Hardest songs for me would be technical difficulties (Paul Gilbert), or Rising Force (YJM)

No Polyphia? No Symphony-X? No Satriani? No Andy McKee? No LTE? No Archspire?This list needs serious upgrades ..

Sultans of Swing

Hardest for me is everything because I'm new at it lol

Would go for Castles Made of Sand. Hendrix must've basically lived in the studio long enough to find a way to make his parts sound perfect in reverse. Oh, and can we have "Habits of Brian May?" or Blackmore?

YES

Underrated comment haha!

Hahahahahahahahaha. So true

Story of my Life

Facts 😂

So true, but when you’re playing by yourself you pretend to play for a crowd of people

Yes

Agreed

Brilliant!

Gish 😳

No stairway, denied😎

shoot for the double leg and transition into his back then go for a rear naked choke. then play the song while he's sleeping, works for me though.

Ha ha true story

Weak.

Along with Enter Sandman :D

What impresses me most about Hendrix is his composition. Truly inspiring and imaginative at times. Thats where I think his genius lies. The guitar was just his vehicle for expressing those ideas. Imagination cant really be learned i dont think.

to play them well you need a fuzzface... facts there are harder songs to play from around that time and before especially with classical Barrios and Terrega like comparing how hard it is to roll a joint vs translate greek and arabic... faster, more technical, using more complex music, from all over stuff like Misirlou(greek, jazz, surf, rock, Dick Dale was also left handed like Hendrix but he left the strings reversed BB King style instead of fixing them around like Hendrix), you had guys like Jose Reyes & Manitas De Plata some of the greatest gypsy guitarists ever they combined all sorts of musical cultures and languages french, spanish, portugese, roma combined multiple styles of flamenco playing and invented abstract rhythms not found in flamenco before so many parts of the world with so many people making all kinds of attempts at greatness, gods envy men for we can truly fail and everything is more beautiful because we're doomed yet some still reach out and shake greatness.

@@greatbingus didnt you mean Albert King?

@@tago69mago yeah sorry about that Albert King and What I was trying to explain is Dick Dale and King would use lefty guitars strung up like a right, Hendrix would use a right strung up like a lefty like Paul McCartney

@@greatbingus no worries. Prefer hendrix univibe sound personally and the backwards guitar sound which was a pain in arse to accomplish in those days

Or Stairway to Heaven in a guitar store

@@peterbaan9671 yeah it’s hard to play when people are grabbing at your guitar and screaming for you to stop!

mik3ymomo yeah, I know!

@@peterbaan9671 or smoke on the water

I play that in my sleep

My thoughts exactly

Lmao

True

Exactly

Factual statement

I agree that it is not an especially hard guitar line, but a guy making a music critic video doesn't know one of the most famous Smiths songs, come on, how can I take you seriously.

I'm a rather new guitarist (playing for 3 months) and I'm learning This Charming Man as my first riff GODDAMN IT'S HARD

I love Johnny's playing

This charming man has a a lot of subtleties and ghost notes which are particularly hard to nail. Never seen anyone play it exactly like Johnny Marr.

@@onyx747 youll get it down. it is a bit tricky but its so rewarding to finally play it.

Lmaooo my daughter brought a recorder home from school this year and I had to hear those fucking songs everyday, and as you can imagine, not tremendously accurate. 😂 Great comment. I got a good laugh out of it lol.

Very easy on piano.

i had no problem with those two. it was "it's raining it's pouring" that was THE hardest song ever.

@@85geoffm Atleast you dont have to listen to 30 of the buggers playing it all at once but somehow none of them are in sync

lol

Title says songs, not solos

If only the comment were a joke

that’s what I thought, it’s like saying O Baterista is the hardest song to play on drums

This is pure ignorance. The solo rolls into You Really Got Me. Fool.

lmao

Loool

👍

Haha

"Top 10 songs on guitar that *SOUND* hard to play"

Radical, but all of it though? When i was fourteen i could remember playing the entire tapping part of eruption, but not the beginning, anyway your kid seems to be good, So tell him i said good luck!

Dude I wish I had started learning that young! I just started a week ago with an acoustic guitar from the pawn shop😂 I'm 22

That's awesome! Hope he keeps going with it!

My 14-year-old son is better than your 14-year-old son.

