TOP 10 GUITARISTS

Ernest Isleys smooth and flowing tone on Whos that Lady.... pure xtc........

but your not that fast, play pentatonic, use hamerons, dont sweep pick and cant growl into a microphone like sick doggie..... you suck !
 
Ghost of Perdition is an amazing song and its definantly progressive. Not too many low spots with grim reaper voice but if you listen through it you hear great riffs and stuff going on behind it. Then he finally comes to earth and does what I can tell he likes to do best...... sing
 
I have massive respect for Mikael Akerfeldt, amazing songwriter, excellent player and singer, AND he can actually do both at the same time, something which I've never been able to do very well at all...

schenkadere said:
You should check out Mark Rizzo's solo stuff...flamenco infused metal.
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yeah I've heard his stuff, very good player, especially his Flamenco playing... There's a lot of metal guys, who are pretty generic shredders, yet have extra abilities in other guitar genres such as classical or jazz etc. I appreciate these guys for this, cos of how much work it takes to master not just one style, but multiple styles... Guys like this I would count such as Chris Broderick, Marc Rizzo, Kiko Loureiro etc. I wouldn't necessarily buy their albums for the shred, but for the other stuff...
 
razoredge said:
Ghost of Perdition is an amazing song and its definantly progressive. Not too many low spots with grim reaper voice but if you listen through it you hear great riffs and stuff going on behind it. Then he finally comes to earth and does what I can tell he likes to do best...... sing
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You think if he liked to sing normally best, he would do that on every album. Guess again...
 
Kenneth R. said:
You think if he liked to sing normally best, he would do that on every album. Guess again...
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Could that be a then or now ? Isnt he becoming more melodic ? I wonder what the majority of their following thought of Damnation ? Which of course it was iced them for me. He has some outragous progressions thats for sure even the harsh stuff.
 
batera said:
Ah, I was thinking in the context of Kiko Loureiro, because I had asked to see other examples. I still want to see examples of players that people like better though, for those that don't like Kiko. I'm just curious, since I'm not a guitar player myself and I want to learn about new players.

For starters...could someone recommend me something or show me a Satriani video on youtube that displays his talent well? I just want to see why everyone loves him, since I haven't been able to get into his playing yet. Again, I'm just giving the benefit of the doubt since I might not have seen what he really does.
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I'm a guitarist and don't love him...just listen to Surfing With The Alien...that's all you need to hear IMO.

Go to the Musician's Corner of this Forum and you can poke around for a bunch of video links.

Here's a few

[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5GOs7iLKaTI[/ame]

[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=bUZK9dasP8s[/ame]

Enjoy...don't get much better in my book!
 
Kenneth R. said:
Prog DM if we're splitting hairs. or Gothenburg (even though they're from Stockholm :lol:). You know what I meant. Razoredge isn't familiar with actual DM bands or else I would have mentioned bands like Necrophagist.
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DM to me is Death and Carcass...stuff like that...this newer shit is generic...it's catagorized more on style of singing rather than lyrical content and attitude.
 
razoredge said:
Could that be a then or now ? Isnt he becoming more melodic ? I wonder what the majority of their following thought of Damnation ? Which of course it was iced them for me. He has some outragous progressions thats for sure even the harsh stuff.
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I love Damnation. Don't forget it's a twin album to Deliverance, which features zero clean vox.
 
Pat Martino is amazing...especially when you consider everything he went through with that anuerysm he had. The guy I took lessons from back in Delaware is very close with Pat...he was a bit of a mentor to my teacher when he was growing up. Pat has, apparently, been working on putting all his ideas into book-form. When he came up to my teacher's school for a clinic last spring, he gave him a rough, handwritten draft of all the stuff as a gift. A lot of the stuff I work(ed) on with this guy (who is sort of a mentor to me in the way Pat was to him) is stuff passed down from Pat which is really cool imo. It's interesting to see how highly respected he is in the jazz community when you consider how how unknown he is in relation to other big-name jazz guitarists. I went to an Improv clinic the other day with some sax player (can't remember his name) and he went on a 10 minute rant about how he thinks Pat is one of the most mindblowing musicians he's ever had the pleasure of hearing.
 
batera said:
For starters...could someone recommend me something or show me a Satriani video on youtube that displays his talent well? I just want to see why everyone loves him, since I haven't been able to get into his playing yet. Again, I'm just giving the benefit of the doubt since I might not have seen what he really does.
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I don't know what drugs your taking my friend,but they are very strong. :zombie:Everthing that Satriani does is brilliant!!!
 
schenkadere said:
No reason...seemed like you were enjoying a few ales before those posts...just as I was reading them:lol:
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Not much of a drinker. I have been feeling kinda rare lately, I have no idea whats going on, I think I might enjoy senility, we'll call it creeping senility.

Truth is, I read a bit last week about "Black Metal" and it made me feel like getting some military weapons and purging the world of this filth. That combined with downloading samples of various "Death Metal" bands people mentioned only to be totally turned off by them and deleted the whole lot. So I've been a bit edgy.

I guess Im a soft metal guy. I'm just not into nonsence and for my heavy music I lean more toward worthy political, personal or social messages delivered by someone who can actually carry a tune. I've always had this problem with metal, its nothing new. Sing or shut up is my motto, so great players that indulge in bands that have no vocalist but still have someone stepping up to the mic are off my radar. Nothing but monotone white trash rap to me.

Here we have a topic about guitar players that involves ideals such as how many notes per minute, how creative, how much feel or passion and on one border we have a styles of metal music that involves voices that are required to use as few notes as possible, express no passion and stick to the statis quo of being "sick". Now I can use this one.... :zombie: and this one.... :err:
 
Kenneth R. said:
not everything.
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maybe not "brilliant" but its all good, he has great melodic presentation and feel. decent size bag of tricks that he applys tastefull in his improv. Theres a fair amount of great live videos on youtube of Joe. I just tried to link some of them but they carried over onto page and I didnt want to fill the page, just give the links. Then they came through blank to top it all off so I deleted. Anyone that doesnt get Joe is missing something
 
Kenneth R. said:
Let's play that game. Anyone who doesn't get Black Metal guitar styling is missing something.
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Something worth missing

however a guitar player missing the Satriani page from his book is truely missing something

simple human evaluation process to determine right from wrong
 
schenkadere said:
I'm a guitarist and don't love him...just listen to Surfing With The Alien...that's all you need to hear IMO.

Go to the Musician's Corner of this Forum and you can poke around for a bunch of video links.

Here's a few

Enjoy...don't get much better in my book!
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I'm confused, are those Satriani songs? Because they aren't him playing. But good stuff nonetheless.

Incidentally Kiko has a video of Surfing with the Alien...tell me how it compares to the original (it gets crazier towards the end):

 
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