Tuckstir my list would include a few other bands, where somebody else's would include Taylor Swift. but I think doing a list like this can only improve ones playing capabilities, and that is the whole point of this list, me thinks.. and thinking maybe I should give it a bash..

Yeah, I agree, in this case the contents of the actual list is much less important than the act of learning 100 difficult solos/riffs one after the other.

I also thought about giving it a bash, so I can see myself learning No. 100, and No 99, but alas, Mr. Petrucci at No. 98 would've stopped me dead in my tracks for the next 24 months or so.

I've been playing for about 2 years now, and I'm really struggling to build speed, currently working on the solos for Hotel California (can play at about 70% speed) and Are you gonna go my way (about 60% speed), but it feels like the progress is sooooo sloooow.

For the last two weeks or so I've been starting my practice routine with these exercises from steve stine:

My pinky is such a lazy bastard. I also find it's quite tough to do sucky chromatic exercises instead of noodling around when you only have a couple of minutes a day, but I guess progress must be earned yeah?

There is also this:

http://52weeksofblues.com/?page_id=403

Which aims to teach one blues song a week for a year. I tried to start this in Jan 2017 after playing for 6 months or so, but I wasn't good enough to get each song down in the allotted week and I gave up after about 3 weeks or so. Perhaps I should give it another try now that I have a lot more practice under my belt.

No 93 is up:

klaasvakie For the last two weeks or so I've been starting my practice routine with these exercises from steve stine:

This is useful. Very similar to what @Satriani taught me all those years ago but I eventually stopped practising. (Stupid me.)

klaasvakie My pinky is such a lazy bastard.

I have the same issue!

And so is No 92:

No 91 is up:

No 90:
I'm putting these up in the hope that you find them interesting (I do), but if this is too spammy, let me know.

This is great, keep 'em coming.

Would also be interesting to hear from you what YOU think of each performance.

klaasvakie but if this is too spammy, let me know.

Not at all! I dig the explanations of each - some good tips n insights there. ?

klaasvakie thanks for that! I think I know what's wrong and I'll sort it out today. Thanks again!

So I just gave this a listen --- a very clean playthrough. Two things stood out:

1. Bending accuracy, these were spot on. Also, this is one of the few songs I know that has double-bends (Check, 4:03, 6:05, 6:15, 6:33). I haven't tried to do this yet, but I think its hard getting these right.
2. Unless he has a clicktrack going in the headphones, this guy's counting is phenomenal. There is a 50-second stretch from 2:00 to 2:50 where the backing track has no indication of the beat and then he merges flawlessly after that much dead time.

klaasvakie Fixed, thanks again! (The issue was the the tag "Editor's Pick" was read-only by administrators.)

klaasvakie Great feedback.

I gotta agree with you. His bends are great and when you're playing Gilmour... well you just can't without flawless bending. The double bends sound great, for sure. Definitely something I'd like to introduce to my playing.

The gap between 2:00 and 2:50... it does look like he's counting. Would be interesting to know if he's just counting or if there's a clicktrack. Don't suppose you could ask him? ? Would be keen to see how he's dealing with that.

With the 2 songs I tried learning recently, I found counting in my head to be far too unreliable. I'm sure it's a skill that can be developed but I imagine it takes years.

Ha! Awesome! Thanks for asking ? Such a simple answer and I would've overcomplicated it myself ?