Top 10 Guitar Solos from the 1990s

another Wednesday another top 10 list here are my top 10 favorite and best solos in my opinion from 1990 to 1999 let's go a guitar Champion what's going on you see Honda here back from a practice cave and welcome to today's video the 90s they were not easy to find my favorite top 10 solos because the art of shredding and solo playing like I love it I was a little bit dying in the 90s through the era of crunch music but still there are a lot of great solos in the 90s I had to dig deep a little bit but oh there were some pretty cool Treasures to find inside of the 1990 so we have a lot more fusion and jazz guitar in this list because this was kind of a hip thing in the 90s and yeah I would say let's start with the video let's start with number 10 alright and we are starting with one of the most heaviest metal bands that appeared in the 19s and I'm talking about sugar the sugar for guitar solos yes because mashuga is not only famous for the incredible Roofing and the rhythmical ideas in their Progressive songwriting but also the elite guitar player Frederick torontal has some incredible Elite lines and the solo that I picked for my number 10 year and this list is the one from future breed machine the first track of their first record destroy erase improve in the solo we have something that we are hearing a lot more in the 2000s nowadays and this is Ellen Holdsworth inspired lead guitar thing and holds will appear in this list as well in Olympic higher because of course it's an old worth nowadays we have a lot of great guitar players that more and more understand how to sound and how to play like El node to us but I think that one of the first guys really was cracking the Holdsworth code was Frederickson from sugar and you can clearly hear this in my number 10 future brick Machine by Meshuggah [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you We are continuing with Fusion in my number nine and here I have jumpstart by the legendary great cow especially in the 90s Greg Howe was a big influence for metal guitar players that are taking advantage of the fusion Musical that get getting inspired by the fusion music and I would say beside Ellen Holdsworth and Frank gambali one of the big names back in the day was Greg Howe what nowadays people would say is more like Tom Quayle or Guthrie Govan back in the day it was Krakow and especially with the song jumpstart he really inspired people to play a little bit more with tapped arpeggios and with this kind of Legato playing another those kind of Bebop chromatic lines played in this fluent hem on and pull off tapping Legato technique all those combinations out of different kind of styles like rock and Jazz heavily influenced a lot of players that are currently big on this in the metal scene so here it was kind of the first introduction to this really really great playing that influenced so many players nowadays so here we have number nine jump start by Greg Howard [Music] foreign we have a big mainstream solo I think this is a solo that everybody from you definitely had her at one time and I'm talking about November Rain by Guns and Roses why is this I think one of the best solos from the 19s well first of all it was heavily inspiring for the guitar scene I would say the guitar scene would be different when there wasn't guns and roses and on the other hand slash is working with certain things and certain aspects that I love about good soloing and in this case it's build up they build up to the solo is absolutely legendary there's a scene on the new Torah 4 movie in the end with the big fight and in that fight November Reigns is playing in the background and I have chills not because of Thor 4 but of these great build up this great to this awesome solo and then slash is playing a lot with motifs we have the main Melody and he is playing around that main Melody he's adding some runs into that main Melody there but he keeps the focus on the motif and this is something which I often miss and bad solos are often recommend to work on it when you want to ride better solos work on your motifs work on The Melodies tell a story with those motifs play you with them and not only play one leg and one lick and one lick and one lick that is not the definition of a good Solo in my opinion alright and this is my number eight November Rain by Guns and Roses laughs laughs [Music] on number seven we are going from rock music back to jazz music and the 90s was also a big era for patricini Pat Matheny a big influence for my family my father was on the first concert that Pat Masini played here in Germany and especially in the 90s he released so many great records and on one of them is the song to the end of the world and here we have an absolutely incredible Jazz playing which is a little bit more into the Rock side of Pat Metheny playing with his electric guitar that simulates this kind of trumpet sound and trumpet tone and playing around with those Jazz aspects like modal interchanging chord play and Bebop lines chromatical kind of ideas but with the energy that you're used to know from rocking from metal music and so this is a really really big influence to me because it was one of the first solos where I realized damn you can have a lot of emotional energy inside of jazz music so here is my number seven to the end of the world from Pat Metheny [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign foreign of the big metal players back in the 90s were of course Megadeth back in the day was a great lineup from Marty Friedman and Nick Mansa on guitar and on drums they released two really really awesome records and two kind of more mediocre records but I still I I think cryptic writing and risk are not so bad like people are talking about it but the solo that I like the most from their 90s era is killing Road from euthanasia and I'm saying this with a little T in my eye because killing road is a big part from the setlist of Mega life my mega distribute band but I'm not playing the solo our Dave Mustaine is playing the solo and he is playing it really really great and he really wanted to he said when we have founded this stupid band just saying you can have tornado of souls but I want to play Killing Rob that's right yeah okay but I have to say because of not playing the solo I can focus more on the Rhythm Section or the drums are doing this really really incredible I really love to watch our drama ends uh playing those Nick Mensa parts and these parts are really really creative but we are here for talking about guitar solos and killing Road as I would say one of the best from Marty Friedman at all it has all these things that make those multi-frequences legendary great playing around chords play raid playing with arpeggio great Melodies great build ups so definitely worth to learn and to check out my number six killing Road by Megan [Applause] foreign on the list which I was talking about a little bit earlier a legend called Ellen Holdsworth if you don't know Alan holth was shame upon you he's one of the greatest guitar player and one of the most influential guitar players one of the most creative thinking outside the box musicians that I have ever heard the things that he wrote is not easy to get into in the first place it took me really really a few years to finally finally realize how beautiful this music can be but once you made the switch damn they are opening like it's like when you are in an open world game you know you're coming out of the first dungeon and see this beautiful area around you all the possibilities all those beautiful places you can go this is a feeling when your first time realizing how awesome the music from Ellen Holdsworth is said all those new musical places you can explore and enjoy through his compositions and his music and of course his solos and one of my favorite solos from the 90s area it hadn't released that many records in the 90s more in the early 90s there was hard hat area and one clip Tower but my solo here is from a city where he did all kind of covers playing standards which is usually a thing that you're often doing as a jazz guitar player you are playing standards you're learning Jazz through playing standards you know and and hotz was often refused to play stance but more to make his own music but then a 1969 L released a record called none too soon and there he's only playing jazz standards one of them is one of my all-time favorite jazz standards it's a standard that I played in my final exam while doing my master's degree in jazz guitar and it's in an urge by Joe Henderson and this solo of this song from inner urge ah it's so incredible playing over those chord progression is really not easy the chords are really really tough it's really difficult to improvise over those and I'll definitely improvised the solo because Alan is a fantastic Master of the improvisational technique and the solo he played there has one of the most tasty and incredible fast Legato lines that you have heard in your musical guitar Journey so I don't want to talk too much I don't want to spoil you too much let's check out in an arch my number what was this my number five of this list [Music] [Music] [Music] no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no [Music] thank you on number four we're going a little bit more back into metal kind of stronger and this time we have of course dying back Daryl you cannot do a list of solos in the 19s by missing Dimebag Darrell so now this can be a little bit controversial it's not that easy because I know the dye hair the Die Hard Dimebag Darrell fans they can be really really difficult because yeah Diamondback was a great guitar player he created some of the most iconic solos in the 90s we have walk Cowboys from Hell flat all these great solos but my number four is domination 1990 was such a great year for metal Not only was it my birth year but it was also the year where rest in peace was released and Cowboys From Hell from Pantera and painkiller dang painkiller should be on this list as well what an incredible solo but from covers from hell and from Pantera in general I love domination the Builder the rhythmical motifs in the beginning the Picasso kind of sound the extreme picking or the whammy bar stuff that he's doing there which is really incredible so also the energy the so Solo in the end of that song it's so tasty and so good and so many levels and therefore it is my number four on this list [Music] number three Steve Vai tender surrender the 90s wear the Steve Vai yes I would say so many legendary records was released were released on the 1990s we have passion and warfare sex and religion fire garden and of course the EP with bad horsey on it and of course yeah tender surrender and I would say what Steve fight did