Top 10 Hardest Rock Songs to Play On The Guitar
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These rock songs will give your guitar skills a serious run for their money. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and join us as we count down the top 10 hardest rock songs to play on the guitar. Whether it’s tracks from Dream Theater, Metallica, Dragon Force, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, The Smiths, Animals as Leaders or Van Halen, these guitar riffs will make you re-think the fretboard.
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01:05 #10. "This Charming Man" (1983)
02:23 #9. "Little Wing" (1967)
03:40 #8. "Snow ((Hey Oh))" (2006)
04:53 #7. "Master of Puppets" (1986)
05:52 #6. "Scene Seven I. The Dance of Eternity" (1999)
06:57 #5. "Through the Fire and Flames" (2006)
08:07 #4. "CAFO" (2009)
09:04 #3, #2 and #1 ???
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whoever put this list together doesn't actually play guitar.
the smiths? come on.
Calvin Lee dude when i saw Metallica & RHCP I no longer took this list seriously lol. Even eruption is somewhat easy to play being mostly pentatonic there's harder VH songs like Spanish Fly. No Yngwie, Synyster Gates, or Nuno, but Kirk Hammett, the laughing stock of the guitar world, makes the list . Fancy techniques do not beat pure dexterity on the fretboard. I know people who may be "more technical" but can't play solos as basic as Crazy Train. I hear the same applies to Tosin Abasi, my buddy saw him live and said he sucks, all he can do is do that tapping crap.
just to be clear, the smiths rule, but the guitar isn't difficult; just well written.
+Johnny Riddle yeah, it's a pretty bad list. not sure about tosin abasi though. maybe all he does is crazy tapping (i dont really listen to his band) but he does that crazy tapping really, really well. (i sure couldn't do it.)
Calvin Lee on second thought, you're right, he is great at what he does, and I forgot that this was a list about the actual songs, not the players themselves. I quit learning multiple songs because that goes way above my head. Albeit unconventional, his playing is very unique and I have to retract my previous statement about him because it is pretty damn hard now that I think about it lol.
Agree!
& 'Eruption' as the #1 pick? Sure it may be a challenge to some, but as it is pretty much a pure guitar solo solo(w/o other band elements), any decent rascal that has worked it out at least once can fake it well enough for the local drunks at the tavern down the strip. Basically, given as easy as the riff is to learn well enough for casual performance and it be the #1 pick indicates the whole list is but a joke despite a few mention ones being worthy such as 'Sultans of Swing', but there are plenty of rock songs that have more demanding guitar duties that can easily prove to be very tricky to pull off, especially live than most on this list. It would appear that a non musician and a novice guitarist put this list together as if it sounds difficult, then it must be so. There are plenty of tricky rascals even within the more popular realm of rock music that can mess any good musician up even if it is just the nature of the rhythmic nuances and patterns, etc.
now, we know there's no guitarist on watchmojo
yup.
“So do you agree with our list?” Ha! no.
I agree. Also who wrote this script for this video I hope they get fired.
:o
This charming man dosent deserve to be on this list I learned it my second year
Guitarists with short fingers will understand:
Every Breath You Take
Dude it's not that hard....watch the live version....look at his index finger
@@rutajitbharadwaj4174 ik is not that hard, i covered it at school like a year ago
I'm saying that when you have short fingers it's hard, i tried it when i was 11 or 12 and i couldn't play it
i covered it at 16 effortlessly, so, my point is the length of the fingers, not the techniques or anything else
Snow (Hey Oh) - RHCP
@@ralelunar If you know your chords, and you have a strong pinky it's really easy.
Should've played bass
Really???? -_-
Sulthans of swing is harder than dream theatre and animals as leaders???
Ye
Actually it is
Sultans of swing is really difficult to master, the fingerpicking is another thing to master as well, which is not easy.
Yup.
Yup its dam hard
Watch mojo: “pinch harmonies”
All guitarists: -_-
I remember playing one by accident and showing it to my teacher and expecting am actual response, he promptly outshredded me in 2 minutes
George's garlic Bread , lmao. He’s like “theres this cool thing called diminished 7th arpeggios”
@@interesting_tuna i asked him for Tabs Just a few hours ago, he gave me the tabs and also sheets if i wanted to play with My own touch and to learn the theory, he actually uses a Lot of Diminished sweeps and He seems to really love A Phyrgian as well.... i dont really know if i can play it ;-;
George's garlic Bread , phrygian is cool but ask him what Super Locrian is 😦🤤
Having some trouble finding Dimebag Darrell
why not make a top 10 shitty and pointless watchmojo videos?
xxthefeardxx honourable mention is every video that was not on the list
xxthefeardxx I agree XD
I'm sure they're working on it. Lol!
I agree, but there is a bit too much to choose from
perfect commentary.
