For those of you who play guitar, what famous guitarist do you seem to copy the most? Or are you a totally unique player, and you have your own sound?

 

As much as I'm a fan of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin etc, I tend to play a more thrash style influenced by Metallica. Basically, I abuse the pentatonic scale. I also play a lot of thrash style riffs.

Im just starting to learn guitar, im not really good enough to tell yet, but im playing stuff by The Beatles, Oasis, Cream and some Dire Straits stuff.

For those of you who play guitar, what famous guitarist do you seem to copy the most? Or are you a totally unique player, and you have your own sound?

 

As much as I'm a fan of The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin etc, I tend to play a more thrash style influenced by Metallica. Basically, I abuse the pentatonic scale. I also play a lot of thrash style riffs.

Hi. You might also try the harmonic minor scale, sometimes known as the metal scale. Metal bands like Metallica use it a lot.

Here's a video demonstrating it

Edited February 6, 201114 yr by Olympus

I like to mix it up. Most of my electric guitar playing is mainly influenced by Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, David Bowie, U2 and Led Zeppelin. But I love playing acoustic stuff in the style of Bob Dylan, Jamie T, Bob Marley, etc. I also have a thing that I like to take pop tracks and turn them into either acoustic tracks or heavy guitar tracks (i.e. my metal cover of 'Telephone'). I should post some videos really.

Mostly Metallica and AC/DC style riffs and solos for me.

 

My aim though is to be able to play like Slash. The guy gets a raw deal I think by some guitarists who say that he wasn't that technically accomplished, but I find his riffs and solos more difficult than even thrash metal stuff.

I love the sound and riffs of David Gilmore although my style doesn't match his very much. Mostly I try to recreate the sound of jazz guitar, with that warm, a bit muddy character.

I don't play guitar, but if I did. I would likely go for either a Dimebag Darrell style, or moer likely, a black metal sort of easy to learn riff. Completely different styles, I know!

I'm mainly a rhythm guitarist...I love John Lennons rhythm work for eg, quite syncopated and choppy, which I try to emulate, although I dont know how the guy manages to do those fast triplet strums in 'All my loving' and still keep the beat perfectly, when I try it always slips back to 2 beat (1-2 1-2), rather than the triplet rhythm(1-2-3 1-2-3). He must have had wrists of steel.

Edited June 18, 201114 yr by Olympus

zack wilde of course, love his techniques ;)

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. :-P