im playing guitar for only about a year ( but all the time and by ear ). one of the first licks i taught myself to play is every breath u take, i play it on the strings E A G wich is not as uncomfortable!!! awsome stuff.
intro to "my curse" from killswitch engaged. The chords themselves are easy but transitioning between them cleanly and the picking pattern is difficult, i have seen videos of Adam sort of botching it live.
Damn, Every Breath You Take gave me anxiety as a teenager. "Hey can you play that song in 2 weeks at your cousin's wedding?" - "Sure, sounds easy enough." Famous last words.
Here’s the best one ever....literally ever. Play TNT by AC/DC and sing the “oy” at the same time. It’s an old Paul Gilbert exercise I do with my students sometimes. It’s a serious, serious mind melt the first few times you try it. But it sounds SO easy...
@Bird-Mans Music ... i hate whenever something isnt right about a culture it always means AMERICANS they might be but stop fucking assuming makes you seem so petty
@@Chair400 Most of the time is necessary if you want to play a song/piece in a very accurate way. Tabs doesn't really do a good job on setting note duration and "advanced" techniques used in the music
@@nathanlibertyreal honestly, I don't know stairway to heaven... I know the entertainer, and sandstorm on the guitar... But not stairway, and don't want to (because I'll want to play it at the store.)
I timestamped the riffs for people who just want to get to the effin point: 1:09 - Snow - RHCP 5:05 - Every Breath You Take - The Police 7:55 - Back in Black - AC/DC (bridge riff) 10:12 - For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica The hardest thing for a guitar player to play is playing "nothing" and he says it at 12:29. He was trolling.
I gotta say I have very small hands and I never found the chords used in Every breath to be difficult. And I'm talking so small that some girls I know have longer fingers than me. But I make up for it by having a tiny penis as well.
With "Every Breath You Take", it's all muted so you can individually fret each note without having to maintain the chord. You can play it like a scale.
I'm so happy that I have freakishly long fingers that I can play this with ease, in fact I can play from the 1st fret on the low e to the 7th fret on the a sting.
leetledrummerboy agreed it really is, once you’ve got the guitar part down, you could sing the lead vocals whilst playing the lick if you really wanted to.
Yeah, he should be living in Mom's basement, trolling youtube videos and moaning to his friends about musical purity as they sit huffing glue in a 92 corolla with no 2 doors the same color. THAT"S where it's at.
Funnily enough, the "play nothing" thing is also a huge part of AC/DC. Lots of guys just want to fill in the empty spaces with random blues licking but the songs really call to back off now and again.
Great video. I'd really like to see you do one about Legendary Licks that you think are hard, but really they are hard, but you think they're easy, and really they are easy for that guy who used to live down the street from your apartment when you were going through that ugly break-up with that crazy girl who stole your tv and then called the cops and then the cops took your side but turns out you had an outstanding warrant from 2 counties over from that one time your ex-best friend took too many xanax and punched a glass window out and since you were drunk you got charged with disorderly conduct but you never showed up for court because you couldn't take off work and really you didn't have any money to pay the fines anyway. I know that video has been done to death on TH-cam already, but I'd be interested to hear your take on that classic concept.
I’m sure someone else has mentioned this, but Andy plays “Every Breath You Take” in a very easy way. You just don’t barre and hold down all the notes in the chords...simply fret the low notes on the 6th string with your index finger, then move the index fingertip from the 6th string to the 3rd string to complete the arpeggio and then back down to the 6th string to start the cycle again. It has puzzled players for years, but Andy revealed this simple trick long ago...the same trick applies to “Message In A Bottle”...
@@jaguarcarrera Exactly, yet time and again for decades, the overwhelming majority of people fail to play it correctly. There are umpteen live examples as well, including the Synchronicity concert video and the reunion tour, but nearly everyone still fails to play it right.
Came here to say that. Andy moves the index finger for the arpeggios. But the Fm9 still kills my hands because it's still a 4 fret stretch at the long end of the board and all of them are still hard to play cleanly. So to say he plays it in a " very easy way"... Not really.
@@GertvanderDoes It’s easy for me I should say. I’ve never had a problem playing it as Andy plays it. For me, it is a very comfortable and easy way to play it.
here's the thing though...YES..we see him move his fingers around in the vids and live performances... and there is no doubt that he plays it that way to save hand strength...BUT...... when you listen to the original recording, you can clearly hear that the lower notes have RING on them indicating that they are being held throughout the chord. i suspect he recorded it with the full chords and made the decision AFTERWARDS to try to economize the way he would play it for live performance. so both ways are COMPLETELY in play here...
A lot of it gets demystified over time but it can look daunting. I found strengthening my pinky and ring finger was a big step to holding those kind of positions and doing triads. Do pull offs and hammerons with just the pinky and ring finger, or get the finger exerciser on Amazon
Cool response and everything, but notwithstanding how good Frusciante is, he himself woould call himself a minimalist in many of his approaches, and, sorry to tell you, that means it ain't that hard to play.
