What is one of your most favorite guitar solos of ALL TIME

EmptyWords said:

By the way here is the definition of melody..
Melody - a sweet or agreeable succession or arrangement of sounds :

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Of which shredding a million notes extremely fast out of a scale with no feel, and no spaces to breath, is not. I did not point to any specific song in this thread, but rather to the mostly shitty genre of shred metal. And also I said "in my own opinion." Am I not allowed to have that without you busting out the shit talking? Did you even listen to the songs I posted? If you had, you might have noticed that Django Reinhardt plays really damn fast, yet he takes a pause every now and then, and doesn't just go up and down a scale over and over again (like the second one you posted. notice how shitty it sounded when he slowed it down? Notice how the one above it only started to sound good when he stopped shredding?) Funny enough, Django Reinhardt sounds pretty damn good.

Steve French said:

Of which shredding a million notes extremely fast out of a scale with no feel, and no spaces to breath, is not. I did not point to any specific song in this thread, but rather to the mostly shitty genre of shred metal. And also I said "in my own opinion." Am I not allowed to have that without you busting out the shit talking? Did you even listen to the songs I posted? If you had, you might have noticed that Django Reinhardt plays really damn fast, yet he takes a pause every now and then, and doesn't just go up and down a scale over and over again (like the second one you posted. notice how shitty it sounded when he slowed it down? Notice how the one above it only started to sound good when he stopped shredding?) Funny enough, Django Reinhardt sounds pretty damn good.

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No one is bashing the videos you posted, or any of your opinion. In fact, you are the one initiating the "shit talking". But please, don't hate on other genres that you have not the sligtest clue about.

You enjoy myself-phish

or harryhood

If you don't know of either, go smoke a fatty and look up on youtube. You will NOT be let down.

Straight Sativa said:

No one is bashing the videos you posted, or any of your opinion. In fact, you are the one initiating the "shit talking". But please, don't hate on other genres that you have not the sligtest clue about.

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For one, I never suggested anybody was bashing the videos I posted. Two, I'd have to say the other guy started the "shit talking" when he read my opinion and said "That is the most retarded thing I've ever read." How could you have missed that? When someone says something like that about your opinon, it is pretty clear they are bashing it. And where did you get the idea I know nothing about shred metal? I've listened to a fair amount of it. Are you going to deny they play notes really fast up and down a scale with no breathing space in many shred songs and bands?

Maybe I should've got more technical, and said arpeggios

Technical fast fingers can be progressive and melodic as i already posted a few examples.

tryingtogrow89 said:

Technical fast fingers can be progressive and melodic as i already posted a few examples.

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I don't disagree. I pointed out Django Reinhardt back there, whose playing is very fast and technical, yet very melodic.

@Steve French

Lol no, I didnt miss that. It's spot on to what you remarked about so called "shred metal", which isn't even a genre of music.

Some metal bands, not even guitarists specifically, may play notes really "fast" but that has nothing to do with how good the music may or may not sound, unless of course the notes don't musically go togther, in which case it's just bad music. If you were to argue that notes with "no breathing room" do not sound good then perhaps you should try listening to some Stevie Ray Vaughn, one of the greatest guitar players of all time.

And for the record, you were the one inciting the trash talking at "some asshole ripping a million..."

I second anything by David gilmour. The enire Animals album has nothing but amazing solos, especially Dogs. Quite the trip

Jerry Garcia is another

[video=youtube;ifp_SVrlurY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY[/video]

Skip up to 3:20

Prince wailing on the axe like a boss.

MOD gross misconduct. the opening of the song. can't find a video for it, it's not available in my country.... fucking youtube license assholes.

this whole song is b-e-a-utiful for guitar work, but the solo...........

[video=youtube;SRvCvsRp5ho]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho&ob=av2e[/video]

When I walk these streets
A loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps
'Cause I might not make it back
I've been everywhere (Ohh, yea)
Still I'm standin' tall
I've seen a million faces
And I've rocked them all

I'm glad to see Tosin Abasi on here Animals as Leaders fucking rules. Born of Osiris really turned it up a notch with Discovery (especially compared to A Higher Place). To this "shredding is no good" "it needs to be slow and have feeling" bullshit...says who? This thread is for "YOUR favorite" not "Your favorite that everyone else likes too."

Anyways I think my favorite solo of all time is in the end of Between The Buried and Me's 'Selkies:The Endless Obsession.' Which has speed, technicality, melody, and more feeling than anyone could ask for from metal musicians. Hear for yourself these superb musicians:

[video=youtube;EHOOb3_Sfpc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOOb3_Sfpc[/video]

http://youtu.be/f3QzCnJEs7A

not the artist but a very sweet cover. Fatal Tragedy by Dream Theater

Straight Sativa said:

@Steve French

Lol no, I didnt miss that. It's spot on to what you remarked about so called "shred metal", which isn't even a genre of music.

Some metal bands, not even guitarists specifically, may play notes really "fast" but that has nothing to do with how good the music may or may not sound, unless of course the notes don't musically go togther, in which case it's just bad music. If you were to argue that notes with "no breathing room" do not sound good then perhaps you should try listening to some Stevie Ray Vaughn, one of the greatest guitar players of all time.

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Okay, you caught me, I lied. I don't listen to enough metal with shredding in it to know it hadn't been tagged into it's own genre yet. I thought it would've, isn't that what a musical genre is, a bunch of artists who sound the same?

No breathing room? Which Stevie Ray Vaughan are you talking about? Are you saying if he just played this song with every note ringing out for the exact same amount of time it would sound just as good? Though he isn't really a person that I'd put up there among the greats. He was best at covering other peoples songs, and his own weren't quite up to snuff. He did have feel to his guitar playing unlike these shredders though. A few bends and slides thrown in there too.

[video=youtube;VsHXd4rQnW0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsHXd4rQnW0&feature=related[/video]

Straight Sativa said:

And for the record, you were the one inciting the trash talking at "some asshole ripping a million..."

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Not fact, not the written law, just personal opinion, and certainly nothing that any of you should've gotten upset about. I trashed some music, not comparable with going and trashing me.

Steve French said:

Are you saying if he just played this song with every note ringing out for the exact same amount of time it would sound just as good?

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No and I do not know how you came to that conclusion, sir. You were saying "no breating room." Well in many Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, clapton songs..ect there is technically "no breating room" in many of their solos. A note being held longer, for example, a half note is different from a rest, which is a pause where no sound from that instrument occurs. And by the way, solo's are what we are talking about here correct? I'm not saying there aren't rests occuring on the guitar numerous times in the chrous or verses or bridges, but during solo's you don't all that often hear rests, as opposed to held notes.

Steve French said:

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noun 1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.

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Not fact, not the written law, just personal opinion, and certainly nothing that any of you should've gotten upset about. I trashed some music, not comparable with going and trashing me.

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Well as it is you're opinion that metal guitarists are "assholes," it is our opinion as well that your thoughts about technical ability not being able to carry melody, are indeed retarded.

And also, S.R.V. was ranked #7 greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone. just saying.

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Two crazy solo's I like the second one.

steve vai live in tokyo building a church mad solo mad song mad guitarist

[video=youtube;6lbvSBNLLoo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbvSBNLLoo[/video]

This guy is great...his live show is always a display of badassery.

Not gona lie, that was pretty badass ^^^^

But I don't think anyone can be more BA than Zakk Wylde:
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