purple rain solo - Vianney

[Under5150]

Parfait, tu devrais donner des leçons à Prince...lol

[blakeb903]

Purple rain sucks. I can see two fags gettin schwetty with the boys to this garbage. He may be good at guitar but this is shit.

[MrSilkyj83]

Good Grief!!!! That was Freaking UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

I'm in awe right now!!!!

[princeben7]

Excellent!

[vvi1187]

:O tab'it please

[alleykat585]

Omg you played it better than prince

[RebelThoughts]

I watch this almost ever day.

[zubld]

breath taking... the best version apart from prince of course.

[CrissyTheFox]

Omg it gave Mr chills

[FlashmoreGash]

This song is still as powerful as it ever was!...TY

[FlashmoreGash]

Wow! Wow! WOW"

[musicman4429]

Awesome dude... I love it

[Tapiola2007]

Wow. I felt that!

[BSUPunter35]

yup best version ever seen minus the real thing

[Jenchicky79]

Seriously. We are getting married.

[Jenchicky79]

I love you.

[g3petrucci]

any tabs for this??

[konel05201]

Best out the ones Ive seen so far,u my friend are a beast ;)

[maitush1216]

wow! great version for an epic solo

[dougmilne27]

my god, you , sir, are a king.

[joehindley103]

Favourite version on youtube

[crochuntas]

Prince would be proud

[paiso9697]

Bloody hell mate u can play that was awesome :D

[Spawn34]

Dude,... That made my hair on my arms stand straight up , just like it does when I watch the performance of that song in the movie. Absolutley fantastic job!!

[garydupuis]

Dude...wow! This got me all choked up...beautiful!

[Ho3ra]

can you do one on hotel california by the eagles? chur

[Ho3ra]

bluddy awesome mate

[j05h885]

What are your settings on your amp man! Wow!

[DametheDrummer]

i believed it! Not to many notes. This song is all about passion! Good job!

[116Boi87]

O.O 

[blaczacthepirate]

amazing!!!



[BobbyHarr]

No words...

[tooakki]

I'm honored to hear this.

[wdtui]

the best solo cover!!!!



[Henry7757]

awesome man !

[gbrown4x4]

Hey REALLY nice job man...Where can i get that backing track

[robertone01]

Amazing! great sound!

[Henry7757]

sauber awesome !

[farmershirl]

i keep re watchin this,fantastic.

[raaayxsdx3]

this is almost as inspirational as the movie!

[priestsvalley1]

class playing and not overdone....some crap versions out there from the metal maniacs.........why play one note when you can squeeze in five....

[41570tony]

NICE



[jonnyboydrums]

very nice mate 

[MattiaPet95]

the 3 disliker are rap-maniac!

[MattiaPet95]

oh no!!!this solo is going to kill me IT'S FUCKING AMAZING YOU'RE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aprlem75]

You ROCK! dude. You the best of the rest. Awesome playing. Is that a Nova system you're using? Thats some powerful shit.

[giantrobot234]

What amp are you using?

[fayettevillin]

@giantrobot234 sounds like a jcm 800!

[PrinceRogersNelson52]

I'M CRYING THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO SERIOUSLY

[hartlemw191]

This is the best version of Purple Rain on youtube. Your version of knockin' on heavens door is awesome as well.

[twostrongtoo]

UR BETTER THAN PRINCE WTF

[twostrongtoo]

ORGAZM........

OMFG WTF

[Aizawlian]

OMFG this is sooooooo awesome...you got a good idea dude..purpul rain is not an easy song.....

[rjayvillarin1987]

Hi Vianney I like your Version i love it :D .. Keep on rockin!!

[kanedeadman1]

what distortion pedal are u using?

[crowlector]

FANTASTIC!

[wollymolly]

Prince, look out now! This is unbelievably good.

[moodierblue]

Excellent stuff

[pauly414]

very nice

[pics333]

wow realy good

[whitedevil2]

2 people are jealous

[felipemaiden13]

sounds a little bit like Slash.

[RebelThoughts]

Goosebumps for real!