I just discovered this channel a few days ago and I’ve been watching a lot of them. Not only very entertaining with some great humour, but this guy is an amazing musician that’s for sure. Congratulations on all of your success,Tyler
I got attached to that particular part because of Muse doing it after they perform Hysteria, and eventually performing it with Brian Johnson. Bridge still cooler than Back in Black's solo and main riff imo
It sounds super easy cause it’s in the key of Am which is good for beginner guitarists and it sounds like just arpeggiated power chords with added 7s on top of the chord Guess it’s not in Am. I was wrong. But it is a pretty simple four chord progression
Westin Mcclister No. When I heard it for the first time, I thought it was going to be tricky too. And oh it was! I STILL have a hard time with it. I think part of what makes it a challenge is, in addition to alternate picking it, which is how John Frusciante played it, it's the hammer-ons and pull-offs. I tend to think of it as quarter note triplets superimposed over 16ths. Challenging still is how to get the right feel and keep it from sounding like straight arpeggios.
u could seriously probably do it bro the rhythms are right on top of each other. The fucked up songs to sing and play are things like the tragically hip where the vocal rhythm has nothing to do with the guitar work
I find Mr. brightside to be incredibly tough. The picking takes some time, but its these super unusual chord positions that go from cramped hand to over stretch that I personally really struggle with. My drummer has been asking for it for years....
had to do this in a band I was in and I found the same was such a hard chord hand set was sooo hard - I had said the same comment before reading down so glad I wasn’t alone
Ser Dawg what’s the profile pic? I always see people with it, but what is it, what does it mean? Whoever answers my question will get a gram of cocaine shipped in the mail for free
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When I first kinda got into guitar a long time ago, I remember thinking snow sounded hard, but figured it wouldn't be too bad cause I played a lot of metal. Woo boy was I wrong lmfao
Yeah me too. Totally put it in the “well, I’ll never play this riff” catagory. Came upon the tab 7 years after starting and it’s now in the maybe I’ll play it catagory.
I feel kinda proud after seeing this. I taught myself that Metallica riff with tabs when I was much younger. Not saying I'm any good, because I can't play at all, but I did manage that riff which is kind of cool looking back. Sweet vid!
When you said at the end "this is the hardest thing that guitarist deal with" and the yousician play along ad came along... I almost died of laughter hahahaha
I was hoping I wasn't the only person who thought that For Whom the Bell Tolls riff is difficult even though it sounds easy. It's the first riff I thought of when I saw this title, and I'm glad you included it. I still mess it up to this day. The length of how long Kirk does it doesn't help.
I’ve only been playing guitar for about a year and I learned every breath you take cuz I thought it was a cool song. so to hear you say it’s a challenge made my day haha
Although I'm a bassist, not a guitar player, I would say the song that drove me insane was Get Lucky by Daft Punk. I agreed to perform it with one of my friend's bands for a show they were doing. I'd only been playing bass for less than a year, but I thought it was an easy riff and that I could learn it in a few days. Oh boy was a wrong. Part of the difficulty was the fact that I also was supposed to sing it because the singer of the band said that he just couldn't hit the high notes, but it was so difficult to focus on playing this bassline I barely knew and singing the song. The funny thing was, the show was cancelled last minute due to bad weather conditions, so after hours of me stressing out and trying to learn the part, I didn't even get to play it.
Good idea for a video man. Pretty sure Andy played Every Breath without barring though. It’s all palm muted so when I do it, I fret every note individually. Makes it easier
From the live footage I've seen, it seems like he keeps the same hand position around the different chords, but uses the first finger to alternate fretting the bass note and the major / minor third.
The intro to "This Charming Man" sounds pretty cheap and easy but is surprisingly difficult to count and leads into a really busy verse line. It's great.
The Metallica riff is actually a version of Tony Iommi at the end of Fairies Wear Boots. I loved that riff the second I heard it in '70. The guys in Metallica must have also.
DUDE! My parent's went on a cruise for a week when I was in high school and somewhat new to learning guitar. My buddy brought his half stack over and we jammed the whole week and learned back in black (with my keyboard as drums) and For Whom The Bell Tolls. I was tasked with that riff and it's just weird but I got it after a couple days!
I guessed back in black as soon as I saw it, but I thought it was gonna be the main riff, not the bridge. Getting the main riff's bend so close to the nut was super difficult as a new player
Every breath you take brings back memories. I remember that chord. Jez what a stretch to get it clean. I wasn't the best guitar player but I eventually got it and like anything else you put the effort into it became second nature. Gave up guitar completely in my mid twenties and never really touch one again for a quarter of a century but two weeks ago I suddenly had a notion for playing again so I bought a cheep little Tanglewood acoustic, my fingers are in a hell of a state lol. It's amazing what pops into your head again after all these years but I tried that chord again and was no where near it lol.
Pet peeve for me is that hardly anyone...including Chuck Berry in later versions...ever play the Johnny B. Goode intro correctly. There's a reason that lick is so iconic but it's always over simplified and played in the wrong key. His original recording is rarely matched by anyone.
Having learned most Dave Matthews songs (I was in high school) I've become I immune to my fret hand burning after a few seconds seconds. Cry Freedom and especially Crash into me.
Very nice video, sir. *polite clap* One little tip I would give for people trying to learn "Every Breath You Take" is that you don't have to hold your index (and ring) finger in place for each chord position (which I used to do myself). I was watching the video for the song and noticed Andy Summers actually moves his index finger on the 1 and 3 beats of the arpeggio instead of barring it the whole time. It makes it much easier to play. ;o)
Every breathe you take - If you watch the original video, through the main riff, you can see Andy summers move his main finger between two positions as he plays, INSTEAD of barring the chord. Really interesting, check it out.
