What`s the most difficult song you ever learned by ear?

[manwiththedogs]

Mine was "The Sinister Minister by The Flecktones, thought I would never get that bass solo down...

[ELVIS]

Yngwie Malmsteen

Soldier Without Faith


:elvis:

[Matt White]

Eric Johnson

"Cliffs of Dover"

[nosuchluck]

Originally posted by manwiththedogs
Mine was "The Sinister Minister by The Flecktones, thought I would never get that bass solo down...

you can play that?!

that is a badass song...

[DrMaddVibe]

Ride The Lightning

[Last_Child]

Born Late 58'

[nosuchluck]

bass line for 'Trojan Horse' by Derek Sherinian

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Matt White
Eric Johnson

"Cliffs of Dover"

I can play that...but the chorus melody is pretty complex....GRATE piece...Eric Johnson is astonishingly good....

[Last_Child]

Originally posted by Last_Child
Born Late 58'

Altough...

I don't know the solo.
Fuck.

[Last_Child]

Originally posted by Last_Child
Born Late 58'

Altough...

I don't know the solo.
Fuck.

But I know the fills!

[Last_Child]

Damn.

Won't let me delete it either.

[Eyes of the Night]

Summer of 69'!!! ... I still can't find the notes ... Adams wrote some badass riffs in his heighdays ...

[Panamark]

Originally posted by Eyes
Summer of 69'!!! ... I still can't find the notes ... Adams wrote some badass riffs in his heighdays ...

I think its A and D dude...

I think the best I did from ear (fingerpicking)
was Blackbird (the Beatles) and master of puppets solo..
(Metallica)

A bit lame compared to Eric Johnson and Yngwie, OH !
I did work out an Yngwie song. I forget what it was called,
I remember it was about Vikings.. (Yeah Ok that narrows
it down to half Yngwie J's catalog..) :p

Does anyone know what the J stands for in his name ??
I think it was good that he put the J in there so we wouldnt
confuse him with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there..

[ELVIS]

I Am A Viking


:elvis:

[Matt White]

Joahann

Lars Johann Yngwie Lannerback is his full name....

HIs Dad split from his Mum when he was a child & I don't think he wanted any association with the guy....hence Yngwie Malmsteen...Malmsteen being his Mum's maiden name I believe.....

[nosuchluck]

actually his name was spelt 'Yngve' - he thought 'Yngwie' would make it easier for his fans to get the pronounciation right...

[Hardrock69]

Well, lotsa Iron Maiden riffs are pretty bitching to play, but I would have to say the opening riff to Michael Schenker's "Captain Nemo" has given me more trouble than many other tunes...

[PHOENIX]

A Passage to Bangkok by Rush. Alex Lifeson is way underated.

[Eyes of the Night]

Originally posted by Panamark
I think its A and D dude...


Thanks Pana! ...;)

[PHOENIX]

Eyes here it is.



Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams

The verses are just D A D A ... as many as needed with the change
occurring on every second bar. There is an additional two bars of D
at the start as well.
The way to play it is something like this:

D. . . . . . . . D. . . . . . . .
|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|
|-3-----3---------|-----------------||-3-----3---------|-------------3---|
|-2---2-2---2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-----||-2---2-2---2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
|-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---||-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
|-----------------|-------------0---||-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|
A. . . . . . . .
|-----------------|-----------------||
|-----------------|-----------------|| repeat last 4 bars throughout
|-2-----2---------|-------------2---|| verses.
|-2---2-2---2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---||
|-0---0-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---||
|-----------------|-----------------||
The dots show the beat.
Use moderate amounts of overdrive, and mute the 2's with your palm to get
the distinctive percussive sound. 0

The Chorus chords are |Bm|A|D|G|Bm|A|D|G|Bm|A| (I use B instead of Bm)
use standard open A,D, and G and a barred A shape for B.