Be there for your son more than once every two weeks time is the most important thing

Agree. And of course it is hard to come up with the riff in the first place while reinventing guitar music at the time. I felt he threw a lot of shade on Marr with the disrespectful way he treated that song.

but for TOP 10? lol NOOO

@@TurfShifter He played it at first try, not exactly hard.

@@TheSteinbitt he played it very wrong on first try

@@droideca88 yeah ok, almost perfect on second try lol like that makes it any better.

Em7

Oh, we’ve all met that bloke. That arsehole gets everywhere. Cheers, Si.

Glen Campbell, Chet Atkins used a capo, Frets are closer together, easier reach for a smaller hand?

WoNdEr wAlL

Here’s the thing. You must do it at this point

"indie kids" Do you mean "indie middle-agers?"

That was me. LOL I grew up in the 80's and The Smiths were huge in the modern rock genre--like often ranked #1 in various lists. Johnny Marr was one of my early guitar influences, along with John Squire of Stone Roses, Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, Edge of U2, etc.

Lmao very tru

I like Tyler but how can he not know about The Smiths? 😂

I was throwing up when he said that! 😩

Agreed I hope to acquire one of these paul reed smith guitars.

As with so much art, it can be very subjective. They gave it a shot and made something for us to watch and discuss for fun anyway ☺️

LOL!!! That is a perfect title xD

Also anything heavier than blues seems to be considered rock to them

@@treystone1993 very subjective? When it comes to technique there is not that much space for subjectivity.

@@kyranstoecklin726 Space for subjectivity? I'm assuming you mean debating what can be difficult for one artist vs. what can be difficult for another. You may disagree. You are entitled to your opinion. That is the point. It's what makes the whole thing interesting.

More like 1/3 is actually hard

AAL is CLEARLY the hardest out of this list. And of course they go with some normie b.s. like Eruption as #1

@@elpolitemexa2272 Megadeth's Tornado is harder than most of them and it's an honorable mention. WM is normie crap so I'm not surprised although CAFO was a surprise I wouldn't have thought they'd include it.

my boy, dance of eternity is more than just tricky, lmao

@@MalFunktion2024 I know. The ones I consider hard from this list includes the Dance of Eternity.

YES YES YES! The first time I heard that song I had only been playing for about 2 years and I was like, I am pretty sure if I practice this song a lot I can play it..... NOPE.

That's what I was going to write. That Merle Travis picking pattern and syncopated rhythm along with chords that are an uncomfortable stretch and position especially for those with smaller hands. And Lindsey Buckingham sang while he was playing it. That's one of those pat your head while rubbing your belly at the same time kind of songs.

Listen to (big love live the dance)just Lindsey Buckingham on stage and his guitar.Definitely a phenomenal guitar player

People always focus on shredding as the "hardest" part of guitar playing, but everyone underestimates the endurance you need to play stuff like James Hetfield's Metallica riffs.

There's footage of James (making of Death Magnetic I *think*???) where he tries downpicking like in the old days and can't do it, and he says something like, "Man, I need to learn how to downpick again" or something. It's funny

The guitar god

Honestly though it could be difficult to get a perfect bad tuning and hit those horrible bends exactly. Just seems... unnatural.

Yeah its pretty hard to suck that bad, I couldn't do it

Hahaha

Lol lil wayne, never gets old😂😂😂😂😂

Best day ever 😳😄!!!

Number of prog metal guitarists who have as much talent and skill as Robert Fripp: zero

@@MyNameIsBucket a challenger appears from the mist: MISHA MANSOOR - father of djent 🙏

Fusion...

@@ancasterguitar8171 life change moments hahaha I discovered asking "who the hell is JP and DT?" I didn't knew what I was about to discover hahahahaha

Please watch the video again, also maybe the video about the origins of tapping in rock. What he said was, Eddie did "invent" tapping as to how it is used in modern rock songs. It's a similar baseline technique but much different in practice compared to what's done in music prior to that, especially in classical.

Imagine doing solo only downstroking xD

Pfft. Overrated skill.

Ah yes my warm up

@@11DNA11 no

@@11DNA11 depends. Can I do it just sitting at home? Yes. Could I do it at the end of an hour long set? Fuck no, I'd die quarter of the way through

The song actually has some tricky parts in it. It’s just the intro that’s piss easy

@@coffeeenjoyer9099 Idk man... that 0-3-5 is easy enough but then they throw that 6 near the end and I'm like WHAAAT???

