Why Artists Avoid Guitar Solos

[@theasaparkpod]

[@Three-Chord-Trick]

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[@janofdelft]

In pop music generally, there is little emphasis on instrumental virtuosity of any sort: piano, guitar, saxophone, brass, whatever. It's not just guitar.

[@asaparked]

True. Pop music have become more "mood based".

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

@@asaparked Hopefully, I'm not interested in pop

[@adityacharanpn1075]

True!!

[@charleswettish8701]

This is why I won't watch past the first minute of this video. Big "duh". Gee, really, rock has more guitar than pop? Wow, never noticed.

[@asaparked]

@@charleswettish8701 I think you've missed the point.

[@MrBokfanas]

Shoutout to everyone who’s missing those good old guitar solo times

[@fclefjefff4041]

No one stole my record collection, so I’m not missing anything.

[@BandXshow]

Our band does guitar solos

[@PitchIncorrection]

Every song I make has a 16 or 32 bar solo no matter what because I have mental illness

[@PZK3759]

I'm not missing anything. Nothin stopping me from listening to those old bands and artists, and there's many new artists who still does solos

[@hon8177]

Asato is boring.

[@MarsupialPegasus]

not even just guitar solos, theres rarely even bridges anymore either.

[@troysmithfr]

Depends on what you mean by "bridge." Is it actually a bridge or just a middle 8? Even then, there are a lot of blues songs that don't have bridges. Yeah, songs are getting "shorter," but many hits from the 50s and 60s were also under 3 minutes...

[@MarsupialPegasus]

@@troysmithfr i just mean structure wise. alot of mainstream songs nowadays all follow the same formula. which is fine, but when you already know a song is gonna just be hook-verse-hook-verse-hook it gets repetitive. personally i like when songs start with a verse and build up to the hook

[@stevesorrell9835]

I've been playing guitar for 45 years, and honestly; I've never seen so much innovation happening on the guitar, as I see right now! There is still hope. Long live the guitar solo. 🤘🏼😸🤘🏼

[@BandXshow]

Hell yeah🤘🤘🤘

[@timtyler4011]

Then where are the new guitar heros? It's not just fretboard gymnastics, but having a unique tone and style. I struggle to find that now.

[@stevesorrell9835]

@@timtyler4011 Have you heard of Guthrie Govan, Matteo Mancuso, Joshua Meader, Mateus Asato??? There are so many breathtaking soloists, who are pushing guitar to new heights. You just need to look outside of your comfort zone.

[@Donald18838]

@@stevesorrell9835does Guthrie really count as modern tho? Dudes damn near 60

[@ROCKY-yv4ed]

@@stevesorrell9835that’s all well and good but nobody out of the guitar circle know these people. everyone knew van halen, slash and hendrix and even mayer

[@woundedmasquerade]

js because the mainstream doesn't use solos doesn't mean they're less used, the mainstream isn't rock/blues/jazz anymore so that obviously means you won't find solos, you can still find a lot of solos in rock/metal though. for example the song dreadbringer by aborted has one of my favorite solos ever, it's really shreddy and fast but also phrases and is very musically interesting imo. a lot of people say that solos nowadays are just "fast scales" but imo that demerits the effort the guitarists put into actually learning their instrument, not only that but if you listen to death metal and expect super feelsy solos you js aren't listening to the right music, js like if you listen to sabrina carpenter and expect any solos you're js not in the right place. it's js about finding the right music that you actually enjoy and being open to new propositions instead of wanting things to be like before

[@asaparked]

Very well said 🙌

[@graaaby]

I want there to be more views on this video not just for the creator, but for your comment to get more likes

[@truckercowboyed2638]

Why do you keep using Js instead of just.......

[@DarthWinterMadness]

The last album from The Black Dahlia Murder has amazing lead work, which has been the case for a while with them. Lots of other bands like Wintersun or Opeth have awesome guitar solos. They've always been there, just not in pop music. That said it seems it's coming back in popularity thanks to the internet. Cheers from France! 🍻

[@justsomewalrus9923]

It's funny you mention that, I was just listening to shadow of intent and came across dreadbringer since it was a collaboration

[@Carcharodon]

My teacher assigned the class a bunch of topics and gave us the liberty to present the topic in any way. Because my class only listens to trendy tik tok music, I decided to write a 9 minute song inspired by Metallica's "...And Justice For All" album with a guitar solo. Presentation is this January, and I'm looking forward to a dead audience

[@asaparked]

Hahaha! Love it .

