Metal Guitarist destroys Watchmojo Top 10 hardest rock songs on guitar 

Good call out! Can't believe I missed that!

Insert Samus66 joke here.

@@Ahalaya lol

Lol aren't those just straight up eighth notes?

@@numzdontlie2638 sounds like it

😂😂😂

They probably didn't include it because it's only theoretically possible. Nobody's actually done it, it doesn't count

@@sethchestosky9903 Starway to heaven :D

@@SCBiscuit13 no one can play that because if it's illegal to play so no one can master it without a jail sentence

@@gaudetgaming I pitty the fools who have to work at guitar centers around the US

LOL!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Its literally the same thing😂

@@Abby-yx4ff oh god. I have to count to 2 instead of 4. how am I ever going to get through this song.

@@Bowling_Dude that tremOlo picking is too hard. I might as well give up

Hmm every other beat? my brain!

lmao

The A minor pentatonic scale is much harder

Hey, don't dis the Pentatonic. Many know it, but few can make it epic, yourself included, I'm guessing.

Needing memorization and at least 700 years of mastery, the e minor pentatonic scale takes presicion, care, and a ass ton of caffeine.

this made me laugh so hard

Me as well, I see you can rectify the situation of the anomaly in the supercalafragilisticexpealidosous.

Very accumulative obsession my male homo sapiens

@@poopytootsface3489 You have decided to phrase the letters of the sesquipedalian word rather unconventionally.

Lol I thoroughly venerate this utterance segment

That's a bit of a shibboleth

It's my fetish

without blinking.

Uuuugh... curse you and your strained sexual puns

For real, imagine having troubles learning a song and Mike sneaks up behind you saying "IT'S NOT THAT HARD!"

I’m not gonna lie it seems like he would be a douche of a guitar teacher. Just because it’s not hard for him doesn’t mean it’s not hard for someone else and just because it’s hard for someone else that doesn’t make that person a “bad” guitarist.

Yeah! Like... I feel like Mike should've known that this is WatchMojo before his blood pressure goes up every time they talk about a song they think is "hard" to play on guitar, and I'm not a guitarist 😂.

This! Like how the fuck do they still exist?!

Imo their lists are normally not that bad

They make lists of stuff they don't know sh!t about or from random comments from their subs

@@rebeccassweetmusic4632 you heres the thing the man in the watchmojo video takes his job seriously he is a voice actor like the Knight doesn't take RU-vid seriously because he has a music career the guy talking is like a newscaster and one that makes enough money to not have to have two or three different jobs this is the thing I think people misinterpreted. Its a scripted video the person who wrote the script likely isn't the man talking

That was a good video

@@BecomeTheKnight Certainly tapping into that thing every guitarist has done in their lives of trying to find this ultimate quick method to get good. When all you have to do is "Fucking Practise"

'practise' lmao

And especially Greg Burgess or Ryan Glisan. Greg was my teacher for a while, and I believe truly virtuosic.

Thank you for that.

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That or Battery.

I agree, but master of puppets is by no means an easy song to play. The thing that really makes it difficult is the fact that it is played at a very high tempo (210-220 bpm I think) while all down picking. It took me quite a while to learn to play it confidently, mostly because i started learning it after only two weeks of starting guitar lessons. Yeah I know, bad idea for a beginner.

@@CrazyHeadassery i wouldnt say that...

Creeping death when it's live is the fastest song metallica got I think

Yep

They still exist sadly lol

I miss when they didn't beg for subs on every single video, right before the number 1 choice.

@@Wisconsin222 As this video unfortunately reminded me...

they have made good stuff in the past IMO. I quit enjoyed their comic book origins series

Just make sure you call an ambulance in advance for alcohol poisoning.

Instructions unclear, I am now in the desert

Take a shot everytime he says virtuosic

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I agree

It's a great riff but it's not that difficult compared to a lot of other songs

@@villian99918 I love seeing this, but let's hear people ACTUALLY play it.

Yep so true! But there are so many layers to the riff that people don’t even realise. I remember watching Music is Win cover the same watch mojo list and he thought he could nail it in minutes, but he completely flopped it 😂

@@jasonrimmer5953 good luck with that if you ask any gutairist rn they only know how to play djent on a 12 string

Lmao

That fucking song made me throw my guitar. Why is it so damn COMPLICATED! 😂

Yeah you gotta do the bendy thing

Hey guy. I know you

Hey guy. I know you

Yo cool pfp!🥴✨

And at that, the Puddle of Mud cover.

Hellyeah, you're right.