[CenasCorner]

I am a huge Prince fan and man you BURNED THAT UP!!!! Thumbs up,5 Stars,added to favorites and shared!! EXCELLENT!!!

[mitosiciliano]

BEAUTIFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL VERY GOOD FROM ITALY

[VIPER534]

Astonishing. Pure perfection!!!! You ROCK MAN!!! 

[Dopaminergie]

Perfect!!!!! FRom the sound, to the technique, through the feelings, the guitar... PERFECT! Many thanks to share such a cover with us.

[paulo060290]

just found sumthing im gona be listening to 80 times in a row

[Killieguy84]

2 people are tone deaf.....very nice playing.

[BassByTheBay]

Awesome! Rock it, brother! You done Prince proud.

[karasof45]

I love this this lolz

[GIBSONSG400929]

wow!! i love this solo.. and you do that very nice and more amazing!! ''CIAO'' from italy ;)

[VoiceTORIARAE]

This is AMAZING. I got chills! Love it! This is the best rendition played on guitar that I have heard!

[MarcInTampa]

i don't swear... but holy f*cking sh*t that was AWESOME. better than the original, and i'm a HUGE Prince fan. give us more!

[darkmachete]

I love it when someone outdoes the original solo. You sir, have done so! perfect notes, and an unreal tone to your playing! Well done indeed!!!! :)

[ncbasshero13]

Awesome solo! I love how yu stuck similar to the original. Although, I do agree with Lmk555kml, the power chords kinda threw it off alittle but it was still phenomenal..

[princepaisly]

Sweet playing man, By the way I hear parts of the nude tour 1990 and syrracause 1985

Am i right?

Keep doing what you are doing

[lmk555kml]

The description in the last comment sums it up. The other attempts are sort of trying to hard, I don't know how else to describe it.

0:16- 0:23 Masterly section

1:12: Brilliant, very Prince'y...I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man, Gold, Graffitt Bridge

1:30 EXCELLENT

The only real miss is:

1:45 -1:50: Why the power chords...? You should have stayed on the A string only! The chords show that you're a bit out of tune also...

2:10 Again excellent bluesy licks, pure Prince spirit

Brilliant!

[AmigoSW]

wow!

hands down the best purple rain guitar solo i've seen on youtube so far. i like the fact, that you stayed close to the original but added your own flavor to it...

how have you been playing for?

[discodancer1234]

This by Far the best version on here like it alot listened many times

[lmk555kml]

A tough claim of course, but this has to be top 5, if not the best, rendition of any famous guitar solo on YouTube. It's not whitout flaws though...let me get back to them.

Now, do "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man", "Gold" or should I say "One of Us"!

Of course, with all the outright appaling, amateurish stuff floating around here being categorized as "awesome", "great" and so forth, the following adjective has lost a bit of its meaning, but still: EXCELLLENT! 9.4 out of 10.

[thebluesman1979]

great job!

[bugxter]

Only three minutes. But I've been watching for hours!

[Birdistheword2286]

Excellent job. Three cheers!!

[Luccaguitar]

nice man...excelley job

[btcctouring]

Awesome. put link on Twitter and shared on Facebook. A joy to listen to. Very well done. Beautiful sound. What model guitar is that?

[Vianneyblues]

@btcctouring Thanks a lot for sharing this. My guitar is a PRS McCarthy. It's a very nice guitar. My favourite actually. I'll try to record new videos as soon as i can. Thanks once again and keep on rockin' !

[pascalpundit]

@Vianneyblues

Thanks you, it sounds very very good, good feeling !!!!

Your video is my favorit, and i use it to learn how to play Purple rain.

But... it kills my fingers ! :)

So, can you tell me please witch ropes you used to play it?

[btcctouring]

Awesome. put link on Twitter and shared on Facebook. A joy to listen to. Very well done.

[dodgeballwhiz]

Holy Frick! This is amazing!!!!!!!!!! This is definately how it should have been written!

[Vianneyblues]

@dodgeballwhiz Thanks a lot !

