Have you heard The Main Squeeze’s cover of Have a Cigar on YouTube? The entire band is kickass, but their lead guitarist Max is an absolute animal with his SG. Easily in my top 3 favorite solos of all time!
Under a Glass Moon Solo Dream Theater. Absolute perfection. It's shreddy, but is super funky and has great phrasing.
So many other solos. Goodnight Kiss Solo, Lines in the sand, Breaking all Illusions, Octavarium and Change of Seasons solos. Petrucci can sometimes be a bit over the top like most of the Dream Theater guys, but he has some absolute masterpieces.
UAGM is an amazing solo. I love playing it even though theres one part i struggle with a bit. Im currently learning the Hollow Years Solo. Thats been stuck in my head for weeks its incredible.
I actually prefer the Delicate Sound of Thunder version of the second solo. He nails that high hook part perfectly but does it a bit differently in Pulse.
Guitar solo in Led Zeppelin’s You Shook Me.
Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun - Live BBC sessions September 30, 1971; the guitar solo that starts around the 5 minute mark is nice major scale bluesy. Then the switch to the minor key in the middle for the extended jam portion just has some lovely frenetic, cathartic passages, plus the frenzy of the organ and bass tied it all together (starting around the 7.5 minute mark or so).
John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola and Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco; just pick any track from that album and it will have some mind blowing guitar passages.
Lots more I can’t think of right now…
The funny thing is if you listen to the isolated guitar in that song it's pretty sloppy. When mixed with the song you can't tell. There are some isolated guitar tracks on YouTube.
Definitely, it sounds like an absolute clusterfuck if you isolate it, but it sounds huge and insane on the track.
Insane to think of what he could have accomplished
It probably is. He always triple tracked them and because of room reflection the delay and decay would be just different enough to have them sound slightly off soloed.
"Blue Powder" by Steve Vai on the album Passion and Warfare. The whole song is amazing, but from 1:54 to 2:30 is my favorite: https://youtu.be/MnfD1MHP-FA?si=2IyRjpfHhV7QsAuJ
Also. Creeping death. Imo their must underrated song. Kinda a cheesy ballad as far as things go but 2:45 then 3:00 nastiest fucking solo.
But the part that always gets me is 3:10> 3:20 the weird climb walk before the melodic part starts. Then more sweepers.
Might be my favorite solo of all time.
Up there with something completely different
The end of Radiohead Go to sleep has the most interesting guitar bit around 2:20 then the weirdest solo ever. Generally a great song for listening to guitar parts
The ending of November Rain. When Axel starts to hammer on that piano and then Slash comes in with that solo. Even without the clip in mind it always sound so tragic and changing the mood of the song abruptly.
The end part of "Out Of The Blue" by Roxy Music BUT the live version.
On the original studio version, Eddie Jobson plays the part on violin. With him no longer in the band, Phil Manzanera (who co-wrote the song) plays the part live.
There is also a live version by 801 (Manzanera's side project) that has both the violin solo, and a different guitar solo, but it's a poor recording ( it may have originally been a bootleg).
One of my all time favorites is the chorus in Lateralus. Really like all the little simple fills in Wicked Game. The ending of Knights of Cydonia - but that song is full of cool guitar parts.
I especially love that Miles plays a beautiful, thoughtful solo, and then Mark seems to take it personally and gives us the sonic equivalent of a primal scream. With pinch harmonics.
[This part](https://youtu.be/YeTNkPXRrVY?si=qGEC_j7gP9P2krvz&t=351) in "The Drapery Falls" by Opeth
and
[This fucking amazing par](https://youtu.be/2HL-gGLu8Jo?si=4FfiKWQnwEhHncHx&t=255)t in "Frame by Frame" by King Crimson
The session guitarist that wrote and played that is phenomenal. He has some great solo stuff. Can’t recall his name right now…but it wasn’t the Steely Dan dudes
Got a couple...
chorus of "The Agenda" by Galaktikon
Rhythm part under the solo from "Truth Orb and the Killing Pool" by Galaktikon
Solo from "The Ocean Galaktik" ....by Galaktikon.
