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The Greatest Guitar Solo Ever Played
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What makes a great guitar solo? How do you transcend beyond merely playing notes and create something truly sublime? Easy: Be Prince. The Purple One's guitar skills are legendary, but perhaps his crowning achievement came in 2004, when he joined an all-star tribute to George Harrison for the late Beatle's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Prince waited patiently for his moment, and as they reached the end of Harrison's iconic ballad, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, he stepped forward and made history, playing what is often described as the greatest guitar solo ever played. Let's talk about why.
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Really Easy Guitar Lessons tutorial on playing this solo: ua-cam.com/video/lPL4KfA1kg4/v-deo.html
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  • @Bigbroofsticles
    @Bigbroofsticles День тому

    The breakdown i didnt know i needed

  • @joshuayoung6528
    @joshuayoung6528 День тому

    I love how the length of the video comes out to be 4:43 hahaha

  • @82gamerprincess31
    @82gamerprincess31 День тому

    This is what you called nuclear option revenge. Write the greatest ear worm in history about your girlfriend being an a-hole. The cricket in your room that never stops chirping…

  • @stephen3765
    @stephen3765 День тому

    Weezer made Africa

  • @donjuan3983
    @donjuan3983 День тому

    21:33 The lyrics don't mean anything? Isn't the lyrics about teenage angst and that's why the song is called smells like teen spirit?

  • @pinegd1
    @pinegd1 День тому

    At last someone has verbalized what I suspected from the very beginning.

  • @jethrogibbs3800
    @jethrogibbs3800 День тому

    It's soulful and moody. And that is heavily informed by the simple, melancholic chord changes. This song was made for expressive bending. It's enjoyable, but it's not even close to "the greatest solo ever played." That is a wild claim.

  • @jakejake7289
    @jakejake7289 День тому

    My appreciation for Prince's talent went skyhigh after I saw this solo. I must've watched it a hundred times. The best guitar solo performance I've seen. Just unbelievable!!

  • @thefighter9860
    @thefighter9860 День тому

    Thankfully my theory class did in fact support multiple answers. The professor was much more open to different ways of thinking about things.

  • @dduuddeechil
    @dduuddeechil День тому

    I can't tell which I love more, the solo or everyone playing staring Prince down for showing them up lmao 🤣

  • @shadowslipping
    @shadowslipping День тому

    Ears exhausted???🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️OH PLEASE!

  • @cuneytguren
    @cuneytguren 2 дні тому

    What has always bothered me in this performance was the crudeness/rawness of Prince. His deliberate effort to isolate himself from the rest of the band. Even his low-profile stand in the first half of the song seems to be a planned act to reinforce his predominant presence in the second half. What makes me think that way is his attitude in the second half. The constant signal of "I am different and certainly much better from that bunch!" His leaning onto his bodyguard, which is another way of saying, "Look at me, look at me, look at me..." And finally, his leaving the stage after his flamboyant statement of throwing the guitar to the audience (actually to his bodyguard, I suppose) and walking away. Away! Walking away and thus, again, in some way raising a barrier between him and the rest of those ordinary earthlings, the other musicians on stage. Great guitar work, no doubt. But I wish he had the tactfulness, humility, and wisdom that he is out there to honour a late musician with equally precious fellow musicians.

  • @elirane85
    @elirane85 2 дні тому

    Sorry, couldn't watch past the 3 minute mark when you said that other then Bryan Adams no one probably heard "Everything I do, I do it for you". Tell me you are not for real with this one? It literally still plays on the radio from time to time. What are you talking about?

  • @regenschirm
    @regenschirm 2 дні тому

    The British national anthem will never go away

  • @JDBlack3347
    @JDBlack3347 2 дні тому

    Ok, but Bury a Friend would be cool to see you analize for me at least

  • @AstroPickle
    @AstroPickle 2 дні тому

    This video is both magisterial and majestic. Well done

  • @AJNpa80
    @AJNpa80 2 дні тому

    Crazy 93 is today's version of 93's 62.

