Comments by "Rover Waters" (@roverwaters3875) on "Queen: 1979 - Cracking America: Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Episode 18)" video.

“Freddie could come up with great guitar riffs,” says May. “The heavy part of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ [“So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye…”] was Freddie’s riff. He also wrote ‘Orge Battle’ [from Queen II], which is a very heavy metal guitar riff. Freddie used to pick up guitar and he had a great, frenetic energy. It was kind of like a very nervy animal playing guitar. He was a very impatient person, and he was impatient with his own technique. He didn’t have a great technical ability on the guitar. But he had it all in his head. You could feel this stuff bursting to get out.” GUITAR WORLD FEBRUARY 2003
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@bluebell3720 I told you before, Brian talks about Freddie's piano playing when he says "He had this penchant for playing in E flat and A flat and F. And these are not places that your hand naturally falls on when playing the guitar" 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'We Are the Champions' or 'Killer Queen' are written on the piano by Freddie, not guitar.
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@bluebell3720 "He wrote a lot of good stuff for the guitar...weird keys" FALSE Thats your erroneous understanding. I TOLD 200 TIMES Brian talks about Freddie's piano playing when he says "He had this penchant for playing in E flat and A flat and F" "What this interview doesn't say clearly here is that he wrote all of ogre battle on guitar as explained in the commantary for cltcl" He explain pretty clearly Freddie came up with the main riff on a demo, from there on Brian added the complex guitar work(as guitarists in a rock band do) same goes for CLTCL
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@shirabetty8483 Yes, Freddie only demoed a rough sketch on guitar (basic riffs) All the complex guitar chords changes are made by Brian.
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@muhammadhafiy9234 Freddie was a beginner guitarist... he only played some riffs, not whole songs and with downstrokes only.
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