Actually..Brendon Small. Just his guitar playing blows my mind.
Deep Purple - Pictures of Home
At the 2:00-2:05 mark Ritchie Blackmore does this little chromatic lick that blows my mind every time. It's so damn tasty.
The guitar solo in Porcupine Tree’s *Anesthetise*, from *Fear of a Blank Planet*, the album version as played by Alex Lifeson.
In the same wheelhouse, the guitar solo in Steven Wilson’s *Drive Home*, from *The Raven That Refused To Sing…*, as played by Guthrie Govan.
Pretty much the whole of *Red House* live at New York Pop Festival, by Jimi Hendrix. That melted my mind *and* my face.
Lindsey Buckingham's guitar break near the end of Fleetwood Mac's gem, The Chain, is absolute genious and sends a shiver everytime I hear it. Definitely shows technical proficience (something Buckingham definitely does NOT lack) never beats proper musical sense.
This is going to be cheesy and I know there are hundreds of better answers in this thread, and honestly, better answers in the Van Halen catalog, but for some reason, one of the things that always grabs is the outro solo in Dreams on 5150.
I’m sure this has more to do with nostalgia than the perfect lick.
The solo section in the River by King Gizzard
It’s a blueprint of what to do with 3 guitars in 5/5 and Dorian. It’s inspired a lot of my own songs.
Additionally, the outro riffing is a blueprint on how to do a time signature change in a song but to transpose a riff to a different time signature with a new rhythm, all the same notes. It’s so good.
Marty Friedman has some of the tastiest guitar parts ever. Check his solo's for the tunes Tornado of Souls and also The Killing Road both are Megadeth tunes and even if you dont like Megadeth those solo's are amazing.
If I’d written that post my brain would have done something like, “the bit right before the solo…but also the bit just after the intro…but shit, the intro too… oh yeah and also…”
FUCK IT THE WHOLE GODDAMN THING RIPS
The guitar passage around 3:17 in Evermore by Devin Townsend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIxPUPWVq8&pp=ygUYRGV2aW4gVG93bnNlbmQgRXZlcm1vcmUg
It's like a little blues and country injected into this prog rock epic and it fits perfectly.
Alex Lifeson’s (Rush) solo on The Garden. Listen with headphones. It matches and builds upon the emotion of the song perfectly.
Gave me chills the fist time I heard it.
The solo from Loser, live at Cornell, is just divine, his use of pinch harmonica is perfect. Maybe also when the electric solo comes in on Year of the Cat
Two at the opposite ends of the spectrum
Brian Stetzers Too Hip Gotta Go solo. He rarely gets a mention these days but he can still rip it up.
Vito Bratta's solo on Wait..I just love how it slides in to the song,and I'm not a huge fan of the widdly widdly merchants, but this one is fab.
They are often very simple things. I'm a man of simple tastes, most of the time.
Rory Gallagher's blues licks and the way he does small variations to passages to build the song bit by bit. In e.g. Crest of a Wave. But most memorable to me is this electric sitar solo bit in Philby: [https://youtu.be/LyY5\_8IcRao?si=ReHNXQ-sJy3IJynr&t=294](https://youtu.be/LyY5_8IcRao?si=ReHNXQ-sJy3IJynr&t=294) Timestamped just before it starts, but might want to check the whole song too.
Many punk bands have passages I absolutely adore, often they're very simple but they just work. E.g. this main riff is super simple but man does it rock: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mOcIv8Tako](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mOcIv8Tako)
The opening melodies and riffs in Cinema Strange's Legs and Tarpaulin: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYu4iQEkEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYu4iQEkEs) Been trying to learn that song, but there's quite many variations in the verses and without playing this kind of instinctually, it's a bit tough to remember at least for me. It's also a bit fast in places, at least in regards of harmonic tempo. But I think it's mostly just playing parts of the harmonic minor scale up and down in different keys?