  • @AJNpa80
    @AJNpa80 2 дні тому

    Damnit. Took me 33 years to get that Robin Hood song out of my head, it was everywhere, inescapable, finally , success and then you've brought it back. Almost as bad as them Mr. Big and Extreme ballads of the same era. Mr Bigs was hands down the worst. At least the extreme song would have been decent for what it was though it was shoved down our shite pipes. I'm happy music has largely fragmented into niches with the net even if the system doesn't select and ram the Queens of our day to the top clearing the chum.

  • @ethan_7480
    @ethan_7480 2 дні тому

    3:30 I love that when he says “is gonna pop up a lot” he draws a zubat.

  • @SamuelCGDS
    @SamuelCGDS 2 дні тому

    Can you do a video about the music "Boate azul" by Joaquim e Manuel? I love your channel ❤🇧🇷 (sorry for any mistakes)

  • @largin386
    @largin386 2 дні тому

    Take a long walk off a short pier

  • @bossfan49
    @bossfan49 2 дні тому

    So many current movies, tv shows, commercials etc still use a lot of music from the '60s through the '90s.

  • @alexcrouse
    @alexcrouse 2 дні тому

    Prince returning to the rhythm part with that huge distortion but short staccato mutes is just so iconic.

  • @alexcrouse
    @alexcrouse 2 дні тому

    I was really hoping this was the solo you were talking about.

  • @fokeyjo
    @fokeyjo 2 дні тому

    I think Prince was a bit pissed off that they kept singing, and it was clearly punctuating what he wanted to do, which was definitely clashing. He had to improvise and pull back but still keep that momentum to make sure he didn't clash so badly that he would come off sounding worse and impestuous... and they kept doing it to him! I mean, it's all very well keeping the other musicians in the dark like that so there's some sponteneity to the performance, but really it comes off as a clash of direction. Tom and the rest of the group were going down the melodic gentle part (probably aiming for a quicker end because of it being televised), and Prince comes in with this blistering long over-distorted unrehearsed solo (I bet there was a sound engineer pissing their pants to try and get it to mix right on the fly as you claim he didn't soundcheck). But he really needed the rest of the group to drop to the background to achieve that. It's lucky it came off as well as it did. I wonder who led the ending, my bet's on Tom, because that kind of lingering end could go on forever with someone like Prince on stage.

  • @FlippyD1998
    @FlippyD1998 2 дні тому

    The thing 12tone doesn't seem to understand in his analysis of Rick Beato's kind words about the top 10: He didn't actually like the songs. I could see him cringing with a lot of the songs and he was just being nice to the songs for the sake of being nice. Since everyone is cherry picking I guess I will as well. As a counter to the point about "only the songs worth remembering" standing the test of time, consider the following: #1 1961 Billboard year end - Tossin and Turnin by Bobby Lewis #1 1962 - Stranger on the Shore by Acker Balk #1 1967 - To Sir With Love by Lulu #1 1972 - The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack #1 1973 - Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tee by Orlando Dawn #1 1978 - Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb #1 1986 - That's What Friends Are For by Dionne Warwick #1 1988 - Faith by George Michael #1 1989 - Look Away by Chicago You may have heard some of these songs but how often do you hear them on the radio today? This may sound like me proving 12tone's point but it actually does the opposite: The forgotten hits of old (to me and probably to Rick too) sound so much more human and soulful than the hits of today. There is an energetic drive to the faster ones and a sorrowful mourning that pulls you in to the slower ones. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who was not born yet when any of the above songs were released. I agree that there is good music today and that all you have to do is search for it. I also think that you have to search a bit harder today than you did in the past.

  • @Canyon2023
    @Canyon2023 2 дні тому

    Boring music isn’t boring to boring people.

  • @saturn1486
    @saturn1486 2 дні тому

    The guitar in the beginning is also incredibly hard panned to the right, which gives it a pretty lopsided uneasy feeling

  • @domjcoller
    @domjcoller 3 дні тому

    What mode is the riff is it aeolian? If you were to put chords to each note what would they be I always use c7 the b7 dor rhe last two notes But then thats not aeolian Help

  • @Woozy.0
    @Woozy.0 3 дні тому

    I don't think "fun." is butt rock. They're too vile to even be horror core.

