Name a guitarist for which you would like to pick up one aspect of their playing. Chord voicings, note choice, etc.
For me, Pete Townshend. I would love to learn how to hit some of his off-rhythms. For example, the second electric guitar on Squeeze Box, among others.
How about you?
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Robben Ford's phrasing.
(#2 early Pat Martino's chops)
Mark Knopfler - pretty much everything.
s'all goof.
JJ Cale. Master of understatement and taste. Something I clearly lack.
I think Clapton was on the JJ Cale quest for a time.
Jimmy Herring's phrasing. Sometimes he sounds like he's falling down a flight of stairs, only to land on his feet at the bottom.
Sonny Landreth's slide technique.
Vince Gill's fretboard knowledge and chicken pickin style.
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
Goin to see Sonny on the 9th of this month. w00t, as the kids say.
Refin's phrasing.
If you leave the house, you're just asking for it.
Little Charle Baty
amen to that....Refin's phrasing
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
Pat Metheny's ability to make every single solo a melody and not just random notes.
Mike Stern's unbelievable bebop vocabulary.
Robben Ford's perfect blend of Jazz & Blues.
Derek Truck's other-worldly emotion in playing.
That's a start.
Smiths-era Johnny Marr. Great 'highlifey' jangle.
Tone is in the fingers, eh? Let's hear your Vox, Marshall and Fender fingerings then...
anybody from steeley dan
i just really think those guys are amazing
Imanidiot.
Youa re too kind, fezz.
I'm with frank... all those Steely Dan cats, but especially Larry "The Greatest" Carlton's phrasing and harmonic knowledge. The guy has a bottomless bag of tricks for defining a note's caharacter... slides and smears, hammer ons and offs, three or four different kinds of vibrato he can effortlessly control. Awesome.
Will Ray.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Yes on the Dan hired guns like Carlton. Even band members like Becker are amazing tasteful players.
Mike Campbell has great idea that I always like.
Knopfler. of course for note choice and phrasing.
The original spaceman - Mr. Jeffrey Beck. IMHO lotsa guys other people like (Satriani, Eddie, etc.) are just cheap imitations of his linear dive-bombing style...
+1Originally Posted by moonpie
and maybe some George Benson...
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john fogerty. clear concise parts that are definitely hooks.
also angus, if i ever wanted to get into playing lead. anyone can pretty much sing any of his solos.
"don't worry, i'm a professional!"
He's done more than one?
-Mark
I think there's two or three.
There's only one rhythm guitar part.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Imanidiot.
This might sound off the wall but I like alot of
neal schon's lead work,smooth soaring leads with alot of melody
behind them..
Not off the wall at all. In fact, good call.This might sound off the wall but I like alot of
neal schon's lead work,smooth soaring leads with alot of melody
behind them..
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
The ability to express myself freely with my instrument.
That's all I ever wanted, musically.
+1 !!!!!
If you can't sing the solo, you're playing too fast.
Jerry's use of passing notes/chromatic scales in a melodic way that doesn't sound "scaley..." Also, his ability to morph seamlessly between single note melodies, double-stops and chord progressions....
1st reaction: Bullshit!
2nd, 3rd, 4th reaction: Hmm... food for thought...
Well, it is a good idea to try to compose melodically as you solo. But the best rule for making music is:
"If you make a rule about making music, you're instantly wrong."
I'd settle for a speck of whatever it is Mick Taylor's got...fluidity, expressiveness, the ability to bring out the best in whatever song he's playing.
The free things in life are best.
You mean to say you guys can't sing "meedly meedly meedly"?
I'd go with Jimmy Byant, for his picking technique. Listen to "Stratosphere Boogie" for example.
RIP Jimmy !
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
I'd like to be able to freely sing and play simultaneously.
Accompany myself, like I'm not selling either duty sort to make things work.
Like, say, James Taylor, Richard Thompson or many others.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Very Good!I'd like to be able to freely sing and play simultaneously
That's interesting. I tell people all the time that I'd gladly give up guitars and any meager talent I have just to be able to sing. If I had a voice like Paul Rodgers or Greg Allman....
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
Don't try to play and sing, just play and be a vocal stylist.
Anyway that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
The free things in life are best.
I second Michael Campbell.
You can never have too
much music in your life.
Flawed though it is, I'll take my playing just as it is.
I would second Wilko's Mike Campbell suggestion. He plays the right part every time. Quite a good surf guitar player too.
Speaking of Wilko (well, actually WILCO), I think Nels Cline plays so far beyond my comprehension that I have become very envious. He plays a whole world of guitar styles that I'll never absorb.
Mike Campbell has the unique challenge and good fortune of playing on Tom Petty songs, mostly.
That's kind of an ideal breeding ground for his brand of concise genius.
He reminds me of George Harrison, in that he routinely comes up with parts that help make good songs definitive records.
He rules.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
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