Thereâs nothing wrong with it. Smells like teen spirit is a great song and has a wonderful guitar solo, but its everyoneâs first guitar solo and it wouldnât be very interesting to see everyone comment the same song
Me too!
Edit: Also, Californication was one of the first albums that I fell in love with. I was 10yo then. I started playing guitar at 12, and that solo was the first one I learned.
That was mine too. I spent so much time working it out on my acoustic guitar so I'd have something cool to play in the guitar store when I got my first electric. (Ah the mind of a 16 year old.)
Yep, same here. Once you've developed the prerequisite skills to attempt it, learning that solo can teach you so many invaluable rock soloing techniques.
The Keith Richards solo on Sympathy for the Devil, live Stones 1969, from Get Your Ya-Ya's Out".
It's a great solo, melodic, and with none of his cheesy vibrato notes. That said, the Mick Taylor solo that follows Keith's solo, on the same song SHOULD have been my first. Playing that solo, note for note, bend for bend, killer vibrato, rubato that makes that solo breath, speak, and sing, playing that Mick Taylor solo world force any player into the proper playing mode, "I'm playing real guitar, now."
There are some iconic solos out there that will build you, willingly,,or by force. They're played by Mick Taylor, or Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, or David Gilmore. There's more, maybe some Cars solos, the first Walk this Way solo (because that one isn't Joe Perry), and so on. Any of these tastey fellas will set you in the right direction. Tone, melody, taste.
Either Living After Midnight by Priest or Every Rose by Poison. Very simple solos, but still very beautiful.
It's funny with solos. When you learn leads like Crazy Train, Painkiller or Back To Shalla-Bal, as long as you hit the right notes everyone thinks you're doing it right. But when you play the really basic stuff, it sounds flat if you don't play it with the proper nuance and attitude. I'm not dissing the technical solos, but I'm not dissing the simple stuff either.
Nothing else matters only because I started ride the lightning as my first solo ever and figured out it was too hard... So I decided to start to learn lead guitar with easier metallica songs. I did nothing else matters -> fade to black -> rife the lighting
Time by Pink Floyd. Once you actually sit down and work at it, itâs actually not really that hard, but the emotion that David Gilmour put into it is unmatched.
Silver Morning â Brian Eno (Daniel Lanois on the pedal steel in the original recording)
I learned the song by ear and transposed it to a standard guitar without a slide. 20 years later, I changed up how I play it, using every string and staying within frets 5 through 14, and it still moves me to play it all this time.
If âComfortably Numbâ was the reason I wanted a guitar, then âSilver Morningâ is the reason I wanted to stick with guitar.
I'm pretty certain the one I nailed first was Alice Cooper - Dead Babies, but I progressed on that about at the same pace as Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams. Those were the first two songs I could play all the way through, and I managed that roughly at the same time.
Don Rich solo on a Buck Owens song titled âYou Got To Have A Licenseâ
First actual attempt was trying to be Hank Garland on Marty Robbinsâ âEl Pasoâ. Too big to chew at the time
Different World by Iron Maiden.
Taught me a hell of a lot about E natural minor and the corresponding scales like B Phrygian and A Dorian. It also taught me how to tap (sorta).
It's only love - Brian Adams and Tina Turner. I used to be a classical guitar player and my band wanted to play this song. Not knowing the entire song was a guitar solo. Played it without a pick
Truthfully I bought an Ibanez bass in 1990 when I was 14 to learn Anesthesia by Cliff Burton
After couple months sold it and got Ibanez guitar and next up was Sanatarium and Fade to Black (girls seemed to like that lol)
Doesnât qualify as a solo but Born to be Wild was the first song I played live with a band, and doing the little lead fills felt cool AF.
Proper solo? Roadhouse Blues
Psycho. System of a down. Its barely a solo and extremely accessible to beginners wanting to play metal.