[@shudson23]

Make a presentation about how fade to black and to live is to die was written and how metallica made 1.9 M Russians jump

[@wayhectic8615]

Na you gon get laid

[@Ten2More]

That’s how you change minds. Thank you for doing the work!

[@mynewempire]

Pick-Me attitude, I had it too.

[@Lucyanne299]

No big rock band = no band's guitar hero

[@JesusArmasOficial]

As a guitarist, that loves a great solo and loves to play his own solos too I must say I love where the guitar is going right now. I love guitar-centric music for sure, it’s engrained in me but I love how guitar has become more of a production element too with these new artists that are coming up. Bands like Polyphia, Unprocessed, Novelist, or modern metal in general is more focused on the rhythm and less on the lead guitar and I think that’s awesome.

[@WalterFaber-j3k]

This video is based on a completely faulty premise: Guitar solos and guitar driven music haven't been gone at all. If so, then only for people who don't bother to look elsewhere than in the Spotify top 10. There is more music and more variety in music around than ever before in history, and it really has never been easier to find new artists and genres. Who cares about what's in the billboard charts?

[@asaparked]

Good point.

[@freeman10000]

Exactly

[@isaiahmarquez9717]

No one wants to listen to crap music, though.

[@WalterFaber-j3k]

@isaiahmarquez9717 ?

[@WalterFaber-j3k]

@isaiahmarquez9717 What are you trying to say? Please kindly elaborate.

[@Bechs87]

Nothing is dead - You are looking for a fish in a forest. Compare amount of guitar solos in live bands that have guitars in it.

[@Tony78432]

The guitar solo didn’t disappear, it’s just not prevalent in mainstream music. I know many newer/younger bands that still crank out insane guitar based music. Elder, Stoned Jesus, Howling Giant, Earthless, Khruangbin they’re out there you just gotta be willing to look.

[@asaparked]

True. I guess the point we're making is that it is much less prevalent than during the 60s - 80s.

[@Tony78432]

@ oh absolutely no doubt about it guitar itself was a cultural phenomenon

[@isaiahmarquez9717]

Stoned Jesus? They just guaranteed that I will NEVER listen to them.

[@tarimkoysever]

@isaiahmarquez9717 Well that was their goal

[@potato9832]

Dunno about you but I am very sick of computerized pop music. I think people are craving analog music.

[@gx1tar1er]

Rap guest feature is the new guitar solo in pop

[@EmperorKamikaze]

Feat: some blah blah mhm

[@cheesesteak59]

I think that guitar solos were huge in the late 1960s and the 1970s because the guitarists still had connections to the blues and somewhat to jazz as far as improvisation goes. All of the giants of that era had roots in the blues and admiration for the jazz guys like Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Grant Green etc. Hip hop, heavy metal, grunge etc moved away from the blues based instrumental music that preceded it. Guitar solos aren't the only thing that disappeared from music. Sax solos and keyboard solos disappeared too. The further we've gotten from the jazz age the further we've gotten from extended soloing being common. Instrumental songs were common in the 70s when I was growing up. You make a kid listen to an instrumental song nowadays and he'll run away from home.

[@THECONTINENTALMAN]

i couldn't have said it better myself man

[@dindinbre]

Metal elevated the guitar solo to completely new, insane level by the late 80s and early 90s, and I think that people kinda got sick of that. Then Grunge happened and guitar solo went away from the mainstream, forever. But, there are also more incredible guitar players than ever before, and it's never been easier to record yourself doing that. Insane talent and musicianship is gonna return.

[@user-rv7nl6ppf]

i love instrumental songs (especially the ones that last 20 minutes) but i do understand what your saying.....

[@Yourbankaccount]

​@@dindinbrelmao show me any big grunge song without a guitar solo😂

[@MalMotorDedo]

​@@Yourbankaccount right, Alice always had solos, Pearl Jam too, Soundgarden not ALWAYS, but mostly did. Nirvana has a bunch too. But we can affirm that the virtuoso guitar hero type of solo definitely died.

