Top 5 Guitar Solos That BROKE Me

[@sedaguitar]

Technical Log/General Notes: Have a Blast - This had some tricky lines that originally involved tapping and using hammer on's and pull off's to articulate like at 0:20. I decide to play this section alt picked out of comfort and lack of agility in my left hand. Had to transcribe most of it by ear and make adjustments to the fingerings because all the transcriptions I could find were in Drop C. Trefoil Scacuss - This solo I learnt back in my uni days, waking up at 4am to commute to a vacant practice room by 6am. Fun times! The sporadic switches between semiquaver-quaver-semiquaver cells and sextuplets makes it a challenge to play precisely. Took many attempts to get the muted Swybrid arpeggios towards the end as well. The Wanderers - This solo has been on my bucket list for a looong time. While certainly technically challenging to pull off, the harmony and note choices is what got me interested in this solo so much. It goes way off the deep end into melodic/harmonic minor harmony throughout which is a bold move considering the fairly simple minor chord progression. The bend played at 1:13 is to compensate for the fact my guitar only has 24frets. Sebon originally played this on a 27fret ESP which made that lick possible. Where Is Now? - The most frightening solo on the list which sparked the first title idea for the video "Top 5 Solos That Terrify Me". (fitted for the Halloween release) This solo I attempted to learn many years prior after having a lesson with Jakub himself in 2017. Keeping the time feel in check in the first phase of the solo was the most challenging part. Also the fact that it's all muted legato gave an extra layer of difficulty to the left hand. I've worked mostly on my alt picking for the last few years so I found those sections quite a breeze to get through. Overall, this solo just sounds broken! Like a smashed jar that was glued back together with pieces missing XD. The Crack - Speaking of broken solos, THIS one takes the cake. On all levels this was a nightmare to play. I spent months isolating almost every section, Practicing at 50% - 75% speed. Most of the faster sextuplet rhythms were outside of my left hands range of speed so these parts took the longest. Andre plays this solo with a classical fingering technique which I'm no where near trained to do. The backing track was a great transcribing assignment. I managed to work out most of the general harmony and basic drum patterns based on the original. Some very strange chords that I've never encountered in that context before. While not 100% accurate to the original, I learnt lots from the experience!

[@lukedavies900]

The worst part about playing Guthrie solos is you know he probably came up with it in ten minutes and went back to his day like it's nothing.

[@SonofZug9]

Never knew Guthrie did a solo for periphery

[@louistech112]

Mane is just a god on guitar

[@Goose21]

I wonder what the process for figuring out who was gonna play it live was like lol

[@MrBraz33]

P2 had a lot of guest solos prob my fave album of theirs. @@Goose21 I think there is an interview with them on discussing that. I believe they said its also why they don't want to do much guest solos anymore lol.

[@davidgiffel4001]

Wes Hauch, John petrucci as well

[@montlejohnbojangles8937]

Yup, and it's a goddamn ripper. ❤

[@Utorak007]

You absolutely nailed Where is now, amazing

[@sedaguitar]

Thanks! It was the toughest to get the right tone

[@Wenasd]

I love that solo❤

[@dano1307]

this is what I imagine a computer playing guitar would be like. Absolutely perfect technique.

[@paulvinova]

#1. WTF #2. WTF #3. WTF #4. WTF #5. WTF

[@SonofZug9]

My thoughts exactly

[@Hadri_ART]

Indeed

[@CoolStuffDad]

And yet, it all still seems to work fine…”broke” may be a bit harsh, maybe more like “seriously challenged” - incredible work Dylan!

[@Chaoriz]

As a Sebon fanboy, seeing you play The Wanderers solo so cleanly is insane, especially the last lick, that thing is a nightmare to get right. And well shit, every solo here seems like hell too lmao

[@sedaguitar]

Appreciate it! It’s been on my bucket list of solos to record for a long time. That line is super nasty, gonna be a while before I play it again aha

[@NateHodge-o3y]

You get a like 2 views and a comment for playing my favorite solo of all time. Truly touched my heart to see you play the wanderers by Dunia.

