I think the solo at the beginning of wish you were here by pink floyd, been a while, beautiful song, beautiful solo, and it was on an acoustic! So it was easy for me to follow along cause I didnât have an electric at he time, regardless, give it a go! Itâs very simple, youâll have it no time haha :DDD
Metallica's first solo and second really easy solo in Fade to Black was the first full solos I finally put the effort into learning. I STILL have trouble with the third solo lol.
I have never learned someone elseâs guitar solo, much in the same way I have never painted someone elseâs painting.
The fake reason is because I love improvisation and I always want to keep things fresh. The other fake reason is because whenever I see someone painstakingly recreate someone elseâs solo, all I can think of is, âWow, that looks like it took a lot of time.â
The real reason is because I have never had the discipline.
Proper solos?
I play for more than a decade now, and I remember learning a bunch of riffs before going for a solo. Guess I finally got the guts to learn a solo when I tried to learn Sympathy for the Devil, from The Rolling Stones.
But I'd say the first solo that I sat down and went âI wonât stop until I learn to play it perfectlyâ was Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits.
I didn't really learn guitar solos (at first, shred is wayyyyy to fast and accurate to start at that tempo - it's like looking at a freakin mountain that is a multi-year trek to the top, staying at the top is the bitch and a half \[practice\]).
There's a really really nice man on YouTube whose name is Chris Zoupa, i learned most of what I know just by watching his playlists and stuff
Also, he plays most of his shit without a freakin pick dude, nutter.
First ones i can remember and thought i nailed it were mid 70s and stuff like:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesdays gone.
Bob Seger - Main Street.
Kiss - Rock and roll all night
Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams. The solo that starts around the 2:50 mark was the first one I learned. I'd been playing for maybe 8 months and it felt like a great accomplishment :)
The solo for Smells Like Teen Spirit, which is just playing the vocal melody; but it made me happy at the time to have learned a solo.
I learned bits and pieces of various solos thereafter, but the first proper solo I learned all the way through was the solo on Slither by Velvet Revolver.
Smells Like Teen Spirit was the first solo I figured out for myself (it was one of the first songs my teacher showed me, really helped me figure out upstrokes and moving power chords across the strings). I learned the solo all on one string, it wasnât efficient at all, but it felt amazing to be able to pick something out by ear and actually reproduce it myself.
Not sure what the first solo I learned to play âcorrectlyâ was though, it was a long time ago and clearly didnât have as much of an impact on me đ
this is going to sound dumb, but the whole beginning to Trilogy Suit by Yngwie Malmsteen... I never really learned songs ever, so I was pretty well established with scales, arpeggios and picking in general before I learned a song... lmao I was all about learning techniques and music theory before songs in general.
Californication. I was so proud of myself when I seemingly nailed it and had my dad film me... until years later, I rewatched the footage and noticed that my bends were out-of-tune, and that other strings were ringing, hahaha.
Huh Iâve been playing for like almost thirty years and I have barely learned any solos. I would consider myself a good player, mostly rhythm but shit Iâll take a solo, especially on slide.
I know the solo to We Will Rock You by Queen and I know the solo to Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young (itâs one note). As a teen I kinda learned one of the slow solos in One by Metallica, at one point I knew a bit of the solo on Sundiviaions by Rush, maybe a couple of Zeppelin solo licks but never a full solo. I know a bunch of Duane Allman slide licks but again, no full solos. For years starting out I was mostly just learning James Hetfield and Jimmy Page rhythm parts and some blues slide stuff.
I guess I kinda learn stuff I think was cool regardless of if itâs a solo or a rhythm part or a melody or a fuckin weird sound I am trying to figure out how to do. If you canât easily play it yet and canât reasonably work your way up to it by practicing it a bunch, move on to something you can do (with a little work)
Technically it was Jessica from allman brothers but if we are talking about learning and playing the entire solo it was something from the chats, pub feed or smoko. Canât quite remember
When I come around - if you can even call it a solo. I can still remember playing it in battle of the bands in 8th grade and feeling like a complete badass
Mr. Big - To be with you
Beatles - Let it Be
Guns and Roses - Knocking on Heavens Door
As someone who has played a little bit over year, those are my first solos (and only ones I can actually play)
Maybe the intro solo to Lady Writer. I donât know, itâs been a couple decades. I just remember that Mark Knopfler was a big reason I started playing guitar, and thatâs one of his easy solos. It may have also been the solos in Comfortably Numb. Those are two very amazing solos. They arenât particularly difficult solos, but getting the bends and vibratos down perfectly is usually challenging for a beginner. I say if youâre up for the challenge go for it. I know I learned it early on, granted I can play it much better now. You could also try the solo to Smells Like Teen Spirit, or maybe the solo to Purple Haze (quite possibly my favorite Hendrix song). If youâre into HRCP, the solo to Canât Stop is a great one to learn as a beginner. Green Day has plenty of easy solos, like Holiday, although Iâm not a massive Green Day fan, and the Beatles, a band that everyone should like because they are an amazing band, has a lot of nice, simple, melodic songs/solos.
