Your favourite guitar solos

[Pagan Savior]

sweeping generalizations like this don't make sense. It all depends on the style, the band, etc.

Sometimes you're right... they are out of place, awkward, don't add to the song. Sometimes they enhance the song greatly.

I agree with this, there is no 'most important part' to a metal song, or any song. It's how the constituent parts meld together, and the atmosphere that they create, that are most important to me.

 

[0Marty]

Most solos are too long and struggle to create some kind of melody and/or atmosphere for me. It is just following (very repetitive) common intervals up and down the fretboard. No time for the notes to ring out and do something to me. That's how I see most solos.

 

[Metal_Cultist]

I see what you did there.

 

[Metal_Cultist]

Most solos are too long and struggle to create some kind of melody and/or atmosphere for me. It is just following (very repetitive) common intervals up and down the fretboard. No time for the notes to ring out and do something to me. That's how I see most solos.

That's how I see bad solos.

 

[Metal_Cultist]

I agree with this, there is no 'most important part' to a metal song, or any song. It's how the constituent parts meld together, and the atmosphere that they create, that are most important to me.

yep, agreed. If for example, I decide to listen to Candlemass, the vocals end up being the most important part of the music. All just depends.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Allan Holdsworth's solo on Joint Ventures is one of my favorites. It's his style, but really over a Jens Johansson backing, which is freaking sweet, plus the keyboard solo that follows it is the best keyboard solo ever, just about. This is style.

 

[CF87]

2:58

 

[mutantllama]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LYiDybx7io
1:24

 

[ApparatusUnearth]

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3:25

 

[ApparatusUnearth]

Death - Story to Tell will always be my favorite. Such emotion in the solo, I get chills every time.
https://youtu.be/LqbBZ4umzE8?t=2m34s
2:35

 

[Metal_Cultist]

Never been the biggest Hammerfall fan, but this song and especially the solo are AMAZING!

3:30 - ~4:00

 

[Metal_Cultist]

One more for now...

2:39

 

[RedStorm]

starts at 1:50

 

[MoSeN]

Death - Story to Tell will always be my favorite. Such emotion in the solo, I get chills every time.
https://youtu.be/LqbBZ4umzE8?t=2m34s
2:35

My favorite too.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

2:18

 

[ProphetofHatred]

3:07

 

[ProphetofHatred]

8:28

 

[ProphetofHatred]

3:54

 

[CF87]

2:24



3:25

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhZpMo2-0I 8:28

One of my favorites.

 

[nizzon]

3:25