It is not as easy as it sounds

Simple song if you can down pick. If you can't? Forget it..learn! Other than the right hand being the whole song itself. That's all...very easy

Yeah aside from the Kirk solo near the end, the real challenge is just down-picking at such a constant speed.

I think if any smiths song should be on here it should be girl afraid. Even watching people play that makes my fingers start sweating😫

It’s not one of the most difficult, but it is if you’re not good at downstrokes

I think they should've considered to put either Creeping Death or Blackened up there instead of Master of Puppets, Love the song but for me personally the other 2 are way more difficult than Master of Puppets imo.

Johnny Marr always has (at least a little) drive on his tone.

@@jackmeoff2376 does he? Or is it just loud P90s on a rickenbacker tuned up a whole step? I thought he famously didn’t use drive but I could be wrong

@@tobylewis6442 He's described his tone as having a bit of "attitude" - think Fender-breakup tone, but back on the Smiths debut he was using some pretty sparkly clean tones through a Twin/JC-120

@@tobylewis6442 yep he didn’t use drive unless it was natural. He used ricks fenders and 335s

I'm pretty sure there's some sort of drive in "Panic".

Ahahahahhahahaha

Oh so much whimpering

its tricky but i feel like getting the same tone is a lot more difficult

Some would counter passionate, emotional, crooning.

Not me mind you but some

Needs more likes

True

You said it!

Holy fuck im dying

i am hysterically laughing while i know pure sadness and deep depression is to folow. i cannot will not and do not ever listen to that song ever. ever. EVER.

@@chosenideahandle nah he’s a massive Metallica fan he was jk

@@chosenideahandle R/WOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHH

I don't know the Smith's either. I listen to a vast amount of music, but it never hit my radio I guess.

@@travisdelee8647 please check them out

Typical metal/rock licks is pretty straight forward - The Smiths/Johnny Marr style is whole different animal. You can't say "nailed it" if you did get the notes / chords right :)

Saw the comment right as that part came up 😂😂

tremoulo is a common technique here in Mojovia.

?

I remember having a conversation about tremoulo with a drunk man in a bar a couple of years ago while a Steve vai song was playing... 9/10 would recommend

@@ianduncan8404 watch the video my guy

What about Wonderwall?

Hmmm

Smoke on the water is literally the hardest song to play on KZfaq. If you even try to play it, you get struck down into oblivion... which is a much easier song to get away with.

Ive seen this joke since 2009 and im still wondering how people dont cringe on it

@@mir2678 The funny thing is, it's harder than you think if you're playing it correctly and complete lol it's more than just a chorus riff ;)

There is a clip on KZfaq where a guy play tapping in the 60's.

Maybe if they wrote some good music, they might be more well known! Just kidding UK, but they ain't no Iron Maiden.

Yup! All of his stuff is genius and tricky, especially "Girl afraid"

Everyone knows Marr around the world. It’s just this dude

@@iliketrains3495 oasis is more well known in the US. I hadn't heard of the smiths at all either. Not a big name over here really.

If he's good enough for Hans Zimmer... To be fair on this one, it's more "intricate" than "hard"

now imagine playing something more challenging for over 4 minutes, how hard would that be! xD

I would add two Police songs- “Bring on the Night” and “The Bed’s Too Big Without You.” I believe Sting’s “Fragile” is also an advanced guitar song.

That song and Message In A Bottle have crazy finger stretches that go on for the whole tune. They might not deserve a “hardest” ranking but neither is easy to play.

I’m sorry, out of the worlds catalog, over a hundred years or so or when the guitar was invented, you say that? Every breath you take? That’s extremely narrow. I don’t mean to be harsh and I’m not. The backwards playing song and chord progression from Hendrix or other prodigies not even mentioned here like buckethead or page , srv, flamenco greats, yngqwie Malmsteen, list goes on. Just for fun search KZfaq for Buckethead and say thank you later