Some archspire riffs are just fast riffing of power chords but when they arent playing power chords, they generally play really intricate single note riffs. Also they may not do super fast arpeggios but they have extremely well timed arpeggios that are hard to do.

“HYEAUH”

Underrated comment

Robert Fripp is rolling in his not-yet-existent grave.

And Top Grindcore songs: #1. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (42:00) - Dream Theater

This a mood I can really relate to lmao.

Hahaha I be laughing

"Songs normies know and..." should be the title of every single one of these lists.

Homeboy really said “normies”

I’m so mesmerised by the timing/phrasing in the riffing in that song, I’m too post nut to attempt it after listening to it. Easily my favourite on MOP.

Absolutely 100% correct! Fuck that song is impossible

The Down picking in blackened is way harder, even puppets

Hahahahahaha

Without Johnny Marr, John Petrucci wouldn’t have a career. To overcome the sense of belittle-ment that Marr magic cursed him with, he decided to become a world class musician. He’s still haunted by Johnny Marr playing basic sounds with strange tunings though.

This is probably more directed at whoever wrote the script and whoever was directing the VA and not bothering about the pronunciation of certain terms and names.

@@conormurphy4328 What do you mean? TRA-molo and CLAY-ve is clearly how you pronounce those terms and names. Smh.

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@Tristan Lioi not knowing how a word is pronounced isn't a good excuse for pronouncing it wrong?

people seem to forget that WM are a company. lists are voted on by fans, several people write a script, and then one of a few narrators gets chosen to read it. so yes, you're right.

Sounds about right

A mix of Gordon Ramsey and Red Foreman

He's a fuckin bedroom snob. He doesn't represent anything of the "Metal World".

@Joshua Sharma that’s like, just your opinion man.

@@BigStrazz Thanks, El-duderino

Well i can stretch 6 frets on a 27" scale, does that make me a pro? 😅 Edit: 12-24

My exact thoughts

yessss

hold the fuckin' phone, people think hitting the money notes is difficult?

Lol have you ever held a uke or a mandolin? As a bass player they just feel so small and fragile. Like making love too a little person when your used too 7ft tall Amazon women.

Underrated because the band hes in is not respected by metalheads and guitar geeks. He’s extremely melodic and anyone could learn alot from listening to him play.

@@walmartian422 A7X my favourite band I havnt ever heard a guitarist like syn or zachy the both incredible talents but syns use of gypsy jazz into his metal is what makes it so good

I feel like he's crazy well appreciated. Maybe not in rock and metal overall, but definitely in the 2000s metal scene.

I love Syn, he is my favorite guitarist. I don't really think he is underrated, he gets a ton of recognition and people love his work, haters will always hate him because they can't move on from playing the F chord.

Finger cramp

I'll be watching you

its not hard, its just painful lmao

And T.N.T

Alternate tunings ;)

“Pinch harmonies, TREM-OH-LO picking” 😂😂😂

So that Mike could watch it and lose his shit. Which is incredibly entertaining to watch.

@@The_JustJoshing Yeah where tf did they get their information

@Cyberdemon Mike The person who wrote the script wrote pinch harmonies and a lot of the language they use doesn’t make a song harder.

WatchMojo will make a video on just about anything as long as it gives them clicks.

You're actually faking it right there.

@@archdukebigdogkoopa3821 no, no, no, clearly he is completely obliterated drunk and not making a joke at al.

@@appalachianexploration5714 I'm allergic to alcohol...

@@archdukebigdogkoopa3821 that has nothing to do with what I said.

@@appalachianexploration5714 How's this: If he's drunk, then tell me, did he just blank right out and go to sleep in that way?

I thought they were gonna have his solo on this list. Unironically.

lil wayne deserves to be on the list😅

Dad is just angry again

Conor Murphy He says mom is the reason he’s always angry

You know what you did

Every Breath You Take is offended by your claims.

It depends. Some of the fingerings of sus chords require more fingerings, and stretching your hand across more frets. But other times you actually remove a finger and play open strings. It depends on the chord really. I have never had an issue with most sus chords though. But sus chords aren’t inherently more difficult to play than major or minor chord. I think mojo.com is describing sus chords as more difficult to play because they think sus chords are a more exotic chord than a major or a minor. The use of a sus chord in a song doesn’t mean it’s harder to play. It might be more sophisticated as a song though. But that’s not about technique of guitar playing. That’s about songwriting. Some songs are more sophisticated while others stick to the same basic chords in their structure. And the same with time signatures. Once you know how to count time signatures then it’s not hard to play in those it e signatures. Mojo again is confusing the use of a time signature in a song versus the difficulty of playing in a time Singnature. 4/4 is much more common than 7/8 from a songwriting perspective. But just because it’s used less often doesn’t make it harder to play.