The hardest rock guitar riff ever is Come As You Are, it took me almost a decade to play the second note
bruh your pathetic, it took me 9 years 11 months and 30 days to get the second string down. get on my level
@@paulmacdonald1408 "Whos the most pathetic competition" lol
you must be a guitar god it took me about 10 lifetimes to get to the third note
@@loloisback775 I’m the inventor of the guitar, and I still haven’t been able to play the second note
All of you hold my whats a guitar?🤣🤣🤣
In 1980, Eddie Van Halen was asked - "What does it feel like to be the best rock n roll guitarist in the world?" His response was "I don't know... ask Alex Lifeson." La Villa Strangiato should be on this list. As a matter of fact, you can hear parts of La Villa in Eruption.
La villa isn't even the hardest rush Song. Something like Freewill is the hardest rush Song
Brought to you by people who have never picked up a guitar!!
rastan3 exactly what I thought since the beginning when I saw sweet child o mine 😂 idek why this video was on my recommend videos
Show us you playing them pal.
At least half of these (ahem, Van Halen) are songs you learn on the way to learning the hard stuff.
@@nouvelhomme8990 exactly what I thought. Eruption #1, just about every guitarist plays this one, and most do a pretty damn good job at it.
U don't know these people don't play guitar for sure
This guy has no idea what he's talking about
Who in God's name would pronounce tremolo like that
TremOLO
Master of puppets: ... If you took kirks path you get the full load of James and tremolo picking, alternate picking and pinch HARMONIES
wow really hard stuff
yes i play guitar
Trem oh low. Jeeze go back to kindergarten narrator.
Wouldn't it be different for Canada? Where these guys are from?
Jimmy hartigan 1st of all ur profile pic is the best 2nd of all ur right
4:26 he doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about. He’s just using big words. I’m a guitarist, can confirm
Tre Rossi you just described this whole video
He’s just saying chord a whole bunch of times
@@matthewtaylor1785 Yo, dog, I hear you like chords...
Haha, yeah man, it was the Frusciante section that was especially irritating.
Fr
MoJo: “So, do you agree with our list?”
Me: Ha! No!
(Y) s ame
Do you know the meme I’m referring to?
Is that a Hazbin Hotel reference?
"Top 10 Hardest Rock Songs to Play On The Guitar"
*sweet child of mine intro*
sindre reinertsen it’s the solo that’s playing
The solo still isn’t in the top 10 hardest things to play on the guitar
pieceofcard _ I know the solo is pretty hard the but it doesn’t compare to some of the stuff on here
Parmae it is it took my like a day to master the guitar solo
@Ronald Ames YES the outro solo!
WatchMojo: TremOLO picking
Me, a guitarist: ----_---
It was almost the first thing I learned to do lol
Am I the only one who finds the intro to through the fire and flames kinda easy
@@floydfreeman1318 no
@@floydfreeman1318 nope
@@floydfreeman1318 please don't sprinkle salt over our open wounds ...
I love how all the songs they show in the intro are harder than the ones on the actual list (except Dream Theater and Animals as Leaders)
Except sweet child o mine. That's easier than 8 of the songs on the list
Eruption is so much easier than tender surrender. RIP Eddie ♥️
yup Eruptions is the type of songs that people who dont play guitar thinks is fricking hard, but is actually easy
Its actually easy to play (for a seasoned player), it just sounds like its hard.
True. I could play Eruption when I was 15
Eruption is extremely difficult to play properly.
Tons of people can "play" it. Not a whole lot play it correctly.
@@RyanMonty Even if I grant you that, hardest of all time? What about jazz based stuff like Chon that's full of complex chords that lead into each other so there's zero room for error or some Steely Dan songs like Your Gold Teeth ii that change keys about 20 times in one solo?
10.This Charming Man (1983)
• The Smiths
9. Little Wing (1967)
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience
8. Snow [ Hey Oh ] ( 2006)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. Master of Puppets (1986)
• Metallica
6. Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity
•Dream Theatre
5. Through the Fire and Flames (2006)
• Dragon Force
4. CAFO (2009)
• Animals as Leaders
3. Sultan's of Swing (1978)
• Dire Straits
2. Cliff's of Dover (1990)
• Eric Johnson
1. Eruption (1978)
• Van Halen
Here you go. You just saved your 13:37 min. Thanx me later ✌✌😜😜
correction 1. Eruption - Van Halen
Dskay「Tetris」 ty bro
gaurav arya np m8
I just knew This Charming Man was going to be here..
arunk2784 same to you bro🖕🖕
I've never missed a note on my air guitar.
Choochoo , Best comment Lmao.
Me too I can be faster than Becker and Synyster Gates thanks to air guitar!
Chris M ok
choochoochooseyou me to i can destroy stairway to heaven on my baby blue air guitar
I have 300 air guitars in my collection.
