10 Styles Of Punk Guitar Solos

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[@Alex-zs2gk]

Obviously the youtube copyright claimer

[@Pyrobanane]

Sum 41 is best for me

[@luizlico]

Please listen to Trigonometria - Verão

[@peterw2880]

That ramones solo is generally one of my favorites out there. Is there anything more punk rock than forgoing the traditionally flashy solo section and just jamming on the open E string for 8 bars? Johnny Ramone is a GOAT

[@SkatePunkBanana]

Technically the 5th on the B string is how Johnny played it but it makes the same note so it doesn't matter.

[@SpeedKing..]

You got it

[@tracy1210]

yeah Carousel solo is one of my favorite !

[@maxonmendel5757]

did you mean genuinely?

[@gredangeo]

@@SkatePunkBanana It technically does matter. it might be essentially be the same note, but the two strings will sound different.

[@nickcustodi592]

The American Idiot imprpv solo was superb my guy

[@seanoconnor2046]

Hearing the solo on American Idiot after hearing the solos he’s very capable of from songs off of 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk, it just falls short. Like he can play really cool blues solos.

[@Braineaters8]

Anti-solos are the true punk rock solos. You can’t change my mind.

[@mrrandmssbearyt5222]

Agreed.

[@j.dviant]

Yes!

[@SoulKingBK]

Sounded the most punk ngl

[@jinstyles8323]

God damn right

[@Braineaters8]

@@jinstyles8323 Glad to have others on my side.

[@joshdouglas1911]

The Hell Song was the solo that got me hooked! The first time I really sat down with a guitar for hours and didn’t get up until I could play it clean! Thank you for including it!!! ❤️

[@hk_4014]

Dude literally same! Its so blistering and fun to play!

[@jb111082]

A damned fun song to jam, no doubt. The one for me, however, was Crazy Train. Once I figured out that the opening of the solo was a finger tap, the next 8 or so hours were spent dissecting every note until I could run it cleanly.

[@NefariousDreary]

I was literally listening to the Hell Song today and always admired the fact that the guitar player plays sick metal licks.

[@gredangeo]

The Hell Song solo is pretty innovative with a bunch of different types of parts blending in that song. I have seen that kind of creativity in something like Children of Bodom.

[@NefariousDreary]

@@gredangeo Yup! I love that kind of intricacy.

[@punky4673]

Playing the Aliens exist "solo" live is the reason I started to play in a band. Best blink instrumental part ever 😍

[@markl1910]

I've been playing that for about 20 years and still love it!

[@tyler9578]

I love it too!! I also love playing the carousel intro more, every chance I get I always play it😅

[@gabriellevesque-lessard5052]

@@markl1910 lol me too. Fucking epic song and "solo" lol

[@pittuso]

Carousel Is other

[@jb111082]

@@tyler9578 Fucking LOVE that shit! So fun to play, and it sounds so awesome!

[@just_an_outcast174]

The solo in "I had an idea for a movie" really speaks to me for some reason, feel like it has a lot of personality

[@kateb5562]

The Bad Religion solo at the start was beautiful! Brian Baker is an excellent guitarist and a great person :). I Love his solo styles!

[@SugarpillProd]

Brian and Brett have a ton of great little solos throughout Bad Religions back catalogue!

[@stevenhaas9622]

@@SugarpillProd Don't forget Hetson. He has some great ones too.

[@UninstalledGamer]

The KZbin Copyright Claim one was the best because he literally played sounds that are impossible to do with a guitar

[@tubeloltv]

what was the youtube copyright claim one.

[@Thirteen31Music]

Love your inclusion of The Vandals.

[@cbfdxbxsb]

The Living End is a pop punk band with some sick rockabilly-esque solos.

[@SugarpillProd]

Yeah I've covered them a couple times in past videos.

[@EliYBY]

Check out Stockyard Stoics

[@andrewpappas9311]

Oh yeah, the Prisoner Of Society solo rips

[@baccoband]

Man, I would love to hear more Bad Religion here! Keep it up!

[@andy_182]

Those Tom delonge epiphones are like crazy expensive now

[@SugarpillProd]

Haha I know. They're like triple the price I paid for mine.

[@609riv]

So true bro 😢

[@paterson90]

Like how sum 41 was in their a couple of times. Always liked their solos/leads, not too long but effective.

[@project6975]

I am loving the change in lighting you've been using man. Keep up the great content!

[@ledkicker2392]

Great job distinguishing these styles! There are many great solos, but about one I was 100% sure it would be here I wanna be sedated!

[@prosens52]

I like how you put the hell song solo in there. One of my favorites!

[@pottergeist]

So cool to see The Vandals here, Warren is a S+ guitarist he played the guitar for Tenacious D debut album

[@luiza177music]

This video put a smile on my face, so nostalgic.

[@lazysleepyraccoon]

Very cool! Thanks for a good music

[@macblink]

I loved the short but sweet one 🤘🏻

[@josephhogarth6915]

"Only Rain" by Bad Religion... I recognized it immediately!