Y'all are missing that I said "typically" lol

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@@XenoMorphGaming79 I actually meant Sus as in Suspended rather than Sus as a stand in for suspicious, but go for it my guy, Among Us is a really fun game!

I think it's relative to who you are how big your hands are and where you're at as a guitar player

True my friend that also plays guitar was shitting on me saying that metal songs are easy because they're primarily power chords but he doesn't understand that the multiple rhythm changes and bpm make them difficult to play.

@@memessavedmylife8574 yes but right hand technique is much more intuitive than left hand, imo metal is a much easier genre than alot of other 'simpler' genres.

@@stevowilliams8279i will say it depends on the genre. Some right hand focused styles are HARD.

i see what you mean, meshugga's bleed comes to mind@@Blockoumi

that's what their videos usually do

I love that that even implies that such a thing can be measured and ranked

Huh same

Yeah but he does use his thumb to do that stretch

It’s not hard

All stretches are hard when you have baby hands like me

@@Kostas_Zacharakis guys who can't even stretch that large because THEY CAN'T: allow to introduce ourselves

Into the lungs of hell - exactly the same thing. Everyone taps it which really grinds my gerkin.

Michael Angelo would beat your ass.

@Cyberdemon Mike rofl

@Cyberdemon Mike Leonardo is the most disciplined maybe, but Raphael is the largest, strongest, and most aggressive. Mikey is the most likeable, Donatello is the smartest.

no, he's not, a good guitar player, yes, a virtuoso my ass... he's just playing all the time in the style of Roger McGuinn and that's all, folk arpeggios.

The problem with most metal guitarists is that their "virtuoso" attitude is about speed. I have never seen someone playing any Johnny Marr's songs close to his tone. Dude seems to have silk in his fingertips

@@DiogoBianchi5 the obssesion with 'tone'... every guitar player has his tone, every guitar player has even various tones. Tone is important in acoustic playing (folk music, classical, flamenco...), because it depends much more on player's fingers than in gear, amps and so on... the guy has his tone? who doesn't? you like it? congrats to you, I simply don't care

@@JulioLeonFandinho That is why most metal bands are stuck in a niche for "purists" while other bands move forward. Take bands like Gojira and see how their technique is less about showing off and more about textures. Most metal guitarists I know had that moment when they felt a new world opening to them when they were already pretty good and tried to play something different. Their surprise was "This should have been simple. Why am I not doing this the right way?" That is because some styles are not about speed, but about how to add something to the song, and that is being implemented in metal more often

@@DiogoBianchi5 Johnny Marr has his own sound that you can pick out instantly. Also has an incredible talent for making difficult guitar sound easy

LOL

Bram Lackman-Mincoff that is my favorite video

@@michaelflorczyk1394 Mike at his snobbiest

@Cyberdemon Mike you mean the rolling stone ranking?

I’ll have to check that out now.

Fraktured is insane

Great guitarist. The list is terribile but this video is worse.

He’s a wizard but his stuff isn’t exactly hard I don’t think he was calling him shit more just a bad choice for the list

@Tyler Clark yeh that’s what I meant

Yeah, this guy really underestimated my man Johnny

I think the talent lies in having to put up with morrissy 's bitch ass rather than the guitar playing .

Yeah but when it's about an instrument that you don't even play it pretty much means nothing lmao

Considering metal falls under the larger "rock" umbrella i can grant them this.

Metal is subgenre of rock (surely, with many sub-subgenres) that frequently does not even strain as much from original rock'n'roll conventions as, say, zeuhl or krautrock.

It's all the same to shallow corporate boomers. Loud guitar.

@@ksquidplaysminecraft Pretty sure they're shallow corporate X/Y-gen ignorants.

@@ivanhozjan7137 Metal is just about much sub-genre of Rock as Jazz is sub-genre of March music.

that's how all "tOp SoNgS" are

I uh, am not really into metal and thus know ZERO of his Top 10 suggestions.

@@israeldelarosa5461 tsk tsk

"treMoLo" sounds like some Italian candy

Hocus Pocus live is so damn impressive. The speed man. One of the first metal sounding shredding i’ve seen

He is 31.

@@Gladijajator 31 is almost 40 ;)

@@dantee1138 not really

@@Gladijajator Fuck I'm old

Powder Gangers?

Tossin' some tromolo pinch harmonies at cha!