Every time this guy says “taps” I want to die
Taps can be very hard
But of all the songs with tapping they chose eruption?
but the what he said is actually correct!
How is sultans of swing higher than through the fire and flames?
This is like troll list
THE SOLO ON SULTANS OF SWING ISNT HARD LMAOOOO
How is Eruption higher than through the fire and flames? It's the same technique only at warp speed and like 10 mins long
@@Yoursoulismine814 If it is the same techinque why would you put TTFAF above eruption?
@@martinculiaoo Sheer run time if nothing else. It's hard to keep up that speed and intensity for 8 mins straight.
Smoke On the Water is the hardest song to play on guitar
Rolling Rock people don't play it write...
Right*
Ha-Ha we get it.
Rolling Rock no it is not my dad can play it
Rolling Rock eruption*
"Now, our number one." -Smoke on the Water begins
Plz not that song.. It's classified
I leant it for my first song on my gutair so no its not hard
Flameblast73 bruh...
Definitely the hardest one
🤣
@@flameblast7364 r/whooooosh
Ah yes, just like every guitarist would say
"video game noises"
WatchMojo: 10 hardest rock songs.
Half of the songs: Is Metal.
Metal is a denomination of rock
@@chadmarx7718 exactly lol, it's just faster, angrier rock
@@peterstefan6900 metal isn't necessarily faster. Speed and Thrash metal are fast but Metal in general aren't fast. Listen to Black Sabbath's Ironman for example.
@@DreiK96 or literally every doom metal band
this list was made by a bunch of people that have never been in the same room as a guitar...
WatchMojo is your generic top10 show. They might have some picks that are decent, but they rarely have an intimate relationship to the topics they're working on.
Ahaha!! nice
Where tf is Buckethead and Yngwie Malmsteen on this list? Buckethead's done some crazy stuff with noises and he shreds like a god, and I seriously can't believe they didn't put even one song from Malmsteen in the list (even though there's a clip of Arpeggios from Hell) when he has written songs ten times harder than and more intricate than most of the songs on this list. Just because these songs may be somewhat difficult does not mean they are the hardest.
WobSucksAtLife IKR eruption isn’t even FUCKING HARD ITS JUST WHAMMY DIVES AND TAPPING LITERALLY whoever made this is a fucking idiot he didn’t even pronounce tremolo right tf
@@wob6776 I guess they used the term "rock" here a bit loosely. But yeah, I was also wondering why throw in clips of some virtuosos who are not on the actual list, but better than most in it.
Anyways, anything by Jason Becker would mop the floor with this list.
I kill all of these songs on guitar hero
Jack Mills
The key words there being "guitar" and "hero"
Steve Callanan Jesus Christ bro learn sarcasm
It might be hard to believe but I ain't jesus christ and I'll only learn sarcasm if you learn to play the guitar😜😂
Steve Callanan I'll learn guitar when you can grow facial hair or lose your virginity
Hahaha done and done😂 you'll have to give me something better than that seeing as you were giving me god standards originally
my 13 y/o brother can play master of puppets lol. you should have included some rings of saturn.
YES YOU ARE SO RIGHT I HAVE BEEN PLAYING GUITAR FOR 2 YEARS MASTER OF PUPPETS TORNADO OF SOULS WAS EASY BUT THIS RINGS OF SATURN MAN I CANT PLAY IT LMAO THIS INADEQUATE IS SO HARD
@@cqnc1212 upload a cover then
@@bobanalhair1622 You're on. Mark my words: Me a 15 year old who has been playing guitar for a year will upload this cover.
@Stew Daly It's coming, I assure you.
@@themacleod3893 better be all downstrokes
Anyone else here from music is win?
Yep.
Yes
Yea
So you are telling me that dragon force is easier to play than eruption. Ok
And cliffs of Dover lol
Eruption is hands down the most overhyped guitar piece of all time in terms of difficulty
@@jamiemacmillan4056 true
@@jessejive117 LOL even Guitar Hero players know Dragonforce is harder than Cliffs of Dover
@@jamiemacmillan4056 eruption was the first of its kind so it gets credit there. But yea i agree
Hearing this guy try to talk technical makes me chuckle.
You mean read? Hah!!
taps, Taps, TAPS!!!
TREMOLO PICKING
@@amiterez1356 hammer ons and pull offs.
Watching you try to type the English language makes me chuckle lol... you're a fucking inbred idiot LOL
Dyer’s Eve should be here instead of Master of Puppets.
It's quite insulting to put any 80's Metallica song into "Rock" category...
creeping death is more difficult if you play properly. The down strokes are terrible
Vasco Theron Only the main riff is hard tho, the rest of the song isn’t that hard except the solo. Dyer’s is hard throughout the whole song.
Try Section B of The Frayed End of Sanity
XXX Tobi The whole song has to be hard for it to be on this list and the A section is pretty simple.