There is a misconception that Andy Summers plays this with a rigid left hand, he doesn't. He moves his index finger to reach the first & last notes making the riff 1% easier than a rigid hand.
I actually immediately thought of that exact riff. Although I play it without those jumps to the 7th fret. I use the first and 2nd fret of the a string instead.
Thanx man, I finally got to figure out Snow :) I think keeping the rythm in this part is somewhat challenging also, practicing it with a metronome helped.
When I was a noob at guitar, I always thought Snow was hard. Turns out that practicing alternating picking helped and I could put it down in 2 weeks or so.
The "For whom the bell tolls" lick is actually quite easy if you play it the 'Tallica way :D Start with your pinky fretting the g string at the 12th fret and go from there. No issues with the palm mutes and bared notes on the same frets.
I was going to say the same thing. I always had trouble with it cos the tab I was learning from did it the way he did in the video. Then I saw footage of Kirk playing it with the lowest note on the g string, and it was much simpler.
John Sullivan Oh these tab books are full of flaws. Sometimes it feels like a guy who made them never really sat down and tried to play the songs. They usually make stuff much harder sometimes even unplayable for some reason.
@@kkarx Yup, as a bass player I agree: I've seen tabs that go all the way up and down the fretboard, when the song is played by going up the strings without moving your fretting hand at all.
@@patfix I highly recommend it. I felt like I forgot everything I'd ever learned on guitar while I was there lol. But Mark is a really cool guy and an awesome teacher
I remember trying to learn Snow (Hey Oh) back in highschool, thinking it sounded cool and not to hard, I had just learned how to play too. It drove me absolutely nuts.
"you won't be able to play the riff if you can't move your fingers to the right place fast enough" "that goes for every guitar riff" that made me laugh. you seem like a great guitar teacher. this video is actually very helpful for me as a beginner :)
I mean, yeah. If you already have good alternate picking it doesn’t sound very difficult because what’s hard about it is the chords which you don’t really recognize just hearing it.
every breath you take "this is the nine here" - it's the third, actually. andy summers doesn't play it like this. he doesn't stretch his fingers that much, but rather lifts his index finger.
To me it sounds like those long stretch notes on Every Breath are played staccato which means you don't need to hold them down like a chord. Play them arpeggio style and it's not hard at all. Also it's recorded in A flat so it's even harder if you're trying to hold down the chords. You'll have to borrow some Paul Gilbert fingers. On the other hand Message In A Bottle is the really tricky part to play. I don't think it sounds easy to anyone though so that rules that song out.
@@Bulletbyter Spot on comment. Watch any of the videos of Andy Summers playing this live and he is not holding down the full barre with the first finger - it is moving between the low E and G strings
It's not that hard to play. If you try to play it the same way the guitarist did you'll lose a hand. Try playing the A chord differently. Play A0, D2, G4, D2 and G6 instead. Takes a lot of pressure and stress off your hand for the A chord and lets you rest a little
Judging by the fact that 99.9999% of people don't play it anywhere close to correctly, you might be right. (Seriously, why do so many people play it with power chords? It's so irritating.)
I don't get that either. There are videos of Ritchie himself explaining that it's played with fourths and with fingers. Furthermore, just listen to it and it's not that hard to tell.
For Whom the Bell tolls is definitely deceptively hard in places. It took me a long time to get it right, even more since I had to sing too. Still it's a cool song and it brings back memories of high school playing it live.
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What're some other famous licks that sound easy but are actually difficult?
Cafo - animals as leaders
Hot for teacher (solely because of the stretch)
Music is Win if you would have asked before this video I would have said "Every breath you take" brutal.
im playing guitar for only about a year ( but all the time and by ear ). one of the first licks i taught myself to play is every breath u take, i play it on the strings E A G wich is not as uncomfortable!!! awsome stuff.
intro to "my curse" from killswitch engaged. The chords themselves are easy but transitioning between them cleanly and the picking pattern is difficult, i have seen videos of Adam sort of botching it live.
Damn, Every Breath You Take gave me anxiety as a teenager.
"Hey can you play that song in 2 weeks at your cousin's wedding?"
- "Sure, sounds easy enough." Famous last words.
B20C0 you’d have to be using a finger stretcher for those two weeks
were you able to end up doing it?
Who play's that song in a wedding?
@@longjumpingad3721 still not
You should have cheated using a capo it's a very easy song that way.
I never thought "Snow (Hey Oh)" sounded easy.
I agree that it sounds hard to pick but I didn't realise how hard the chords were aswell!
It scares me whenever i see someone play it
When i first learned to play i i thought it was easy. I learned fast that i made a mistake...
I didn't have as much problem with the chords but when I saw the tablature for the snow hey oh main riff I was like this guy wants my hand to die.
If u use a capo on 4th fret, it becomes easier. The picking pattern us still hard tho
Here’s the best one ever....literally ever.
Play TNT by AC/DC and sing the “oy” at the same time. It’s an old Paul Gilbert exercise I do with my students sometimes. It’s a serious, serious mind melt the first few times you try it. But it sounds SO easy...
bro that’s so true not enough people talk about that😂
hardest. thing. ever.
no. joke.
Yep. Tried it. Brutal.
The problem is I can't really torture my students with this until I can do it myself...
PhabTribute
Haha yeah man....and convincingly.
