Best\Shittiest Instrumental Solos - Post the good ones, the bad ones and everything in between!

[ShittyRecolor]

What are you looking for in a good solo? Technical finesse? Hooks? Dynamics? Expressive phrasing? Improvised or composed?
A good solo can truly elevate a song or composition, whereas a bad one can really highlight the player's lack musicality and skill.

Guitar solos are not obligatory, but I suspect they will be in the majority.

Here's a handful solos I love:

This whole compisition if filled with excellent improvized solos.

And a few solos I despise:

Just because you're playing in a pentatonic scale doesn't make your solos automatically musical! Barely any trace of phrasing or dynamics, one of the stiffest, boring sounding solos I've ever heard. And people say shredders tend to just noodle aimlessly!

Drenching your guitar tone in effects to cover up your sloppy technique and awkward phrasing while making funny faces pretending your playing isn't the most wooden, unexpressive, cookie cutter noodling ever is no way to go through life. The gullible audience seems to eat it up, though.

Your turn, fellow Kiwis!

 

[ES 148]

Han Solo

 

[The Shadow]

The best solos are technically proficient but have plenty of feeling and melody to them.

For shittiest I'll just point you to most any Nirvana song. Kurt seemed to think a solo should either repeat the melody on one string, or just be a blast of ungodly noise.

 

[IV 445]

Naw you guys have it all wrong,

 

[dymphna]

Classic.

 

[The Shadow]

Classic.

Yeah, but Ralph should have Crane-kicked Steve in the face at the end.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

The best solos are technically proficient but have plenty of feeling and melody to them.

For shittiest I'll just point you to most any Nirvana song. Kurt seemed to think a solo should either repeat the melody on one string, or just be a blast of ungodly noise.

Aw man, I adore Brian Setzer and expecially Chet atkins! Love his one-man-band fingerpicking technique, unfortunately I've never gotten the hang of it. I also dig Tommy Emmanuel and Mark Knopfler. Like their idol chat, they have great control and a wonderful sense of melody.

Classic.

I especially love how Steve had originaly written and played both solos, even the one that has left to the defeat of his character. I like his sense of self-deprication and his general goofiness, and it really makes me wonder how people can think he's an egotist.

 

[Flustercuck]

Joe Dart's bass solos can never go wrong

 

[Gordon Cole]

If we're talking worst:

 

[ShittyRecolor]

If we're talking worst:

The legend!

And of course we cannot forget the big daddy of shitty solos courtesy of Ferd Durst:

Time to wash down all this suckines with two of my all time favorite violinists:

 

[Pointandlaugh]

The worst.

The best.

 

[DumbDosh]

Tenacious D has the best guitar solos of all time.

 

[BeanBidan]

I just remember Kurt Cobain being pretty shit at guitar solos.

 

[BradyBunchFan]

Here’s a good one:

 

[Positron]

Seamus Egan is incredible:

 

[SadClownMan]

I really like this solo at around the 5:20 mark in the video (arguably there's multiple in this song and they're all pretty damn good). I already love this song because the grapes of wrath is a damn good story and this song does it justice. Now the solo....holy...just god its good. Sure some may say its not the most technically impressive but the way the song builds up to this epic crescendo, it just fits in may opinion with how the song starts and ends

I already don't like fallout boy at all but the solo is pretty boring and the cover is just obnoxious

A mediocre song with an absolutely disgusting solo that just kills any momentum this song had going for it in the beginning

This one is pretty good, bucket head is good, the solo is good. Just thought I'd leave it off on a good note

 

[BradyBunchFan]

"Zigeunerweisen"

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Master of Puppets has some of the absolute best guitar solos I have ever seen. My personal favorite is the one from 5:40 to around 6:09. Holy shit is it awesome.