What's the hardest lick you ever had to learn?

[Sid]

Intro to Perpetual Burn-jason becker
Solo to Tornado of Souls,Hangar 18-marty friedman
Solo to Esperanto-shawn lane
Tender Surrender-steve vai
Manhattan,cliffs of dover-eric johnson
solo to Erotomania-dream theater
Cause we ended as lovers,nadia-jeff beck

[wire 247]

The head for Donna Lee
Kid Charlemagne solo- (many years ago this took a few days).

[tfancil]

"Mr. Sandman", Chet Atkins! I thought to myself, "That's a cool old song that I would like to learn." I messed with it for a couple of days and finally said to Hell with it! If you want to learn to finger pick, DON"T START WITH "MR. SANDMAN" try "Enter Sandman" instead
tfancil

[Noah]

Just about anything off Scotty Anderson's DVD. There's just no way...

[SteveGaines]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qX9JlMB590 and to YOUTUBE for Steve's parts on "That Smell'...You gotta admit..This cats nails it...

[shngn7]

For some reason when I was in coming out of my newb stage and playing in bands I had some trouble playing the verse riff in Led Zeppelin's "In the Light." No problems now but frustrating then.

[xk49w]

Originally Posted by ToneGurus

Cannonball Adderley's solo on Marabi, as performed by Jeff Berlin and Scott Henderson.

Mike

OTOH, Cannonball's solo on "If This Isn't Love" is fairly challenging.

[jgyn]

Eddie Harris's 'Freedom Jazz Dance' I found hard to finger on guitar.

Here it is on piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG8wEzl2qCk

[Flyin' Brian]

The head on Lee Ritenour's "The Rit Variations" The guy has impossibly insane chops.

[Red Suede]

The opening to "West Side Boogie" by Ray Gomez and "The Introduction" by Steve Morse.

[Bad G.A.S.]

Probably Vai's licks...specifically I couldn't tell ya, but I know there's a couple in Tender Surrender, Juice, and FTLOG that have been major pains...not because I can't physically play them, but just because of Vai's phrasing and timing varies so much within the course of a lick...I think that is why some of his stuff is so difficult to learn. It's definitely due in a major way to his time spent with Zappa... You don't have a concept of Steve's mastery of polyrhythms until you try and play his licks..man oh man!

[bluesjunior]

That fast Clapton lick he uses in slow 12/8 blues like "Someday after a While" and Have you ever loved a woman etc. The turnaround one where he goes down the neck from high to low and it sounds like a drum roll, "rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat da da" etc. I learned the notes and I can play them as well but I just can't get it to sound the same as him. I just can't seem to get the phrasing right playing really fast like that.

[Sid]

Originally Posted by Bad G.A.S.

Probably Vai's licks...specifically I couldn't tell ya, but I know there's a couple in Tender Surrender, Juice, and FTLOG that have been major pains...not because I can't physically play them, but just because of Vai's phrasing and timing varies so much within the course of a lick...I think that is why some of his stuff is so difficult to learn. It's definitely due in a major way to his time spent with Zappa... You don't have a concept of Steve's mastery of polyrhythms until you try and play his licks..man oh man!

amen...Vai is a master at polyrhythms

[rhp52]

local phenom Rob Bourassa's version of The Night Rider by Jimmy Bryant

[jakob]

Any solo that Randy Rhoads played.