Viral Video: "The Hardest Thing You Can Do on Guitar"

Here's the latest amazing, guitar-related YouTube find, a video proclaiming to show you "the hardest thing you can do on guitar."

As the video's host points out, there are a lot of really good guitar players on YouTube, so what's so hard that none of them can pull it off?

Play a note-perfect rendition of "Eruption"? Master Yngwie's "Arpeggios From Hell"? Play "Stairway to Heaven" in public without annoying everyone within a 50-foot radius?

Watch to find out ...

Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

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