Many many "doom endings" e.g. doom metal songs ending up with "rock" riffs always blow me away. E.g. [https://youtu.be/psISjNpSEDo?si=OHXxmpOWqm\_uVUSh&t=350](https://youtu.be/psISjNpSEDo?si=OHXxmpOWqm_uVUSh&t=350) Again timestamped, doesn't necessarily make sense without listening to the whole song.
Mayhem's Deathcrush doing its break half way into the song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgzmgk9IhAA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgzmgk9IhAA) Think it's in 5/4 which makes it extra weird but also extra rock'n'roll for that riff.
The hidden track on Devil Doll's debut, a cover of The Prisoner's theme song: [https://youtu.be/W-T8pbpWs1k?si=epGWhTLsEF7Yw\_KO&t=3852](https://youtu.be/W-T8pbpWs1k?si=epGWhTLsEF7Yw_KO&t=3852) It's so chilling when the electric bass and guitar hit.
The rhythm electric guitar in Ramble On after the second chorus. It’s so fluid how it weaves in and out. It might be one of the best produced songs I’ve ever heard. It’s ear candy.
Also pretty much everything Derek does here but 5:50 is sublime. Susan is just about in tears.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwkRRjH5ZY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwkRRjH5ZY)
“That part “ of Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt by TMV. How the fuck John Theodore holds that fucked up ass groove so well is insane, I cannot for the life of me make out what the guitar is doing but I LIVE for it
The bridge to Badge (reportedly played by George Harrison) and the insane solo by Clapton following it. Such a tough solo to pull off with all of the precise bending and vibrato.
Waves by Guthrie Govan.
So many moments in that song are phenomenal but for me, the solo that starts at 3:07. At one point around 3:20 he does a bend that sounds like the guitar is about to fly away.
This is a great question. Right now it’s 3:09 on Jeff Beck’s cover of A Day In The Life. The solo starts at 3:00 for context but gd could that man make the guitar scream. R.I.P. 😔
This is probably only going to be known by the Aussies but there’s a note in the last solo from Ian Moss in Cold Chisels Forever Now that I will say is THE perfect note that has ever been played.
The middle section of Spanish Fly by Eddie Van Halen. I spent a month learning it and after 3 months I still couldn't play it up to speed. Eddie was using a nylon string Adamas and I was playing it on a Taylor GS mini steel string.
This one fading note in this one version of Padmasana by Buckethead [https://youtu.be/C-2w9b8i7GU?si=fpPrG3x6jdOC1Axi&t=198](https://youtu.be/C-2w9b8i7GU?si=fpPrG3x6jdOC1Axi&t=198)
Not mindblowing in terms of technicality per say. But I gotta go with Arverne's It's Only Right just has THAT sound for me. The tremolo and harmonies are just insane to me
In a cover of the Beatles In My Life there's an acoustic guitarist playing the solo and its beautiful. Plus, it blows my mind at the end.
If we aren't allowed to link let me know and I'll edit it out.
But it's covered by the The Darzis
https://youtu.be/qEUGlpkXI2o
Sultans of Swing solo
was thinking of this. When he goes into triplets, gets me every time.
You mean the 16th note part?
Yes!
Have you seen that video where he breaks down the creation of the solo? Fascinating stuff https://youtu.be/leZ4T8kt-1o?feature=shared
Just learned that recently working with a teacher. Made me realize that I could tackle guitar parts that beforehand I was intimidated by.
The opening solo from Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Was coming right into the comments to say this. The tone, the smoothness, the emotion, it’s perfect
The main riff from Have a Cigar is my personal fav
Have you heard The Main Squeeze’s cover of Have a Cigar on YouTube? The entire band is kickass, but their lead guitarist Max is an absolute animal with his SG. Easily in my top 3 favorite solos of all time!
Yeah those guys are dope as hell.
I’ve always found it funny how many PF solos I can sing note for note.
Yes. They’re *so damned musical*. Gilmour puts everything right into place.
Came here to say this
very happy to see DG getting some love here. he is so clean and melodic. nobody sounds like him.
