Who's stuff is the most diffucult to play(guit.)

Hmm Rusty Cooley.. Hes fast but there is no nothing sense in hes playing just picking a-minor up and down....

But Shawn Lane. Romeo and Stephan Forte and most of guitar players have "copied" his things. Get Centrifugal funk hey tee bone song.
 
I would have to say Becker was probably the best ever. Had he not gotten ALS then holy crap he would be the craziest player in history by now considering he was as good as the best when he was 18. Also I think Vai is better and faster than malmsteen but usually just never tries. I heard someone say that at a G3 concert somewhere yngwie tried to show off but Vai shamed him. I have a video of a solo he did at a G3 that i got off of kazaa and around the beginning he does sweeps at becker speed without even trying. I think he was just improving it all too. I heard him say that he's going to record something where he plays as well as he can before his age starts to slow him down so I'm sure that that will be amazing.
 
PRauhala said:
Hmm Rusty Cooley.. Hes fast but there is no nothing sense in hes playing just picking a-minor up and down....

But Shawn Lane. Romeo and Stephan Forte and most of guitar players have "copied" his things. Get Centrifugal funk hey tee bone song.
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I think Centrifugal Funk is probably the hardest song ever!
 
xerox u played for 2 years and you think can play yngwie stuff? you're an idiot. :Spin: You're one of those newb players with a squire strat or a BC rich warlock that claims "I can play guitar! kurt cobian is tha l33t rofl rofl". :erk:

Yngwie, like Vai, is a very "specialized" player, he's not like paul gilbert who plays a huge range of songs. Yngwie certainly doesn't SUCK, he's a genius. Watch ths "Concerto Suite for the Electric Guitar in Eb minor with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra LIVE" DVD. Probably the most amazing DVD ever. If you haven't GET IT. You will NOT regret. People saying shit like you heard one of his riffs you've heard it all, that's just a dumb thing to say. Listen to Vai, after a while you'll see a similarity between a lot of his songs. That's not a problem, it's HIS style, HIS music. Every musician has their own style. It's ignorant and stupid to flame some guitarist for playing similar riffs in his songs. I mean what do you want Yngwie to do? Play country? :err:

Paul Gilbert has to be one of my favorite guitarists, a true virtuoso in many aspects. If you guys think he can't play, check out his Seoul guitar clinic videos on the racerx site. He's definately one of the FASTEST, CLEANEST shredders. There's a lot more to his playing than shredding. Fans of him like myself know that, check out his solo albums.

IMO arguing who's the best player is completely subjective. All those top players are all damn good players and it's too hard to compare by comparing this song of an artist to another song. Musicians create music, not show off their skill on the instrument. That's just my opinion.
 
btangel said:
xerox u played for 2 years and you think can play yngwie stuff? you're an idiot. :Spin: You're one of those newb players with a squire strat or a BC rich warlock that claims "I can play guitar! kurt cobian is tha l33t rofl rofl". :erk:

Yngwie, like Vai, is a very "specialized" player, he's not like paul gilbert who plays a huge range of songs. Yngwie certainly doesn't SUCK, he's a genius. Watch ths "Concerto Suite for the Electric Guitar in Eb minor with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra LIVE" DVD. Probably the most amazing DVD ever. If you haven't GET IT. You will NOT regret. People saying shit like you heard one of his riffs you've heard it all, that's just a dumb thing to say. Listen to Vai, after a while you'll see a similarity between a lot of his songs. That's not a problem, it's HIS style, HIS music. Every musician has their own style. It's ignorant and stupid to flame some guitarist for playing similar riffs in his songs. I mean what do you want Yngwie to do? Play country? :err:

Paul Gilbert has to be one of my favorite guitarists, a true virtuoso in many aspects. If you guys think he can't play, check out his Seoul guitar clinic videos on the racerx site. He's definately one of the FASTEST, CLEANEST shredders. There's a lot more to his playing than shredding. Fans of him like myself know that, check out his solo albums.

IMO arguing who's the best player is completely subjective. All those top players are all damn good players and it's too hard to compare by comparing this song of an artist to another song. Musicians create music, not show off their skill on the instrument. That's just my opinion.
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I think his best song is "I am Satan" :headbang:
 
I guess when you mean flaming yngwie you are referring to my post.

I like Yngwie he is what got me into most of the metal I listen to today. But he really does the same licks in his solos. Also, when I say he needs to try something new I'm not saying he should play country. I think he should try some rap. :Spin:

Just joking, but I think he shoud try to go for an Adagio direction or Time Requiem or something a little different. If I am going to listen to a shredder show his classical side I would rather listen to Stephan Forte's classical side.

Like I said when I saw Yngwie last March he was sloppy and arrogant. What I mean by arrogant is that when your'e obviously having a bad night don't solo for 20 minutes straight.

Xerofall, I can believe where you have been playing for 2 years and play yngwie. I know another guy and he has been playing 2 years and he can play tons of stuff from V. He can also play other types of music too. He also has some of the coolest riffs I have ever heard. But the fact that you say Paul Gilbert sucks makes me question you're sanity. Paul Gilbert is an amzing an diverse player with alot of talent. Why you can't see that, I don't know, but I think you need to give him another try or else quit guitar because you have no clue what you're talking about.
 
yea I've seen him on the G3 DVD live in denver. I wasn't too impressed with his playing either. He does play adagio in the concerto suite DVD. You guys should really check out that DVD, it really shows what Yngwie can do.