[@ryanwomack7563]

Loved the vandals pull!

[@daninagy4173]

Mawn, the smile Hell Song gave me. Thanks, dude!

[@ndtschau]

There's only one Mike Ness! 🎸🤘🏻 Thanks a lot for the video! 😊👍🏻

[@matheuseverton6341]

really well produced video

[@8Kyt]

keep playing bri dont ever give up this is sick

[@RahatTheKiller]

Love this! Just got reminded of how Billie Joe used to really Duke it out with the solos in early Green Day material - I'm talking pre-Dookie.

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

You really rock man, love all your guitars and the tones you get are just perfect. You are very good. And your taste in music is exactly same as mine.

[@SugarpillProd]

Thanks Matthew!

[@gregzen7896]

I don't have quite have those chops but the Punk Rocker with Chops bit was rather inspiring. Well done 👍

[@SugarpillProd]

Thanks so much 🙏

[@UncleSquatch]

Prison Bound is such an underrated solo

[@travisdobbe9897]

Ah yes! Love the Vid. Glad ya included BR! IMO the best punk band!

[@pitumoe]

Nice Squier! beautiful color

[@v-g-z3689]

The live improviser really is it for me!

[@catkittycatkity6482]

Sum 41's metal insperation is awsome

[@anton101101]

Awesome! Love the Simpson's T-Shirts as well.

[@murodemillo]

Freaking awesome killer sound dude! (BTW Restringing the W Les Paul would be a cool idea, hahaha! Those black strings man!)

[@918kickinwing]

The KZbin one cracked me up. Good stuff.

[@Metalviking18]

Ray toro was also a metalhead in a punk rock band in my chemical romance. Mainly called emo. But it still is punk rock🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@cornnflaek3271]

Great video, only one I was missing was Greg Ginn and his strange style

[@av.punk.801]

Hey that first one is one of my favorite songs off one of my favorite albums by my all time favorite band. Only Rain, by Bad Religion from The Dissent of Man (2010)

[@SugarpillProd]

Mine to!

[@The60lespaul]

It makes me so happy to see/hear social distortion on lists like this

[@rudyc79]

Warren killin it in Idea For a Movie!!

[@evanricheson1630]

Love the blues scale of Social D

[@willer3399]

💯🔥

[@robertosnow3841]

Always a shame, mike ness was on his way to being a great great guitar player and ended up just ok. The blues is great but compared to the quick melodic riffs and energy of wreckage from the past he fell so far. He doesnt even play the simple solos live any more. He cant.

[@Never_fallapart]

I really feel that sometimes squires have a better and prettier variety of colors than any other strats

[@cbandtheradio5610]

I want to know what solo was copyright blocked. Looked familiar. Although you may have just been doing a basic solo for comedic purposes which then makes it even more hilarious. Also, coming from a close to 40 year old punker who spent his 20s in punk bands, the "Not Quite There Yet" soloist is what we used to call the "Open Bar Chord Soloist". Tons of pop punk from the mid 90s to the late 2010s had open bar chord soloists haha! Still tickled that punk spot on the back of my neck though.

[@Return2TheLiving]

Hearing that Flavor of The Weak solo reignited a time in my life long forgotten

[@kcamsdog1387]

He’s been Miley Cyrus’s band leader/musical director for a long time now.

[@Return2TheLiving]

@@kcamsdog1387 you definitely hear it in her early stuff

[@mikestevenson1334]

Epic guitar skills, but those t-shirts made me laugh so damn hard, LOVE THEM!

[@jumpersclerk9705]

The traditionalist all the way!! PS: nice playing man!!

[@aisforapple2494]

One of my favorite punk solos of all-time is 'Boredom' by Buzzcocks!

[@glennmalpassart]

T shirt and DVDA outro won the sub from me!

[@ShmeegleSon]

sick!!!

[@sacredlunatic]

Not Quite There Yet is solid, tasteful.

[@ilboris8601]

You're the best Simply, the best

[@SugarpillProd]

🎵 Around! Nothing's gonna ever keep you down!

[@burndly]

You forgot "I'm too good to be playing pop punk" check out The Ergs! - most violent rap group, or really any of their songs. Jeff Schroeck is a beast and so are the other Ergs.

[@glenndanzigsemployeeplease7638]

basically metalhead in a pop punk band

[@ruk7657]

I really liked the metalhead solo, it sounded like something from Three Cheers

[@CCS216]

Great Social D song to pick.

[@ysteinEngan]

Imidiately recognized the first one as a bad religion solo even though i’ve never heard the song before.

[@johngibbons3138]

Idea for a movie is one of mt favorites

[@ryancovelski850]

Impressive. Now lets hear the bass solos...

[@paradoxentertainment4621]

American Hi-Fi is the good one so far

[@AhmadAdyarso]

Flavour of the Weak and Hell Song are so cleaaan.