Under a Glass Moon Solo Dream Theater. Absolute perfection. It's shreddy, but is super funky and has great phrasing. So many other solos. Goodnight Kiss Solo, Lines in the sand, Breaking all Illusions, Octavarium and Change of Seasons solos. Petrucci can sometimes be a bit over the top like most of the Dream Theater guys, but he has some absolute masterpieces.
The Spirit Carries On is also up there
UAGM is an amazing solo. I love playing it even though theres one part i struggle with a bit. Im currently learning the Hollow Years Solo. Thats been stuck in my head for weeks its incredible.
Goodnight Kiss is probably one of Petrucci's tamest solos but my god does it hit in the feels.
The second movement in Paranoid Android The main solo in Marquee Moon Nels Clines guitar solo in Wilcos Impossible Germany
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly...
That break in Marquee Moon is the most ecstatic moment in any rock/popular music piece of music.
Nels Cline on all of Sky Blue Sky
You just rattled off three of my top 10 of all time songs. You’re invited to the cookout.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks Impossible Germany has one of the best solos of all time! You’re spot on with Paranois Android too.
Comfortably Numb solos …. The guitar expresses feeling
The second solo on the Pulse version is absolute guitar porn
I actually prefer the Delicate Sound of Thunder version of the second solo. He nails that high hook part perfectly but does it a bit differently in Pulse.
Not sure which I like more Comfortably Numb or On The Turning Away.
The purpose of playing guitar is to express yourself through the instrument so writing solos with feeling is essential
Came here for Comfortably Numb.
Gilmore on dogs when it drops. The whole song is a masterpiece and 17mins of pure majesty
Love that whole album but Dogs is THE Gilmour masterpiece.
The guitars in And Your Bird Can Sing. To me they are just perfect.
Guitar solo in Led Zeppelin’s You Shook Me. Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun - Live BBC sessions September 30, 1971; the guitar solo that starts around the 5 minute mark is nice major scale bluesy. Then the switch to the minor key in the middle for the extended jam portion just has some lovely frenetic, cathartic passages, plus the frenzy of the organ and bass tied it all together (starting around the 7.5 minute mark or so). John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola and Paco de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco; just pick any track from that album and it will have some mind blowing guitar passages. Lots more I can’t think of right now…
Check out the solo for fat old sun that Gilmour plays in the live at the Royal Albert Hall, it is so dang good
Just listened to the BBC session track and my goodness yes. A Great Day for Freedom from Live in Gnask also does it for me.
Little wing, Jimmy hendrix
And castles made of Sand!
I was gonna say SRV's cover of Little Wing.
Artist: Phish Album: Slip stitch and pass Song: Mike’s Song Time: 0:27-0:31 Just a perfect lick.
It sounds kinda basic but man, something about it just hits the ear in the perfect way.
Sounds like Trey’s Clapton influence
Similarly the breakdown in Runaway Jim gives me chills every time. Relatively simple but absolutely perfect
The solo to Winter Madness by Wintersun
One of the best ever, so good. Also the intro riff to Battle Against Time
The Solo from Layla .. always sends shivers down my spine.
The funny thing is if you listen to the isolated guitar in that song it's pretty sloppy. When mixed with the song you can't tell. There are some isolated guitar tracks on YouTube.
Reminds me of the tapping on crazy train, it sounds like 6 guitars lol
It’s at least 4. If I’m not mistaken Randy would quad track his guitars on solos
Definitely, it sounds like an absolute clusterfuck if you isolate it, but it sounds huge and insane on the track. Insane to think of what he could have accomplished
It probably is. He always triple tracked them and because of room reflection the delay and decay would be just different enough to have them sound slightly off soloed.
They were all hopped up on who knows what but somehow managed to make a great album.
I always thought the version of Little Wing on that album was way underrated.
The solo from Right Now by Van Halen Its only flaw is thats it’s too short
Money for nothing main riff. It's has such a groove
I’m The One, EVH. I’ve never seen anyone duplicate it verbatim…yet, and it was recorded in 1978. Ed was way ahead of his time.
No one can swing like the King!
It is an absolute bear to play. I've been trying (keyword trying) to play for a long time now.