[@teslaschildren]

I'm a synth and keys player. Over the last few years due to physical issues, I've been working in DAWs but I hope the guitar solo (and solos in general) makes a comeback. One of the things I always enjoyed was duelling solos between a synth lead and a guitar lead. It's a shame that the advent of creating music on a computer led to the decline of solos. ... It doesn't have to be that way. I can recreate my solo styles in my DAW, and have my guitarist friend add his solo in later.

[@JesusFreak200100]

If you look at bands like Manéskin you’ll realize that modern rock guitar solos are still used successfully in popular (fairly) songs they’ve been putting out, but they’re basically short guitar solos for short attention spans

[@mikegeld1280]

It started a long time ago ,early 90s, when grunge hit the scene,from that point the "shredder " guitar solos died out,and slowly faded ,but things have come full circle again, its coming back,and they're much younger,and both male and female, its a great thing, it started back up in 2010 or so and is growing, fullstop

[@TalesofStories]

I find guitar solos in most songs to be like taking a commercial break from the song. It's completely out of context, mood and tone of the track. Listening to Battery by Metallica years ago made me realize this. It sounds like speed reader rushing through a disclaimer at the end of a radio ad.

[@troysmithfr]

For the most part, they're really just a break for the singer. Makes sense.

[@wesleytrott6397]

Matteo Mancuso. You didn't mention him, so I thought I'd mention him because he's amazing!

[@asaparked]

He's superb!!

[@CynHicks]

I'm 47 and started playing as a kid. My first guitar hero was Yngwie when I was like 9 or 10. I've seen the phases of guitar solos/solo albums as it slowly faded. Broadband internet by itself brought back solo albums, just not in mainstream. Recently, the resurgence I've seen has me hopeful. The fact that a decent guitar and gear for a beginner costs so little in comparison to when I started is helping a lot!

[@asaparked]

Yngwie Malmsteen! What a legend.

[@UltimateRaven41]

For me at least, it was Polyphia - and some other artists - who gave me faith that guitar-driven music has a huge chance of coming back in pop music. Even though, it doesn't have to, as it easily could stay as a KZbin (social media) treasure. Their smoothness has inspired a new generation of artists ready to take off the music landscape. Let's see what the future brings! Cheers

[@IuriiPlevako]

Ironically, for me on the other hand, Polyphia was the last drop of "yeah, I'm tired of senseless shredding, this shit has to go away".

[@UltimateRaven41]

​@@IuriiPlevako Interesting, as for me, it wasn't the shredding which hooked me to their playing, more the chord phrasing and the pentatonic playing along them as well all the other well implemented technics. Songs like Goose or Saucy might be great examples to go. Cheers :D

[@IuriiPlevako]

@@UltimateRaven41 fair enough. I had just listened to too much of such music 15-20 years ago, and can't take it any more. Perhaps I'll sometimes rediscover interest for it again, but now I'm way happier with the 'mood based' music, as the author called it. Let those post punk songs hypnotise me with monotone bass lines, I love that better now, than someone showing off without rhyme or reason.

[@michaelegan3522]

Can't stand polyphia's trap music style beats/production

[@DreidMusicalX]

I have to say, I could not name a single song made past 2010. Maybe even earlier. I cannot stand today's fake music. I hope people start making bands again and actually playing on stages I grew up on and went to see live. 1978 Van Halen, Scorpions, all the big bands I seen in my lifetime. There is a thunder on stage and seeing and feeling the drums, vocals, amps and cabinets is living life.

[@swagmoneybuge]

there's still plenty of bands with amazing stage presence, they just aren't mainstream anymore

[@freeman10000]

Amyl and the Sniffers, The Grogans, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Ocean Alley... Lots of good contemporary rock, I am 55 and enjoying music as much as ever.

[@graaaby]

@@freeman10000 CHON and Greta Van fleet too

[@FrebelRMarak-x9b]

Hotel tokyo guitarist can

[@Gorilla7738]

There are for sure good artists today, just not mainstream.

[@scottsbaitsandtackle]

I am 65. I started playing guitar for real a couple of years ago. Before all I did was a little fooling around here and there. Solos are a big part of my learning. I like playing solos. I am really not as good with strumming cords and rhythm as I should be or want to be but I like learning solos!!!

