If you’re listening to music, then a relaxing guitar solo can help you to escape into your own little world where you don’t care about anything happening around you. When you’re a guitarist playing a guitar solo of your own, you have escaped into your own world, too, and feel at one with the music, truly being part of the song.

The world of music is filled with brilliant guitar solos, but not all of them are suitable for kicking back and relaxing. Here are some of the musicians who have delivered some of the most relaxing solos of all time through their work.

Pink Floyd

When it comes to genius on the guitar, you’d be searching a long time and listening to a lot of music to find a group that gets it right and is as good as Pink Floyd. Signature tracks like Comfortably Numb and Coming Back to Life are the obvious ones with relaxing guitar solos included, but you could go through all of their work and find examples that you’ll love.

Dire Straits

A lot of Dire Straits’ work seemed to veer from fast, upbeat tracks to slow, melancholic ones. While you might think that the most relaxing guitar solos would come from the latter tracks, you’d be surprised at how easy it is to kick back and chill out to some of their faster stuff, too.

Once you’ve spent enough time listening to Dire Straits, you should then move on to guitarist Mark Knopfler’s solo work. Forget the fact it wasn’t as successful commercially as his work with the group, it’s just as good, and the experimental element arguably makes it even better to relax to. Much of his work is quite easy to learn, too.

Frank Zappa

Many musicians who are around today credit Frank Zappa for being a huge influence, not just in terms of the guitar but in general when it comes to what they do. Although he doesn’t get the commercial exposure or is as well known today as he should be, there’s no doubting he’s a great, and if you can get recordings of his solo stuff you’ll be blown away by it.

Guns N’ Roses

Guns N’ Roses are better known for their heavier tracks, but even those are relaxing if you’re in the mood. Their most famous solo probably comes in the epic November Rain, but if you can buy their first four albums, you’ll find yourself with loads of great tracks and relaxing solos to kick back and get lost in.