
blue grass is hard and demanding music
The trooper isn’t that hard tho, maybe a bit challenging maybe
I think Jazz and heavy metal should've been A tier, those genres are waay too extense to give a veredict that's close to reality with just one song.
Where´s rock n roll from like the 50´s version and do the 60´s version aswell
jazz is s tier this is a universal standard
The only style that is harder than jazz is classical, and that’s mostly arrangement and rote memorization related. These people just hear “a lot of chords” without realizing the insane difference in a fundamental understanding of music as a whole that is only present in jazz.
but does that guy with the guitar at least know that the hoodie he is wearing is red?
No corridos?
Lmao
Totally disagree with the heavy metal thing, dude, you literally couldn't play the solo.
TRY ME
It’s not my genre, but there are older country songs that are CRAZY hard 😅
No Jazz fusion??
First of all their power chords but only downstrokes so it makes it harder
I don’t know how to play guitar, but when I try, I prefer flamenco 😂