Let´s vote: Most difficult song to play!!

[Jommi]

Ok, guys, lets keep little voting hour for most hardest guitar piece forever. You can vote 1-3 of them.
Note: Meaning about this vote is to make kind of chart about most difficult songs & change idea´s and opinions.
My vote:
Steve Vai - "Kill the guy with the ball"
Al Di Meola - "Etude"
Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Little Wing"

 

[wolfbone07]

"Tumeni Notes" - Steve Morse. The sheer speed and accuracy. I've been working on it for years, and I can get it up to about half speed before I lose it.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Albert Lee - Country boy.
There again any Albert Lee/Danny Gatton song!

One that I am VERY proud of nailing is a "slide" number by Sonny Landreth called Native Stepson. He plays in a unique style whereby he frets behind the slide - well, I
nailed it !!

 

[Roubster]

I agree with Tumeni Notes, but also I wonder what it must be like to play Universal Mind by Liquid Tension. Of course it's Petrucci so it must be relatively hard, hehehe.

 

[threeminutesboy]

Jeux interdits

 

[SteveB]

Hmm..

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue

Steve Vai - So Happy

Paul Gilbert - (lots of things)

 

[kbaim]

Just saw John from Hectic Watermelon on tuesday play Tumeni during a sound check.


I love watching guitarists play thing I can't.

 

[THE_EB_KID]

Spud, GREAT choice in slide guitar players that's my favorite song
Sonny's ever recorded ( congo square a close second ) he's a local
hero to us Louisiana boys, he's a really nice guy too!!

 

[Astrofreq]

That's easy. Anything with NOTATION instead of TAB!!!!

For me, I had a really hard time with the fast part on The Happy Couple by Michael Hedges. It's just faster than my porky fingers could handle. Jommi, I can't imagine sitting down and trying to learn Kill The Guy With The Ball. You have way more patience than I do. My hat is off to you.

Thankfully, whether a song is good or not has absolutely NOTHING to do with the difficulty. If it did, I would have stopped writing years ago.

 

[phatduckk]

im not so good at guitar. i can improv randoms tuff that sounds good but lose it somewher ein the middle cuz i never know what im really doing and w/o any theory behind it i eventually get myself into a sour section.

essentially anything outside of my comfort zone of punk rock and basic metallica/slayer like metal is hard for me to play

 

[ibanez2005]

I know your're here - Steve Vai

Get outta' my yard - Paul Gilbert

 

[Spudmurphy]

Spud, GREAT choice in slide guitar players that's my favorite song
Sonny's ever recorded ( congo square a close second ) he's a local
hero to us Louisiana boys, he's a really nice guy too!!

Oh yeah? - I'd love to see him play live.
I just love his stuff with John Hiatt - now there's a guitarist who should play a ball!!

I can play Son of Native Stepson too ! - but that's cheating , cos it's just an acoustic version of Native Stepson!!

 

[THE_EB_KID]

Oh here's my three:
Steve Vai - Tender Surrender
Sonny Landreth - Native Stepson
Paul Gilbert - Take your pick!!!!

 

[W.Suitor]

I agree Spudmurphy, John Hiatt is the ticket!! He DEFINITELY should play a Ball.

 

[THE_EB_KID]

That's good stuff Spud, John's a guitar MONSTER too!!!!!!!!!

 

[robelinda2]

one of Tommy Emmanuel's fast tunes, MONSTER player.

Tumeni Notes is freakin hard too.

shred stuff is also hard too, like As I Am by DT.

 

[Jommi]

Well, i have to admit, that if i have something, i have tough head: If i dont know how to play something, i sit down and learn it no matter how long it takes. Kill the Guy was really hard to learn, i was training it about 40 hours just that song, until i realized how it has to be done. And its still difficult.

 

[robelinda2]

Jommi i really like Boy from Seattle of that same Vai cd, super tones on that one!

 

[Junior]

Steve Vai - "Kill the guy with the ball"

Well, that's kinda suicidal, don't you think? Genocidal, too.

 

[THE_EB_KID]

Boy from Seattle is great!! How 'bout Die to live!!!
Thats good stuff!!!!!!!!!