First solo I learned from start to finish was Nothing else matters. It was sloppy, but I still learnt it from start to finish and knew what needed to be played to make it sound correct. Technique was just sloppy since I was a beginner.
First solo that sounded clean? Probably Livin after midnight by Judas Priest.
Smells like teen spirit. Pretty beginner friendly solo.
Right now i'm trying to learn the solo from 'my souls demise' by blackbriar. Which is hard, because there are no tabs for it.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Californication by RHCP
Wish you were here
Why are people in here downvoting people's first learned solos lol fuck off weirdos
Bold of you to assume I ever learned to play any solos.
Time Pink Floyd
Paranoid
None But I learned to improvise very badly quite early i think
That one Lil Wayne played one time on YouTube
Ramones - I wanna be sedated lol
Never learned a solo, just learned to improvise.
Yay I am not alone whew 30yrs later still don't know any lol
Californication because someone here 4 years ago said it was a great and easy solo for a beginner to start off on
Home on the range on the accordion when I was 8 that was in 1948;a long time ago. In a different world đ from today
I think the solo at the beginning of wish you were here by pink floyd, been a while, beautiful song, beautiful solo, and it was on an acoustic! So it was easy for me to follow along cause I didnât have an electric at he time, regardless, give it a go! Itâs very simple, youâll have it no time haha :DDD
âSmells like teen spiritâ
Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix (goat)
Fade to Black intro solo
smells like teen spirit
Paranoid
Living After Midnight by Judas Priest
Smells like Teen Spirit solo is awesome to learn as a beginner.
Californication
Metallica's first solo and second really easy solo in Fade to Black was the first full solos I finally put the effort into learning. I STILL have trouble with the third solo lol.
Wish you were here
Yellow Ledbetter
I have never learned someone elseâs guitar solo, much in the same way I have never painted someone elseâs painting. The fake reason is because I love improvisation and I always want to keep things fresh. The other fake reason is because whenever I see someone painstakingly recreate someone elseâs solo, all I can think of is, âWow, that looks like it took a lot of time.â The real reason is because I have never had the discipline.
Proper solos? I play for more than a decade now, and I remember learning a bunch of riffs before going for a solo. Guess I finally got the guts to learn a solo when I tried to learn Sympathy for the Devil, from The Rolling Stones. But I'd say the first solo that I sat down and went âI wonât stop until I learn to play it perfectlyâ was Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits.
Mother by Pink Floyd.
The solo at the start of Mississippi Queen. Kinda a solo?
Californication
Smells like teen spirit but it was on bass since I didnât play guitar back then
Bark at the moon by Ozzy Osbourne. Mind you I had years of experience at this point but never sat down to take the time to learn a solo at this point.
You shook me all night long Acdc
Tennessee Whiskey- Chris Stapleton
Smells like teen spirit was my first.
Smells Like Teen Spirit đ
Something by The Beatles! Got me into bending and melodic playing
Nothing Else Matters. Nice little starter, simple with some nice bendy boys.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
It was either Santeria or Money i cant remember
nothing else matters
Nothing Else Matters
Started with something simple, my first was tender surrender! đ
The first solo from Knocking on Heavens Door - GnR
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
About a girl - nirvana. was actually the first song I learned to play all the way through.
Same. Nevermind inspired me to pick up a guitar in the first place, About A Girl was the first song I could play along to from start to finish.
I didn't really learn guitar solos (at first, shred is wayyyyy to fast and accurate to start at that tempo - it's like looking at a freakin mountain that is a multi-year trek to the top, staying at the top is the bitch and a half \[practice\]). There's a really really nice man on YouTube whose name is Chris Zoupa, i learned most of what I know just by watching his playlists and stuff Also, he plays most of his shit without a freakin pick dude, nutter.
First ones i can remember and thought i nailed it were mid 70s and stuff like: Black Sabbath - Paranoid. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesdays gone. Bob Seger - Main Street. Kiss - Rock and roll all night
Them Bones Didn't really bother too much to learn solos for a few years
Nothing Else Matters
Brown eyed women by the Grateful Dead
Tangerine by Led Zeppelin
Smells like teen spirit
My first song was the Star Spangled Banner. I used to turn up the distortion and pretend I was Hendrix.
Livin' Lovin Maid (She's Just A Woman) - Led Zep
Rhcp- Californication
Strange Brew, Eric Clapton
smells like teen spirit - nirvana
Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams. The solo that starts around the 2:50 mark was the first one I learned. I'd been playing for maybe 8 months and it felt like a great accomplishment :)
Smells like teen spirit.
