That Stream of Consciousness sweep is so good it cleaned the name. I would also like to remind people that song is eleven minutes long, and has about 4 solos, a power chord with a stretch of 5 frets (3 on the 6th string, 8 on the 5th), all those lovable jazzy chords Petrucci loves and some nice and complex odd meter riffs. Try playing that song, on one sitting, not breaking it into sections. It's a good exercise to the ego.
I think EVH's live improvisations on the Mean Street section during his solos are some of the most impossible licks to play. He's essentially bass slapping tapped harmonics. I've not heard anybody except Eddie using this technique in a solo.
Thanks for saying that about that EJ intro piece. It's an important moment in guitar history, and the best part isn't necessarily the shreddy passages, it's the beginning "sound painting" with the Echoplex. It's evocative and emotional.
Thanks for the videos. 10 licks is not enough. I would have introduced Shawn Lane, Buckethead 8 fingers taping licks, Franck Gambale, Jon Gomm and some Holdsworth. Perhaps for a future video?
Tornado of souls is always seen as the hardest solo on Rust In Peace. But it looks like a beginner song compared to the "Poison was the Cure" solo. That solo is so incredibly hard, most people would just give up entirely.
I can play Tornado of Souls solo but I have to move that stretchy part up the neck and play it on the B and G strings. Othern that it isn't so bad, there are more technical guitarists than Marty but his phrasing is the best imo.
What I always found fascinating is that Holdworth began playing at the age of 17. Definitely shows that you don't have to start early to achieve greatness. You have all these amazing players playing since they are little children and then you have holdsworth who starts at 17.
@Quinton Vonesh Guthrie himself says the arpeggios are supposed to imitate sax lines so yeah i'm pretty shure he borrowed that idea from Holdsworth's legato.
Listening to Allan Holdsworth is like being at a red light and listening to the radios of 3 different cars at once. Yeah the guitar playing might be fast and technically good, but there is no cohesion with the rest of the band. It just doesn't sound musical.
I will always appreciate the time and effort it takes to develop that kind of speed and accuracy. But this kind widdley widdley playing will always induce a snooze fest in the depths of my soul.
@@Doc92IDH I agree. He plays many difficult things along with difficult chords because of how they sound but not simply to " just make it difficult" and set some sort of high bar for difficulty.
Compadre! Fellow shred appreciator! Loved your list. You had me at hello! Great sampling of guitar shred monsters. Awesome that Greg Howe, Andy McKee and Tommy Emmanuel made your list.
About time to get Tommy Emmanuel on here! He’s the greatest combination of shredding and feel and soul and musicality. Official certified guitar player
That Rick Graham clip, the last one, is ridiculous ! There are a lot of guys out there that can play at unbelievable speeds, but to play at this speed, and still sound incredibly tasty, that's the tricky part !
MAB is an unstoppable wizard robot on the guitar, but he does that "over the neck / under the neck" thing WAY too often. It gets tiresome to watch and it's really just a gimmick.
Thanks now I will never play again, I give up. Nah I love the guitar way too much, it so cool to see you geek out just like the rest of us. Love you bro you bring just total excitement back to guitar on RUclips . I am glad I found your channel please keep up the awesomeness.
I'm not a professional musician, but I feel like Buckethead should be in this video. He blows my mind every time I watch him perform. He is like the Michael Jackson of guitar playing.
@@iamturok3504 Buckethead would slaughter slash in a guitar duel. I like slash but he's more blues/rock/pentatonic. Buckethead has more sounds to offer, listen to pike 5 or Earth heals itself
Some days I feel great but muff some maybe miss a harmonic and once in a while I'm shredding like a perfect maniac. It almost seems spiritual not physical when you get in that perfect feel of a performance. Some people I have discussed this with say that Love for what you do inspires you to create what others love too.
I do feel like this list is absolutely not complete without anything from Shawn Lane or Holdsworth. Shawn for the blazing speed, Allan for the insane stretches and legato technique
Van Halen… A lot of the things he plays are very repetitive, scalar, or no key in particular, but his timing is so snappy and he plays them so well but they sound cool at full speed. He’s extremely rhythmical, that helps.
Fun fact: Steve Vai will sometimes use that exact riff in “For The Love Of God” live. Another fun fact: Stream Of Consciousness (but drunk Tyler wrote Dance of Eternity) is my favourite John Petrucci Solo NO DOUBT.