[@Protocol_17]

There’s really no wrong answer but songs don’t exist without rhythm. If they do, they’re unlistenable.

[@dgparham]

Nice video Asa. I had to watch all the way to the end to see that you’ve done your research!

[@evanphillips570]

I think bands such as Polyphia, Chon, Animals as leaders has helped grow interest in the guitar again as their style of playing is new and unique

[@JohnOffroader1999]

What really killed the guitar solo was grunge in the 90's. The solos weren't as technical as it used to be. And Nu-Metal pioneered the guitar breakdown (I maybe wrong on this one). Down tuned 6 strings and bands like Korn even incorporating the 7 string guitar.

[@asaparked]

This is so true. We decided to leave out a huge chunk we had about grunge. Actually the punk movement preceded the grunge movement. Sex Pistols and the ramones etc.. Quite interesting. But I think the nail in the coffin was simply the economics of hiphop and EDM. Money talks. Always.

[@anonymouseovermouse1960]

I'm pretty sure breakdowns in their modern form were invented either by late 90s metalcore (the kind derived from mathcore), or somewhere around that time. Not 100% sure on that one, and even slightly earlier mathcore might've used breakdowns (though the song structures tend to be so weird that it's imo debatable how much those have in common with the modern breakdown). Then again there's probably much earlier examples too, but from what i think, the earlier stuff isn't as close to modern breakdowns as in early metalcore.

[@orpheus1340]

@@asaparked too bad you did, I'd have loved to see you cover that part, and it's missing in that subject IMO.

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

It's worse than you think : Grunge killed rock

[@JohnOffroader1999]

@Haroun-El-Poussah You're not wrong. Rock was never the same after Grunge.

[@ankhor9252]

The Warning often dont do solos, not beacause Dany cant do them, because artistically the song doesnt call for it. TW are very humble artistically.

[@YousefAHMusic]

Awesome video! Let me add other important factors: -Grunge was the first killer of the guitar solo in the early 90s. Hair metal was the biggest music at the time with highly polished and expensive to make music. Then grunge music showed up which was raw, authentic and real. -Metal went underground throughout the 90s until the early 2000s with Nu-Metal which didn't have guitar solos! -From the 2000's - today, guitar solos just went to another genre: country. Listen to the top 10 country songs on Spotify. Most of them feature a guitar solo, and their music is heavily guitar-driven. -The vast majority of people latch onto the melody and lyrics. Pop songs feature 1-2 melodies that are simple and repeated throughout the song, even if it's 3 minutes. That creates a brainwashing effect and gets struck in your head. You can't do that with guitar solos that feature a million notes. -Taylor Swift is PROBABLY responsible for putting more guitars into peoples hands than Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, John Mayer, etc. -I've been playing for 20 years and love guitar-driven music like instrumental rock and metal. But only guitarists like and listen to that music. I was dating a girl who loves pop music and showed her an Ichika Nito song and within 20 seconds she told me its boring. Too many notes. -The rise of guitar correlates to the rise of social media platforms and the "wow" factor. Crazy playing gets views. Ichika Nito, Marcin, Polyphia. They're making the whole song a guitar solo similar to the heros of the past but now with more acrobatics. -The guitar industry has shifted from artists/bands selling guitars to influencers selling guitars. Ichika Nito got an Ibanez signature guitar (btw he's the first Japanese person to ever get an Ibanez signature guitar) just from his KZbin following subscriber count. He hadn't release an EP or album when he got it. Fluff and Jared Dines have signature guitars with Ernie Ball Music Man. Subscribers and views makes sales nowadays. -Personal opinion: The vast majority of guitar solos are boring and add nothing to a song. I personally can't listen to a pentatonic/blues scale and a handful of bends to show "emotion" anymore. That's why some of my favorite guitarists are Steve Vai and John Petrucci. They explore other scales, make their solos interesting, and their solos MOSTLY fit the mood and feel of the song.

[@asaparked]

Love this! Much great insights. Thank you!

[@IuriiPlevako]

Grunge didn't kill guitar solos though. Grunge was a reaction, not the reason. People got tired, so they turned to grunge. If anything, hair metal killed solos, as it made them dull.

