Hardest song to play on guitar?

[*tight rope*]

I know we had similar threads (singing, piano) on ET, but I can't recall whether we had one for guitar?

I don't play guitar myself, so I absolutely cannot answer the question, so which songs do you think are the hardest on guitar? Or sound the hardest?

[Deleted]

Well I play guitar. And I can say Your Star's bridge is the hardest to play. I didn't really practice the "Evanescence" songs, but even though the riffs aren't that challenging, intro of Never go Back requires attention to settle the rhythm.

[Osky]

Yeah that part in Your Star is kinda tough. In general it seems that Evanescence album songs might require you to be more attentive than the past songs. But I haven't played guitar in a while (months before the album came out). So that is just based off me skimming guitar tabs.

[rockgoddess]

Are we talking Evanescence songs? If so, the one triplet part in the solo of Haunted, I haven't been able to get it perfectly unless I use tapping, which I'm pretty sure it isn't done that way. Other than that, I've been able to play all other Ev songs ... not too difficult. I've been meaning to try Never Go Back... sounds challenging. >D

[Rarkphoenix]

I love the triplets in Haunted! That's such a fun song to play, I don't know if I'm doing it exactly right, but to get the triplets to the right speed I sort of tighten my whole playing arm and really attack the string, the last note of the triplet seems to sort of ghost but you get three notes when you'd usually get just two. The guitar solo is amazing too, probably my all time favourite Ev solo.

I actually find Tourniquet the hardest for some reason. It's the rhythm/muting structure in the verses that I just can't seem to get :/ . Haven't really tried to work-out anything from Evanesence yet though as I want to get the first two albums and EPs done first and I'd imagine Never Go Back would be pretty tough as it's metal style riffs most of the way through.

[mamadmetal]

as i'm guitarist for long time and evanescence songs are easy for me now! but when i was amateur Tourniquet was so hard!

piano is just main part of evanescence songs, they're harder than guitars

[rockgoddess]

Aug 17, 2012 6:15:47 GMT -5 mamadmetal said:

piano is just main part of evanescence songs, they're harder than guitars

Agreed. I think that's partly why some of Your Star is so difficult ... because they quite literally took a piano part and played it identically on guitar.

[GoingUnderOceans]

EVERYTHING- I'm new to guitar and having a heck of a hard time trying to learn, I can play piano which is way easier. I can play a lil of going under from ev and by ear the beginning of nothing else matters by metallica

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Aug 17, 2012 6:15:47 GMT -5 mamadmetal said:

piano is just main part of evanescence songs, they're harder than guitars

Eeeh... As a pianist myself I would say Ev's piano parts are easy too. In general everything in Ev's music is fairly easy other than the vocals... Particularly in the third album where the piano parts are mostly simple bits and pieces scattered across the songs as opposed to complete piano parts.

[Rarkphoenix]

Aug 30, 2012 20:23:34 GMT -5 @melt said:

Aug 17, 2012 6:15:47 GMT -5 mamadmetal said:

Eeeh... As a pianist myself I would say Ev's piano parts are easy too. In general everything in Ev's music is fairly easy other than the vocals... Particularly in the third album where the piano parts are mostly simple bits and pieces scattered across the songs as opposed to complete piano parts.

I agree, I guess it's a sort of classical piano(?) style that Amy plays. It's a style that flows naturally so most Ev piano pieces just feel instinctive to me. I guess that's why Ev's music is so clever, the guitars and piano are actually technically really simple and yet their songs still sound really unique and interesting regardless. Granted, the piano is probably marginally more complex than the guitar work, Going Under is just one chord played repeatedly throughout most of the song for example (and only four in the chorus), haha

[pandora]

I'm no guitarist myself, but Cloud Nine, the solo in WotW and the solo in the first demo of BMTL sound like their more challenging stuff.

[Rarkphoenix]

Actually, cheating slightly (since it's not really 'guitar' per ce), but the bass in BMTL seems surprisingly difficult, especially near the end. I think they may have brought in DiCosmo for the Fallen recording which could be why. I play by ear so it's probably not exactly right, but end up moving all over the fretboard with that one, and some sections are really quick too.

[Deleted]

Hardest song to play on guitar? Uhmmm. It depends upon your interest. I know how to play BMTL, GU and MI. I'm still having some problems in playing MI but I know I can solve it as far as I know. My new guitar lesson is Lithium. I hope I will play it while listening to the song.

[Deleted]

Any guitarists 'round here tried their hands at Disappear or Erase This? I figure ET is a hand cramper from repetition, but Disappear kind of sounds like it might be the hardest guitar part on Ev3.

[Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy]

A lot of the songs on Ev 3 are dropped tuning the lowest A# which is hard to sustain on a normal guitar because your strings are lose and go out of tune easily. you really need a guitar with strings that are a gauge 12+ the normal on a standard tuned guitar are 10.

Hardest songs i think are

Never go back
Say you will
Disappear

because the riffs are played pretty fast, they are repetitive so its not too hard getting your head around them its just playing them to speed is a bit of learning curve.

i personally love to play The other side its so much fun and Made of stone among others on my Baritone Guitar. Going under and Bring me to life are a piece of cake but are fun to play also.

Sick is awesome too i highly recommend it since its just drop D so any standard tuned guitar should be able to hold the tuning.

Any Bassists out their the change is fun its got awesome bass riffs in it.