Hey, thanks for listening! Check out my acoustic version of House of the Rising Sun here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ier55a0ANu4.html
F***ing Props to you and I could tell that that was hella painful (2 minuets in the vid is where you show your pain) for you to do sense the solo is as long as a song nowadays. Edit: It was 2:07 not 2:00.
This solo shows you just how much joy can be extracted from a simple pentatonic scale. I was listening to this sat in front of a keyboard once and tried to kinda play along and was blown away by the fact that it was almost intuitive. The whole thing is essentially just variations on a pentatonic scale. Like it really doesn’t do anything fancy. But it’s SO. FREAKING. BEAUTIFUL
@@AntarikshRajkonwar I think with any instrument really, if you're wanting to learn how to use the pentatonic scale, learn riffs and solos and listen to music is important. But Just sitting there and messing around creating random stuff is very powerful too. See what you can come up with. different musicians do differnet things with the pentatonic scale (they also include other notes). Cool thing with the guitar is that the same notes can be played in multiple different shapes (12 fret of d sting is the same as the 7th fret of the A string). But each shape lends itself well to different licks. E.g. your fingers can reach particular notes easier in one shape than they can in another. Look up the CAGED system. For starters, just look at the E and A shapes. Learn the E first and then the A and mess around. then learn what's called an arpeggio (which is just a broken chord) to move from one shape to the next. After that, learn the BB box (just a box containing the pentatonic notes in a convienient shape) and learn how to transition from all those shapes with an arpeggio to bridge the gap. then you're gonna sound pretty cool.
We played this for my mom funeral. She said “If I die or my siblings., for our funeral put the song free bird solo” I love this song. But it makes me cry how my mom outlived her own mom. I miss her so much...
@Tristan Bennett I know rock but I prefer this solo over almost any other. Music to me is a feel I get not the technical ability. Steve Vai is a better guitar player than Neil Young yet I choose Neil every time.
This is the only solo that I would be fine with if it went on for 30 minutes straight! It’s 4 legendary minutes long and I still to this day feel like it’s not nearly enough!
Matthieu Oliver doesnt come as much of a surprise, metal isn't really great for solos. Solos have feeling and emotion. Classic rock/southern rock /blues all have a certain emotion in them that metal doesn't. Metal generally gives a more angry vibe
But then it defeats the rewarding feeling of accomplishment when you actually learn it! (not a hate comment) I mean can you imagine the feeling of accomplishment that this man had, when he mastered all 4 minutes of this amazingly beautiful solo?
Ha Ha....the hardest part is making it all the way through....my fingers start pooping out a little after half way through! Great job man thats a marathon tune.
all bad comments are just jealous, ignore them, most of them don't know NOTHING about guitars and shit. Bro, great job, that was just fantastic, and with 0.10 strings, just amazing dude, tnx for sharing with us
Awesome job!! On a side note, I feel like this is one of those songs that only guitar players or people who are musical can enjoy, with a few exceptions here and there.
@@AshyMuted Did you not notice that I responded to another comment saying that this was a dumb comment? Edit: I now realize that this was an incredibly study comment on my part. So no, I am not trying to gatekeep music.
@@Panzer_Runner yup. :D indeed did finish. I was so nervous to play it live though, I was shaking but I had to do it. I played it at my cousin's quinceañera, my first performance ever. When everybody clapped at the end it felt so damn good.
@@nicozwirner at the time I was playing for 5 months, practiced around 4-10 hours daily. and you just gotta stay motivated man, I wasn’t too bad at guitar because I was dedicated and got it down. I’m sorry that I responded really late, had forgot about my comment. take your time bro, play the fast parts very slowly and memorize the melodies in your head. you will get it slwoly
you nailed this. Seriously man. As a musician (not necessarily a guitarist) who loves this solo even more than "Stairway to heaven" I feel you're playing is both keen and on point. You more than successfully executed one of the greatest guitar solos off all time. For that, I commend and respect you. Awesome job, mate.
I like the album version of this solo more than stairway... However, there are live versions of stairway out there that blow every other solo out of the water.
@@AA-sn9lz actually, the pain of doing a perfect run off the record but suddenly making the mother of all mistakes on record is one of the pains guitarists deal with.
This solo is so simplistic, but then you take into account the sheer ridiculous amount of skill necessary to make this sound halfway decent and you're just completely blown away. I think this proves that simplistic music can be good as can technially difficult songs.
really man, a good guitarist can turn the simple into a full plate! Another guitarist I love is John Frusciante from RHCP, his solos aren't usually complex, but his unique way of playing makes them real works of art. In fact, his improvisation is absurd, his live solos are usually 300 times better than studio ones
True, I once tried playing it and I was hitting all the notes, all the hammer ons, everything, but couldn't get it to sound like the real thing, it's way harder than just hitting the notes 🥶
Evan Russell I think what he means by simple is most of the playing is relegated to a few boxes using the same notes. It’s what’s done with those notes that makes this solo killer.
That really proves that the solo free bird is no joke! You have to have endurance and finger strength unlike anything else to keep going let alone flawlessly! Your uncle is a legend
@@tybo8107 I mean yeah just look at Eddie Van Halen the famous solo he did for 13 minutes straight! He was very drunk and probably high yet he killed it like he was sober even my dad who was born in in the 65’ grew up over the 70s 80s 90s etc listening to music like that and even going to a few live concerts he was even puzzled taking to me one day as to how someone off the rocker messed up could kill it on a guitar like they did I’ll never know how they do it
@@goldenwolf8081 i loved each and every one of them. Their stage appearence was legendary and how they all grooved together and in harmony. They were all functioning addicts sad to say and it got the best of allen collins. Not to take anything away i think most were in the 70s. And thats why the 70s era was the best ever. And im only 42 years old. I wish to god they were still all here with us. When ronnie vanzandt passed, lynyrd skynyrd passed . God speed.
