George Harrison has been mentioned several times, but Paul McCartney and John Lennon were both very good as well.
Okay I know this is a tad off topic, but I know there are some guitar players on here, and I'm willing to bet they're alot better than I and I need some advice... I'm looking for finger picking excercises... I'm good on the arpeggios, but as far as pluck multiple strings, you might as wel make me play left handed... I wanted to learn, "One Last Breath" by Creed... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yY1Nrznh4I Cause I think it would just be fun to jam with a few friends.. but I cannot get plucking... I can play some of " tears in heaven " By Eric Clapton... A few of the chords are like ... E-x A-4 D-x G-4 B-5 e-x Where you have to Pluck A, G and B,I can play... But playing something like E|2----5----0h2-------------------------------------------------------------------3-2-| B|----------------3------2-3-3h5---3h5p3p2h3-0----3----2h3----------------3-0----------| G|------------------2--------------------------------------------4---------0-----------| D|0-0----0--------------------------------------------------------0----0---0----------| A|---------------------0----------0--------------2-2----2------------------------------| E|---------------------------------------------------------------------3---------------| Okay, some of that is out of order, but I think you get the point... I'm just getting flustered with it, and can't really find any finger picking excercises, anyone that can point me in the direction of some, I would HIGHLY appreciate it... Thanks.
Duh...lots of good answeres any body know Buddy Guy...??? Bluesman??? Jorma Kaukenan (sic) Of Hot Tuna fame....But....seriously I'd have to go with The late Great Jerry Garcia of the the infamous Grateful Dead, my 2 pence,Yeah I agree Classic Cars and Music go together very well! and yes I have 4 Turntables up and spinning Vinyl Albums still yet Greg E.
AUGH - MY EYES!!! When I was learning I used tab, but then I got to the point where I could figure things out by ear, and then I started reading music. Now, tab hurts my eyes. I really think you need to get your fingers used to working independently. Learning fingerstyle can be difficult at first, but will improve your playing across styles. A book that might help is Solo Guitar Playing by Frederick Noad; it's for Classical guitar. Since you already play, some of it will seem very basic at first, but it builds up. Of course, it's best with an instructor, but you can get a lot out of it on your own. Here is something you can try - Etude No. 1 by Villa Lobos. You aren't picking more than one note at a time, but it helps with dexterity. We call it the arpeggio study from hell. http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/v/villa-lobos_heitor/etude_1-tab.shtml I didn't check it for accuracy. Here is a uTube video of someone playing it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Z-Hr_NLVtE Don't try it that fast, start very slowly... the idea is to improve dexterity, don't worry about shredding. Estudio VI by Leo Brower is another good practice piece: http://youtube.com/watch?v=EaIO0z8iFZU&mode=related&search= Sound familiar?
Alright, all the greats seem to have been touched on. How about some of the underrated guys. How about Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids? Rhapsody has them listed under the alternative/punk>retro/vintage>psychobilly genre and, after listening for awhile, this actually makes sense. The man does a great blend of Creedence/surf/rockabilly and, like Creedence, it seems so simple and good that you wonder why everyone doesn't do it (maybe cause it's harder than it seems? Maybe cause it's too obvious?). I don't know, but if you ever get the chance to see the band live you HAVE to go! If I ever get enough money to hire a band for a birthday party or something, SCOTS would be my first choice. Another guy I like alot was Steve Salas from Sass Jordan. The band was hot for a short time in the mid 90's. When I saw them live at the TLA in philly the singer was so whacked that she couldn't remember half her lines... but the drummer rocked (taylor hawkins, now with the Foo fighters) and Stevie Salas was the MAN. If you check out the album Rats you might see what I mean. Acousic-wise, I think you gotta say Django Reinhardt was incredible. I have a CD of him and if you can get past the quality of the recordings and the darn violin you can hear the amazing stuff that comes from him. Kinda flows like SRV... but a totally different kind of music. Also, Bert Jansch was a great innovative acoustic guitarist(according to Wikipedia so it's gotta be true) who heavily influenced Jimmy Page. I think that Black Mountainside (is that the right title?) is a total swipe of a Jansch song. I think Neil Young and Jimmy Page both said that Bert Jansch was the equivalent of Jimmy Hendrix on the acoustic. It's a shame is vocals were so hard to listen to!
Dominic Frasca .. I don't think anyone mentioned him.. (not rock, but still) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2BOApUvFpw Thanks for the tips Truzi
Billy Gibbons FTW :grin: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xwpajCyAO7A"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xwpajCyAO7A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Josh Homme out of Kyuss, Queens of the stone age and Them crooked vultures. His wife Brody Dalle ain't bad neither. He about the only REAL Muso around for my generation. Check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwWUfLlglw
Had to have the blues first RL Burnsides http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_DOnKJ232M&feature=related then rock.... Bob Mothersbaugh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwtqf0RRWNY&feature=related The fitist must survive so the unfit can live
Yngwie Malmsteen (its not a typo, its pernounced Ingvay) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDb...ext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXedv7HGD0p-0Qi6wW0yNaco Eric Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15eu7ar5EKM and even though hes more blues oriented Joe Bonamassa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry4NCejMZ7E&feature=related
Dimebag Darrell, not sure how many of you guys are metal heads on here Alexi Laiho is awesome too as well as Dave Mustaine and (my mistake, Kirk Hammett I must have been half asleepo No: ). Gotta thow Cliff Burton in as far as amazing Bassists go:TU:
Lots of great choices! I have seen pretty much all of the greats live... My favorite guitarists are: Jimmy Page...Duane Allman...Steve Morse
Steve Howe of Yes Steve Howe of Asia Steve Howe of GTR SRV Guy who played for Boston Queen's lead guitarist Page Van Halen Lead for Pink Floyd
Peter Frampton. Jimi Hendrix. Eddie Van Halen. Eric Clapton. Mark Knopfler. Lindsay Buckingham. I grew up listening to the golden years of rock through my father. I wish I would've been born in the 70's.
I didn't bother reading the 8 pages worth of guitarists, but I'll put in a word for the Bassists . . . Les Claypool :TU:
Alan Haynes, Dickie Betts, Alvin Lee. Saw Alvin at a small venue about 22 years ago. Maybe 100 people showed up. Yeah he was great.