There’s nothing worse than playing something half baked in front of students
@Bird-Mans Music ... i hate whenever something isnt right about a culture it always means AMERICANS they might be but stop fucking assuming makes you seem so petty
1:05 Snow (Hey Oh)
4:50 Every Breath You Take
7:26 Back in Black
10:05 For Whom The Bell Tolls
every stretch you take, every ligament you break
MilesPerGaming Hahaha 😂
Stevie T😂
hahahaha nice one
Lol
Stevie t
Wtf where's smoke on The water?
Antek K factssss
Antek K you saying smoke on the water is hard?
@@asherb4032 it's a fucking joke you normie
@@momsspaghetti7874 you're a fucking joke, because your comedy sucks really bad. Hope you play better than that at least
@@momsspaghetti7874 "I retell other people's bad jokes because I'm too stupid to realize I'm lame, and derivative."
How do get a guitar player to stop playing?
Give him sheet music.
Haha. Exactly
Steven Anderson sheet music is for nerds
How do you try to get likes?
Use and overused joke.
OH WE GOTTA TOUGH GUY HERE
@@Chair400 Most of the time is necessary if you want to play a song/piece in a very accurate way.
Tabs doesn't really do a good job on setting note duration and "advanced" techniques used in the music
Hardest thing to play: stairway to heaven in any guitar store.
^
@@nathanlibertyreal honestly, I don't know stairway to heaven... I know the entertainer, and sandstorm on the guitar... But not stairway, and don't want to (because I'll want to play it at the store.)
Kill the employees and youre golden
lol
@@nathanlibertyreal I don’t think you got the joke
I timestamped the riffs for people who just want to get to the effin point:
1:09 - Snow - RHCP
5:05 - Every Breath You Take - The Police
7:55 - Back in Black - AC/DC (bridge riff)
10:12 - For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
The hardest thing for a guitar player to play is playing "nothing" and he says it at 12:29. He was trolling.
Hmm, is it just me or does for whom the bell tolls sound a little bit like Tom Sawyer?
Real MVP Right here y'all
I bet you're fun at parties
Thank you, I was getting tired of hearing this dude suck himself off.
@@PatricHerrera Haha, I think you speak for many of us! :D
I gotta say I have very small hands and I never found the chords used in Every breath to be difficult. And I'm talking so small that some girls I know have longer fingers than me. But I make up for it by having a tiny penis as well.
However, size dusnt matter, its whatya doin withit ;)
Hahahaahhaahshshahahshshaha
@Fernando Cunha You know what they say about chicks with big hands...
yo wtf ur literally me lol
@@swapode Big feet
“so stay tuned.”
*PUN INTENDED*
Here's a really REALLY cheap trick for Every breath you take:
Use a capo on the 2nd fret
It's really cheap but it works.
It's not cheating. It's smart ...
Cheers Linus
@@strowbowse c’mon basically every indie band lmao
Amen to capo cheating
I do the exact same thing because I have small hands😂😂
With "Every Breath You Take", it's all muted so you can individually fret each note without having to maintain the chord. You can play it like a scale.
That's how Andy Summers plays it live
I'm so happy that I have freakishly long fingers that I can play this with ease, in fact I can play from the 1st fret on the low e to the 7th fret on the a sting.
@@blockhead-gm5ry what the fuck
Minor Second 😂😂😂
You mean, like an arpeggio...
John Frusciante is a masochist to come up with that for a ballad. He could have played quavers in an arpeggio. Maybe that's why he's a legend.
@Jugizet the vox rhythm is right on top of the guitar. this song is deceptively easy to sing and play at the same time
leetledrummerboy agreed it really is, once you’ve got the guitar part down, you could sing the lead vocals whilst playing the lick if you really wanted to.
*Oh man now I have to try*
He's officially an anime character
this man sold his soul to fender play
Andrew Brown really?
Fender play is youtube but only guitar videos and you have to pay for it. Just use TH-cam!
nah he sold his soul to PRS
Yeah, he should be living in Mom's basement, trolling youtube videos and moaning to his friends about musical purity as they sit huffing glue in a 92 corolla with no 2 doors the same color. THAT"S where it's at.
@@johndorcic4488 haha 😂 that actually made me laugh out loud
Legendary licks that make her eyes roll bac- sorry, my bad, wrong site
Kono Dio da
at 9:47 he does a good imitation!
Give us the site or you wont get the like
@@kentvincentllano He is obviously talking about p sites.
@@vr-virtualreality8875pick? ive lost all my others please let me know the site
Funnily enough, the "play nothing" thing is also a huge part of AC/DC. Lots of guys just want to fill in the empty spaces with random blues licking but the songs really call to back off now and again.
420weedwizard69 Let There Be Rock is a perfect example
The thing that separates AC/DC from all the hacks who think they can play AC/DC because it’s just three chords is that phrasing and sense of space.
I may be stepping over my bounds here as a guitarist, but the intro bass line to 'I Was Made For Loving You' by KISS is quite challenging to play.
Agree
Try Muse's Hysteria Bassline at 100BPM (The original is 85-ish)
Emmy's Gaming Hub learning that right now. True agony
Why would you play that turkey to begin with?