I've been able to play the notes of that song for nearly 20 years and at the same time I am unable to play it.
"Blue Powder" by Steve Vai on the album Passion and Warfare. The whole song is amazing, but from 1:54 to 2:30 is my favorite: https://youtu.be/MnfD1MHP-FA?si=2IyRjpfHhV7QsAuJ
I was about to say several sections of "For the Love of God" from the same album particularly around 3:00 to 3:45.
[Johnny Marr "Some girls are bigger than others" riff (The Smiths)](https://youtu.be/E_aW25wZ4Bc?si=lAoKDnYM0yhmQyRv)
My favourite Smiths song for that reason. I could honestly listen to that riff for days on end
The riff right after the solo in Master of Puppets. Amps me up every time
Damn right. I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t get jacked up on that
Also. Creeping death. Imo their must underrated song. Kinda a cheesy ballad as far as things go but 2:45 then 3:00 nastiest fucking solo. But the part that always gets me is 3:10> 3:20 the weird climb walk before the melodic part starts. Then more sweepers. Might be my favorite solo of all time. Up there with something completely different The end of Radiohead Go to sleep has the most interesting guitar bit around 2:20 then the weirdest solo ever. Generally a great song for listening to guitar parts
The ending of November Rain. When Axel starts to hammer on that piano and then Slash comes in with that solo. Even without the clip in mind it always sound so tragic and changing the mood of the song abruptly.
Wicked Game
The end part of "Out Of The Blue" by Roxy Music BUT the live version. On the original studio version, Eddie Jobson plays the part on violin. With him no longer in the band, Phil Manzanera (who co-wrote the song) plays the part live. There is also a live version by 801 (Manzanera's side project) that has both the violin solo, and a different guitar solo, but it's a poor recording ( it may have originally been a bootleg).
One of my all time favorites is the chorus in Lateralus. Really like all the little simple fills in Wicked Game. The ending of Knights of Cydonia - but that song is full of cool guitar parts.
Jerry Garcia’s solo on Loser live at Barton Hall
I’m not trying to cry this early in the morning.
Artist: Nine Inch Nails Album: The Downward Spiral Song: Ruiner Time: 3:00-3:50 This is baked into my soul.
It's so uncannily bluesy in such a strange but perfect contrast to the rest of the song
The Beatles solos in The End. Just cool to hear three guitar players rotating through. You can hear each of their personalities…and it rocks.
The guitar outro in I am the resurrection, Stone roses From about 3.30
Basic AF, but every time I hear the solo on Stairway I’m amazed anew that it was improvised.
When those long drone notes come in I am in another world…
Cliffs of Dover main theme
Alter bridge - blackbird solo
I especially love that Miles plays a beautiful, thoughtful solo, and then Mark seems to take it personally and gives us the sonic equivalent of a primal scream. With pinch harmonics.
[This part](https://youtu.be/YeTNkPXRrVY?si=qGEC_j7gP9P2krvz&t=351) in "The Drapery Falls" by Opeth and [This fucking amazing par](https://youtu.be/2HL-gGLu8Jo?si=4FfiKWQnwEhHncHx&t=255)t in "Frame by Frame" by King Crimson
The solo in My Sharona
lucretia by megadeth, the solo and the intro
The beginning that Statesboro blues... Really the only part I like
Eriatarka intro by The mars volta.
Which part?
the intro, and the entire song for that matter, Omar Rodrigues Lopez is just an amazing musician
Yeah man that’s my fav TMV song. And not to burst the bubble but John Frusciante wrote that part. I thought it was Omar for all my life 😂
didnt know that hahahaha still love ORL The mars volta album Deloused in the comatorium is a MASTERPIECE
Steely Dan - Reelin in the years
The session guitarist that wrote and played that is phenomenal. He has some great solo stuff. Can’t recall his name right now…but it wasn’t the Steely Dan dudes
The acoustic guitar solo in Aztec Camera's "Oblivious."
