100 Greatest Rock Songs With Jaw Dropping Guitar Solos

Top 100 Rock Songs with Jaw Dropping Guitar Solos

When a guitarist breaks into a solo the musical dimensions of a song are uplifted to a new level. This article showcases a diverse list of rock songs with jaw-dropping guitar solos.

The signature sound in rock music is augmented by the presence of catchy riffs that bridge various parts in a song.From chorus to the verse, it’s the sound of the guitar encompassed with bass, drums and/or keyboards that bring lyrics to life.The standard format in majority of rock songs consists of a guitar solo which comes in after the chorus or verse of a song.A blistering guitar solo often comes up in a song when a vocalist reaches crescendo.It’s the perfect way to take a song musically in new directions.A guitar solo in a song gives theatrical feel to a song while opening new musical pathways for the song to take shape.

  

Different aspects associated with Guitar Solos

Since rock music came into being, numerous guitarists have made jaws drop with their guitar solos in songs.It’s the finesse and craft of a guitarist that takes gives a guitar solo unique identity.Factors such as tone, phrasing and musicality are important in a guitar solo.Typically, a guitar solo in a song should have soul and warmth; however guitar solos embodied in the warmth of technical intricacies have become exceedingly popular with listeners.When we use ‘jaw-dropping’ to describe a guitar solo there’s a lot we take into consideration.The parameters of a jaw-dropping solo are often associated with feel, tonal quality, dexterity, phrasing, and exploration of musical boundaries. 

Often guitarists like to improvise on guitar solos when a song is performed live.While being rooted in the melodic structure of the song, guitarists use new feel to give songs vivid musical direction while performing live.Extended guitar solos breathe new soul in songs during live performances.A number of guitar players like to work out their guitar solos during studio sessions with their band.Many guitarists come up with solos based on an improvisational structure that comes forth during jam sessions.

While guitar solos in songs are in accordance with the musical structure and lyrical tone of the song, in instrumental rock guitar albums solos are exceedingly intricate, while being rooted in technical scale structure and melodic overtones.When guitar players from bands come up with instrumental solo albums they showcase different guitar playing styles and techniques which are seldom heard or seen when played with a band.The jaw-dropping guitar techniques and guitar styles showcased by rock guitar players over the years has been phenomenal and the days ahead will showcase different styles of master-class in a different league.

The lines below showcase a diverse list of rock songs with melodic and technically challenging guitar solos.

100 Greatest Rock Songs with Jaw Dropping Guitar Solos

1. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2. Highway Star - Deep Purple
3. One - Metallica
4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
5. Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
6. Hotel California - Eagles
7. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
8. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
9. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
10. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
11. Eruption - Van Halen
12. Black Star - Yngwie Malmsteen
13. Johnny B.Goode - Chuck Berry
14. Layla - Derek & the Dominos
15. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
16. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple
17. Crossroads - Cream
18. For The Love of God - Steve Vai
19. November Rain - Guns N’ Roses
20. Still Got The Blues - Gary Moore
21. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
22. Bulls On Parade - Rage Against the Machine
23. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
24. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
25. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
26. Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who
27. Cemetery Gates - Pantera
28. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
29. Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
30. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
31. Soul Sacrifice - Santana
32. The Thrill is Gone - B.B King
33. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson  
34. La Grange - ZZ Top
35. High Hopes - Pink Floyd
36. All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
37. Fade To Black - Metallica
38. Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
39. Muffin Man – Frank Zappa
40. Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
41. Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers Band
42. Floods - Pantera
43. Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
44. Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
45. Hangar 18 - Megadeth
46. Mr.Crowley - Ozzy Osbourne
47. Reelin’ In The Years - Steely Dan
48. Gravity - John Mayer
49. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
50. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
51. Trademark - Eric Johnson
52. Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
53. I am the Resurrection - Stone Roses  
54. Heart Full of Soul - Yardbirds
55. The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
56. Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan
57. Child in Time - Deep Purple
58. Paper Plane - Status Quo
59. Walk This Way - Aerosmith
60. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth
61. Sway - The Rolling Stones
62. Cult of Personality - Living Colour
63. In-A-Gadda- Stravinsky
64. Killer Queen - Queen
65. Iron Man - Black Sabbath
66. Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac
67. Let’s Go Trippin’ - Dick Dale
68. All Right Now - Free
69. The Final Countdown - Europe
70. Dry Country - Bon Jovi
71. Just Take My Heart - Mr.Big
72. Since I’ve Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
73. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking - The Rolling Stones
74. Time - Pink Floyd
75. Reptilia - The Strokes
76. Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest
77. Soldier of Fortune - Deep Purple
78. Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday is Just as Bad) - T-Bone Walker
79. Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine
80. Two Princes - Spin Doctors
81. (Everything I Do) - I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
82. Master of Puppets - Metallica
83. Is This Love- Whitesnake
84. Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore
85. I Ain’t Superstitious - Jeff Beck Group
86. Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin
87. Get The Funk Out - Extreme
88. Going up the Country - Canned Heat
89. Seventeen -Winger
90. White Room - Cream
91. Just in time to see the Sun - Santana
92. The Spirit Carries On - Dream Theater
93. Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
94. Walk – Pantera
95. Mama, I’m Coming Home - Ozzy Osbourne
96. Breakdown - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
97. I Remember You - Skid Row
98. Messin’ With The Kid - Rory Gallagher
99. Faithfully - Journey
100. Where You Goin’ Now - Damn Yankees

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