[kingpybar]

@Vianneyblues absolutely excellent and beautiful thankyou so much for the inspired music

[funyun000]

@dodgeballwhiz

Whoa slow down tiger... It was great, but not "How it should have been written" lol

[dodgeballwhiz]

Holy Frick! This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!

[clavio2]

Amazing

[dajordankid123]

you just made me want to learn this solo!!! thanks bro

[jackandbeer420]

NICE can you teach me like on new you tube vid so i can learn the hole riff PLEASE and THANKS all so nice guitar how much i want one i have a 1970s old guitar i need a new guitar

[TheLoftStudios]

ABSOLUTELY LUV IT.....

[ItzLexiBishhxTV]

2 people disliked this video because they're jealous of his awesome skills. :D

[SpadesFLush13]

well done

[YOyOFresNo]

how come noone evr holds the first note ur only suppose to hit it once u dont have to play the song exactly the same but at least hit the first note right

[TheTeamXScooter]

what backing track do you use? :)

[Spawn34]

Fantastic

[misiekb77]

excellent .....

Zajebiscie....

[yousty75]

Damn good sound!

[mistajericho]

Excellent. One of the best versions here on youtube! Keep it up!

[tbofilms]

Very Sweet to my ears...

[jonksled]

Nice work! Love the soul you put into this.

[nicoraider]

Rally nice version man!! i will try to get this solo too..

Good Work!!

[GRHARRIS1]

Excellent cover mate, like your style, well done.

[IscPvy]

O_O I wish I could play like you... SO BAD >_< Well done.

[Austyg]

rocking

[WhereMyChicken]

I've heard all of them on YouTube-You are the best one! Why? Because you stretch out after you hit the hooks of the solo. There are some parts to a solo that MUST be exact so that people listening know when you are creating an addendum to the original. ANYONE walking by you playing this knows at all times what you are playing. That is a true test to creativity in my books.

[paulh767]

wow AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!! give us a lesson plz

[HKSSupraify]

dude wow this is AMAZING!!

[FuckPeople91]

that was tight as hell

[ronnyrage]

Hey where did you get the backing track from?

[whitedevil2]

let's find the one guy who disliked this and go roll his house

[cougher989]

@whitedevil2

there's two of us now fucker, good luck finding us!

[cougher989]

Good job by the way, I wish that one day I'll be able to play like that and better. Just fucking around with my other post hehe.

[CREWDOG289]

what set up did you play thru?

[CREWDOG289]

solo gave the same feeling as the man himself

[goldenboyand1]

wooooo! u makin that guitar scream! nice job man.

[mikeasz]

class mate - fantastic job of a fantastic song!

[AlphaQGoode]

yeah this is fuckin kickass, well played that man!

[CamDudeYouRok]

Ughhh i freakinnn luhhvv this shiii!

[CamDudeYouRok]

Beautifullllllll!

[Alyn321]

you got such a nice tone coming out of that PRS, epic solo

[loafbo]

love it mate well done

[popomczowzow]

AWWWW FUCK YEAHHH

[NMNJFan]

In-fucking-credible, you are the man...the Purple One himself would have to tip his hat to you!

[cakewad]

pretty good. almost all of it made sense

[jayboogie03]

Awesome!!!

[fucia11]

Nice!! Im gonna cover the whole song tomorrow... hopefully WMG wont take it down right away like they do to every video with the whole song :0 otherwise ill just do the solo!! Great Work! Keep on Rockin!!

[Democrat64]

Very nice, dude... very nice.

[nickbatchelor88]

YOU'RE THE SHIT

[giugnhgbvinierngvb89]

GREAT

[Tallguyalec]

it looks like your playing G minor scale, but isnt the song in B major? naht really sure how that works, can you explain the theory behind what your playing?

[Fr33M33]

The BEST that I have seen so far!

[woltmanb]

Your version of the purple rain solo is awsome!!! I also like your sound a lot! Which type of amp are you using(and perhaps which configuration) to play the song? I play on a scheckter c-1plus (2 hb) with nearly te same look like yours and a vox vt-30. But I was never able to get a sound like yours out of my speaker. You truly rock! 10 of 10 points!!!