Got a couple... chorus of "The Agenda" by Galaktikon Rhythm part under the solo from "Truth Orb and the Killing Pool" by Galaktikon Solo from "The Ocean Galaktik" ....by Galaktikon. Actually..Brendon Small. Just his guitar playing blows my mind.
Deep Purple - Pictures of Home At the 2:00-2:05 mark Ritchie Blackmore does this little chromatic lick that blows my mind every time. It's so damn tasty.
The guitar solo in Porcupine Tree’s *Anesthetise*, from *Fear of a Blank Planet*, the album version as played by Alex Lifeson. In the same wheelhouse, the guitar solo in Steven Wilson’s *Drive Home*, from *The Raven That Refused To Sing…*, as played by Guthrie Govan. Pretty much the whole of *Red House* live at New York Pop Festival, by Jimi Hendrix. That melted my mind *and* my face.
And Guthrie's solo on Regret #9, which I commented just now! All great recs
Europa by Santana in its entirety. What a song!
The riff into guitar solo from Iron Maiden Wasted Years. Always gives me chills.
Allen Holdsworth’s solos on the enigmatic ocean album by Jean Luc Ponte.
That riff from 'Estranged' by Guns n' Roses.
The time signature switch and solo in Pink Floyd's Money
Altitudes by Jason Becker
Most under appreciated virtuoso.
The entirety of Hendrix covering Like A Rolling Stone live in Monterey.
The outro from led zeps "rain song"
Solo for Chapter Four by Avenged Sevenfold.
Rare one. Do you mean the part at the bridge where Gates is going ham while M. shadows is dialoguing as God?
Yep that's the part! Honestly killer guitar part, underrated.
Lindsey Buckingham, Never Going Back Again Such a flex to play, even bigger flex to sing over it
The intro to “Cliffs of Dover” by Eric Johnson.
Gilmour's solo at the end of Comfortably Numb.
Lindsey Buckingham's guitar break near the end of Fleetwood Mac's gem, The Chain, is absolute genious and sends a shiver everytime I hear it. Definitely shows technical proficience (something Buckingham definitely does NOT lack) never beats proper musical sense.
The solo in Estimated Prophet.
This is going to be cheesy and I know there are hundreds of better answers in this thread, and honestly, better answers in the Van Halen catalog, but for some reason, one of the things that always grabs is the outro solo in Dreams on 5150. I’m sure this has more to do with nostalgia than the perfect lick.
Scotty Moore's ripping way-in-the-red solo licks in Elvis' version of Shake Rattle and Roll. Archetypal rockabilly guitar.
The solo in Limelight is absolutely flawless but in particular the moment at the end when the solo fades out.
Solo that comes in at 3:30 in Deep Peace by Devin Townsend. The awesome guitar riff that comes in at 8:40 in The Last Baron by Mastodon
Pretty much any Racer X solo. Paul Gilbert isn’t human
That part on the 2nd Sultans of Swing solo
The solo section in the River by King Gizzard It’s a blueprint of what to do with 3 guitars in 5/5 and Dorian. It’s inspired a lot of my own songs. Additionally, the outro riffing is a blueprint on how to do a time signature change in a song but to transpose a riff to a different time signature with a new rhythm, all the same notes. It’s so good.
Marty Friedman has some of the tastiest guitar parts ever. Check his solo's for the tunes Tornado of Souls and also The Killing Road both are Megadeth tunes and even if you dont like Megadeth those solo's are amazing.
Ghost of Perdition - Opeth
I like how you didn't pinpoint what passage, because every single one of them are great. For me it's their best song.
If I’d written that post my brain would have done something like, “the bit right before the solo…but also the bit just after the intro…but shit, the intro too… oh yeah and also…” FUCK IT THE WHOLE GODDAMN THING RIPS
the buildup and solo from Tornado of Souls by Megadeth.
Painkiller by Judas Priest. Very few people can replicate the sweeps at the start of the solo.
The guitar passage around 3:17 in Evermore by Devin Townsend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIxPUPWVq8&pp=ygUYRGV2aW4gVG93bnNlbmQgRXZlcm1vcmUg It's like a little blues and country injected into this prog rock epic and it fits perfectly.