[@GrzegorzNowacki]

You are my guitar hero 🎸

[@CSLWoodward]

Holy hell, that solo for Where Is Now is INSANE. Amazing work!

[@nikolasmatviko4700]

Dylan, you are an absolute monster player. Top tier God mode!

[@jaema8281]

where is now flawlessly covered... you are my legend...

[@diabeticmonkey]

The phrasing at the beginning of The Wanderers is to die for.

[@Skavengeful]

holy shit, your technique is absolutely STELLAR. earned a sub, happy new year

[@Hadri_ART]

Wow it must be awesome to be able to play all these solos

[@Prey.Rock99]

unreal! have a blast and where is now have so nuanced articulations but you are a beast!

[@sedaguitar]

Thanks! Yeah they took some time to really nail all those details.

[@skinreptile]

The solo of jakub is very crazy, wow mindblowing

[@DaveZnoise]

Unreal, way to go! I believe you leveled up quite a bit after these.

[@SveinIdarHansen]

Oldschool CRT television, gotta love that in combination with these killer solos

[@ahmeddjeghri6879]

You're a monster, and kudos for giving André Niéri his flowers, he's soooo underrated

[@funnyperson4027]

have you ever thought of doing that sick jazz fusion solo from ancient by abstracts? (self titled version)

[@Akira-kd6us]

Man, your ears are great when it comes to dissecting what other guitarists are doing and obviously your skills are as well since it can match your ears. Covers you see often on anywhere often just memorized the notes and played along the backing track without paying any attention to the small details that gives the original track they're trying to copy the oomph. You got that part down, IMO that's a huge part of guitar mastery.

[@smoovegittar]

Really impressive - good work!

[@alexisdevaux9124]

Dude awesome playing

[@BrunoGarciaMusic]

Guthrie solo was almost perfect man congrats, he's super hard to transcribe

[@ether2006]

anything sebon is just humanly impossible and you crushed it

[@tuneitordie888]

Excellent, wow. Glad I stumbled upon this channel

[@Milk_Bone]

All killer no filler. So sick

[@tyler94flynn]

Sick solos. Very cool you transcribed all the backing tracks too, very nicely done. Also I had no idea Guthrie did that periphery solo holy shit. I know they had stems for sale for PIII or PIV, did they not have stems for PII? :(

[@TheLastArchive]

Now I'm wondering how many other guest solos Periphery has in their discography lol

[@luigi1mario]

@@TheLastArchive jeff loomis and nolly on p1 (as well as casey sabol and elliot coleman doing vox features). petrucci, guthrie and wes hauch on p2. i believe that is all but i bet i missed one lol

[@F1r3Foxxxy]

You are mad for even attempting all these with such a dry low gain tone. Super impressive!

[@sedaguitar]

Thanks! Not a big fan of super high gain with fx. I found this tone works great across the board, sometimes i gotta work a little harder for it lol

[@ether2006]

g.o.d appreciation makes me so happy

[@FFCarr]

how so many notes that fast its a gift

[@JCantamessa]

That Where Is Now solo… jeez dude!

[@yoshikigrg8]

That CRT tv at the back is the real MVP. 🔥

[@hamadbalanayed]

that was amazing bro! :D

[@r_pro_]

holy shit that wnderers solo was so beautiful

[@qualiacontrol]

the fact that you can play anything by guthrie govan is a milestone in it'self x.O

[@M4TT210]

Did not expect less from Andre Nieri.

[@joeybrez1]

when you see a wrist flex you know heavy shit's coming

[@weevilsnitz]

Jakub zytecki really is something

[@joehan877]

Damn.. how much do you practice... unbelievable...

[@sedaguitar]

Not enough haha

[@Nickshreds890]

As usual you're playing things that blow my mind! :) If these solos broke you then I'm afraid to try them. I do find your guitar playing very inspiring though. I love hearing what can be achieved when you put a lot of time, dedication, practice and love into playing ! Where is now is crazy ! I'll have to go check out the original because I'm yet to listen to them. I'm curious is there a reason you switched to the Pink Resq Strandberg ? Does that have different pickups to your green guitar? :)

[@Nickshreds890]

The G.O.D Guitars on demand album is brilliant, I love hearing Japanese guitarists ! :) i'm guessing it's Japanese? I just found their albums on Bandcamp and really excited to check it out. Hearing proggy guitars with fusion influence gets me very excited ! Oh golly AZ's song Free Wing from G.O.D album II is gorgeous . Anyway rock on and it's a pleasure to listen to you !