@@augustwest5273JustTo be clear. I was actually looking for a song that is "deceivingly" hard to play (endurance, not technical ability or speed). All of the guitarists you mentioned are truly great, but everyone knows that a lot of stuff they play is mildly to very technical, especially Malmsteen. I am also very aware of Buckethead and his playing abilities, and have been for quite some time. No argument from me there. I listen to, teach and play many genres of music, and there are dozens of Guitar players we could add to this list, from Eddie Van Halen, Roy Clark, Al Di Meola, Brad Paisley, George Lynch, Dave Meniketti (my personal favorite) and Jimmy Page, etc. We both get that. However, saying, "I am not trying to be harsh" is like saying, "I am not racist, but......" lol. Thanks for your input though, my friend. I am always up for a good discussion about music and guitar playing, and everyone is entitled to their own opinions. 🎸

Yep, try playin a Paco song- all of these would be beginner to intermediate compared

@@shiftxrqt Supposedly the list was about *Rock* songs.

Agreed, especially if its played on acoustic, and the frets aren't constantly buzzing and the player's fingers aren't constantly scraping against the .052 E string.

Yup

And the mans still gets paid

I would upvote but you have reached the magic number...nice

Go grab yourself the SponsorBlock extension. It's life changing. Just as valuable on KZfaq as a regular adblocker nowadays.

@@emailneilmurray magic number 109?

The dads at guitar world 😂 just for context, any metal video on guitar world gets a dumb amount of downvotes like Rivers of Nihil and Black Dahlia Murder even though they’re ripping it up. But I can picture someone in that audience being like “he has not feel, he’s just playing fast, unlike MARK KNOPFLER”

That’s my go-to song to test every guitar, even acoustic. Shouldn’t even be on the list

Knopfler is dynamics master best of his kind in the world few can copy that kind of playing so that beats meaningles arpeggios and scales at 300 bpm,in any means.

@@jacee8094Maybe more like: Mark Knopfler knows what „dynamics“ mean 😅

@@brassplayer8359 CAFO is not a good example, but Tosin absolutely knows about dynamics. Listen to The Brain Dance or the woven web. But the whole point was there’s zero reason that Sultains of Swings should be put above cafo on a list of what songs harder.

Dave Matthews has some songs that are kind of difficult to play. He uses weird chords, and has some difficult stretches.

Tommy Emmanuel, Francisco Tarega, Django Reinhardt, Justin King, and Isaac albeniz play some really difficult acoustic guitar songs/pieces as well. looking at this comment reminded me that acoustic guitar can be just as hard or even harder than electric guitar.

"Never Going Back Again"- Fleetwood Mac "Neon"- John Mayer "Satellite"-- Dave Mathews(the unique strumming style should be noted)

¥ Plays a song that vaguely resembles This Charming Man ¥ "Mastered it!"

Terrible wasn't it.

@@discofudge yeah it was very cringy.

Do you mean that he played bad? Or that the song is not that difficult?

@@pacosala5853 he played it wrong and said "nailed it"

Good luck with taming OCD, it took a while in the day, I worked it out from rank Smith's live album, meet Mr Marr in Manchester too.

@@tasosdiaforetico7377 Thanks mate

Absolutely an original. His book details how he approaches writing. Fascinating.

Uncultured swines. Japanese instrumental math rock or death.

Dillinger escape plan room full of eyes 👍

@@Esb906 English second language?

@@Esb906 why’d u delete ur first comment buddy?

@@Esb906 Cool, that's a fair opinion to have. It's not an objective thing you can just say as fact, but if you don't like it, that's reasonable.

Me too. That was maybe the worst part of the list.

@@nathandiefenbach1274 @Sterling Glover Then you probably don't realize how difficult it is.👍🏼

@@stevenholst Neither song is easy, and Mark is a legend, but Tosin absolutely blows him out of the water.

Musicality vs technicalities. Fewer musical guitarists than technical one. So not too surprising to me

@@stevenholst Its only hard if you cant play fingerstyle.

Rock on brother!

How’s the progress so far?

I am also on my third month of playing! I just recently learned the goat riff by polyphia and in practicing it and perfecting it! Hopefully I'll be able to play it perfectly in a month! I'm learning pretty quick lol.

LETS GOOO

Nice, dude! Almost three quarters of a year in, how’s it going?

Van Halen himself said he was inspired by Steve Hackett who was doing it in his guitar solos before Van Halen existed as a band

@Emanuel Schuh that ukulele guy is not Van Halen's dad, the guy's name is Roy Smeck🤦🏻‍♂️

I came here to comment this. Not sure why he said tapping wasn't around before Van Halen because it absolutely was.