I've played some Yngwie neo-classical riffs myself. They aren't hard in that there is a pattern in his riffs and they are usually apeggios up and down the scale. But playing at his speed, with his sort of accuracy is not something you can develop in 2 years time. I don't think it's terribly difficult to play compared to some of the PG licks I've been practicing. Again, technical skill can be developed over time. But Yngwie's genius in creating music is hard to neglect.

I wasn't directing my last post at you, I was just glancing over and saw a lot of negative comments about Yngwie, and especially just having saw the entire concerto suite DVD last night, really got to me.
 
btangel said:
xerox u played for 2 years and you think can play yngwie stuff? you're an idiot. :Spin: You're one of those newb players with a squire strat or a BC rich warlock that claims "I can play guitar! kurt cobian is tha l33t rofl rofl". :erk:

Yngwie, like Vai, is a very "specialized" player, he's not like paul gilbert who plays a huge range of songs. Yngwie certainly doesn't SUCK, he's a genius. Watch ths "Concerto Suite for the Electric Guitar in Eb minor with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra LIVE" DVD. Probably the most amazing DVD ever. If you haven't GET IT. You will NOT regret. People saying shit like you heard one of his riffs you've heard it all, that's just a dumb thing to say. Listen to Vai, after a while you'll see a similarity between a lot of his songs. That's not a problem, it's HIS style, HIS music. Every musician has their own style. It's ignorant and stupid to flame some guitarist for playing similar riffs in his songs. I mean what do you want Yngwie to do? Play country? :err:

Paul Gilbert has to be one of my favorite guitarists, a true virtuoso in many aspects. If you guys think he can't play, check out his Seoul guitar clinic videos on the racerx site. He's definately one of the FASTEST, CLEANEST shredders. There's a lot more to his playing than shredding. Fans of him like myself know that, check out his solo albums.

IMO arguing who's the best player is completely subjective. All those top players are all damn good players and it's too hard to compare by comparing this song of an artist to another song. Musicians create music, not show off their skill on the instrument. That's just my opinion.
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AMEN to this post!

Many players develop a repertoire of patterns they base their licks on. Patterns are especially helpful in jazz, but they are apparent in all forms of music. Even Romeo's licks come from "patternizations" of scales. Yngwie's patterns can tend to be stuck in Phrygian Dominant, but btangel raises the best point - his execution of these licks and patterns is out of this world.

But I did like the response that it would be cool to hear Yngwie do something completely different. The notion of a prog album from Yngwie makes me shiver.
 
I'm a drummer...but i know some stuff about guitars and i'm 100% sure that michael romeo's songs are the hardest to play. I have a lot of friends who play guitars, they all play yngwie and rusty cooley stuff but none of them can do mike romeo's hard solos....they're just to difficult to play...because of all the sweeps and speed!
so i think mike romeo's stuff is the most difficult to play.
 
The hardest thing to play is something you can't play, it's that simple. So many guitarists (mostly young beginners) often asks what's the most difficult, fastest etc. and I understand that's interresting, cause you want to see how far you have gone in with your skills and your ability to play guitar. I loved looking at Malmsteen's instruction videos to find inspiration in order to be even faster some years ago, but since a year or so I found that I don't play guitar just to be able to play my idols solos. Of course, it's still fun to see that I acchieve speed, dexterity, accuracy, technique etc. but I don't struggle with my guitar everyday just to become better in that purpose. Nowadays I usually improvise and try to write songs that I totally can refer to, and I have found out that allthough I started playing metal, my improvised songs usually turns to more bluesy and jazzy. And it comes naturally which is more pleasent then some chromatics in warp speed, barely controlled nor accurate.
It's a process I think. Some may always wanna become the new Yngwie or maybe Vai, but I just want to become myself.

Someone mentioned Romeo's stuff to be the toughest and maybe he's right, IMO I still think that the toughest thing is to play what's in my heart on the guitar. But I get better and better..
 
well yngwies stuff is hard at first but once you get it down it gets kinda easy, romeos tapping stuff is hard lol some of his runs are hard too. Vai just has some weird ass runs. But the fastest cleanest guitarist i've ever heard is this guy on yahoo chat named xxneospiritxx, its always amazing to hear someone play trilogy suite and arpeggios from hell at double speed lol
 
Michael Romeo's stuff may seem hard to some people because a lot of people I think don't take their tapping to that level. He's definitely a master at tapping, with all the string-skipping superfast tapping runs that make up a lot of his solos. He pulls them off perfectly live, too.
 
Barking Pumpkin said:
Michael Romeo's stuff may seem hard to some people because a lot of people I think don't take their tapping to that level. He's definitely a master at tapping, with all the string-skipping superfast tapping runs that make up a lot of his solos. He pulls them off perfectly live, too.
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Vais a tapping monster too. All that 8 finger tapping stuff lol
 
Yeah, Michael Romeo isn't the only amazing tapper, he's probably one of the most recognized ones in the metal scene though...
 
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