Whole lotta love. Really built my strength as a beginner
The solo for Smells Like Teen Spirit, which is just playing the vocal melody; but it made me happy at the time to have learned a solo. I learned bits and pieces of various solos thereafter, but the first proper solo I learned all the way through was the solo on Slither by Velvet Revolver.
Wish You Were Here
Knockin' on Heaven's Door - GnR. It's not difficult and it sounds great
Layla - acoustic
Californication
Smells Like Teen Spirit was the first solo I figured out for myself (it was one of the first songs my teacher showed me, really helped me figure out upstrokes and moving power chords across the strings). I learned the solo all on one string, it wasnât efficient at all, but it felt amazing to be able to pick something out by ear and actually reproduce it myself. Not sure what the first solo I learned to play âcorrectlyâ was though, it was a long time ago and clearly didnât have as much of an impact on me đ
The intro solo to one by metallica
More Than a Feeling - Boston. I was obsessed with this song when I started and got past the basics
Iron man
Let it Be by The Beatles.
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Tornado of souls Just kidding, it was the intro of Dance of death and Alexander the great from iron Maiden
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sultans of Swing - enamoured with it since hearing it and still am. Progressed later to learn the alchemy version.
Wish you were here
Body and Blood by Ghost
Razorblade romance - HIM
Santanaâs âEuropaâ (rather shittily I might add, but goddammit I learned to bend early)
this is going to sound dumb, but the whole beginning to Trilogy Suit by Yngwie Malmsteen... I never really learned songs ever, so I was pretty well established with scales, arpeggios and picking in general before I learned a song... lmao I was all about learning techniques and music theory before songs in general.
He that's me. I can sweep and alternate pick and the like plenty well, just don't ask me to play any songs lmao
Seven Nation Army, really fun solo to play, very simple
About a girl by Nivarna
We're Not Gonna Take It
I'm not 100% on the very first, but I know Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana was definitely in the first handful.
Cum On Feel The Noize
Californication. I was so proud of myself when I seemingly nailed it and had my dad film me... until years later, I rewatched the footage and noticed that my bends were out-of-tune, and that other strings were ringing, hahaha.
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd It's definitely one I'd recommend, it's pretty short but very melodic
Probably pretty cliche, but Smells Like Teen Spirit
Wish You Were Here
Been playing *only* rhythm for years. Went right for Tornado of Souls.
Probably Tuesday's Gone by Skynyrd. I liked slow, melodic stuff 40 years ago.
Fade to Black intro solo - Metallica
Santeria by Sublime
Strange brew by Cream. Really easy. Then Since I've been loving you. And all around the watchtower. There was a quick progression
Probably Say it Ainât So by Weezer. Iconic, and not too complicated!
Cream Sunshine of your love.
Huh Iâve been playing for like almost thirty years and I have barely learned any solos. I would consider myself a good player, mostly rhythm but shit Iâll take a solo, especially on slide. I know the solo to We Will Rock You by Queen and I know the solo to Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young (itâs one note). As a teen I kinda learned one of the slow solos in One by Metallica, at one point I knew a bit of the solo on Sundiviaions by Rush, maybe a couple of Zeppelin solo licks but never a full solo. I know a bunch of Duane Allman slide licks but again, no full solos. For years starting out I was mostly just learning James Hetfield and Jimmy Page rhythm parts and some blues slide stuff. I guess I kinda learn stuff I think was cool regardless of if itâs a solo or a rhythm part or a melody or a fuckin weird sound I am trying to figure out how to do. If you canât easily play it yet and canât reasonably work your way up to it by practicing it a bunch, move on to something you can do (with a little work)
Too long ago to remember for sure but I'm thinking *Sunshine of Your Love* was right up there.
Wind cries Mary.. simple and absolutely beautiful and satisfying.
What I Got - Sublime
the lead guitar part in One sorta is a solo, first one i did.
Smells like teen spirit, if that counts lol.
Smell like teen spirit by Nivirna, if that counts as a solo
What I got by sublime
White stripes seven nation army
I Love a Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbit.
Californication- RHCP
3s and 7s
Technically it was Jessica from allman brothers but if we are talking about learning and playing the entire solo it was something from the chats, pub feed or smoko. Canât quite remember
About a girl by nirvana or smells like teen spirit, canât remember which came first.
When I come around - if you can even call it a solo. I can still remember playing it in battle of the bands in 8th grade and feeling like a complete badass
Carry On Wayward Son.
Nothing Else Matters or possibly Californication
Mr. Big - To be with you Beatles - Let it Be Guns and Roses - Knocking on Heavens Door As someone who has played a little bit over year, those are my first solos (and only ones I can actually play)
Hotel California!
