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05-11-2011, 11:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | Whats the hardest song you play?
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Which song requires the most effort, concentration, skill and intense eyeing of your fretwork?
Is there a song you play that you simply cannot do without watching your hands?
Is there a song that usually ends up with the band starting again because its your fault?
Just curious.... |
05-11-2011, 11:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal, Rive-Sud | | | Probably Havona. I'm learning the guitar part in Never Enough by Dream Theater. Sextuplets at 130 bpm is insanely hard.
I'd like to learn John Coltrane's solo on Giant Steps or maybe a Hadrien Feraud solo after that. |
05-11-2011, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Twistad Probably Havona. I'm learning the guitar part in Never Enough by Dream Theater. Sextuplets at 130 bpm is insanely hard.
I'd like to learn John Coltrane's solo on Giant Steps or maybe a Hadrien Feraud solo after that. | Same here. Havona is such a standard. |
05-11-2011, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: State College, Pennsylvania | | | This is not quite what you're asking, but 500 channels by Choking Victim is the most difficult song I play. It's fast and repetitive so by the time I get to the end of the song one of my hands is in pain.
However, no one stops playing when I mess up... its a punk band, no one cares.
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05-11-2011, 12:12 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I can make anything look really hard. It's what I do best.
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05-11-2011, 12:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Warwick RI | | | My cringe tune is cult of personality by living color. That's a hit or miss tune for me.
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05-11-2011, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex I can make anything look really hard. It's what I do best. | Nice!
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05-11-2011, 12:23 PM
| | | | Probably Continuum by Jaco or YYZ by Rush. I've gotten to the point, however, that I can play both competently without looking at my hands.
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05-11-2011, 12:36 PM
| | | "The Lesson" by Victor Wooten @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve37F3Ee9Ow
Edit: My right hand percussion/slap isn't quite where it needs to be to pull that one off with ease.
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05-11-2011, 12:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Jyväskylä, Finland | | | Teen Town is a hard piece technically. However, songs like "Your Smiling Face" by James Taylor are really hard to get funky!
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05-11-2011, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Central Pennsylvania | | | For stuff that I play on my own, it's probably "School Daze" by Stanley Clarke. It's been months and I'm still working on that one.
For the band, it's likely STP's "Interstate Love Song".
(Not a master bassist, if you can't tell) |
05-11-2011, 01:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: NW England | | | Interesting stuff. I can finally play 'the pot' with my eyes closed and head back, start to finish....but 'rhythm stick' still needs more than the occasional glance fretwards!
And we gave up on 'la villa strangiato' because I just couldn't lock in for those few seconds when Geddy goes off on his own. And there's plenty more been binned for similar reasons.
And I'll tell you something else, you just try the intro to'TNT' with the "oi!"s on the 1 and 3, whilst playing the riff. Deceptively difficult. |
05-11-2011, 03:59 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | It's been a while since I've had to play it, but Steve Norton's "Sphere Of Nuance" (humorously listed as "Fear Of Laurence" on the Autumn Uprising live CD version Autumn Uprising (Tautology 001/002) ) is an absolute knuckle- and brain-buster. Ridiculously wide multi-octave leaps, polyrythms galore, four+ part polyphony so there's no one else's part to reference against, plus it's serial, so unless you're really familiar with the row forms none of the pitches are what your ear would tell you are necessarily "right". |
05-11-2011, 09:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bel Air, MD | | | Dune tune by level 42 nothing can beat that basline, my teacher taught me it. Search it its pretty intense
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05-11-2011, 09:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Roanoke Rapids, NC, USA | | Blitzkrieg Bop...
...just kidding!! 
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05-11-2011, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Austin MN | | | Hmm.. Hardest song I can play.... A day in the life of gorge cluneny by burning graceland. |
05-11-2011, 09:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Washington State | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex I can make anything look really hard. It's what I do best. | And it's always my fault when the band stops playing.
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05-11-2011, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Ireland | | | We play a lot of Motown, James Brown, Aretha, Tower of Power. Stuff like that. It's a workout. Lot's of fun tho'.. |
05-11-2011, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Richardson, Texas | | | Jeff Beck's Hammerhead during the wild guitar pyrotechnics and Tal Wilkenfeld is playing counterpoint. I can hear it but can't get near it yet.
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05-11-2011, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | | Our song... Lay in Hell. It's just tough to play and sing that one at the same time. A lot of finger movement while singing is generally tough. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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