With a pick, yes. Fingerstyle, it’s fine
I hope I didn’t just miss an obvious joke
The Snow riff is what made me want to play guitar 6 years ago. Still cant play it consistently.
damn, you must suck ass at guitar
@@maksimkirandziski9660 Broo💀💀💀💀💀
based joeyy fan
Great video. I'd really like to see you do one about Legendary Licks that you think are hard, but really they are hard, but you think they're easy, and really they are easy for that guy who used to live down the street from your apartment when you were going through that ugly break-up with that crazy girl who stole your tv and then called the cops and then the cops took your side but turns out you had an outstanding warrant from 2 counties over from that one time your ex-best friend took too many xanax and punched a glass window out and since you were drunk you got charged with disorderly conduct but you never showed up for court because you couldn't take off work and really you didn't have any money to pay the fines anyway. I know that video has been done to death on TH-cam already, but I'd be interested to hear your take on that classic concept.
😂😂😂
We gotta get him to actually do this one lmao
hahahaa
Someone's speaking from life experience
Bruh, who hurt yo... Oh, wait. I know...
I’m sure someone else has mentioned this, but Andy plays “Every Breath You Take” in a very easy way. You just don’t barre and hold down all the notes in the chords...simply fret the low notes on the 6th string with your index finger, then move the index fingertip from the 6th string to the 3rd string to complete the arpeggio and then back down to the 6th string to start the cycle again. It has puzzled players for years, but Andy revealed this simple trick long ago...the same trick applies to “Message In A Bottle”...
Not so secret though... It's clearly visible in the official video. Andy looks in the camera when he plays it.
@@jaguarcarrera Exactly, yet time and again for decades, the overwhelming majority of people fail to play it correctly. There are umpteen live examples as well, including the Synchronicity concert video and the reunion tour, but nearly everyone still fails to play it right.
Came here to say that. Andy moves the index finger for the arpeggios. But the Fm9 still kills my hands because it's still a 4 fret stretch at the long end of the board and all of them are still hard to play cleanly. So to say he plays it in a " very easy way"... Not really.
@@GertvanderDoes It’s easy for me I should say. I’ve never had a problem playing it as Andy plays it. For me, it is a very comfortable and easy way to play it.
here's the thing though...YES..we see him move his fingers around in the vids and live performances... and there is no doubt that he plays it that way to save hand strength...BUT...... when you listen to the original recording, you can clearly hear that the lower notes have RING on them indicating that they are being held throughout the chord. i suspect he recorded it with the full chords and made the decision AFTERWARDS to try to economize the way he would play it for live performance. so both ways are COMPLETELY in play here...
Snow has really forced me to decide if I want to be a guitarist or not
Snow made the decision easier for me: I mastered it in a couple weeks
A lot of it gets demystified over time but it can look daunting. I found strengthening my pinky and ring finger was a big step to holding those kind of positions and doing triads. Do pull offs and hammerons with just the pinky and ring finger, or get the finger exerciser on Amazon
@@juanpablogaleano5559 probably sounds like booty
Lmao my guitar instructor made me learn message in a bottle on acoustic so basically I am an octopus now
Goat that’ll get ya
Lmao
I learned that riff on an accoustic first and that's when I discovered my long-stretching ability
I feel you, I've been trying to learn Every Breath You Take on classical guitar
Random Guy oof
No idea how anyone could think any RHCP song is easy. John Frusciante is a goddamn maniac.
Californication?
Klio Life Don’t forget “Desecration Smile”
maniac..
Cool response and everything, but notwithstanding how good Frusciante is, he himself woould call himself a minimalist in many of his approaches, and, sorry to tell you, that means it ain't that hard to play.
some are , but you are right, he is a goddamn legend.
The hardest lick for any guitarist is sight reading.
Sight reading becomes useless when you can pick up the song by ear
Honestly thou, you right. 100 percent
got any tabs for that lick?
@@didds8869 that would be cheating...
Or reading sheet music
I just discovered this channel a few days ago and I’ve been watching a lot of them. Not only very entertaining with some great humour, but this guy is an amazing musician that’s for sure. Congratulations on all of your success,Tyler
"So, just get the rythm down!"
* Reggae version of Snow (Hey Oh) kicks in *
Oi look at that. Someone played something besides the Solo and intro of Back In Black.
Chris Fusina that part of the song is the best part
I got attached to that particular part because of Muse doing it after they perform Hysteria, and eventually performing it with Brian Johnson. Bridge still cooler than Back in Black's solo and main riff imo
_proceeds to play back in black intro_ 9:20
@@2k13Ghost MUUUUSE
but yeah, the performance with Brian Johnson is glorious
Next up - licks that sound hard..and are! First nomination: Spirit of Radio - Rush
Jm - neon !
Nice idea, Yes-Clap mine suggestion.
@Shrill Bear the first tapping part ain't difficult, but later.. oh god
Zomby Woof - Frank Zappa
Intervals - Fable main riff
Snow is the horror for a debutant who thinks that's its simple
paul khederchah
I play the bass line, it’s super easy.
its also really exhausting
It sounds super easy cause it’s in the key of Am which is good for beginner guitarists and it sounds like just arpeggiated power chords with added 7s on top of the chord
Guess it’s not in Am. I was wrong. But it is a pretty simple four chord progression
Am I the only one who heard it and thought it would be brutal?
