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Offline WildRanger

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Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« on: May 02, 2020, 08:57:06 AM »
You can include his solo stuff.

My picks:
Under a Glass Moon
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2020, 09:21:28 AM »
Lines In The Sand
The Spirit Carries On
The Inevitable Summer

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2020, 10:54:02 AM »
In no particular order..

Behind the Veil
Barstool Warrior
Octavarium (Razors Edge)

So many more to choose from..
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2020, 12:07:07 PM »
- Lines in the Sand
- Inocense faded
- Under a Glass Moon

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2020, 12:27:33 PM »
Off the top of my head:

Spirit carries on
Lines in the Sand
In the presence of the Enemies Pt. 1 (slow intro solo)

It would probably be different if I spend more time thinking about it.
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2020, 12:31:33 PM »
Breaking All Illusions
Voices
A New Beginning

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2020, 12:43:44 PM »
Under a Glass Moon
Voices
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2020, 02:14:30 PM »
Under a Glass Moon
Inevitable Summer
Best of Times

I guess? There’s about 15 others that could qualify for top 3.

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2020, 03:56:49 PM »
The Best of Times
Octavarium (Razor's Edge)
A Change of Seasons (The Darkest of Winters)

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2020, 04:25:44 PM »
Breaking All Illusions
Voices
A New Beginning
This is about as good a list as any, but there are just so many great ones that narrowing it down to three is impossible for me! All I could say that those three would all be in my top 10 I guess.
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2020, 05:40:21 PM »
Lie (Outro Solo)
Scarred
Breaking All Illusions

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2020, 06:27:01 PM »
Lines In The Sand
Paradigm Shift
Voices

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2020, 07:03:36 PM »
In no order, and should be at least a top 10:

The Inevitable Summer
Lines in the Sand
Hollow Years (Budokan extended solo)

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2020, 07:31:47 PM »

Hollow Years (Budokan extended solo)

Yes yes!.

The studio version is a Bottom 15 track, and the Budokan version is a Top 15 track.
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2020, 11:03:36 PM »
Lines in the Sand
Under a Glass Moon
Voices

An honorary mention to Scarred which is 98 % on the ball, but in the end suffers a bit of a stumble with those sweep arpeggios.
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2020, 08:15:58 AM »
Hollow Years - Live at Budokan (intro also)
Breaking All Illusions
Fall into the Light

Honorable mention. (Really though, most songs!)
A New Beginning
Beyond this Life

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2020, 09:04:46 AM »
Over the years he sure nailed some of the best solos ever ..here's my top 3 then..

1) Lines in the Sand, especially the version from Once in A Livetime..truly amazing performance

2) The Best of Times

3) Octavarium (Razor's Edge)

and may I add a solo that perhaps not many people talk about..but to me is like one the best in the genre..it's solo in the beginning from When the Water Breaks (around 2:55 in)..his phrasing and notes choices..just the emotion that he squeezes out of the guitar is just perfect!
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2020, 09:07:05 AM »
Petrucci is like Gilmour, Lifeson or Stolt for me in that he has so many awesome solos that it seems almost impossible to pick just one, or three in this instance.  First ones that came to mind, however, were:

Voices
The Spirit Carries On
Lines in the Sand

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2020, 10:13:22 AM »
Voices
The Spirit Carries On
Lines in the Sand

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2020, 10:26:05 AM »
Subject to change:

Breaking All Illusions
Barstool Warrior
Out of Reach

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2020, 07:08:41 PM »
Subject to change:

Breaking All Illusions
Barstool Warrior
Out of Reach

Same here.

Out of reach sounds so organic and really portrays the emotion of melancholy of the story of the song.

For me honorable mention is Erotomania
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2020, 02:21:08 AM »
To be honest, I can’t do this but I will name 3 great ones which spring to mind.

Breaking All Illusions
Lines In The Sand
The Best Of Times

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2020, 03:22:19 AM »
The Spirit Carries On
The Best Of Times
Under A Glass Moon
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2020, 09:55:06 AM »
This could change depending on how I feel a particular day (just too many great ones to narrow down to 3), but today it's
* Voices
* Lines In the Sand
* Breaking All Illusions


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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2020, 10:37:32 PM »
Jeez, that's tough to narrow down to just 3, but;

The Spirit Carries On
The Inevitable Summer
At Wit's End
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2020, 04:52:14 AM »
Voices
Octavarium/Razor's Edge
Barstool Warrior

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #26 on: May 06, 2020, 07:34:54 PM »
The Spirit Carries On
The Best of Times
Razor’s Edge
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2020, 05:06:17 AM »
It's interesting that I can narrow it down to two that I think of within two seconds of someone mentioning Petrucci's solos (Under A Glass Moon and Lie), but the third place could be taken by an infinite number of solos basically.

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2020, 05:19:30 AM »
Yeah, no way I can answer this easily. Limiting myself to studio output, off the top of my head, here's three that pop up immediately:

- Another Day
- Beyond This Life - especially if you include the octotonal unison after the whole-tone keyboard solo
- Innocence Faded

And yes, I'm leaving out tons of great stuff here.

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2020, 10:20:29 AM »
That's a Hard one.
Octavarium
Lines in the Sand
Lie

I'm making a Live Solos top as well, I believe they're in their own category:
Lost Without You
Hollow Years
State of Grace

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2020, 05:39:25 AM »
The Best of Times
Octavarium - Razor's Edge
Goodnight Kiss

But so so many could fill those top 3 slots

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2020, 01:48:11 AM »
The Spirit Carries On sounds like a David Gilmour's solo.


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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2020, 04:17:20 AM »
^ Gilmour with wild shred chops, maybe.

Another Day was a good call from Elite. That is a brilliant solo. From that era, I've always thought of Bombay Vindaloo as prime Petrucci.
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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #33 on: May 30, 2020, 04:53:31 AM »
I can only limit to 3?   ;D

For the record, I really like John's slower stuff just as much as the fast and furious parts.

Really hard to choose, but if forced to...

Fatal Tragedy
The Test That Stumped Them All
Nightmare to Remember (esp that riff at 9:31)

My first meet and greet with them, I asked John what scale he used for that 2nd solo on Nightmare.  His eyes got real big, he paused and said "You know, I have no idea...I'd have to look it up!"

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Re: Your top 3 guitar solos by Petrucci?
« Reply #34 on: May 30, 2020, 08:13:07 AM »
The Spirit Carries On
The Best of Times
A New Beginning