I think the best guitar player rn is kiko loureiro, the dude is insane on composition, technique and is also a great person. Eric johnson is great tho don't get me wrong!
Something Greg Howe does that I find fascinating, when he slides his index finger. Into or out of a riff, or back in forth, vibrto-ish. I've seen Lari Basilio do it as well. Trying to learn that technique myself.
John Mcglaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, album is The Innermounting Flame, song is The Noonward Race, which was recorded live. It's a 15:00 song, but you don't have to wait long. He starts ripping within the first minute.
Ok got the Gilmour bend out of the way first! LOL Govan / Vai are legends! Black Star is one of my favorites. Johnson's picking style is next to impossible to replicate. It is beautiful.
As if the rest of the solo isn't ridiculous enough, at 6:15 of Shawn Lane - Get You Back (the Musician's Institute version), he goes into absolute hyperdrive. It's unfuckingreal.
Can I say when it comes to Eric Johnson you can pick anything he plays. I saw him live and he goes back and forth between rhythm and lead sometimes while singing and it is borderline flawless
I was beginning to think the Andy Mckee was just a dream I had one night, but yeah you caught the Rylynn thing pretty quick. I loved his solo stuff, but while it won't make the list of impossible lick, when he's paired with Don Ross (Ebon Coast, Dolphins) it's such a vibe. Great top 10! You got Vai, Malmsteen, and Petrucci, I can go to sleep a content man.
The moment I discovered Greg Howe I knew he'd become one of my favourite guitar players, he's just so great and his phrasing has so much musical taste, the same with Frank Gambale.
That one ascending chromatic sweep section in MIA is basically harder than any other Avenged lick. The amount of speed and precision required is insane.
Jon Gomm, Passionflower. He changes the tuning of the guitar midsong and back again in the main riff, while also doing a drum beat on the guitar itself, starts about 45-60 seconds in
I know, right? His little composition nestled in a joke video was seriously some of his best playing in my opinion. I watched it maybe a thousand times.
Tyler, I watched this video, only to shake my head that I can mention a couple of impossible licks that I hope you might wanna check out: - Guthrie Govan: Waves (yes, that unaccompanied scale raping at 3:02, tho the one in Fives are equally gravity defying) - Steve Vai: Rescue Me Or Bury Me (the entire solo is just the statement I-can-play-whatever-I-want) - Paul Gilbert: Paul Gilbert - Guitar Solo (Live In Tokyo, Japan 1991) (that shirtless solo, the circulating lick from 0:58 is the essence of god power) - Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Axis of Evil (from Derek Sherinian's album 'Black Utopia', where Zakk Wylde and YJM goes toe to toe) - Nuno Bettencourt: He-man Woman Hater (that tapped arpeggiated section at the end of the solo, or anything on Pornograffiti, really) - Andy Timmons: Groove Or Die intro (there is also a bossa nova live version of this, and that performance slow-melts faces and hearts alike) - Richie Kotzen: Feed My Head solo arpeggios (arguably similar to the great Jason Becker's arpeggios, but yeah) - Greg Howe: The Terrace (man, I cannot even say which lick, but damn) - Richie Kotzen and Greg Howe: Tilt (from the album Tilt... just... just.. takes all the breath away that whole song/album) - Jeff Beck: Where Were You (yes, it IS impossible to play just like that he pulls this off, the most delicate magic spell ever to have created) Luv your content! Keep it coming!
You missed a stunning acoustic lick. The first twenty seconds of Adrian Legg's Cajun Interlude. He uses a tuning knob to bend a harmonic and then puts it right back in tune... and then a minute later, he finger picks an open chord and uses all the tuning knobs to change the chord repeatedly. (Check out the video on youtube uploaded by GtrWorkShp).
Guthrie: the "worst" thing about him, he looks so nice, calm, relaxed, normal, when he plays this impossible stuff. He is an amazing dude. And a big Zappa fan :-) Vai: saw him live. I am sure, "For the love of god" was the last piece (yes, piece!) of the evening, they played nearly 3 hours. I was talking to some friends afterwards and was asking something like "was this real? Did you see this, too?" It was nearly unbelievable..
Okay here’s one for you. Fellow RUclips guitar player Ewan Dobson. The song is Paganini - Sonata II Op. 3 II - Andantino Scherzoso. Time stamp is 0:13 - 0:25. OMG! Now if you want to see some dexterity, check out him playing another Paganini tune (Caprice # 5)…that pinky…OMG!