[ronalddatcher]

This is out of this world this is excellent excellent excellent great job continue doing what you do you are going faaaaaarrrr for sure great job

[VikingChildren2]

very badass. filled in all the emptier spots perfect and kept all the original flavor

[TheLopotron]

You're a f...ing master! that's the way to do it, awesome solo, really!

[jpdesp]

Grreat feeling

[purple1123haze]

ohhh maaaan! that was freakin' awesome! I feel it! Almost made me cry...

[alwaysadjacent2love]

Beautifully done sir. If i could rate i would give 5 *****

[Ryboner1]

cool !

[uva2323]

its cool but it shoul be melodic not fast!

[TheConnyB]

I love it.... It got some rock, it got some blues, it got some soul, and a hell of a lot of passion........ Im applauding :) Great job my man

[EverybodyMustKnow]

Lots of feel, very good! less is more! great job man!!

[mattimat2000]

love it

[epi2me]

WOW! I have been a Prince fan since 1980, I have EVERYTHING he has done... and this is by far the best that I have heard. Good job... no... GREAT JOB!!!

[SHAUNFREAK]

The original solo is a true simple work of art and this is hands down the ONLY version of this solo that has respected the brilliance of the original...a solo that evokes a great amount of emotion to the song,. and the only version worth checking out this great song....superbly played, love it

[modjias]

Amazing solo dude!

[JamesLawlor]

Absolutely sweet, music to my ears lol. U prob get loads of these but do u have a link to tab or have it on computer that u can email to me. I need to learn this for my band and there is no tabs out there

[wankmaster]

how long did it take you to learn the fast part of that solo---- at around 0:45??? whats the best way to get to that speed

[guitarfuckinrocks]

@wankmaster

play it really slow and keep moving up in speed. also, my issue with that fast part was the picking coordination, which i still cant do, so i just used hammer ons and pulloffs, sounds pretty good too, a decent substitute. check my version (well its really this guys version, i just learned this version by ear) so thanks to VianneyBlues for that!

[Vianneyblues]

@guitarfuckinrocks I am very honoured man.. It's the first time someone cover one of my impro.. so thank you very much for that and keep on rocking !!

[guitarfuckinrocks]

@Vianneyblues Yo no problem man! Thanks for inventing this incredible version. I actually cant believe that this is an improv by you... i heard it and thought it was so fucking awesome that i just had to learn it note for note as best i could, so i watched this 100's of times and finally got my version from it which i think is reasonably close. You rock, plus ur guitar has an incredible tone. cheers!

[ronnyrage]

@Vianneyblues hey man where get the trak???

[cheduran3]

hats off, man

[IJUSTWANTAACOUNT]

wow fucking awesome !!! cant you tab it fore me

[TheWssj]

Awesome! Very Awesome!

[ultimateattack3210]

Very nice, spectacular. Keep it up.

[1965riv2006]

MAY YOU LIVE TO C THE DAWN

[Axl9]

WOW what a tone ur getting from that PRS is that the Santana Edition by any chance.

[benjawi]

yyeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!­!!great job man....5 stars too!

[stratplayer34]

that was killer bro,5 stars!!!!!!!

[savagesnephew]

awesome sound dude!

[versacequero]

its an improvisation? i think Prince will get jealous

[captaintrippsky]

Dude you are smokin this. best tone ,best version on you tube.great job.I bet you could kill some neil schon guitar .kinda similar tone

[ltjplanet]

As a TRUE Prince ,from1981 till the day I die, I give this the absolute thumbs up.Great feel.You must've really dug this tune to be able to get the vibe of the solo.May U live 2 C the dawn.

[rocknrolla67]

well done man 10/10 sounds the shit

[rz0svp]

Hey, you killed that solo!!!!! Good job!

[CREWDOG289]

Awesome sound, tell us what gear you used to get it

[donkiyboy]

Lotta dudes are recking this solo just by not paying attention to the real feeling they could put into it. Ripping up and down the fret board has its place, but not here. You you nailed this. Loved that you put in some of the lower note riffs and followed the chord changes at the end. Other than you, David Evans is the only other one on here that gets the feel of the song. Good job.