[@wayhectic8615]

Not to mention modern artists like Joji’s song “Run” features a fantastic solo PLUS it had GREAT TONE TOO

[@matthewturco156]

I attended Berklee College of Music from 1990-1993, so I was a winner of the "worst timing award" as I was studying to take "guitar heroism" to the next level right when Nirvana came in and dominated the zeitgeist. Looking back, I'll admit that some of the guitar histrionics of the late 1980s went a bit overboard, but the pendulum swung so far back and so violently, it is taking two generations to recover. However, you hit the nail on the head with electronic "programmed" music. It all started with sampling - as a producer, how could you resist having an unlimited sound palate!?! But the secondary effects were enormous.

[@asaparked]

I feel you man. I strongly considered Berklee myself way back when. And this was long after the guitar was starting to lose its allure. But I think guys like Mayer etc was able to keep it cool. John Mayer deserves way more praise than he gets imo. He was just so damn easy to "hate".

[@ForenaamAkternaam]

All music is being made out there we just aren't used to looking for music instead of radio feeding it to us.

[@YesJustTia]

i really love these format, you putting so much effort for this 👊🏻✨

[@predragmanov6341]

Most of the later 1990's and early 2000's were an era without guitar solos. Then came Guthrie G and Animals As Leaders

[@scottguitar8168]

I chose to learn the guitar because I find it to be the most versatile instrument where you can bend or slide between notes and use harmonics for interesting sounds. However, there is always an an appeal to any instrument doing a solo. I have been amazed at drum solos, violin solos, bass solos, piano and keyboard solos, etc. I think solos certainly showcase the instrument as well as the talent and invite many to pick up instruments to learn. While a band can take you on an emotional ride with the words a singer sings and the melody behind it, nothing compares to certain instrumental solos to max out those emotions, often seen as the climax of the show.

[@IuriiPlevako]

I believe, the disappearance of guitar solos was just natural. The older guitar solos were, as you mention here "mood based". Remember "Comfortably Numb" solo for instance. IMO, the best guitar solo ever. It perfectly emphasizes the hypnotic delirium nature of the song. And then by the end of the 80s and with some renaiisance in the 90s hardly anyone cared to write an emotiinal solo. It was all just "faster, more notes, more arpeggios and sweeping", and honestly, it was horrible. No surprise they went almost extinct. Shredding solos are a nice tool to add to an album once or twice to put accent on certain emotional moments, but as a listener, I do not want to hear the same shredding in every song of an album

[@ahmeteminaydn7090]

very nice video mate, very well prepared. you are underrated

[@jayrenhoff]

Makes me smile. I'm older and need to be thinking about selling and passing on guitars and amps at this stage. Would like to see it move on to those who are dedicated to playing and not just collecting.

[@Jammaster1972]

One of the problems that led to this was the fact that guitar players got too good. The instrument reached it's pinnacle. Who wants to one up Jason Becker, anyone????

[@Protocol_17]

If a musician can’t speak to a general non-musician audience, they are too far inside themselves.

[@Jammaster1972]

@@Protocol_17 True. Seems opposite of what Elvis Costello was saying.

[@4ProStudios]

Greg Koch and Tim Henson are also great guitar players. But Tim is the most well known of the social media famous guitar players.

[@asaparked]

Love this! Thank you

[@ArtLogins]

Amateurs can't tell the difference between improvising and prewritten stuff 🤣🤣🤣

[@jameslanclos568]

5:55 - That's what I did. After not playing guitar in 10-15 years, I decided to pick it up again, so I started buying guitars, a Quad Cortex and recording equipment.

[@harami44-n5k]

bro please make a video/short on Steely Dan, they are so much missed in this channel. 🙏

[@asaparked]

Love Steely Dan!!

[@pingoftheyear4248]

Too much helpful information at once, sub earned.

[@asaparked]

Appreciate it! We're doing our best.

[@blandest4788]

It's based on industry business decisions. Just recently I heard a radio station play "Come as you are" without the famous solo, probably because they were afraid that people with short attention spans might otherwise change the channel. They want the songs to be short and easy to mass produce and replicate. That's also why genres disappeared within top 40s music. It's not the customer that really holds the power or makes the decisions, the mass of customers just goes along with it.