I’d argue that “wonderful slippery thing” by Guthrie is more impossible than “fives. He does a similar pattern in the middle of the song with tapping but it spans more of the fretboard and is played on clean.
Fun fact, Steve Vai was the first person to make seven strings guitars widely popular with his use of one on Whitesnakes 1989 album "Slip of the Tongue". He then used it again on his album in 1990, "Passion and Warfare".
Impossible to do only 10... Polyphia (a lot of songs), MA Batio (No Boundaries), Tosin Abasi (CAFO, Woven Web etc.), Dean Lamb/Tobi Morelli from Archspire (maybe A Dark Horizontal at 3:59 and many more), Tom Geldschlager's verse sweeps or solo in the song Akroasis by Obscura, Jeff Lomis has a lot of hard stuff as well, Alexi Laiho's (RIP) passage in Sioux City Sarsaparilla at 1:05 (tried to learn it but it made me cry) etc.
Steve Vai released "The Attitude Song" in 1984, thirty seven years ago when he was twenty-four, TWENTY-FOUR!!! Guitar Player magazine had an issue with a breakdown of the song in standard notation and tabulature along with a flexi-disc record in the magazine. I had a copy of it for years. Sadly, it was ruined some years ago when my storage roof leaked.
Love McKee's. Saw him on a tour through Germany a long while, back. At one point, he asked for a song request. I yelled "Freebird!" He smirked. (I had to let him know there was an American in the crowd.)
I’m so pleased Rick Graham is on this, you could have chosen literally any of his daily Facebook updates as an example. I would perhaps put forward Jeff Loomis solo on “This Godless Endeavour” ive not even tried it because it just sounds impossible to my ear...
Quick note: it’s Stream of Consciousness by DT, not DoE, and that’s Rylynn by McKee, not Drifting-I was drunk on impossible licks sorry
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Trying not to skat is what I tell my wife
Alright
Why didn’t you include Marcin’a acoustic cover for caprice no 24
Shame on you, man.
jk still love your stuff bud
I was almost worried it would be another WatchMojo list.
LOL 😆😂
Me too.
I think he made that video already lmao
pretty much same choices as a watchmojo list
If watchmojo tried to single out licks we would be getting stuff from freebird.
1:28 Guthrie Govan - "Fives"
1:36 Steve Vai - "The Attitude Song”
3:00 Yngwie Malmsteen - "Black Star"
5:09 Eric Johnson - "Cliffs of Dover"
6:07 Andy McKee - "Rylynn"
7:18 Dream Theatre - "Stream of Consciousness"
8:25 Jason Richardson - "Hos Down"
9:42 Tommy Emmanuel - "12 Bar Blues"
10:48 Greg Howe - "Jump Start"
12:25 Rich Graham - "Killer Shred Technique"
Ty
Should edit this and mark the dream theater song as "stream of consciousness" instead.
Andy McKee - “Rylynn” not Drifting
Like Tyler said "drunk on impossible licks"
Neon at least deserves an honorable mention
petition for tyler to try to play these riffs
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YES SIR 🤣🤣🤣
Fishing for likes……
Is this seriously all you have to do to get likes???!!!
Yep
I thought he would on this video
Petition for Tyler to learn all of these in a live stream
That Stream of Consciousness sweep is so good it cleaned the name.
I would also like to remind people that song is eleven minutes long, and has about 4 solos, a power chord with a stretch of 5 frets (3 on the 6th string, 8 on the 5th), all those lovable jazzy chords Petrucci loves and some nice and complex odd meter riffs.
Try playing that song, on one sitting, not breaking it into sections. It's a good exercise to the ego.
@@yelkhan2002 Eb standard
@@yelkhan2002 and it's flashier
people say he has no feel, but even though the things he plays are blazing fast, they still have feel
What do YOU think is the most IMPOSSIBLE guitar lick to play?
Soothsayer
Every Buckethead songs 🤖
Smoke on the water
The main lick from Universal mind
You know what it is
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Buying my first guitar on Sweetwater today. Really excited!
Good luck. It will be difficult, just don’t put it down!
Whatcha getting?!
@@aranasaurus Ibanez grx70qa!
@@elijahroche6394 nice! Good luck, I’m excited for you!
Practice practice, practice.