The dooo played through the fire and flames so well, Li Herman said he wanted guitar lessons from the dooo.
Looks like a list made by a non-guitarist, how is Eruption more difficult than Cliffs of Dover?
also Animals as Leaders is rock now lol
uhh have you listened to both songs?
MadDogReed97 No eruption is actually pretty fucking easy, it just looks hard
+Austin Moser Dude, calling it easy is just being in denial, I mean it may not be the hardest, but Damn son, the live version is undeniably hard, it's like a 10 minute shredathon.
MadDogReed97 OK the record version is not very difficult definitely not difficult enough to be #1 the live version is whole other thing
Normal people's perspective: oh damn that's hard alright!!
Guitarists perspective: He pronounced tremolo wrong for fuck sakes!!
Sodium Tetraborate... You're right. In fact it should more properly be called a 'vibrato' bar because it alters the pitch. Tremolo is a whole other effect and is usually on the amp or done with a pedal.
Sodium Tetraborate IKR
The second one is also any Italian's perspective. When will you ever learn to put the right accent on Italian words? XD
xzn1989 Hahahaha good one, I didn't see that coming.
naming Eddie Van Halen's Eruption as number one must be a joke
POV: you watched music is win’s video reviewing this video
Yes 💀💀
Who's music is win?
You got me
@@Fragments_Ov_Shattered_Malice_ it’s a guitar you tuber
@@gloglogabgolabfilms6077 oh really?
Edit: so i just checked him out and he has 1M subscribers, I'm surprised I never heard if him
6:56 actually the calllalalacallalalalcoloolo riff is pretty easy tbh
The solo rapes your fingers tho
Most of these arent really hard if you are somewhat decent on guitar.
the list is bullshit, i can easily play sultans of swing, snow or that smiths song but CAFO is way out of my league
Justo Lanuse As may be Dream Theater's.
it is hard when you have to be on stage and get in sync with the rest of the band. alone it definitely is easier.
"Eruption" by Van Halen will kick your ass.
Simonne that's a finger tapping solo, beginners stuff.
Let's get this straight, "Taps" is a piece that is played when someone has died. "Tapping" is a technique used on the guitar.
Well, I want tapping at my funeral.
@@StamfordBridge "WELL GOOD LUCK BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA NEED YOUR FENDER STRATOCASTER AND HAVE TO ARPEGGIO AND HAMMER ON AND PULL OF AND TREMOLO AND ALTERNATE PICK YOUR PINCH HARMONIES TO GET TAPPING RIGHT!" - probably some dude at watchmojo
Taps is (was? Idk) also the military curfew bugle
12:03
So... if eruption is number one...
I could play satriani like a master.
Watch mojo let's put extreme power metal in top rock countdown --
Herman li be like wtf just happened here
No Santana, no Satriani, no Malmsteen, no Buckethead; hell, Jerry Cantrell deserves to be on this list more than most of the people on it.
no Jason Richardson- Titan
The guitarist you mentioned scuks. Overrated
@Jason Talbot Lolllllllll
What about Alan Holdsworth?
0:40
This people don't know what the hell their talking about
This is the dumbest video i have ever watched 😂
I only agree with a couple of these
They're*
*These
***These people don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.***
You’re welcome ;)
Top 10 most popular songs I could think of
RIP Eddie van Halen. You may be gone but your music and legacy lives on.
"And Wonderwall thanks to its difficult and fast change of chords, it is harder than any Yngwie Malmsteen song!"
Surprised that line isn't in the video
That was one of the first songs I learned 😂
Today is gonna be the day
Ironically, it's in the top 10 easiest songs to play on guitar
Why not? They are wrong about everything else!! Lol
Stevie Ray Vaughan in honorable mentions. Cute
The disrespect
vaughan*
OLLIE oops my bad. Thanks for the correction
@@russc.9618 no problem sir! I'm glad that you noticed how cute it is that they put SRV in honourable mentions.
i knew i was going to be pissed off.
Alex Lifeson has honed his skills over the years (;
La Villa Strangiatto
HeadCrusher by Megadeath because you need to stretch like 9 frets while keeping your finger still then adds your middle and ring finger
here come the top 10 internet guitarists to disagree with your list lol
IKR lmao. Internet wannabe "guitarists" have to be the most pathetically insecure people ever. They bash every type of guitar video by everyone but never seem to post anything of themselves playing. Hmmmm
to be fair watchmojo basically just put on the flashiest shit. I reckon there's 10 andy james songs harder than any listed here lol. The number 10 song is actually pretty damn simple, i've seen plenty of cover bands do it justice.
Mox_au Master of Puppets is pretty straight forward as well. And I just can't hear anything interesting in Eruption. And don't get me started on Dragonforce, the cheesiest of cheese...
Ladies and gentlemen, I present #10,9 and 8....