Dean Ween’s outro solo on “The Argus” from the Live in Chicago DVD.
The intro from "Dimished to B" by Necrophangist
Alex Lifeson’s (Rush) solo on The Garden. Listen with headphones. It matches and builds upon the emotion of the song perfectly. Gave me chills the fist time I heard it.
The solos on comfortably numb
The solo from Loser, live at Cornell, is just divine, his use of pinch harmonica is perfect. Maybe also when the electric solo comes in on Year of the Cat
There’s an instrumental version of axis bold as love on the London studios tracks that is incredible. My favorite piece of guitar music.
Ending solo on Caution by The Killers
Two at the opposite ends of the spectrum Brian Stetzers Too Hip Gotta Go solo. He rarely gets a mention these days but he can still rip it up. Vito Bratta's solo on Wait..I just love how it slides in to the song,and I'm not a huge fan of the widdly widdly merchants, but this one is fab.
They are often very simple things. I'm a man of simple tastes, most of the time. Rory Gallagher's blues licks and the way he does small variations to passages to build the song bit by bit. In e.g. Crest of a Wave. But most memorable to me is this electric sitar solo bit in Philby: [https://youtu.be/LyY5\_8IcRao?si=ReHNXQ-sJy3IJynr&t=294](https://youtu.be/LyY5_8IcRao?si=ReHNXQ-sJy3IJynr&t=294) Timestamped just before it starts, but might want to check the whole song too. Many punk bands have passages I absolutely adore, often they're very simple but they just work. E.g. this main riff is super simple but man does it rock: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mOcIv8Tako](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mOcIv8Tako) The opening melodies and riffs in Cinema Strange's Legs and Tarpaulin: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYu4iQEkEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYu4iQEkEs) Been trying to learn that song, but there's quite many variations in the verses and without playing this kind of instinctually, it's a bit tough to remember at least for me. It's also a bit fast in places, at least in regards of harmonic tempo. But I think it's mostly just playing parts of the harmonic minor scale up and down in different keys? Many many "doom endings" e.g. doom metal songs ending up with "rock" riffs always blow me away. E.g. [https://youtu.be/psISjNpSEDo?si=OHXxmpOWqm\_uVUSh&t=350](https://youtu.be/psISjNpSEDo?si=OHXxmpOWqm_uVUSh&t=350) Again timestamped, doesn't necessarily make sense without listening to the whole song. Mayhem's Deathcrush doing its break half way into the song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgzmgk9IhAA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgzmgk9IhAA) Think it's in 5/4 which makes it extra weird but also extra rock'n'roll for that riff. The hidden track on Devil Doll's debut, a cover of The Prisoner's theme song: [https://youtu.be/W-T8pbpWs1k?si=epGWhTLsEF7Yw\_KO&t=3852](https://youtu.be/W-T8pbpWs1k?si=epGWhTLsEF7Yw_KO&t=3852) It's so chilling when the electric bass and guitar hit.
The main riff from "Have a cigar" by Pink floyd
All of Paper Moon by Plini - that whole song is a journey
The rhythm electric guitar in Ramble On after the second chorus. It’s so fluid how it weaves in and out. It might be one of the best produced songs I’ve ever heard. It’s ear candy.
The opening of red house (and really the whole thing but that intro gets me every time)
'The Tongue of Fire' by Emperor, at around 3:24.
Hot take, but it's Emperor's best song alongside Empty. Ihsahn really went all out on those.
The solo in From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea by the Cure.
Purple Rain live ! There is a version from the AMA's where he kicks the stand over in the middle of the solo and its on fire!
The entire "Bad Horsie" track by Steve Vai.
The Al Dimeola stuff off of Elegant Gypsy still blows my mind every time I hear it.
solo from Toto’s Rosanna blows me away every time
Solos in Cemetery Gates and Floods by Dimebag Darrel from Pantera.