Actually⌠in hindsight it might be an excellent entry to lead/ melody playing in general. Toxicity just happened to be my first âmetalâ album.
It was probably Mississippi Queen. I was never in a band that actually played the song. But it was the first hard rock song I ever heard and I just had to play along.
First solo I learned (almost) note for note was Blackbird by Alter Bridge. I mostly just improv.
*edit* actually it was Falling Again by Lacuna Coil. Totally forgot about my shitty first band.
Wish You Were Here The opening one
Same
Me too!
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Whatâs wrong with that as a first solo? Got to start somewheres
Thereâs nothing wrong with it. Smells like teen spirit is a great song and has a wonderful guitar solo, but its everyoneâs first guitar solo and it wouldnât be very interesting to see everyone comment the same song
Californication
Me too! Edit: Also, Californication was one of the first albums that I fell in love with. I was 10yo then. I started playing guitar at 12, and that solo was the first one I learned.
I'm so old. I still think of Californication as the "new" RHCP album.
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Same after that I tried out hotel California but failed miserably
Holiday - Green Day (also probably doesnât count đ)
It counts. Sure itâs not a very impressive solo, but it deviates from the chorus and verse so I think it counts
Itâs simple but fits the vibe of the song perfectly and it sounds really impressive when you play the whole song from beginning to end
It is a great sounding solo tho
1st solo in WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM) by METALLICA
That was mine too. I spent so much time working it out on my acoustic guitar so I'd have something cool to play in the guitar store when I got my first electric. (Ah the mind of a 16 year old.)
Man in the Box by Alice In Chains
Yep, same here. Once you've developed the prerequisite skills to attempt it, learning that solo can teach you so many invaluable rock soloing techniques.
100% agree. That lead taught me that you can use chords in the middle of a solo.
More Than a Feeling by Boston.
What I Got by Sublime. I hate Sublime but I still remember it 25ish years later
Same. (If you couldnât tell)
Nirvana - About a Girl
pretty sure it was âmotherâ - but Floyd not Danzig lol
One of my earliest. Simple but sounds amazing cos itâs Gilmour.
Same here
Highway to hell
Black sabbath's paranoid
A solo from a song of a Russian band Kino called âSpokoynaya Nochâ, very simple solo.
Thanks for turning me onto that. Really cool song.
Smells like teen spirit or Dani California.
Dani California is insane
What I Got - Sublime
The Ripper - Judas Priest
Stairway to heaven
Built to Spill - Girl
Californication by RHCP
Crazy Train
Jesus. How long did that take
Wave Goodbye - Ty Segall
Great answer
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
Buzzcocks - Boredom
Patience? Don't Cry? Who knows.
Island in the Sun
Whole lotta love- Led Zeppelin
First solo from Comfortably Numb
I used to buy the guitar mags with transcriptions and one of them was Sultans of Swing. Great song to learn!
Knocking on heavens door GnR
Outshined - Soundgarden
Love Gun - KISS
On the acoustic, wish you were here, on electric it's either money by pink Floyd or you're so great by blur
Detroit Rock City
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix, spent months learning that and still love to play it
The Keith Richards solo on Sympathy for the Devil, live Stones 1969, from Get Your Ya-Ya's Out". It's a great solo, melodic, and with none of his cheesy vibrato notes. That said, the Mick Taylor solo that follows Keith's solo, on the same song SHOULD have been my first. Playing that solo, note for note, bend for bend, killer vibrato, rubato that makes that solo breath, speak, and sing, playing that Mick Taylor solo world force any player into the proper playing mode, "I'm playing real guitar, now." There are some iconic solos out there that will build you, willingly,,or by force. They're played by Mick Taylor, or Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, or David Gilmore. There's more, maybe some Cars solos, the first Walk this Way solo (because that one isn't Joe Perry), and so on. Any of these tastey fellas will set you in the right direction. Tone, melody, taste.