[@SugarpillProd]

Haha thanks man! They definitely weren't first takes 😂

[@tomascvancara8811]

Bro that T-shirt :D Awesome :D :D Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

[@tymime]

I've noticed hardcore bands like Black Flag tend to have messy, atonal solos

[@Agent4286]

You should check out some solos from the living end

[@MundodasGuitarras]

Nice video, but i gotta add that white les paul is beeeeautiful

[@sciexp]

Hey, thanks for sharing this, very informative... Which chord shape do you play in the song alien exists, the previous to the last one? That's not a power chord, right?

[@SugarpillProd]

It's an octave. Same shape as a 3 finger power chords, except you mute the middle string.

[@ttv_ch1lly624]

Love the shirt

[@rodrigoisproi4582]

Can you do a tutorial on how to get that Pop punker with chops tone?

[@_Majunior]

That song is flavor of the week in case you were wondering/didn't know

[@corinaolivo6925]

Man, people slept on American Hi Fi. They have some great tracks.

[@calicocookietv7994]

I'm getting a better amp tomorrow with more settings for differe t clean tones and crunchy and I'm soo excited

[@skrrskrr]

It doesn't matter how many times I listen to The Hell Song, I never expect that solo.

[@reidbshreds]

What amp settings do u use when playing punk on your strat?

[@christiantuttle544]

ayy love to see some vandals here

[@mareaalta6067]

the first one the best one

[@polkaputo3226]

i need to know where you got that putting challenge shirt

[@AngrierGorilla]

Great t-shirts! 🤣

[@MW-ic7lr]

Need the messy Discharge-esque solo

[@brownpunk1794]

As someone learning to solo..wat wud u say is the most important scale for punk or pop punk in general.thanks

[@SugarpillProd]

I never really learnt scales, I usually just play something that sounds good for the song. Though I guess the most common for punk would probably be a minor pentatonic or just the major scale.

[@vabozic]

The Live Improvisor one offended me so hard because that is exactly what I do

[@smoore8807]

Good way to start it off with that bad religion, preach!

[@Abeuss]

I know most of those solos but haven’t figured out the “idea for a movie one”.. I like how everything the vandals do is for a laugh.

[@boomertears8460]

5 types of post punk solos pls.

[@Cartman_Studio]

what Gibson pickups in Les Paul guitar do you like for punk style? Thanks

[@SugarpillProd]

I just use the stock ones in my Epiphone. I'm not really fussy when it comes to pickups, haha.

[@myd64-4fun]

First I thought you forgot "Social Distortion" - but you didn't dissapoint :-) It's the first band that comes to my mind when I think of solos in punk.

[@SugarpillProd]

Yeah I've always loved Mike's style of soloing. Even when they go on for like 5 minutes, haha.

[@nitochi3]

I'm a mix of the improviser, not quiet there yet and blues scaler. Do you have tutorials on techniques to how to solo?

[@SugarpillProd]

I'm probably not the best person to learn from. I don't really like guitar solo's and I'm not all that great at playing them either, haha.

[@SugarpillProd]

But if you wanna learn a specific type, I'd just try learning a few songs that use them. For instance, if you like double stops, try picking out a few solo's with them in, and just practice those until you're really solid at playing them. Hope that helps!

[@vezqor0]

do you have the tabs for only rain?

[@NefariousDreary]

Love your shirt streamed hands shirt

[@tetsuoshima3720]

Bad Religion ❤

[@void_snw]

needs some of the melodic solos from Ian DSa :p

[@karldunne5703]

With a few weeks practice, I might be able to crack "I wanna be sedated"

[@SugarpillProd]

Took me about a month to nail down.

[@aidenschneider2327]

I been playing guitar for 30 years, learned from the masters such as hetfield and the one and only "good man" Mr seagal. To this day the I wanna be sedated solo and floored me and at this rate I'll never play it

[@anjaliashok2656]

4:18 REMINDS ME OF LET IT BE JSDFB

[@Dante_yo_son_of_sparda_yo77]

What was the youtube copyright claimer song

[@gf6online]

Was almost sure the 'metalhead in a punk band' one was going to be early Teranishi

[@grahamkristensen9301]

What about the "just play the melody from the verse or chorus"?

[@idontlikeapplejuice7]

i had no clue punk had solos wow

[@PBL187]

What was you actually playing during the “KZbin Copyright Claimer” section?

[@mathcheck1923]

what is the name of the song that ends the video?

[@tothefinlandstation]

Definitely need some Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd, Greg Ginn and Billy Zoom.

[@MarcFarful]

What's the song playing over the KZbin Copyright Claimer solo?

[@SugarpillProd]

The Exploited - punks not dead

[@mxpxboy3]

@@SugarpillProd how ironic.

[@SugarpillProd]

@@mxpxboy3 I was only joking lol.

[@MarcFarful]

@@SugarpillProd Thanks!

[@MarcFarful]

The part that starts at 1:48? and just goes la, la, la, la, la, la, la in a nice happy female voice?