[@iqbalmuhammad2920]

Move your focus to Japan and listen to their diverse Metal bands, many still utilize solo in their music. My recommendation: 1. *Lovebites* - Holy War 2. *Galneryus* - The Follower, Destiny, Struggle for the Freedom flag 3. *Ningen Isu* - Heartless Scat 4. *Unlucky Morpheus* - Black Pentagram, Angreifer, The Black Death Mansion Murder 5. *Anthem*

[@asaparked]

Thank you for this!

[@kmkreate2930]

Yes. Guitar solos, rock and metal music are very alive in Japan. Even JPop.are guitar driven, most have guitar solos or fills.

[@iqbalmuhammad2920]

@@kmkreate2930 Yeah. Not just guitar, many of their J-pop songs have great bass lines. They appreciate other instrument too e.g. keyboard/piano, violin.

[@kaiserde1412]

Manuel Gardner-Fernandes always created songs that looked to me like the direction in which using the guitar could go

[@AshConnors]

“die with a smile actually has a guitar solo” ☝️🤓

[@rockinrodlittle]

Big resurgence in country music. Lots of guitar solos. I was watching the New Year’s Eve in Nashville show on US TV. Musicianship was wild.

[@cotyb5028]

I've heard so many of these songs on mainstream radio and I always say these songs could be really good with a guitar solo in between the repetitive chorus that repeats 5 times before the song ends without any real climax...

[@mattuskamusic]

I think a lot of it is organic. I stopped playing guitar much back in 2008 and started making electronic music. A couple of years ago I got tired of electronic music and picked back up my guitar. I don’t really do much social media so it wasn’t that. I just decided I wanted to play guitar again.

[@Kevin-l7b1s]

"The Dooo" used to be on KZbin (via another platform). Phenomenal. I'm like, maybe he is actually in a band as he never shows his face.

[@ColdintheShade]

It was cool how Ace Frehley shot rockets and had smoke come out his guitar after his main solo

[@therealantboogie251]

Bro I am a guitarist and bassists, plus I own a concert venue in Houston. I never thought about this until I watched your video. I own my own radio station as well, so I don't keep up with trends. I program songs of eveey genre that touch my spirit. My son and his friends are musicians, so I am surrounded by instruments😂😂. This, however is such a great deep dive into this subject. I appreciate it. If you get an opportunity check out award winning blues guitarist Mathias Lattin from here in Houston. He recently was on the Jimi Hendrix Experience tour. He is amazing and only 22 years old! Thanks for this!!❤❤❤

[@asaparked]

Wow. Thanks for introducing me!!

[@goodyyy6171]

Oh wow! You got Andy Timmons in, that's amazing. I think your style of narrative is unique. It is like a little documentary, love it!

[@asaparked]

Thank you! Yes, Andy is a gem.

[@koomar341]

Awesome piece, Asa! Soloing has never gone away - it's always been a thing since the dawn of KZbin with millions of bedroom guitarists around the world!

[@hossainbodda8765]

bro someone really said this......I've been founding this kind of content since so long take love dude

[@XCommanderKeen]

Very interesting topic! Great Video and thanks for the recommendations. I wish this was an even longer watch. There are many more perspectives to look at too (e.g. rise and fall in popularity of music videos and their somewhat fixed length; punk, thrash, grunge and indie music and the shift from technicality to a somewhat more authentic/raw way of expression, nowadays guitars in modern songs already implement techniques that were prior mostly used in solos) P.S.: - My personal experience was that it just went out of fashion/style and the basic song structure incl. a solo was getting old fast. (There were too many songs with solos and from those many had 0 meaning. If the Solo did not elevate the message/feeling of a song it was a plain waste of time and a chore to listen to) - And let's be honest Metallica living in a studio for a whole year is just absurdity (that makes 'em sound like one of the biggest industry plants ever; i do still love the black album)

[@claudiuioanpardos611]

Polyphia,Tim Henson especially but both guitraists are incredible stuff... Oh,and the drummer,top class!!!

[@wolverine9049]

We also can't ignore the big "indie" scene of the 2010s like with acts such as Mac Demarco, men I trust, Phoebe bridgerds and more

[@silversurfer2156]

This gives me a sigh of relief. The absence of physical instruments has many detrimental effects. Less people knowing how to actually play instruments instead of having a machine do it for them. There's no band on stage for a performance. There's way more emotion and personality with a human playing each instrument. There's no memorabilia like pics or drumsticks. Good things take time and energy. There's nothing like a real band.

