Impressive Songs

feylya

What's the most fastest, most impressive and technically challenging piece you can play on an instrument?

I'd have to say it's either Ballerina Or For The Love Of God by Steve Vai or Flight Of The Bumblebee by Beethoven.

Sarky

The intro to Thunderstruck. I'm only starting to learn guitars, but I'm quite proud of that little bit...

Robbo

I've always been massively impressed by Spinal Taps "Big Bottom". There's that wonderfuly squelchy sounding bass and the fact that I've never heard so many puns crammed into such a short space.

nesthead

god what penis comparison thread :rolleyes:

pfft move to instruments.....

cournioni

Steve Vai - Bad Horsie (Live). Unbelievable!

John Petrucci (Dream Theater) - Fatal Tragedy. The solo is as said above, unbelievable!

feylya

^^^ Boys got skill!

Nesthead: interesting that you would bring that up. Say more about yourself than anything else. I just wanted to see what sort of level of guitarist visited boards.ie

cournioni

Hey feylya... check out these solo's.

Sonata Arctica - Black Sheep
Morbid Angel - Where the Slime Live
Children Of Bodom - Kissing the Shadows
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...?
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien.
*edit*Symphony X - Of Sins And Shadows*edit*

etc. etc.

feylya

Satch is the man. I downloaded a video of him play Surfing earlier. Unbelieveable. Try necromanian epilogue by John Petrucci. Unbelieveable!

cournioni

Originally posted by feylya
Try necromanian epilogue by John Petrucci. Unbelieveable!

I have ALL of Petrucci's stuff.

ferdi

i played no one knows by queens of the stone age the whole way through on bass properly (including solo), i only managed it once though:(

feylya

Petrucci is supposed to be going on this years G3 with vai and Satch. Should be good if it comes to Ireland.

ferdi: No One Knows is a bloody good song to play all right. Hard to get the same tone as the band imho

Crucifix

The solo from One, by Metallica.
It's not too difficult, but it usually impresses most people who've never tried learning it.

cournioni

Originally posted by Crucifix
The solo from One, by Metallica.
It's not too difficult, but it usually impresses most people who've never tried learning it.

Its also the same when you play them the simpsons theme tune!

feylya

Its also the same when you play them the simpsons theme tune!

Or the American national anthem, or The Twilight Zone, or The Imperial March, or reqieum for a marionette (Hitchcock's theme). All good inbetween song licks.

Giblet

Some wierd Yngwie like shred I have on cd somewhere,
Eugenes trickbag.
And whatever I want to try and learn really.

superconor

Fur Elise - Beethoven

Anaesthesia - Metallica - Looks cool when playing it (i play a bit of it on guiitar, up to and including the wee squeal bit with the wah)

Pugsley

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Its also the same when you play them the simpsons theme tune!

Someones been watching the Change of Seasons video a few times

My choice is most definately:
Dream Theatre - Change of Seasons

24minutes of genius, so many solo's throughout, brilliance, sheer brilliance.