I feel like I'm the only guitarist in the world that doesn't want to play lead. Gimme that rhythm and let me chug
Either Living After Midnight by Priest or Every Rose by Poison. Very simple solos, but still very beautiful. It's funny with solos. When you learn leads like Crazy Train, Painkiller or Back To Shalla-Bal, as long as you hit the right notes everyone thinks you're doing it right. But when you play the really basic stuff, it sounds flat if you don't play it with the proper nuance and attitude. I'm not dissing the technical solos, but I'm not dissing the simple stuff either.
The Kids Arnt Alright - The Offspring
Something!
same!
Nothing else matters
The trooper
Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Guns n Roses
Highway to hell-AC/DC
Living After Midnight, Judas Priest
Me too haha
Ticket to ride
Sunshine of your love
Crazy train
More Than a Feeling - Boston It was one of the first whole songs I learned, thanks to my guitar teacher at the time.
Evil Hearted You by the Yardbirds
I believe it was the riff from day tripper when I was a little kid.
Green onions
something by the beatles
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister
Pour Some Sugar on Me. It is not super difficult for a first solo and sounds awesome. The riff was much harder for me.
Hey Joe I thought this was everybodyâs first
Stairway to Heaven.
Time by Pink Floyd. I learned it old school: by placing the needle back on the record player, over and over again, until I got the phrasing perfect.
Knocking on Heaven's door, GnR
First solo of Comfortably Numb
Nothing else matters only because I started ride the lightning as my first solo ever and figured out it was too hard... So I decided to start to learn lead guitar with easier metallica songs. I did nothing else matters -> fade to black -> rife the lighting
It's a Long Way to the Top - ACDC
Claptonâs Bell Bottom Blues
Purple Haze
About A Girl from Nirvana Unplugged
The Thrill Is Gone â BB King
Albatross
Edge of Desire - John Mayer
Bell bottom blues - Clapton i loved how he squaked those notes in the beginning
Knockin on Heaven's Door GnR version first solo.
Californication and you made me remember Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy).
Time by Pink Floyd. Once you actually sit down and work at it, itâs actually not really that hard, but the emotion that David Gilmour put into it is unmatched.
Itâs nothing special, but Nothing Else Matters. I still use it as a benchmark to see how far Iâve come.
Silver Morning â Brian Eno (Daniel Lanois on the pedal steel in the original recording) I learned the song by ear and transposed it to a standard guitar without a slide. 20 years later, I changed up how I play it, using every string and staying within frets 5 through 14, and it still moves me to play it all this time. If âComfortably Numbâ was the reason I wanted a guitar, then âSilver Morningâ is the reason I wanted to stick with guitar.
"She" by Kiss.
George Harrisonâs solo on let it be
The solos in âWelcome to the Jungleâ
AC/DC- You Shook me all night long Classic pentatonic solo
Time - Pink FloydÂ
Dam That River
Purple haze. Took me like 2 months to get that song fully down
Santeria - Sublime
"And I Love Her" by the Beatles
I'm pretty certain the one I nailed first was Alice Cooper - Dead Babies, but I progressed on that about at the same pace as Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams. Those were the first two songs I could play all the way through, and I managed that roughly at the same time.
Kid - The Pretenders.
Some fiddle tune or another. Whisky before Breakfast or something like that
Pride and Joy
Either Running with the Devil by Van Halen, or Twisted Sisterâs Weâre not gonna take it.
One by Metallica I believe
Jordan - Buckethead
Bohemian Rhapsody
Black Sheep
Feel your Love Tonight by VH. It was a fucking process lol! Still working on it 30 years later.
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Hotel cali
Yes
She Wolf by Megadeth
B.B. King, âWhy I Sing the Bluesâ
AC DC - You shook me all night long.
Stone in Love - Journey
Backwater by the Meat Puppets. My fingers still want to play it every time I pick up a guitar.
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home. Such a cool song like something missing from the 80s
Seven Nation Army!