Mox_au So? These are supposed to be like the hardest songs ever, there's no excuse for any mediocrity in such a list.
Tornado of souls as an honorable mention? You gotta be kidding me!
Maggiethegsd honestly Tornado of souls isn’t even that bad imo. I can’t play half of the songs here, but I can play tornado somewhat decently
As far as megadeth goes, tornado of souls isn’t bad. Poison Was The Cure’s riff is a lot harder I’d say
@@ironmota1111 the hardest part of tornado of souls is obviously the solo. Otherwise, the rhythm is almost easy to play, but not so while singing!
@@ironmota1111 poison was the cure 's riff is obviously much harder as they focused on the main riff there instead of the solo, but in tornado of souls, it is inverted
But the Smiths?? Is on here????
Mentions to add:
Every Breath You Take - Police, this song is very hard when you have short fingers, and I got Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding by Elton John, the song has 35 Chords and the song is 11 minutes long. There could be other Elton John songs I could put.
If you think Eruption is hard, well it is not, because like tapping is one of the easiest things to learn on guitar.
"Top 10 hardest ROCK song to play on the guitar":
Master Of Puppets 😑
downpicking?
U realize u have to do all down picking right?
Lads, metallica doesnt do rock songs, FYI. Thats what this guy is trying to point out
through the fire and flames 😑
Jr high
I love how he calls pinch harmonics
“pinch harmonies”
Its cus googling everything about guitar doesnt really teach u anything besides fancy words
Yeah proper cringed at that 😂🤦♀️
Pure cringe
He probably thought the c was a typo so he said harmonies.
They should rename this list to "Songs you'll likely hear while in Guitar Center" it'll show how "hard" these songs are...
safe to say that i'm expecting a full cover of cafo from you?
Alex Ponce It's closer to "songs people think they can play, but they really can't and it sounds like crap"
Number one would be complete nonsense/tuning
Ahh ... back in the day, it was always "Stairway".
nnnnnn.. Didn't you see the sign?? 'No Stairway Allowed"so Always SOTWater.......lol
Number 1 hardest rock song ‘lil Wayne solo starts play’
The difficulty in Cliffs of Dover isnt the intro or the fast segments. Those are difficult, but not the depth of the difficulty of the song. The true difficulty is in achieving Johnson's clean sound he got while performing those difficult segments. Its not just his fretwork, its his precision. And Cliffs of Dover illustrated that even in fast segments, you could hear every note clearly
List should be, "Top 10 Songs WatchMoJo could use, without getting a copyright strike." Did you get these from Harmony Central?
It's fair use.
tahwnikcufos it’s under fair use. Which allows its use of the song for educational purposes or commentary as long as they don’t try to distribute the song as their own.
pretty sure metallica goes apeshit about copyright. remember the whole napster thing?
a swing and a miss.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???? ERUPTION NO. 1?? At least put Yellow Submarine in!
Exactly. It's certainly not the easiest song to play, but it sure as hell isn't the hardest song of all. Same thing with Master of Puppets.
This Charming Man by Johnny Marr
Pivohabs master of puppets shouldn't be on this list. I've only been playing for 4 years and can play it
Pivohabs i mean. Why is Through The Fire And Flames, lower?
Colin Ryan I know, that's what I'm saying.
Every single riff on the Rust In Peace album is harder than all of the songs in this list
i find Girl Afraid harder to play than Charming Man, Marr is a great riff writer but people are stuck on only listening to This Charming Man. A lot of The Smiths songs are harder than that!
Girl afraid is their hardest song for sure. And i would say some girls are bigger than others is trickier than This Charming Man as well
I don’t understand why these others are dissing Marr so much. They are saying how simple This Charming Man is, yet not a single one will show they can actually play it. It’s one thing to talk theory, and it’s another to actually do it. I’m guessing 2/3 of the people bragging how easy it is have never even played guitar. And all these people think Marr is no good - it proves they’ve never tried to duplicate his sound. There is a reason the BEST guitarists in the world know who Johnny Marr is. But all these you tubers know better...😜
@@jasonrimmer5953 Marr is incredible na his riffs manage to sound simplistic while being very intricate and complex
Wouldn’t say it’s hard but barbarism begins at home is my favourite marr riff
Steve Vai and Stevie Ray Vaughan get 'honorable mentions'? Really?
Michael Pukmel I don't think they like names with Steve in them
Michael Pukmel yjm just got a video clip. Also if ur gonna put one of eddies solos on here why not Spanish fly or cathedral, both take much more skill and technique.