I think EVH's live improvisations on the Mean Street section during his solos are some of the most impossible licks to play. He's essentially bass slapping tapped harmonics. I've not heard anybody except Eddie using this technique in a solo.
you should check out some of ron thal's stuff, he's the only other dude ive heard do that kinda stuff
Yo the Greensboro version is way more insane than any other version of the mean street intro.
John Mayer on Ain't No Sunshine at Crossroads.
Please keep this series going. Really love this stuff right here
Thanks for saying that about that EJ intro piece. It's an important moment in guitar history, and the best part isn't necessarily the shreddy passages, it's the beginning "sound painting" with the Echoplex. It's evocative and emotional.
That’s not “drifting” by Andy McKee, it’s Rylynn. Cmon now, no capo on drifting. 😀
Came here to say this
This.
Another Andy McKee fan......we keep it all laid back and stuff.
Yep.
Thats Braun Strowman playing the guitar
Thanks for the videos.
10 licks is not enough. I would have introduced Shawn Lane, Buckethead 8 fingers taping licks, Franck Gambale, Jon Gomm and some Holdsworth.
Perhaps for a future video?
John 5 is a good one too!!!!
Tornado of souls is always seen as the hardest solo on Rust In Peace. But it looks like a beginner song compared to the "Poison was the Cure" solo. That solo is so incredibly hard, most people would just give up entirely.
Agree, 100%. Freaking masterpiece of a solo.
I can play Tornado of Souls solo but I have to move that stretchy part up the neck and play it on the B and G strings. Othern that it isn't so bad, there are more technical guitarists than Marty but his phrasing is the best imo.
Any song by Allan Holdsworth would be nearly impossible for anyone else to play.
He stretched a lot and the way he never ran out of notes was something else, and when he did he used the whammy to go a bit forward.
What I always found fascinating is that Holdworth began playing at the age of 17. Definitely shows that you don't have to start early to achieve greatness. You have all these amazing players playing since they are little children and then you have holdsworth who starts at 17.
@Quinton Vonesh Guthrie himself says the arpeggios are supposed to imitate sax lines so yeah i'm pretty shure he borrowed that idea from Holdsworth's legato.
Listening to Allan Holdsworth is like being at a red light and listening to the radios of 3 different cars at once. Yeah the guitar playing might be fast and technically good, but there is no cohesion with the rest of the band. It just doesn't sound musical.
@@jaredgallucci6280 listen to low levels high stakes
I'd like to add an honourable mention: intro to Colorado bulldog
ahhh Classic Paul Gilbert. Been working on that lick for years and it's pretty much impossible lol
Paul himself says in an instructional video it's the most frightening thing he ever played. Shortly after that nails it down in his fretboard
I agree!!!
After Tommy Emmanuel when he said, "I can never do that" he seemed so internally broken from watching all these
Yeah, but Tommy Emmanuel hits different.
I refer to that kind of guitar playing as turkeys gobbling.
Difficult yes, but aside from McKee I wouldn’t want to play any of it. Difficult doesn’t equal good.
I've never heard this before and now I can't unhear it...
I will always appreciate the time and effort it takes to develop that kind of speed and accuracy. But this kind widdley widdley playing will always induce a snooze fest in the depths of my soul.
@@JL-gt1kc I dunno, the EJ stuff always sounds like a kind of sonic waterfall to me. I love the sound and note choices, even at speed.
@@Doc92IDH I agree. He plays many difficult things along with difficult chords because of how they sound but not simply to " just make it difficult" and set some sort of high bar for difficulty.
The intro of non-brewed condiment by Allan Holdsworth definitely deserves to be on this list
Shawn lane - get you back. Right after he stops holding his whammy bar from the 1993 live recording. About 5 minute in til the end
Compadre! Fellow shred appreciator!
Loved your list.
You had me at hello!
Great sampling of guitar shred monsters. Awesome that Greg Howe, Andy McKee and Tommy Emmanuel made your list.
About time to get Tommy Emmanuel on here! He’s the greatest combination of shredding and feel and soul and musicality. Official certified guitar player
That Rick Graham clip, the last one, is ridiculous !
There are a lot of guys out there that can play at unbelievable speeds, but to play at this speed, and still sound incredibly tasty, that's the tricky part !