Westin Mcclister No. When I heard it for the first time, I thought it was going to be tricky too. And oh it was! I STILL have a hard time with it. I think part of what makes it a challenge is, in addition to alternate picking it, which is how John Frusciante played it, it's the hammer-ons and pull-offs. I tend to think of it as quarter note triplets superimposed over 16ths. Challenging still is how to get the right feel and keep it from sounding like straight arpeggios.
You're actually playing the bridge section just like Angus Young, good man
4:24 now play it while you're singing ..
God, i sweer frusciante is son kind of cyborg !
u could seriously probably do it bro the rhythms are right on top of each other. The fucked up songs to sing and play are things like the tragically hip where the vocal rhythm has nothing to do with the guitar work
Singing isnt hard if you get the rhyrhm
I find Mr. brightside to be incredibly tough. The picking takes some time, but its these super unusual chord positions that go from cramped hand to over stretch that I personally really struggle with. My drummer has been asking for it for years....
The JMR Experience I know!! It’s harder than every breath you take for me
I agree
had to do this in a band I was in and I found the same was such a hard chord hand set was sooo hard - I had said the same comment before reading down so glad I wasn’t alone
The intro or the whole song?
Wow I never even really thought about it but just thinking about it, it does sound tough
“Stay Tuned” definitely a pun that I never heard of before about a million times already
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"To play nothing is the most difficult thing to play on the guitar" True words.
5:57 he’s pointing the middle finger
"This is the hardest thing to play" * ad starts immediately after* hahaha that was great timing
When I first kinda got into guitar a long time ago, I remember thinking snow sounded hard, but figured it wouldn't be too bad cause I played a lot of metal. Woo boy was I wrong lmfao
Honorable mention, Shape of my Heart by Sting. The chords position and progression are hard 😆
The Lil Wayne-Solo sounds easy... but its not, Only Lil Wayne can pull that one off ;)
can't*
Yuporn Fukadong Hes like.. Above us, like a god or something.
The notes are easy. But getting that of timing feeling makes it really hard, 😂
It's so hard to get his time, and even his way to play. Is too easy but because is easy it becames hard...
Well there is some major syncopation and hammer ons that are very complex so........Yeah
I remember being a beginner looking up the tab to snow (hey oh) and I was like wtf is going on here
Yeah me too. Totally put it in the “well, I’ll never play this riff” catagory. Came upon the tab 7 years after starting and it’s now in the maybe I’ll play it catagory.
Brilliant video concept. Also that strat is 😍
Omg i am a huge fan of yours🤩🤩
Aayooo huge fan Sir
I feel kinda proud after seeing this. I taught myself that Metallica riff with tabs when I was much younger. Not saying I'm any good, because I can't play at all, but I did manage that riff which is kind of cool looking back. Sweet vid!
When you said at the end "this is the hardest thing that guitarist deal with" and the yousician play along ad came along... I almost died of laughter hahahaha
Every breath you take is the og for this video. We all thought it’d be easy before we learned the chords
I was hoping I wasn't the only person who thought that For Whom the Bell Tolls riff is difficult even though it sounds easy. It's the first riff I thought of when I saw this title, and I'm glad you included it. I still mess it up to this day. The length of how long Kirk does it doesn't help.
I’ve only been playing guitar for about a year and I learned every breath you take cuz I thought it was a cool song. so to hear you say it’s a challenge made my day haha
You actually made Snow look easier than it sounds. How?
Thats what years of practice looks like dude
That riff has never sounded difficult.. because it's not.
It took me 3 years to get this up to tempo
@@uncomfortableshirt it isn't easy at all
@@aj1533 If you're a regular guitar player, and learning "snow" is hard for you... you need to practice a lot more
I like the sound of the strat he is using
I have this exact same Strat. I love it!
@@Beserker3737 is it an American Special? just curious, i love the 70s head stock?
agreed. I couldnt help but get distracted by the thought that I absolutely love the sound of that first guitar he was playing
Yea me too I’m not really big on fender either
Я like the sound of you shutting the fuck up
3:44 no kidding my left pinky started to hurt when you said "the pinky holding the heaviest string
5:24 is the moment where he realises he needs a thumbnail.
Snow is such a beautiful song. Definitely wanna learn it once I get some more experience under my belt.
When you played snow I thought you played the studio recording
Yeah even the subtle palm mutes are there.
fr tho lmao it sounded amazing
@@anthonyschultz296 for real tho laughing my ass off it sounded amazing?
It's a cool tune. I do like Castles Made Of Sand better. That one is hard to nail!
Although I'm a bassist, not a guitar player, I would say the song that drove me insane was Get Lucky by Daft Punk. I agreed to perform it with one of my friend's bands for a show they were doing. I'd only been playing bass for less than a year, but I thought it was an easy riff and that I could learn it in a few days. Oh boy was a wrong. Part of the difficulty was the fact that I also was supposed to sing it because the singer of the band said that he just couldn't hit the high notes, but it was so difficult to focus on playing this bassline I barely knew and singing the song. The funny thing was, the show was cancelled last minute due to bad weather conditions, so after hours of me stressing out and trying to learn the part, I didn't even get to play it.
damn!
Post a video cover of it while singing man!
post a cover haha
got me curious how hard could it be so I searched for a video and dang... + singing? I commend you
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Singing while playing bass is hard af mate cuz u using ur pulse.
Licks that sound easy but are hard: back in black was a difficult one.
Licks that sound hard but are easy: ERUPTION.