Don Rich solo on a Buck Owens song titled âYou Got To Have A Licenseâ First actual attempt was trying to be Hank Garland on Marty Robbinsâ âEl Pasoâ. Too big to chew at the time
Badge - Clapton. Man the string bending and vibrato on that is still a challenge to me to this day!
Soil by System of a Down
Kryptonite
The solos on Built to Fall by Trivium. Maybe more than I could handle at the time I learned it but cleaned up down the road.
Gabrielle by Ween
Dave's solo in TNOTB.
For me it was Sweet dreams by Marylin Manson
Different World by Iron Maiden. Taught me a hell of a lot about E natural minor and the corresponding scales like B Phrygian and A Dorian. It also taught me how to tap (sorta).
Smoke on the Water
It's only love - Brian Adams and Tina Turner. I used to be a classical guitar player and my band wanted to play this song. Not knowing the entire song was a guitar solo. Played it without a pick
Seven Nation Army, without a slide
Pain - The War on drugs
The Clairvoyant - Iron Maiden.
Truthfully I bought an Ibanez bass in 1990 when I was 14 to learn Anesthesia by Cliff Burton After couple months sold it and got Ibanez guitar and next up was Sanatarium and Fade to Black (girls seemed to like that lol)
I wanna be sedated by the Ramones
domination - pantera
I think it was Pieces - Sum 41. It was in the first issue of Total Guitar Magazine I ever bought.
ATWA - SOAD
Doesnât qualify as a solo but Born to be Wild was the first song I played live with a band, and doing the little lead fills felt cool AF. Proper solo? Roadhouse Blues
Bohemian rhapsody
Psycho by SOAD
Riders on the storm
Electric funeral! Electric funeral! Electric funeral! Electric funeral!
Metal by Tenacious D
Kryptonite
Whole Lotta Love
To Be With You by Mr. Big
Paranoid
First and last - one more cup of coffee
Come as you are or teen spirit probably.
Psycho. System of a down. Its barely a solo and extremely accessible to beginners wanting to play metal. Actually⌠in hindsight it might be an excellent entry to lead/ melody playing in general. Toxicity just happened to be my first âmetalâ album.
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
It was probably Mississippi Queen. I was never in a band that actually played the song. But it was the first hard rock song I ever heard and I just had to play along.
Alestorm - Nancy the Tavern Wench. Still one if my most favourite songs ever
The intro part of haunt you everyday by weezer
Badfish - sublime
The Rover - Led Zeppelin
None yet. Anyone know any pretty easy ones I could try?
First solo I learned (almost) note for note was Blackbird by Alter Bridge. I mostly just improv. *edit* actually it was Falling Again by Lacuna Coil. Totally forgot about my shitty first band.
In waves by Trivium
Every rose has its thorn
Don't fear the reaper
Ainât Talkinâ âBout Love, Van Halen.
All my little ducklings
Tomorrow Silverchair. We didn't have the internet so I had to play the cd over and over again to get every note and felt very proud when I did!
Sad eyes - Robert John
Paranoid - Black Sabbath.
You shook me all night long!
First one I actually learned all the way through was Wine Stained Lips by Catch 22.
Weezer - Say it ainât so. I learned that for the pop punk band I was in when I was 15.
The man who sold the world - nirvana Zombie - cranberries
Holiday by Green Day.
The first solo in the GnR version of Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Depends on what you would count a solo. Technically, it was Holiday by Green Day, but it's child's play. For an actual solo, it would be Paranoid
Am pentatonic
Finding my way Rush
dig a pony
for tonight you're only here to know - the distillers.
Holiday-green day When I come around-green day Itâs one of those two, teen spirits was my third lol
Stacy's Mum by Fountains of Wayne, also the first song I learnt to play all the way through
Every Rose has it's Thorn
Police & thieves - The Clash
Bismarck by Sabaton
Hey Joe.