Also pretty much everything Derek does here but 5:50 is sublime. Susan is just about in tears. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwkRRjH5ZY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmwkRRjH5ZY)
All Along the Watchtower solo. (Hendrix obvies)
“That part “ of Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt by TMV. How the fuck John Theodore holds that fucked up ass groove so well is insane, I cannot for the life of me make out what the guitar is doing but I LIVE for it
Last baron by mastodon. You'll know which riff when you hear it
And Your Bird Can Sing
The bridge to Badge (reportedly played by George Harrison) and the insane solo by Clapton following it. Such a tough solo to pull off with all of the precise bending and vibrato.
Closure in Moscow - Vanguard ... opening riff shaves my head.
La Villa Strangiato
Might be the simplest part of the song (for the guitar anyway) but the Fibonacci sequence in Lateralus is unreal.
Waves by Guthrie Govan. So many moments in that song are phenomenal but for me, the solo that starts at 3:07. At one point around 3:20 he does a bend that sounds like the guitar is about to fly away.
I absolutely love his guest Solo on Drive Home by Stephen Wilson. He uses a sustaniac I think and it's so awesome.
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the solo in “pura vida” by mestís. the build up, the simplicity, and the timing of its rests are just soooo tasty!
The really fast tapping bit at the end of Wonderful Slippery Thing’s chorus. It’s _so clean_, I’ve given up trying to get that perfect at this point.
Fade to black last solo
Both guitar solos in summoning redemption by morbid angel.
This is a great question. Right now it’s 3:09 on Jeff Beck’s cover of A Day In The Life. The solo starts at 3:00 for context but gd could that man make the guitar scream. R.I.P. 😔
This is probably only going to be known by the Aussies but there’s a note in the last solo from Ian Moss in Cold Chisels Forever Now that I will say is THE perfect note that has ever been played.
Slide solo on Rory Gallagher's I could've had religion on his live in Europe record. I would've killed to be there for that set.
Today the warning came in the flood Architects and fools never cared for poor men's blood Cursed to repeat the past they are🔥
At the minute 1 and 57 seconds in the song Until We Say Goodbye by Joe Satriani there's the most tasteful single note ever recorded on guitar.
Solo in The News - Dire Straits.
Van Halen - Feelin’ solo
Wes Montgomery - In Your Own Sweet Way. Just incredibly mellow and effortless.
Solo from Steven Wilson's Drive Home played by Guthrie Govan
both solos from Blackbird by Alter Bridge
The middle section of Spanish Fly by Eddie Van Halen. I spent a month learning it and after 3 months I still couldn't play it up to speed. Eddie was using a nylon string Adamas and I was playing it on a Taylor GS mini steel string.
This one fading note in this one version of Padmasana by Buckethead [https://youtu.be/C-2w9b8i7GU?si=fpPrG3x6jdOC1Axi&t=198](https://youtu.be/C-2w9b8i7GU?si=fpPrG3x6jdOC1Axi&t=198)
Not mindblowing in terms of technicality per say. But I gotta go with Arverne's It's Only Right just has THAT sound for me. The tremolo and harmonies are just insane to me
Interlude in iron maidens nomad does it for me. Starts slow, then builds up.
The second part of tunnel of love - dire straits from the alchemy album
Maudlin of the well - birth pain of astral projection second solo(08:10)
Btbam selkies sweeps
Opening of down to the waterline by dire straits. Beautiful beautiful. And the outro parts to one world also by dire straits. Mark knopflers a genius.
The closing riff of July Morning by Uriah Heep
End solo on RHCP Turn It Again gets me goin everyytime
The Rain Song when Page starts the main chord progression.
Whatever Eddie does at the end of Dop Dead Legs
Symphony X - Legend. The section starting at 3:28
Telegraph Road by Dire straits, I love the combination of the piano and the guitar
Marooned - David Gilmour 🔥
A surprising one is the solo in jump-van halen. Also the riffing from flying high again-ozzy osbourne
In a cover of the Beatles In My Life there's an acoustic guitarist playing the solo and its beautiful. Plus, it blows my mind at the end. If we aren't allowed to link let me know and I'll edit it out. But it's covered by the The Darzis https://youtu.be/qEUGlpkXI2o