Hot cross buns is a fucking hard ass song to play I'm really surprised it's not on this list
Owen Hilton agree, as well as 3 little kittens
Master of Puppets is only marginally harder and yet it's on this list.
so are thousands of other songs .. which aren't on this list too
Ode to Joy is harder
Hot cross buns was too metal for the list
this list is so true!!!! omg these are literally so hard I have a squire and I cant even play these riffs like what even is a pinch harmony? Man this guy sure knows his stuff
Hahaha! You're being sarcastic right? If you are this comment made my day
My top 5 hard Songs:
5 Ethereal Feel (Ichika nito)
4 Overwrite (XChara (i know this isn’t a rock song, more like a game song, but 1. There’s no tabs, 2 lots of tapping, and sweep picking)
3 All hope is gone (Slipknot)
2 Operation ground and pound (Dragon Force
1 Through the fire and flames (Dragon Force)
All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot...
For me, "Gematria" from the same album is harder.
L list
Ever heard of Megadeth? Honestly Stevie T did a better analysis. Go watch that.
And then get some women to react to it
Rattle your fucken head!!
Cuz Stevie T is an actual guitarist and has some talent unlike WatchMojo.
Umm megadeath isnt known for their gutairist they are litteraly known for having the best drummer, and watchmojo is not talking about song in general he is talking about guitars only
@@Webxs231 That is absolute utter nonsense! Megadeth has never been famous for having a "best drummer" as you say. They have gone through a string of drummers in their history and none of them has ever been praised as "best". Gar Samuelson and Nick Menza stand out as among the best they've had but neither could be called best by anyone who has a clue what they're talking about. On the guitar side of things however, Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, Chris Broderick are all world-class guitarists and acclaimed as such. It's a shame none of them are in the band anymore however.
yo why the hell is dream theater and animals as leaders behind van halen and why is rhcp even on this list? where's chon? where's plini? where's paul gilbert? where's satriani?
do y'all even play guitar
Colliding With Mars thank you ,at least some people understand prog .
Colliding With Mars stfu virgin
I don't agree with most of this list, but i was happy they gave a shoutout to Animals as Leaders. I actually saw them and Chon together in Philly like 3 years ago and I was completely blown away
snow by RHCP has a pretty difficult riff I think
most of the tracks nowadays are just 4 minutes
freebird has a 4 minute brilliant solo
Im 15 years old and im guitarist and musician, sometimes i laugh of watch mojo selection... Thanks, remember hardest song on guitar is Smoke on the water
I dont think that this guy has even ever touched a guitar
I don't think you've ever touched a vagina.
@@jakelance6 1st grade insults. WOW
@@jakelance6 Holy shit what a savage you are. All your 4th grade friends must be going crazy right now.
@@magnuslikestanks6044 pretty bad 4th graders if you ask me...
This guy is just a narrator.
List clearly put together by someone who doesn't play guitar.
I thought the same thing lol
Gwyn's Last Knight yea honesty, I can play master of Puppets with a little trouble
Chaos Dinonugget the only difficult part is Kirk's solo and some other riff parts if you play them correctly.
I think Disposable Heros challenges the picking hand more than Master. Perhaps that's just me.
franksavageryan It is.
Rest in peace, Eddie
"Eruption is the hardest ever"
-watch mojo
"Lets name guitar techniques we googled (And in some cases get it totally fucking wrong (Fucking "PINCH HARMONIES"??) and put them next to popular songs" And somehow everyone is fooled... This is an insult to guitarists around the world
John Walsh agreed. Pronunciations are wrong, thinking switching from 4/4 to 2/4 is difficult....they googled "hard guitar songs" and came up with this garbage. Respect to the bands, many of these songs are impressive and writing them would be ridiculous, but there are actual reasons songs are difficult and they aren't listed here
True. I know how to play Snow in guitar, and it ain't that hard. I know almost everything about RHCP Stuff ( my fav band ) And they have no difficult in the guitar ( And if they have, Snow is not one of them )
Fred Smith I like when he said tremo'lo
um hello? what about that nick Jonas song? it's extemely hard to play that shitty.
Rock songs only
Dontknomuch I don't think you got it :/
Kasey Carling hilarious!!
Kasey Carling Lil Wayne’s skills are far more advanced at sounding sick(ending)
Kasey Carling u look like a dehydrated Guy Fieri. Lmao
"Do you agree with our list?"
Nope and never will.
*guitarist playing the hardest things*
The doo: Hold my water
*he plays it*
Master of Puppets???
Come on dude. Thats standard stuff for any highschool metal head..
Jr high
Yeah, I learn it in a day and I am not an expert on guitar in any means
@@ahmetoguzhallac8775 so you are saying you learnt it in day and played the whole song full speed along studio version, including solos😂😂
@@elmeri4415 Nope, I practice it until I can play it at full speed excluding solo and simply didn't try to perfect the solo because I wasn't aiming to learn it in the first place. It just was a request from a friend
@@ahmetoguzhallac8775 ok
Hmmm, doesn't look like a guitarist made this video
Yeah, he's not a guitarist. 5:22 "Treh moe low picking"
Your Daddy really.. i'm laughing so hard right now
and "pinch harmonies"...