[@fitzy1486]

Moray Pringle is an awsome guitarist that I don't see anyone talk about. By fasr my favorite contemporary guitarist.

[@asaparked]

Love it!! He's good

[@troysmithfr]

Moray Pringle is really damned good. Especially melodically.

[@felipesborges1]

Awesome!

[@sword-and-shield]

I miss all the new fresh ideas I heard at local live gigs across the USA. How about tunes where every chorus had a mini solo. Or one 3pc that had the bass playing the riffs and the guitar only noodling solos and broken solos through out the tunes. Or one time a 5pc 3 gtr act that had two lead players working a solo together, back and forth, that one blew me a way, and will always stick. I rolled through during the early 2k's Hardcore scene, a drummer, but always wished I could rip. The best solos I have heard were not technical at all, but impactful, hard hitting, and emotional. I think to many chase that rabbit hole of technical mastery to ill effect, but hey I am just some biased old school drummer huh.

[@rikosborne1212]

If you want guitar solos, check out Japanese all-female metal band, Lovebites. They have all the guitar solos. And they're insanely good.

[@Protocol_17]

The Japanese have always loved American style rock bands. Some of the best live recordings came from concerts in Japan.

[@oddestdylan]

i definitely agree and disagree with this. solid points all around. but solos are definitely nowhere near gone. it all depends on what YOU listen too. if you’re listening to the top bands and artists. yeah you may not find it. but i listen to plenty of modern bands that have solos in almost all the songs. it’s just depends what music you listen to

[@asaparked]

True. Andy Timmons also said this in our conversation. He was like "guitar solos are everywhere in the music I'm listening to. So in my view it has never died."

[@prateekwatwale4812]

The kind of talent needed to create legendary guitar solos is in great shortage, kids these days just want to strum Em chord all through the songs

[@timetraveller9321]

How did this happen, the charts became full of rap, gangsta bad boy rhyme all the time angry meaningless lyrics with samplers from other records of electric drum machines and the thud thud thud of base over and over, when I was a kid I had deep purple, black sabbath, queen, whitesnake led zep, iron maiden, scorpions dio, black sabbath, and many more groups in the charts, now it’s full of black angry men with their trousers down their knees, full of gold chains and gold teeth and big wads of money waving about, relentless arm waving, pointing, shouting aggression, no tune to whistle to, no lyrics to sing as they’re all vile, that’s where it all went wrong, and there hasn’t been a decent chart for the last 20 years,

[@romeotheband8711]

Guitar solo's are most definitely coming back with a deadly vengeance starting with this year, we'll make sure of it!

[@heiseye4139]

It’s time for bass solo’s to have their era

[@jordank566]

I always thought it was because guitar had evolved The way we play normally is so much more complicated and harder than any old pentatonic solo

[@handler803]

The last mainstream pop song I remember that used a guitar solo is Bruno Mars' Versace on the Floor

[@dookester.manoftruth7773]

Megadeth is single-handedly keeping the "guitar solo" alive. One thousand-note-shredding solo at a time. 🤟🏽

[@cleangoblin2021]

Nothing to be alarmed about. Im kinda late at improving my playing at 33 but the children are alright out there. Like those two boys of my friends, they really like playing solos and old metal songs.

[@bufferjoetommas]

solos died with numetal. recently i heard version of limp bizkits "rolling" with double bass and fat guitar solo, which fried my brain. i think its time for that comeback

[@adelardj7026]

If you miss guitar solos, Lovebites is a band for you! 2 extremely skilled guitarists soloing, shreding, harmonizing! Not only that but entire band is on world class level of musicianship! they are the most amazing band I have ever seen and I've been metal fan for quite a while!

[@GiulianoDiaz-cn2rd]

The last Morat song has one "la policía"

[@gunkymonkey4407]

Guitar solos have been alive and thriving in other countries like Japan for years. Bands like BAND-MAID, Lovebites to name just two have been doing them for years.

