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[Surrogate_Helical]

I used to try to learn a lot of rock guitar from the likes of Guns n roses and Iron Maiden (before growing out of devils and demons..lol) but the songs were quite hard to play, i remeber trying to wack out Sweet Child o Mine in my bedroom..and although I could never play these kinda songs well without a shit load of practice..I think they were quite important to my development as a guitar player.

The rhythm to the Scar Tissue riff took me ages..it took me even longer to do it with a pick.

What song did you find the most hard to learn? Its an amzing feeling after mastering a song..with what song did you expirience this with?

[funkymonk]

Under the Bridge I found very tricky to learn... i still don't even have it down perfect :S

and I found Scar Tissue really tricky too, the way he plays it with a pick, I used to fingerpick it kind of easily.

[Jurjen]

Cabron, especially because of the speed and Can't Stop, because there are ALWAYS some notes slipping into my version. And of course Road Tripping, again because of the speed and because I needed to use my right hand pinkie

[SiberianKhatru]

Yes- Mood For A Day

That song is very difficult.

[mod3stas]

SiberianKhatru, on Mar 28 2006, 08:30 PM, said:

Yes- Mood For A Day

That song is very difficult.

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Oh yeah, it really is ;-)

[yeh_yeh_]

jasco by sepultura. the start is easier but when it changes..ARGH!

[aljian]

On guitar, I found Under the Bridge pretty hard. On cello, Gigue from solo cello suite II by JS Bach is probably the hardest that I've learned.

[Miss Frooshontay]

yeh_yeh_, on Mar 29 2006, 06:06 AM, said:

jasco by sepultura. the start is easier but when it changes..ARGH!

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Yeah me too and Sir psycho sexy.... ARRRRRRGGGGGH !

[prometheus]

perhaps im forgetting about something more challenging but certainly one of the most rediculous mind blowing difficult riffs to play (in my opinion) is the first 10 seconds of untitled #10 (from niandra). theres just so many different notes going off at once i cant concentrate. i finaly cheated, learned it from tabs, and then never played it again. no other song has ever made me feel like such a worthless guitar player.




edit: i just thought of two more. bob dylans versions of "in my time of dying" and "pretty polly." both for the same reason as above really. chords are easy, notes can be tricky sometimes, but chords with added notes , hammer-ons, thumb fretting and other trickery combined make me wanna just put the guitar down sometimes.

[Surrogate_Helical]

Is that just one guitar?? I thought there was like...two or three guitars in there???

thats just insane how the can u play it on just one guitar?

Im gonna have to check that out

[CAP0 CRIMINI]

I wish i learned an instrument i love the guitar and saxaphone, i just mouth stuff, the most difficult song to mouth was probarly billie jean i cant get that high piano thing.

[Jurjen]

Untitled #10 isn't that hard, right?
I mean, it does take some training, but I can play it now reasonably...

[Surrogate_Helical]

Hehe...ok I feel really stupid..i was getting mixed up with the begining of untitled #11..which I think has more than one guitar too it...

Untitled 10..with practice I think i could do it....

God I feel stupid now ..

(Can anyone actually play the intro part to untiled #11? I'm pretty sure its more than one guitar

[Jurjen]

Wow... Even more stupidity here... I have never heard Untitled #11 before...

John sings remarkably well on this track, compared to other tracks on Niandra

[Surrogate_Helical]

Yeah its a really nice song

[SiberianKhatru]

The intro to Untitled #11 is fantastic.

And yeah..Untitled #10 isn't too bad, you just have to practice the hell out of it like any song.

I find parts of Untitled #8 difficult too.

[prometheus]

well perhaps im just not as cool as some people. or maybe thumb fretting while playing on the high e, a and d strings comes easier to others than some. but either way i still stand behind #10 probably being the most tricky song i ever learned. certainly harder than any of johns more recent works which generaly seem to be typical rhythm progressions like a, c, g. and truthfuly i found the first half of #10 to be more difficult than any hendrix song ive ever learned. but i guess its really all a matter of the individual playing the song and that persons style. whats easy to some is difficult to others i suppose.

[Surrogate_Helical]

I think some of his most technical playing was on his first album

[SiberianKhatru]

prometheus, on Apr 1 2006, 08:30 PM, said:

and truthfuly i found the first half of #10 to be more difficult than any hendrix song ive ever learned.

I don't know what Hendrix songs you've been learning but that's surprising. Not all Hendrix songs are incredibly difficult, but I think there are a lot of Hendrix songs that are more difficult to learn, simply because of the volume of music you have to learn. One thing that makes Hendrix songs very difficult to learn is that he doesn't repeat himself very often. So if you want to learn it note for note, you have to remember a lot. This is obviously coupled with the fact that there is a great deal of technically difficult components to many songs.

[prometheus]

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but i guess its really all a matter of the individual playing the song and that persons style. whats easy to some is difficult to others i suppose.