The only easy part of eruption is the tapping even tho most people do it wrong anyways
huh eruption is easy ? bruh
In what universe is eruption easy bro?
Who would ever assume that Snow is easy? Even in high school I was impressed to see one person able to do it at full speed.
Good idea for a video man. Pretty sure Andy played Every Breath without barring though. It’s all palm muted so when I do it, I fret every note individually. Makes it easier
From the live footage I've seen, it seems like he keeps the same hand position around the different chords, but uses the first finger to alternate fretting the bass note and the major / minor third.
The intro to "This Charming Man" sounds pretty cheap and easy but is surprisingly difficult to count and leads into a really busy verse line. It's great.
Johnny Marr has a lot of really good licks that are harder than they seem for sure
So cool having the car “Kit” from knight rider behind you When you’re playing guitar. 💪
The Metallica riff is actually a version of Tony Iommi at the end of Fairies Wear Boots. I loved that riff the second I heard it in '70. The guys in Metallica must have also.
Totally right. I never put that together even though those are two songs I've loved since I was about 12 or 13.
Yes they loved the fuck out of Sabbath
Yeah I noticed that to way back when I learned them. But I learned them both in 7th grade and never found either one hard.
Elix Tido and what’s funny in Black Sabbath version of it is even faster and it’s in the key of G.
Alex Williamson's blind adventures Gm, but yeah it is a lil faster but I always thought was easier.
Snow sounds so sick the way you play it, good stuff dude
The minor add9 chord is my favorite chord, without a doubt, it sounds so hauntingly beautiful.
DUDE! My parent's went on a cruise for a week when I was in high school and somewhat new to learning guitar. My buddy brought his half stack over and we jammed the whole week and learned back in black (with my keyboard as drums) and For Whom The Bell Tolls. I was tasked with that riff and it's just weird but I got it after a couple days!
When you see the SG, you know that AC/DC is coming
Or the doors 🎸
Weirdly as soon as I saw the SG, highway to hell started playing in my head. I wasn't far off 🤘
I guessed back in black as soon as I saw it, but I thought it was gonna be the main riff, not the bridge. Getting the main riff's bend so close to the nut was super difficult as a new player
All the delay and reverb he put on it wasn't very AC/DC-like though... They usually just crank up their amps and that's it
Radiohead :) but thom doesn't do hard licks so
Just watching how you played "every breath you take" hurt my fingers
I find Mastodon riffs hard and they sound easy, but I also suck so it could just be that
gregfox they’re not necessarily hard, but they are definitely weird af and that might be why they seem hard
Mastodon likes to use open strings a LOT.
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You probably don’t suck those two are BEASTS
I saw them live up close and the only I picked up was
a Billy K pick off the floor
Every breath you take brings back memories. I remember that chord. Jez what a stretch to get it clean. I wasn't the best guitar player but I eventually got it and like anything else you put the effort into it became second nature. Gave up guitar completely in my mid twenties and never really touch one again for a quarter of a century but two weeks ago I suddenly had a notion for playing again so I bought a cheep little Tanglewood acoustic, my fingers are in a hell of a state lol. It's amazing what pops into your head again after all these years but I tried that chord again and was no where near it lol.
Pet peeve for me is that hardly anyone...including Chuck Berry in later versions...ever play the Johnny B. Goode intro correctly. There's a reason that lick is so iconic but it's always over simplified and played in the wrong key. His original recording is rarely matched by anyone.
Chuck is God. I want everyone here to go play with their ding-a-ling!
Having learned most Dave Matthews songs (I was in high school) I've become I immune to my fret hand burning after a few seconds seconds.
Cry Freedom and especially Crash into me.
0:08 got me to like. What an overwhelming amount of charm and charisma
This charming man by the smiths. Brutal for a lovely song.
Ryan Kelsey A lot of Johnny Marr’s guitar work sounds simple but is deceptively difficult
Think that’s hard? Try playing the Headmaster Ritual
Very nice video, sir. *polite clap*
One little tip I would give for people trying to learn "Every Breath You Take" is that you don't have to hold your index (and ring) finger in place for each chord position (which I used to do myself). I was watching the video for the song and noticed Andy Summers actually moves his index finger on the 1 and 3 beats of the arpeggio instead of barring it the whole time. It makes it much easier to play. ;o)
Every breathe you take - If you watch the original video, through the main riff, you can see Andy summers move his main finger between two positions as he plays, INSTEAD of barring the chord. Really interesting, check it out.
Smoke on the water is actually the hardest song to play on the guitar
Yeah, because its the first song you play as noobie XD
Lmao
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin so much is harder
You tried ANY DragonForce song? 😂
@@chuggsworth6283 here come the flashbacks
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There is a misconception that Andy Summers plays this with a rigid left hand, he doesn't. He moves his index finger to reach the first & last notes making the riff 1% easier than a rigid hand.
Haha as soon as you pulled out th SG i know your about to go ACDC LMAOOO
I actually immediately thought of that exact riff. Although I play it without those jumps to the 7th fret. I use the first and 2nd fret of the a string instead.
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wash your mouth out, that is not a fucking SG
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Thanx man, I finally got to figure out Snow :) I think keeping the rythm in this part is somewhat challenging also, practicing it with a metronome helped.
The main riff from UFO's "Rock Bottom".