  • @nnnArchive
    @nnnArchive 3 дні тому

    noidljuise lemn demn taly hal

  • @user-tw5vo5nb5w
    @user-tw5vo5nb5w 3 дні тому

    Atrocious sounding. Sounds like it was made by an evil 5 year .. Later

  • @frankcooke1692
    @frankcooke1692 3 дні тому

    To be honest... most guitarists don't know what notes they're playing. He was just riffing

  • @msbecks7004
    @msbecks7004 3 дні тому

    It’s been in the UK charts for so long because we all sing and we love mush pit jumping about while dancing before calming down and singing, then back off jumping about. This song does this brilliantly.

  • @j1a2s3p4r5a6y7
    @j1a2s3p4r5a6y7 3 дні тому

    Greatest musician, cover, and analysis.

  • @superjules
    @superjules 3 дні тому

    "made of Metal!"

  • @halflight3592
    @halflight3592 3 дні тому

    7:13 josh hutcherson whistle

  • @zacharyhaverkamp
    @zacharyhaverkamp 3 дні тому

    Instead of all the hoops you have to jump throught to get from B to G, you could just call it a deceptive cadence and call it a day.

  • @anthonycristhianmaraviroja2035

  • @reakyboy
    @reakyboy 3 дні тому

    but it's still "wronggga" ... Daddy, I want to live in Boca. not sure what was most entertaining... the content, the doodles, or maybe the often affected voice of the narrator.

  • @narckryptonite
    @narckryptonite 3 дні тому

    It's Milli Vanilli amplified to ridiculous proportions. Everything is pitch corrected and the post production process just rips out any soul the piece had. You're delusional.

  • @Foxyoner367
    @Foxyoner367 3 дні тому

    I like how the commets has 3 different fanbases. Bowie's, Nirvana's and MGSV

  • @user-hh1gd2hz5p
    @user-hh1gd2hz5p 4 дні тому

    These pictures confuse me so much

  • @milopuffs4716
    @milopuffs4716 4 дні тому

    Outstanding analysis as always. You should do 'Duality' by Slipknot. Your break downs are exquisite and precise.

  • @beenaplumber8379
    @beenaplumber8379 4 дні тому

    Ike Newton was definitely one of us. He was on the spectrum, and his spectral brain was a wonder. He lived in a time when alchemy, astrology, and religion were given equal footing to evidence-based science, and he relied more on theory than modern scientists would, but he was therefore free of the constraints of modern science, and free to think outside the box. Therefore, some of his ideas seem silly, but some of his ideas changed the world profoundly for the better.

  • @justincase8532
    @justincase8532 4 дні тому

    You are missing Ricks argument completely. It is not about complexity and chord progressions but more about NOVELTY. Technology has advanced a lot over the past 30 years and it is used in new and novel ways which improves our lives. Can you make the same argument for music? I doubt it, its a load of crap today. (There are very few exceptions though). Taylor Swift is absolutely boring!!

  • @theesweatydrummer
    @theesweatydrummer 4 дні тому

    Rick Beato is having more and more Grandpa moments. Right now I can’t stand his non-interview episodes.

  • @theprismaticsystem2833
    @theprismaticsystem2833 4 дні тому

    Another thing going on around what you mentioned at like 13:00, the guitar stays pretty hard panned to the right the entire song so only the really held out notes go to the left where the bass has just been chilling with only Ozzy's vocals and Bill Wards drums going to both channels, is imo a really cool use of stereo.

  • @rmadler2007
    @rmadler2007 4 дні тому

    What’s up with these dumb drawings?

  • @ElloLoJo
    @ElloLoJo 4 дні тому

    Makes me sad there wasn't much interest in Bury a Friend, that's the song that made me go listen to Billie Eilish it's so good