Basically everything by Shawn Lane is impossible lol
I was about to say that
Shawn Mendes is harder
@@41neve85 lmao
@@lordamoghxd me too
Yup, he forgot about him
Your energy in this video is fantastic. Love it
Fracture is basically a 10 minute long guitar lick at break neck speed in most of it.
I just cant get my head around the fact that there are people who downthumb ANY of your content dude, they're nuts and you sir are gold!
You should do 10 impossible licks to play (feel addition)
that cliffs of dover intro is awe-inspiring
I cannot believe you have not included Michael Angelo Batio…. Just for his hair alone
MAB is an unstoppable wizard robot on the guitar, but he does that "over the neck / under the neck" thing WAY too often. It gets tiresome to watch and it's really just a gimmick.
@@timg2727 Agreed, but tbh, his whole schtick is a bit of a gimmick
@@rabbamonkey can't say I disagree
Thanks now I will never play again, I give up. Nah I love the guitar way too much, it so cool to see you geek out just like the rest of us. Love you bro you bring just total excitement back to guitar on RUclips . I am glad I found your channel please keep up the awesomeness.
I was kinda expecting to see Alan Gogol on here. Dude’s got the cleanest harmonics I’ve ever seen
I'm not a professional musician, but I feel like Buckethead should be in this video. He blows my mind every time I watch him perform. He is like the Michael Jackson of guitar playing.
That would actually be Prince
Not at all, he is a lame version of Paul Gilbert and Slash.
@@iamturok3504 Buckethead would slaughter slash in a guitar duel. I like slash but he's more blues/rock/pentatonic. Buckethead has more sounds to offer, listen to pike 5 or Earth heals itself
@@iamturok3504 lol buckethead could probably play laps around both of them he’s just not as popular as slash
@@iamturok3504 Actually he was a student of Gilbert, and Gilbert is the first to admit that Buckethead surpassed him... 🤷♂
"How can less ever be more? More is more!"
-Maestro Malmsteen
Some days I feel great but muff some maybe miss a harmonic and once in a while I'm shredding like a perfect maniac. It almost seems spiritual not physical when you get in that perfect feel of a performance. Some people I have discussed this with say that Love for what you do inspires you to create what others love too.
And now thanks to these guitarists and licks, I fell like I will never be a pro.
I do feel like this list is absolutely not complete without anything from Shawn Lane or Holdsworth. Shawn for the blazing speed, Allan for the insane stretches and legato technique
At 8:13, isn’t it that supposed to be stream of consciousness by dream theater and not dance of eternity?
Neal Schon is the a perfect example of being extremely fast and having tons of feel.
these sound great at full speed but when slowed down they sound almost horrifying
Van Halen… A lot of the things he plays are very repetitive, scalar, or no key in particular, but his timing is so snappy and he plays them so well but they sound cool at full speed. He’s extremely rhythmical, that helps.
A lot of that's just the artefacts from slwoing down compressed audio on a RUclips video.
I want to mention a technically challenging Buckethead song but there are just so many amazing Buckethead compositions. He is mind boggling!!
I think you could pick some of Marty's licks in just about any Megadeth solo, his timing is so wierd.
Marty's timing and phrasing are both so unique. He doesn't play like anyone else.
@@timg2727 that's why he's one of the best to ever do it.
Fun fact: Steve Vai will sometimes use that exact riff in “For The Love Of God” live.
Another fun fact: Stream Of Consciousness (but drunk Tyler wrote Dance of Eternity) is my favourite John Petrucci Solo NO DOUBT.
it would be great if u invited eric johnson to have a chat with u about the tonechaser player we all have inside of us(even if we deny it)
What a great video we need a part two the acoustic section was so awesome I’m glad you included it :)
Gutherie’s hand literally looks broken and I wish my hand can be broken like that too
One of the best videos i must say!
Eric Johnson is easily the best player to me. Dude's skill *and* tone is just immaculate 😍🥰
I think the best guitar player rn is kiko loureiro, the dude is insane on composition, technique and is also a great person. Eric johnson is great tho don't get me wrong!
Something Greg Howe does that I find fascinating, when he slides his index finger. Into or out of a riff, or back in forth, vibrto-ish. I've seen Lari Basilio do it as well. Trying to learn that technique myself.
This is the best youtuber, he helps me be the guitarist I am today, Thank you for everything
John Mcglaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, album is The Innermounting Flame, song is The Noonward Race, which was recorded live. It's a 15:00 song, but you don't have to wait long. He starts ripping within the first minute.