Travis I didn't even notice that one because I was laughing too hard at trehmoelow picking
Oh? I can play nearly all of these songs (of course given a week to learn them at most). How could you assume that I can't? Also, I am not insulting the guitarists, I have tremendous respect for them. I am insulting the obviously unqualified creators of this video, who know next to nothing about guitar and have no real basis for selecting what is really "hard to play."
TremOlo picking, pinch harmonies, and a splash of blues. 🥴 Wow.
And other general riffage😂
I'm pretty sure almost every guitar student has to learn little wing in like their second-third year of playing it's not that hard but it truly is an amazing song with an amazing chord progression to improvise to
lol I feel like people only click on watchmojo videos to leave comments about how watchmojo's opinion is totally wrong
problem are the people voting for this lists. they dont know shit
you have discovered the problem
you nailed it...thats why i do anyway
In this case though, they are objectively wrong; most of these songs aren't that difficult to play at all, and *definitely* not the hardest ever. Dream theater and animals as leaders are very difficult to play, but even though I love a lot of the other songs, they just aren't very hard. Like, little wing is a great song; one of the most beautiful electric guitar songs ever. but it's just not difficult. I played it note-for-note at a school talent show in 7th grade, and I'm not a great guitarist; I consider myself pretty average now, and I wasn't very good at all way back then. (Although there are a lot of songs/guitarists out there who make me feel *WAY* below average as a player; this list just doesn't have many of those songs. Two, maybe three at the most.)
To sum it up, *long paragraph says list is bad.*
I probably should've just went with that.
"List is bad" is a lot more to the point than my little rant.
Oh god, I'm still doing it.
Just talking about nothing, over and over.
And you're still reading it!
I'm not sure which is worse.
Although, I bet you're very attractive, with just the *loveliest* genitals, whatever those genitals happen to be,
If I had to guess, I'd say penis; never bet on red.
(Queue rim-shot)
Why am I still typing?
None of this is anything; just empty nonsense.
That first paragraph is all true though.
So, ya know... That's something I guess...
i am a deeply unhappy person.
I go to watch mojo as a curiosity to see how specifically they fucked up.
Like seeing a car accident video to see specifically how it happened.
Actually speak to any guitarists when making this video?
1. Most of the Eruption clip wasn't Eruption, mainly a live solo section from 1986.
2. Eruption, whilst probably one of the most impactful and influential guitar tracks, is not the hardest by far.
3. Johnny Marr and John Frusciante really?
4. No Malmsteen. To which many people still cannot play accurately or with the same feeling.
5. Perpetual Burn - Jason Becker. Largely heralded by most players as the hardest. The speed, technical ability, feeling and general stamina required to play this is close to impossible. Some have tried, but have never captured the feeling of his playing.
Lastly, you guys should not confuse the hardest songs to play with the most influential. Big difference. Hendrix and Van Halen are extremely influential, inspiring legions of guitarists, but consequently have inspired a lot harder pieces to play.
And also this is not all about speed, but also feeling and touch. David Gilmore and Gary Moore anyone?
omg shut the fuck up
Totally agree. This list was made by someone who knows nothing about music or guitar playing and wanted to make a mainstream list in about 5 minutes. I know at least 4 guitar players that are able to play that stuff. You want an impossible song to play? Go listen to some Aristocrats
Why? He's right I bet you don't even play guitar.
The Roman Bro, chill! Just 'cause you can't play the easiest one on this list doesn't mean you gotta bash on the list!
The Roman Bro, you know I'm just messing with you right? I know who Guthrie Govan s and I've been listening to Exotic Cakes and The Arisoicrats for five years man. This list is pretty BS but is made for a mainstream audience. Believe me, if they really wanted to do an accurate list, it'd just be a list of Guthrie Govan or Yngwie Mainsteen songs. Btw man, just because a song is simple doesn't make it inherently bad. Case and point: The Beatles, The Rollin Stones, Punk rock in general. Btw, I majored in piano performance in college and have been playing guitar, Keys, and bass in bands for years so I know difficult music man.
Eruption is the first and only tapping song I know! It's easy lol
THE SMITHS?!
Oh no, alternate picking, that sounds hard.
surprisingly so when you want to go fast.
Oh no, fast tapping, that sounds hard... I'm left handed I literally have a harder time picking than tapping. Fucking right hand won't obey
Do you play left handed or right handed? I could see how everything would be more difficult in different ways playing opposite of your dominant hand.
I taught my brother to play right handed and he had to make a 180 from his left handed mind. He's a badd ass bass player now! Its better to learn the instrument right handed the way it was originally made.
Yeah alternate picking is very challenging when your running 280 beats a minute.
Robert Fripp: Hold my beer performs Fracture
He wasn’t on the list. This video has no credibility. Literally no one but Fripp can play Fracture.