back in the day with tender surrender is kind of the same or has the same kind of hype and impact that Tim Hansen is doing nowadays he was back in the 90s creating neo soul with a solo but it was not only really influential for us guitar players it is one of the solos with the most kind of emotional starting with a beautiful clean tone and then building up to this Distortion sound where Steve really shows what he's capable with his phrasing technique Steve Vai has an incredible phrasing technique an incredible praise and control slow rebutters big Roberto's all kinds of different ways to ban the note and to make the guitar really singing like a voice with all those kind of different approaches on phrasing I once colored it here on this channel and it was not easy to get this phrasing and the dynamic and all those lines right under your fingers the way Siva is doing it it's sometimes even a lot harder than all kinds of shredding stuff because it's more abstract from how you're approaching your instrument and really really not easy to learn so number three step by tennis surrender [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] number two of course I need in this list the Dream Theater sort of but like the 2000s oh it's so hard to choose one solo from the 1990s we have the images and words record we have awake with so many great solos falling into Infinity with great solos my number two and my favorite story from the 1990s is coming from the life in Japan life in Tokyo CD from the images and words tour and this is from a song that Dream Theater never officially released on a record this is on the best off record but never officially on a real record and this is to live forever the improvised and solo from Petrucci and to live forever is one of the most beautiful solos I have ever heard when anybody is telling me or Patricia has no emotions Petrucci can only play fast I show them to live forever because this solo is so beautiful filled so many aspects and really showcase how Petrucci is also influenced by Fusion players by Blues guitar players how important for him always was a good tone a good sound good Freight sorry good phrasing technique not only to play fast but also to have control over our instrument and all these different phrasing techniques but also has no choice the melody the build up is playing together with the drums and later the synths the keyboard from Kevin Moore which is coming unborn it is so beautiful I love this my number two and I would say one of the best solos from geometry again not his fastest one it's incredible in all those lists we don't have on the shreddy Sonos from John Petrucci I don't have as I am on my list from the 2000s I don't have last but not forgotten in the list of the 2010s we have all kinds of different yeah more slow and emotional solos from John Petrucci and this really showcase that John Petrucci is an emotional guitar player that he's not like he only played first you can't play Slow you don't have any remember but this is still in generally total talk when anybody's talking like this go ahead and make this move in right into his face and keep those people shut up annoying all right what is not annoying is the beautiful solo from Champion to live forever here we go ladies and gentlemen [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] number one is the legendary solo buys Symphony X sea of Lies now I have to be a little bit careful because there were a lot of videos we got really hard disclaimed from YouTube and even blocked from YouTube that has sea of lice in it I I covered actually sea of wise different times and every time YouTube said like no no no you're not allowed to release the sun maybe I have to cover this a little bit faster then we'll maybe finally allow me to show you this wonderful soul but maybe we have luck in this video I will try to put in the solo inside of this video maybe even my cover yeah let me try to put my cover into this video so I can have a little bit more promotion for my channel as well the channel that you hopefully had subscribed to and liked every video because if not then you know what to do right now so yeah but enough of the silly talk sea of Lies by Symphony X the incredible taking part the incredible build up The Melodies the the the song itself how the solos taking off certain motifs from the rift guitar and from the Rhythm Section and ah it's so iconic it's so incredible I can't say much about the solo but it is my favorite from the 1990s and I think it's one of the best solos ever written and I now shut up here good English and show you this beautiful solo maybe my cover maybe the original I will see this post filming here we go I hope you liked this video if you want to see my other top 10 then check them out somewhere around here is an information card where you can click on and yeah feel free to leave a subscribe feel free to leave a like and to write a comment what your favorite solos from the 1990s area is which solid did I miss and what is your favorite solo from this list I want to know which solo you found the best so now comes my number one sea of Lies no YouTube has blocked it yay so awesome thanks for watching and um go listen to the solo on Spotify also it's really worth it

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Length: 34min 1sec (2041 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 30 2022