[@PujanDewan-id2ys]

Only new mainstream band that plays guitar solo now is Maneskin. The solo on their song The Loneliest blew me away. Other than them very few new bands play solos

[@grimeyhonkyracing3938]

Lots of guitar solos still being heard loud and clear from my house 😂😂😂

[@jeremybrocato5918]

Grace Bowers is one of my favorite new Guitarists.

[@Kikester]

Just like Dave Mustaine from Megadeth once said that he thinks a lot of new bands are scared of doing solos and mocked them about not knowing what to do on stage when that part comes up lol

[@AronPeklak]

amazing video

[@asaparked]

Thank you!

[@EatMyBacon000]

guitar solo bands aren't super popular right now, but guitar enthusiasts knows that solos never faded.

[@leogolive]

You need to listen to way more hip hop. Every hip hop record isn’t a sample. There’s live musicianship all over hip hop records, including guitar solos, flute solos, drum solos and more. Especially from west coast and southern hip hop records. And this has been happening since the late 80s.

[@antoniocolon1567]

Love the video, but the inclusion of that to pimp a butterfly clip is ironic considering that it is a heavily jazz instrumental based album.

[@weddingwiththewhitedove]

BEST SoloS BY GLENKaiser. "Where Roses grow". X Shadows..

[@hermanodejesus7264]

Practicing as I type.... Jamming tomorrow 🎸🎸🎸

[@maseratimitch2024]

That ain’t good practicing then, bud. Deliberate focus is the only way

[@hermanodejesus7264]

@maseratimitch2024 yeap, 💯

[@CaddRome]

@@maseratimitch2024bud😂😢

[@FeelingPoyChina]

guitar solo is very energetic and music today is tryin to be the opposite of energetic cause artists have to PANDER to their listeners and when you're a highschool student coming home completely exhausted and single and miserable and depressed you're not going to RELATE to someone who is smiling, jumping and yelling SHOUT while shredding on the guitar first fix the MOOD of your listeners and then you can play whatever solo you want for them

[@darrenedwards9562]

There are many technically great new players as mentioned in the comments, but the missing ingredient that the classic greats had was a vehicle of great songs and often part of a band with tons of stage presence. You rarely, if at all have that these days.

[@adityacharanpn1075]

This dying trend of music with real instruments and raw talent is so overlooked. Thiss video is absolute truth!!😮📌

[@vernonsalibad7343]

I believe that music comes in cycles and definitely guitar solos would be back but it would be different as music also does evolve. I’m excited to see kids of today picking up an instrument and creating a new type of music, and combining it with todays technology. Artist like Polyphia is introducing a new breed of how guitar solos are being done today. Same as some KZbin gear tech reviewers now collaborating with each other making music (like Ola, Bernth and Charles’s Escape the Internet, or simply their own individual music releases)

[@0Zolrender0]

Heavy Metal of all genres from 1970 to 2024 never ever gave up on the guitar solo. Just everyone else did.

[@SimpleDiaries-h7t]

The guitar solos will never DIE !

[@Wisp1-o3s]

Please listen to inoha, I’ve been listening to them when they were under keanu bicol (the lead singer) as a solo publisher, they make amazing songs and their debut album was my favorite throughout 2024

[@Fanafranky]

Funny that you put that quote from Metallica's St. Anger days... I think it's the contrast between what they did and what Megadeth did that made me want to learn guitar 😅 or well, just backtracking to Master of Puppets and Rust in Peace at least 🤷‍♂️

[@petarspasov2585]

There's this Australian guy called Taj Farrant- i think you will like him... very cool video btw

[@Avariche]

It is sad. I do miss the guitar virtuosos of yesteryear. But it is still there now. It's just platformed differently. Tiktok and youtube still have some really good ones.

[@EmperorKamikaze]

That shits edited

[@djwilliamsart6523]

The greatest guitar solos of the current age are played by female metal bands in Japan. Miyako & Midori of Lovebites are the best guitar duo going round 🎸 🎸 😍

[@Bhallmed]

Japanese artists are amazing!

[@piktormusic2538]

It seems to me that guitar solos essentially disappeared when grunge broke. I would be happy to hear more guitar AND keyboard solos. Pop saxophone solos need not reappear. I love them in jazz. If guitar solos come back to commercial/pop music, can we please insist that no one uses the chorus pedals on those solos?

[@Skeware]

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