The Intro to Mr. Big's "Green Tinted Sixties Mind"
When I was a noob at guitar, I always thought Snow was hard. Turns out that practicing alternating picking helped and I could put it down in 2 weeks or so.
Thanks for the tip, im close to nailing it.
I originally cheated, put a capo on the 4 and you could pick through an em c g and d and it was really easy, until I learned the actual way.
Xtremex HyprShot I used to do that too, until I realized that it doesnt sound authentic enough.
I can get it as fast as the original, even faster..... By fingering 😂
Otherwise I'm about 20-30% slower, but I'm improving
AAK Music The riff is not hard, what's hard is playing it for like 2 minutes straight
The "For whom the bell tolls" lick is actually quite easy if you play it the 'Tallica way :D Start with your pinky fretting the g string at the 12th fret and go from there. No issues with the palm mutes and bared notes on the same frets.
I was going to say the same thing. I always had trouble with it cos the tab I was learning from did it the way he did in the video. Then I saw footage of Kirk playing it with the lowest note on the g string, and it was much simpler.
John Sullivan Oh these tab books are full of flaws. Sometimes it feels like a guy who made them never really sat down and tried to play the songs. They usually make stuff much harder sometimes even unplayable for some reason.
@@kkarx Yup, as a bass player I agree: I've seen tabs that go all the way up and down the fretboard, when the song is played by going up the strings without moving your fretting hand at all.
Watched this video 3 years ago, and am finally coming back to it able to play every riff showcased. :D
9:48 Smelled a fart.
Lmao
That was hilarious!
Fan of TN4P or Sons of Arkham? Deaf people appreciate a good toot too
lmfao
Tremonti made sure I'm practiced in those Add9 type stretches. Cool video!
Did you take his master class? That is still one of the coolest things I've ever done
prsmantse1 nope, but will keep it in mind next time AB comes to town!
Pull Me Under first verse riff has some nice Add9 stretches. Once you got it, its not too bad...except at the nut...lol. Fadd9...YAY!
@@patfix I highly recommend it. I felt like I forgot everything I'd ever learned on guitar while I was there lol. But Mark is a really cool guy and an awesome teacher
I remember trying to learn Snow (Hey Oh) back in highschool, thinking it sounded cool and not to hard, I had just learned how to play too.
It drove me absolutely nuts.
Tyler: Starts talking about triads and the chords for Snow (Hey-Oh)
Me: Gets my Mel Bay's guitar chords book
This guy is fantastic. Makes me want to point out the same things, but on BASS.
"you won't be able to play the riff if you can't move your fingers to the right place fast enough" "that goes for every guitar riff" that made me laugh. you seem like a great guitar teacher. this video is actually very helpful for me as a beginner :)
Did anyone really think Snow was easy? GTFO.
Uhhhhh how long have you been playing, cowboy? lol
@@all_invite_0hm even for experienced guitar player it's no seven Nation army.
I mean, yeah. If you already have good alternate picking it doesn’t sound very difficult because what’s hard about it is the chords which you don’t really recognize just hearing it.
What does gtfo mean?
@@someperson9052 It means Get The Fuck Out.
I guess the hardest thing to do for a guitar player is reading sheet music
every breath you take
"this is the nine here" - it's the third, actually. andy summers doesn't play it like this. he doesn't stretch his fingers that much, but rather lifts his index finger.
I think reminding guitar players that they're allowed to get out of the way of the other musicians is pretty important
Unless it's the bassist
A concept Frusciante was a master of
Every Breath you take is a fret hand killer. I agree. Way harder to play then what it seems. Good song picks for showing hard riffs that sound easy.
@@AlfaRomeoQ message in a bottle is easier imo at least for me
Purple Rain is also quite difficult
To me it sounds like those long stretch notes on Every Breath are played staccato which means you don't need to hold them down like a chord. Play them arpeggio style and it's not hard at all. Also it's recorded in A flat so it's even harder if you're trying to hold down the chords. You'll have to borrow some Paul Gilbert fingers. On the other hand Message In A Bottle is the really tricky part to play. I don't think it sounds easy to anyone though so that rules that song out.
@@Bulletbyter Spot on comment. Watch any of the videos of Andy Summers playing this live and he is not holding down the full barre with the first finger - it is moving between the low E and G strings
It's not that hard to play. If you try to play it the same way the guitarist did you'll lose a hand. Try playing the A chord differently. Play A0, D2, G4, D2 and G6 instead. Takes a lot of pressure and stress off your hand for the A chord and lets you rest a little
Nice sounding strat, Tyler!
As soon as he grabbed the SG I knew it was that Riff. It's true, that pull off really is hard to ... pull off
Just saw that thumbnail that had the 2 songs I was just practicing...
oh cmon everyone knows the hardest thing to play is smoke on the water
Judging by the fact that 99.9999% of people don't play it anywhere close to correctly, you might be right.
(Seriously, why do so many people play it with power chords? It's so irritating.)
I don't get that either. There are videos of Ritchie himself explaining that it's played with fourths and with fingers. Furthermore, just listen to it and it's not that hard to tell.
Sweet home Alabama.
The correct answer is actually Real American - Hulk Hogan Theme Song.
@@Wallychans idk that nwo theme song is pretty gnarly
For Whom the Bell tolls is definitely deceptively hard in places. It took me a long time to get it right, even more since I had to sing too. Still it's a cool song and it brings back memories of high school playing it live.