@@raulruizdevelasco6215 if anyone else tries, the title describes what will happen their wrist
I came here just to look for this comment lmao
@@raulruizdevelasco6215 It can't be that hard.
@@Squre Dude, one of his students took years to play it.
10 year old me was really angry when smells like teen spirit wasn't on here
Producer: ok so many notes do you want for this song
Dragon force: yes
I knew Dream Theater would make it on here. The guys are fucking mental.
I was very disappointed they were #6 though
So basically, you're telling me that Jordan Rudess, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy/Mike Mangini, John Myung and James Labrie are "not that good" and overrated? Jesus.
T Orrent Overrated? that's the stupidest shit I've read so far.
Diamond Lu Dickwad Yeah not everyone likes this genre, that's true
Diamond Lu Dickwad r
Every band of 15 year old teenagers plays Master of Puppets 95% correct... WTF...
Also, where is more tradicional pick than fingerpicking?
Right? Besides the solo, it was one of the first songs I learned.
If you were going to pick Metallica, you should rather go for battery... especially combined with vocals.
95% correct isn't MASTERY of the piece, it's merely extreme proficiency.
+derdings2112 VanCanto version xD
I spent a good few months on snow, but once you get it down it really isn't that bad.
I know a guy who's been playing guitar for 50 years, and he says there's stuff that Robert Johnson played that he still can't. It does sound like there's 2 guitars playing
In what world is Eruption harder than Dance of Eternity
Cyrekt In the world of people who have never picked up a guitar
my nephew learned Eruption at 13. Ive been playing for 20 years and have trouble with Dream Theater.
So many people claim to have mastered Eruption, yet I rarely hear anyone who captures the feel at all. Most versions are note for note, but lack any musicality. The scarcity of other memorable solos in the 40 years since Eruption is a testament to how brilliant it was in 1978.
OMG! Tina S. is phenomenal! I'd really like to hear her do some more Dream Theater. She looks like she's bored to death when she is doing some of the most incredible shredding! I believe she is French.
MACK D she's 17 you sick fuck
I am a guitarist of 37yrs so, that gives me the right to comment on this entire video. Only The John Petrucci, Tosin Abasi, maybe Dragon Force, Eruption 'ehhh' it's completely possible with practicing. But, you could practive your life and never get a Tosin Abasi or John Petrucci solo, dragon force is a guitar practice exercise music. 'The Smiths' have absolutely no right being in the same video as Tosin or John P for hardest anything about guitar.
Lmao you could choose any Dream Theater song or Animals As Leaders song and they could take this entire list
I absolutely agree, and I don't even play guitar, I just love music.
Terrible take
Let’s hear your version of This Charming Man, please. Show us how you can play it even close to Johnny Marr. We are waiting.
Jason Rimmer we are t waiting, that song isnt hard, and the only hard thing is trying to get that sound from pedals. There is no chance that song would ever be in a hardest guitar riff every. Dunno why you think its a hard song to do tbh.
"scratch the wammy bar across the tips of your fingers" lmao I'm just imagining someone trying that and expecting it to work
Watchmojo be like:
Top 10 hardest songs to play in guitar:
Number 1: Smoke on the water
Number 2: Satisfaction
Number 3: Pepa pig's theme song
Me: can play all of Master o Puppets with both solos
Also me: *does this mean I'm good at something*
Cyborg StudiosTM yes! It does!
Same tho
That's impressive, but trust me, it's even harder to play The Temple of Hate by Angra
Stop craving attention
Damn u really tryin to be funny but all u want is people telling u how good u are
How is nothing by jason becker on this list? mabels fatal fable is stupid hard to play
Every Jason Becker's song is hard to me lol
W Max agreed...the fact that none are on this list is dumb af
heck yeah
I agree, the man is a living legend, even to this day he is creating music while almost completely paralyzed. I got excited at the beginning when they finally showcased him for a moment but was pissed when they, yet again, don't bother to mention Jason anywhere in the list, not even in the honorable mentions
Oh well, its better for Jason to stay somewhat of a hidden gem than for watchmojo to ruin his mystique and uncovered genius with their cumbersome and lazy music journalism to their swathes of idiotic fans
What ABOUT RANDY?
LAST I HEARD IT TOOK 3 GUYS TO COVER HIM. IN A TRIBUTE CONCERT.
STEVE VIA, JOE SATRIANI AND ZACK. WILDE?
SORRY, LOADED FRUSTRATED AND NEED TO SLEEP.
JUST SEEMS THERE. WAS A LOT MISSING.
Vai and Satriani both have lots of songs that are objectively more difficult to play than anything Randy ever wrote in his short life.
Narrator: "Number 4. ASL - CAFO"
Me: Hmm what could possibly harder than that?
Narrator: Number 3. sUltTan oF sWInG
Me: Are you f*cking kidding me?