What People Think is Hard on Guitar vs. What Actually Is

[mdg]

Also just making the guitar cry out loud, to express very strong emotions

[zaddash]

Fast Tapping Arpegios (Micheal Romeo) enters the chat

[mmerpremm]

please never make eye contact like that with me again

[HardTourVela]

That bend... I wanna be, the very best, like no one ever was

[rorysteele]

Love the serial killer stare with the tapping. I had to get past my tapping stage and embrace picking through scales. My young friends when I started "shredding" thought it was insane but really I felt like a big phony. Ah well they didn't know any better anyway and I had to drop the training wheels for better things.

[lillidezendorf]

Can you please do an acoustic version of this vid 🙏🏻

[selliantuttimusi]

Gravity by John Mayer looks easy but it's very difficult to make it sound as good as Mayer does.

[Nate-vkgu]

I feel like hard is all relative, if you only play songs/music with bends you’ll be good at bending but if you play songs with tapping you’ll be better with tapping it’s all about what you practice

[JoaoGabrielJF]

What about sweep picking on arpeggios, especially like Dying Fetus? :v

[treeforged]

Both of those things are equally easy. I don't understand why there is this weird idea among guitarist that bending and vibrato is like the most important and difficult thing. It is something that you teach kids to do on guitar after playing for a few weeks. Hell bar chords are way more difficult then that little bend is.

[aReallySwellGuy]

Greg Grunberg from the television series Heroes?

[MarchionRo-yrft]

The trouble I have with tapping is sometimes I’m slightly off and the string buzzes. Bends are just fucking hard

[notsharpmd]

Thought you were about to go into the Pokémon theme intro.

[BennettBoi]

Tapping was literally the first thing I learned

[PotionSeller]

I heard that entire solo of sweet child of mine after that one

[Boneblivion]

I wanna be the very best like no one ever was?

[adrianocerone]

Okay but how tf do ya do sweep picking? Been playing guitar for over 10 years, albeit acoustic/fingerstyle mostly, and could never pick it up.

[luponl]

With a bit of practice you can learn to bend in tune. Fast alternate picking and sweep picking require months if not years to learn

[coolband]

Fr it’s like playing violin for the first time since it has no frets

[disturbedlife]

Was that the opening to "get over it" by The Eagles?