The keyboard riff is sort of an arpegiated D and A ie.
D A
|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0---2---|-----------------|------------------|
|---3-----3-----3-|-----3-----------|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0----2---|
|-----2-----2-----|-2-----2---2---2-|---2-----2-----3-|-----2------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----2-----2-----|-2-----2----2---2-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|

This sounds a bit messy with overdrive, so play it clean, or (even easier)
just play the melody part (which is mainly what you hear on the CD anyway)

e|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0---2---|-----------------|------------------|
b|-----------------|-----------------|-0-----2-----3---|---2-----0---2----|

For the key change after the second chorus, the chords are:
|F|Bb|C|Bb|F|Bb|C|C| again use the barred A shape for Bb and C.
That's about all for Summer of '69

[Eyes of the Night]

NiiIce! ... :cool:

[Big Troubles]

Originally posted by Eyes
Summer of 69'!!! ... I still can't find the notes ... Adams wrote some badass riffs in his heighdays ...

great song for warming up. Cant do the solo though. I improv it. The rest is easy enough by ear though.

hardest song by ear? Shit, there are so many. Ever since Elvis mentioned he plays, or tries playing, Outta Love Again- I immediatley tried. And failed. and still fail. :( I can get some of it. Very little really. a bit of the solo. a very small bit. Id say "Outta Love Again".

[ELVIS]

Outta Love Again is fun to play...

I turn off the guitar channel so I only hear my guitar, sounds good...

Especially since I don't drink anymore...


I never could play drunk...:D


:elvis:

[Big Troubles]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Outta Love Again is fun to play...

I turn off the guitar channel so I only hear my guitar, sounds good...

Especially since I don't drink anymore...


I never could play drunk...:D


:elvis:

very cool man. :)

[PHOENIX]

Elvis seems like the better guitarist out of all of us here. I never even bothered to do Malmsteen.

[ELVIS]

We should post clips like we used to do...

[saint]

My friend and I used to cheat around with malmsteen riffs, never the the solos.
I usually played bass. We sounded a lot better drunk though , when we sobered up and listened to the porta tracks it would suck as usual

The once I still remember are:
Overture 1382,
Little Savage,
I´m a Viking

and my favorites

I´ll see the light tonight
Far Beyond The Sun
As Above, So Below

[ELVIS]

Yngwie is the KING!


:elvis:

[Big Troubles]

Originally posted by ELVIS
We should post clips like we used to do...

I gave this very idea to BS1 about 6 months ago. C'mon admins... get off yer arses. :D www.eddievanhalen.com has quite a bit of downloads of regular users playing bits and intros to classic VH songs.

lets stretch the bandwidth a wee bit.

[Big Fat Sammy]

The bassline to "God" by Tori Amos

It was an audition song...didn't have very long to learn it. It has constant time signature changes....and sounds easier than it is.

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Big Troubles
I gave this very idea to BS1 about 6 months ago. C'mon admins... get off yer arses. :D www.eddievanhalen.com has quite a bit of downloads of regular users playing bits and intros to classic VH songs.

lets stretch the bandwidth a wee bit.

Yeah, I got my home studio cookin' now...

I can post some hifidelity riffs...

I have several programs, including pro tools...

I have tons of guitars, amps, and different setups...

I can emulate and/or imitate alot of players, so I'd like to play around with some bandwidth...

Hmmm...


:elvis:

[ThrillsNSpills]

That's all we need....

a half assed version of someone butchering a song then asking for compliments.

BS1 was wise to leave it.
Besides you can use rapidshare to show people how you can copy a riff.
We'll pat you on the head and say Good Dog, then you can run off and poop behind a tree.

[Big Troubles]

Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
That's all we need....

a half assed version of someone butchering a song then asking for compliments.

BS1 was wise to leave it.
Besides you can use rapidshare to show people how you can copy a riff.
We'll pat you on the head and say Good Dog, then you can run off and poop behind a tree.

Not quite. For beginners like me, Id like to see someone else play the riff that I was TRYING to get down, to see where I am in comparison. I dont think it has anything to do with ego. Most ppl like showing what we can accomplish, and if that means "great work"/ "love that solo" then so be it. Who cares? And if you are the one that doesn't want to see others play or "buther" a song, then dont click on the download. :rolleyes: Sounds like you already go to rapidshare to do this, so whats the dealio? Or maybe you just heard from a friend, who has a friend who talk to this guy, who he was friends with once that downloaded a clip of someone "buthering" a VH song? :D

[ThrillsNSpills]

You've been listening to too much Buther Landross.

[ELVIS]

And you've been listening to the voices in your head, dick for breath...

[Big Troubles]

Originally posted by ThrillsNSpills
You've been listening to too much Buther Landross.

figures. Out of that entire post you came up with a way to make fun of me missing the letter "c". Creative. :rolleyes:

you can do better than that.