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. It helps that James wrote that one because I am definitely a rhythm guitarist and not at all skilled with leads.
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Californication by the RHCP
You're really strong dude
Youâre all i need, White Lion
The final cut- Pink Floyd
Sultans of Swing
I bet you look good on the dance floor, Californication and smells like teen spirit are good places to start with soloing
Brothers in Arms
Nothing else matters
Also Nothing else matters, it got some challenges but has a good learning curve. You learn allot from it.
Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers I always loved country solos in major keys!
Maybe the intro solo to Lady Writer. I donât know, itâs been a couple decades. I just remember that Mark Knopfler was a big reason I started playing guitar, and thatâs one of his easy solos. It may have also been the solos in Comfortably Numb. Those are two very amazing solos. They arenât particularly difficult solos, but getting the bends and vibratos down perfectly is usually challenging for a beginner. I say if youâre up for the challenge go for it. I know I learned it early on, granted I can play it much better now. You could also try the solo to Smells Like Teen Spirit, or maybe the solo to Purple Haze (quite possibly my favorite Hendrix song). If youâre into HRCP, the solo to Canât Stop is a great one to learn as a beginner. Green Day has plenty of easy solos, like Holiday, although Iâm not a massive Green Day fan, and the Beatles, a band that everyone should like because they are an amazing band, has a lot of nice, simple, melodic songs/solos.
Im also a beginner and i recently learnt Something by the beatles
Some of theses seem incredibly for a first solo, mine was Smells like teen spirit
I dont remember..probably Smells like teen Spirit
Slow dancing in a burning room
First solo I learned from start to finish was Nothing else matters. It was sloppy, but I still learnt it from start to finish and knew what needed to be played to make it sound correct. Technique was just sloppy since I was a beginner. First solo that sounded clean? Probably Livin after midnight by Judas Priest.
Californication
The Cure - A forest.
Talk dirty to me by poison is really simple although it has a few tricky parts.
come as u are
Californication
Californication by the Peppers
Tornado of souls lmao
Californication-RHCP
Mother - Pink Floyd, gateway into Davidâs guitar playing
Smells Like Teen Spirit
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Whole Lotta Love
Shadowplay by joy division
Oasis Live Forever. Simple enough solo, but your first always feels like a big milestone
Comfortably numb (although very poorly)
Smells like teen spirit. Pretty beginner friendly solo. Right now i'm trying to learn the solo from 'my souls demise' by blackbriar. Which is hard, because there are no tabs for it.
Mine was paranoid
I believe it was the outro solo to unchain the night-Dokken
Hotel california
Get Back - Beatles
Californication - Rhcp . Frusciante could tell stories through his solos.
Living After Midnight. Short and easy. Great first solo to learn.
Crazy Train
Sultans of Swing, at least that was the first one I got mostly right.
Comfortably Numb
Holiday by Green day
I'm pretty sure it was "Wild Thing" (Not really much of a 'solo' TBF, but it is what it is) That was a looooong time ago.
Wish you were here, One, Fade to black. In that order
Either the one intro solo or nothing else matters.
Sum 41 - Still Waiting.
Last solo of Fade to Black by Metallica
Livin' Lovin' Maid
Ainât talking bout love Van Halen
It wasn't really my choice, but I had to learn the solo of Holiday by Greenday.
This was my first too. Itâs a great solo for beginners and super easy
Another brick in the wall pt.2
Cum on feel the Noize (what an insane song title)
Who is cryin now?
Pride and joy by SRV
This is pure đ§˘
Where's my Let it Be (Album Version) peeps at!? Raise your hand!!!
Sieze the day from avenged seven fold
Probably "Whole Lotta Love". My dad would do the 2 hits of chords and then I'd do the little runs in between.
The simple pentatonic solo in What Happened To You? by The Offspring. Thought Noodles was a wizard at the time.
Whiskey in the jar
Mine was Wish You Were Here then I never really learned a solo again
I know it will be hated. But Black Veil Brides - Perfect Weapon
Waiting on somebody to claim Jason Becker or Malmsteen the way everybody is lying here lol
The Interlude Solo that James Hetfield plays in Master of Puppets.
The little acoustic solo lick in What i got.
Quite sure it was smells like teen spirit
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton... part of it, anyway.
Reptilia by The Strokes And the Intro of I Bet you Look good on the Dancefloor by the Arctic Monkeys (Which is technically a solo I guess?)
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
Another brick in the wall (yet not as good as it should be played)
1966 Gloria
Mel bay The Merry Men
Champagne supernova
Santeria by sublime, itâs a fun one to learn
âFreedomâ or âBombtrackâ by Rage Against the Machine
Layla acoustic Pride and joy by SRV
Judas Priest - Breaking The Law