McLaughlin, that is
Even though he uses the same technique I think the arpeggio lick in wonderful slippery thing (1:23) by Guthrie Govan is way more difficult
I agree bc in Fives you don't have to move to much your arm conservely to wonderful slippery thing
I watched a YT video in which Guthrie said he can't even play that lick himself sometimes!
Ok got the Gilmour bend out of the way first! LOL
Govan / Vai are legends!
Black Star is one of my favorites.
Johnson's picking style is next to impossible to replicate. It is beautiful.
Arthritis and Stubby fingers have a difficult time playing an A chord let alone this stuff. Lol
As if the rest of the solo isn't ridiculous enough, at 6:15 of Shawn Lane - Get You Back (the Musician's Institute version), he goes into absolute hyperdrive. It's unfuckingreal.
The Attitude Song is what happens when you study at the feats [sic] of Frank Zappa. He will always be one of the most under-rated guitarists of ever.
Can I say when it comes to Eric Johnson you can pick anything he plays. I saw him live and he goes back and forth between rhythm and lead sometimes while singing and it is borderline flawless
I would put the lick from city nights from Allan Holdsworth on this list
I was beginning to think the Andy Mckee was just a dream I had one night, but yeah you caught the Rylynn thing pretty quick. I loved his solo stuff, but while it won't make the list of impossible lick, when he's paired with Don Ross (Ebon Coast, Dolphins) it's such a vibe. Great top 10! You got Vai, Malmsteen, and Petrucci, I can go to sleep a content man.
When it says Dance of Eternity its actually stream of consciousness
The moment I discovered Greg Howe I knew he'd become one of my favourite guitar players, he's just so great and his phrasing has so much musical taste, the same with Frank Gambale.
"Synster Gates Guitar Center Master Class Gypsy Jazz" the dude rips on an acoustic..
That one ascending chromatic sweep section in MIA is basically harder than any other Avenged lick. The amount of speed and precision required is insane.
always love these type of vids , introducing me to new artistes thanks
I'm surprised no one talks about Monte Montgomery when it comes to acoustic.....
Jon Gomm, Passionflower. He changes the tuning of the guitar midsong and back again in the main riff, while also doing a drum beat on the guitar itself, starts about 45-60 seconds in
Tyler doesn’t give himself enough credit for how good he is
Honestly
That video with the skit about the $500k pedal with Josh from JHS had some of the best guitar I've ever heard.
Don't worry he KNOWS he's good lol
I know, right? His little composition nestled in a joke video was seriously some of his best playing in my opinion. I watched it maybe a thousand times.
At 7:19 when you said, “Uh oh….here we go,” a Muri-Lax ad began playing 🤣
You have to get Guthrie Govan on your podcast that would be awesome
Please!!
Tyler, I watched this video, only to shake my head that I can mention a couple of impossible licks that I hope you might wanna check out:
- Guthrie Govan: Waves (yes, that unaccompanied scale raping at 3:02, tho the one in Fives are equally gravity defying)
- Steve Vai: Rescue Me Or Bury Me (the entire solo is just the statement I-can-play-whatever-I-want)
- Paul Gilbert: Paul Gilbert - Guitar Solo (Live In Tokyo, Japan 1991) (that shirtless solo, the circulating lick from 0:58 is the essence of god power)
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen: Axis of Evil (from Derek Sherinian's album 'Black Utopia', where Zakk Wylde and YJM goes toe to toe)
- Nuno Bettencourt: He-man Woman Hater (that tapped arpeggiated section at the end of the solo, or anything on Pornograffiti, really)
- Andy Timmons: Groove Or Die intro (there is also a bossa nova live version of this, and that performance slow-melts faces and hearts alike)
- Richie Kotzen: Feed My Head solo arpeggios (arguably similar to the great Jason Becker's arpeggios, but yeah)
- Greg Howe: The Terrace (man, I cannot even say which lick, but damn)
- Richie Kotzen and Greg Howe: Tilt (from the album Tilt... just... just.. takes all the breath away that whole song/album)
- Jeff Beck: Where Were You (yes, it IS impossible to play just like that he pulls this off, the most delicate magic spell ever to have created)
Luv your content! Keep it coming!
If u wanna see difficult licks, you need to check Paco de Lucia
Great vid! Ton of fun to watch thanks for posting it ---indeed those licks are insanely difficult
Why is this not a Legendary Licks episode?
