Best instrumental parts to songs?

[balkii]

The first 3 movements of beethoven's 9th FTW

[Daddys_Visa]

I am a sucker for the Layla instrumental by Derek and the Dominos, but that's likely because it brought together a perfect scene in a great movie.

A personal fav that never gets any love is the guitar finale to Soulshine by The Allman Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WuSBo-lIE
This song is full of great guitar work by two of the best of all time. Main guitar solo starts at 4:40, and the 2nd guitar joins at 5:30 where it really takes off.

And Tom Morello has too many good instrumentals to list, but one of his best is from Audioslave's "Doesn't Remind Me":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMSB7s15C8
Starts at 2:55.

If you are a Pearl Jam fan, you have to love Mike McCready's guitar solo in Yellow Ledbetter.

[kemystery]

break/bass solo from 'The Chain' Fleetwood Mac, 3:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csatmi34YEk

guitar solo, 'Comfortably Numb' - Pink Floyd 2:05 to 2:40 especially 4:31 to ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

really love the music to 'Soul to Squeeze' by RHCP check the intro and solo at 2:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJeWhtpVek

[PorkPieHat]

I don't think guitar solos should count here since they are a different subject altogether, but I have always thought the outro to Boston's Peace of Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR2JeqxQDY was a masterpiece of multiple guitar harmonizing. It still gives me goose bumps if I haven't heard it in a while.

Funeral for a Friend (kind of the intro to Love Lies Bleeding), by Elton John is also killer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYI6XJH9Ss

[En Passant]

Dire Straights - Guitar solo in Sultans of Swing

[ezflop212]

The Tom Dowd produced Layla outro is amazing. Clapton with Duane Allman on the slide guitar part.

[5thstreet]

Beggining of Never Say goodbye by Dylan and The Band

Beggining/any part without singing of Bobcaygeon by the Tragically hip

[PorkPieHat]

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The Tom Dowd produced Layla outro is amazing. Clapton with Duane Allman on the slide guitar part.

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The piano coda was written by Jim Gordon, the Dominoes drummer (maybe the most underrated drummer of the era, the guy was amazing). Gordon later went nuts, killed his mother, and was sent to an insane asylum (still there I think).

When Clapton released the acoustic version of Layla from his Unplugged show he had to share the writing credit with Gordon, even tho the outro does not appear on that version of the song at all.

The slide guitar part of that by Duane is considered one of the best slide solos of all time. Most of it is played above the fretboard, so he is hitting most of the notes 'by ear'.

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