@@ilhamakbar5482 Lmao, that shit had me cracking up. I remember watching that Roy Smeck vid, and some people commented it was Van Halen’s dad. Apparently some people actually believe that.

Wait wait wait there a minute sir. How do violinists use tapping?? I mean, they use pizzicato, but i don't think that the violin has any tapping techniques. Again, maybe the left hand pizz, but i'm not seeing it as tapping.

Not funny

Overused lol

very overused

I actually just went to guitar center and played it on max volume. Nothing happened.

Lol

Have you forgotten about cliffs of Dover. to play it the way Eric does is incredibly hard

Dissing mojo ? Im in

Metal is a genre of rock

@@maxbeene927 metal is it’s own genre

@@james-en8yn it’s a genre but metal was derived from rock

For endurance, yes...only on the B string part. Not technically challenging though.

@@SethWorsham He mentioned it because people that dont play guitar think that it is hard but it is easy in reality

@@SethWorsham R/whoosh

Repent! The Kingdom if Heaven is at hand. Jesus loves you, He can save you to eternal life and break the chains of sin in you. Yeshua is coming back very soon!

@@ol0022 not when you realize it isn't pull-offs but it is all alternate picking

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Did he butcher it?

@@jimmymunz874 he did

Thank you!! At least he tried.

@jancsi 1 you would ve kicked out the band if you played like that

It’s on the list because Johnny Marr had a unique style of playing. I don’t thing that was understood by the presenter.

HAHHAH

Yes officer, I'd like to report a murder.

WatchMojo often does that, for copyright reasons. Live shit is not usually under the the UMG, etc umbrella.

Im shocked he’s never heard it.

@@t_mac41603 I'm not.

i know yeah i’m mind blown haha

They'll definitely be a band that's bigger in the UK but Tyler's taste is very diverse so I was surprised he hadn't heard of them with Johnny Marr being one of few innovative alt rock guitarists

@@jamiemacmillan4056 Johnny Marr was responsible for so many other musicians aswell

It was rough.

The notes were all wrong but I guess he did only take a little while

Yeah that was awful

Yeah it’s was not perfect but it showed that if he can get the basic this quickly, it’s not something that going to take him month or years to master. So not list worthy

Glad someone else was thinking that. I thought he was totally off

@@Mixalhsellada I know, I was joking, ha ha. I was just referencing the absolutely awful Lil Wayne guitar solo from some show he did.

@@jimmyliddell2072 it's a Stevie Ray Vaughn (one of the greatest of all time) called: "Little Wing". Lil Wayne, you guys are too much. All though Lil Wayne is definitely one of the best (easy top 5), in his genre.

@@jimmydavis9639 I was just joking, ha ha. See my follow up comment.

@@jimmyliddell2072 I didn't catch that part ! That makes it all the more funny, now that I paid attention and read your follow up ! Some times we just have to slow down a bit, right kid ? Have a good one Jimbo...

Little wing. Look you're looking at the album cover

I mean, It’s not that hard. Just dont ever use a pick. Though the thing is the amount of feeling in his playing.

Sultan's is like 25 or 6 to 4. Easy to learn the notes, nearly Impossible to really play it right.

Frog Leap did a metal cover....it's truly enjoyable, everything sounding lke it should but with....more. It's at least one hgher.

All their songs are hard, but I wouldn't put this one as the hardest.

Nuances and finger picking the solo like stop and feeling its unusual song

its not right if its not the same tone

Yes I agree ...

@Lickah "who are these guys I've never heard of them" pain

@Lickah lmao indeed, its not bad at all for what was probably 20 minutes of tinkering around with the guitar because Tyler is great but that's not even close to nailing the feel of the song.

You would have to apply the same criteria to every song then. Which would mean that noone can play stuff that others wrote. You would never get the exact same tone.

my guitar tech Timothy told me to learn Fives, that day i went silent and never spoke to him for a week

That's because they're all improvised

Exactly, he is the best guitar player ever for a reason

I listened to him talk about it and then youtube gave me an unskippable ad.

*coughs in Vanced*

@@lka1988 I use Vanced normally.

I was thinking the exact same thing ...

same

Same😂

All Gary's are psychic

I know kids that took lessons for less than a year that can play this

Lol

Amen