[@sedaguitar]

@@Nickshreds890 Thanks for all your kind words! I switched to the RESQ simply because I needed a trem for a few of the lines in sebons solo. I found the green NX had a much more consistent and accurate tone across all the solos. The Dimarzio replacement pickups make a huge difference!

[@giov182]

It would be really cool if you broke down some of the tones you are using for your album in a video

[@sedaguitar]

Probably will at some stage, but these are all basically the same tone with some minor eq changes here and there. Running Axe-Fx 2 on this

[@KeithCarunida]

You're a beast, dude.

[@lucasbelloni]

Nieri can do some crazy s...! You did great dude, awesome playing.

[@peachmelba1000]

Great playing. This list of solos however does reveal how much a lot of prog metal guitar players sound alike, or rather how similar their approaches are. It's fine to able to rip through modes and scales, with the requisite wide interval tapped licks, some selective picking, and or sweeps here and there, but you could have easily told me these were all one player's leads (since aside from Periphery, I've never heard of any of these groups), and I'd have believed you. That tells me that this style is in the zombie factory stage of its life cycle, or it's just sport, and not really art.

[@fwlipem]

my. jaw. is. on. the. floor. dude. fucking. nailed. it.

[@DavidePepi]

OMG you really are an outstanding player!!!

[@Sphereal]

Scary chops, wow :O

[@dngrouscrgo]

1:33 actually made me lol, it was so unexpectedly ridiculous in comparison to the thing he just came out of before that I just found it hilarious 😂

[@VirtuosicFantasies]

Speechless 💯

[@domindorio]

this is insane

[@Sept_pt]

YOU BROKE US

[@nigelgrimm6]

Yup! 😂😅

[@reubennb2859]

The Crack is one of the toughest pieces I've tried to learn, even the main riffs

[@sedaguitar]

God tell me about haha That’s why it’s top of the list!

[@reubennb2859]

@@sedaguitar Virgil's solo music really is special. Some great Sfogli solos too, like the one on The Quiet Place

[@sedaguitar]

@@reubennb2859 Yeah I love all his solo material, all so harmonically and melodically unique

[@wesleytrott6397]

Holy crap! How did I not know the Periphery "Have a Blast" solo was by Guthrie Govan!?!?! I weirdly feel better knowing it was Guthrie and not the boys in Periphery who wrote it.

[@xxxx7904]

Ninja never give up

[@marxvillegas]

Dylan, WTF, I was expecting some mistakes or so... these didn't break you, you broke them!

[@AntohinAndrej]

Amazing

[@luigi1mario]

king

[@TsutomuYamada]

Wow!! I listened those songs someday!!(;O;)

[@uddhav1080]

no wonder have a blast is my fav periphery solo 🤣

[@zogrush]

where can i find trefoil scacuss - seku? i want to hear the rest of that song please!

[@zogrush]

found it all good :)

[@mertkangtr]

CLEANNNNNNNNNN

[@nithinraj360]

Akroasis ?

[@Paulo-c3n]

sick

[@hexaldecima6839]

I can't even play his song Ultima at 100% speed. Currently struggling at 75% speed.

[@husatoledo]

WOW

[@DeathToMayo]

David Maxim Micic is so underrated.

[@Slugdge]

Gah damn

[@geordihills]

You animal

[@sanjinhu7636]

Bro wtf.

[@РафаэльСалюков-ч2у]

Just because a solo is difficult doesn't mean it's beautiful.

[@notnoaintno5134]

Theres alway some douche who says this in the shred video comments

[@DavidMauser]

Absolutely faceless and pointless solos

[@notnoaintno5134]

Your opinion is wrong and invalid

[@ekremmuran]

WHAT IS THAT TV IN THE BACK. Haahahaha man you are really old school :)

[@sedaguitar]

Great for the PS2!