Because it would take a month to learn all of these.
You missed a stunning acoustic lick. The first twenty seconds of Adrian Legg's Cajun Interlude. He uses a tuning knob to bend a harmonic and then puts it right back in tune... and then a minute later, he finger picks an open chord and uses all the tuning knobs to change the chord repeatedly. (Check out the video on youtube uploaded by GtrWorkShp).
Guthrie is simply one of the most technically smooth guitarists I have ever heard. Fives still blows me away to this day.
Loved that you gave andy some love
The most difficult licks you should learn
That Andy McKee clip is so old it literally was inspiration for me to start playing back in middle school 😅
Guthrie: the "worst" thing about him, he looks so nice, calm, relaxed, normal, when he plays this impossible stuff. He is an amazing dude. And a big Zappa fan :-)
Vai: saw him live. I am sure, "For the love of god" was the last piece (yes, piece!) of the evening, they played nearly 3 hours. I was talking to some friends afterwards and was asking something like "was this real? Did you see this, too?" It was nearly unbelievable..
Good shit! Yngwie's "Soldier Without Faith"...has always struck my "AWE"...Try to learn that one in less than a few years...
Im second coz everyone else is first 😂
Okay here’s one for you. Fellow RUclips guitar player Ewan Dobson. The song is Paganini - Sonata II Op. 3 II - Andantino Scherzoso. Time stamp is 0:13 - 0:25. OMG! Now if you want to see some dexterity, check out him playing another Paganini tune (Caprice # 5)…that pinky…OMG!
The whole of Brain Dance by Animals as Leaders would be a contender.
I’d argue that “wonderful slippery thing” by Guthrie is more impossible than “fives. He does a similar pattern in the middle of the song with tapping but it spans more of the fretboard and is played on clean.
Yup agree
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Toy store by buckethead has licks harder than every single one in this video in it, yet gets no mention. Why is buckethead so criminally underrated
I haven’t seen the vid yet but I bet they are all going to be songs no one has heard
Edit: Pretty much, yep 👍
Steve via windows to the soul tapping is incredibly challenging @ around the 2min 30 mark
Amazing list!!!! Big miss on Shawn Lane though!!!!
“Hammerhead” - Autograph is one of the most overlooked guitar pieces ever
Fun fact, Steve Vai was the first person to make seven strings guitars widely popular with his use of one on Whitesnakes 1989 album "Slip of the Tongue". He then used it again on his album in 1990, "Passion and Warfare".
Its almost criminal to not have a Shawn Lane lick on here .
Agreement from me.
Impossible to do only 10... Polyphia (a lot of songs), MA Batio (No Boundaries), Tosin Abasi (CAFO, Woven Web etc.), Dean Lamb/Tobi Morelli from Archspire (maybe A Dark Horizontal at 3:59 and many more), Tom Geldschlager's verse sweeps or solo in the song Akroasis by Obscura, Jeff Lomis has a lot of hard stuff as well, Alexi Laiho's (RIP) passage in Sioux City Sarsaparilla at 1:05 (tried to learn it but it made me cry) etc.
Jason Becker Serrena Arpeggios, plenty of people have done it but its crazy good
Steve Vai released "The Attitude Song" in 1984, thirty seven years ago when he was twenty-four, TWENTY-FOUR!!! Guitar Player magazine had an issue with a breakdown of the song in standard notation and tabulature along with a flexi-disc record in the magazine. I had a copy of it for years. Sadly, it was ruined some years ago when my storage roof leaked.
You have no idea how nice it is to see a les Paul on your thumbnail
7:14 Ty: says Uh Oh here we go
Me: Gets a guitartricks ad*
The solo in scarred by DT definitely deserves a spot on this list. especially the sweep bit .
Maybe in part 2??
Love McKee's. Saw him on a tour through Germany a long while, back. At one point, he asked for a song request. I yelled "Freebird!" He smirked. (I had to let him know there was an American in the crowd.)
Between the buried and me: selkies the endless obsession. The sweeping bit in the solo.
I’m so pleased Rick Graham is on this, you could have chosen literally any of his daily Facebook updates as an example.
I would perhaps put forward Jeff Loomis solo on “This Godless Endeavour” ive not even tried it because it just sounds impossible to my ear...
Expected to see some Shawn Lane, but props for showing me that Greg Howe lick....