GUITAR

**Plastic Flute** · 09-06-2008, 10:34 PM

My favorite musical instrument.
Maybe this should be a forum.
But I would love to start with .. What is your Favorite Guitar Solo? I know so hard... yikes. My uncle an Bro used to play this all the time. its one of my all time favs

Now my sons best fr loves it, and thats just electric.
My fav acoustic not solo but ck it out ..well one of them is this

The enharmonics suck me right in .

Or just yack about your first guitar ..Mine was a Yamaha . Segovian Scales .very hard.
Umm somtimes you are just blown away by a lead!! RIGHT?

Post it.

**Plastic Flute** · 09-06-2008, 10:53 PM

Captain Beefheart · 09-08-2008, 05:51 AM

Zappa and Puddle of Mudd on the same page, really?

Favourite solo, there are too many, at the end it really depends on the mood, the classic lyrical phrasing type ones("Stairway to Heaven", "Comfortably Numb", "Hotel California", "All Along the Watchtower", "Sweet Child O'Mine", "Fade to Black", "Mr.Crowley", "Highway Star" etc), the more sophisticated ones "Mediterranean Sundance", anything from Holdsworth "Tokyo Live".

Basically I dig any player that has an individual expression and identity(there are way too many clones and dopplegangers which hurts and stagnates the advancement of the instrument). There are also way too many players who also don't really "hear" the music and just play based on scales and don't really have a language of their own. Sure the instrument being geometrically inherently pattern based could lead to that, but that's why expression is so important and there are so few guitarists with a voice of their own(Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Holdsworth, Di Meola etc). Vibrato has always been very important to me because it is so expressive and individual. Steve Morse has that nervous hyper adrenalin shake, I think he is easy to pick out, while Gilmour's is more of the lyrical type. Pat Metheny has unusual technique, he can get around on the fingerboard for sure but he's not a real technician in the purest sense of the word. His technique wasn't modeled to eneable him to be as flexible as possible, I think it was modeled specifically for the sound and musical vision he has. Great player too.

I'll post sum videos later when I have time.

Captain Beefheart · 09-08-2008, 06:40 PM

Aight, let's him them.

Greg Howe playing a cover of a classic from Tony Williams Lifetime(Holdsworth). Listen deep and check out the interplay between the musicians, don't try just to digest the music as B flat 13sus, leading to a G 13 raised 9 flat 11 which resolves to a Fmajor9 flat 5 raised 7,or whatever. Just listen to the music. Even the most unmelodic, dissonant phrases just sound beautiful to me. And yeah Chambers is really killing it on drums.

I love chicken picking and this is a classic rock song, lots of pentatonic scales thrown in there. Great tone as always. Classic s!hit.

Love the tone and he has jazz sounding elements like those Montgomery-esqe octaves.

The original Super Guitar Trio. You can hardly call their music flamenco even though it has flamenco influences. Paco is of course killing it, McLaughlin is very influenced by the indian rhythm system which provokes some unusual picking patterns that doesn't fit into strict alternate or sweep picking. Dimeola actually projectesbetter and his runs are cleaner on alternate picking passages.

Tremolo picking.

I've noticed that no matter how "worldish" his Pat Metheny Group may sound at times..the guitar solos are drenched in jazz. His solos are always so incredible, harmonically and rythmically diverse and complex..and the fact that he blends the elements of the group with his up front jazz guitar solos is dope. Metheny is one of just a handful of musicians out there who is actually pushing the boundaries of Jazz and keeping it evolving.

Captain Beefheart · 09-16-2008, 03:05 AM

This stuff is sick and burning. I love Ritenour and watching this I can almost forgive him for his forays into "smooth" jazz territory. The rhythm section with Vinnie and Marcus is foolishly hot on a good system. I turned the auxiliary up for this, s!hit can be literally heard across the street.

BannedFromHeaven · 11-11-2008, 02:42 PM

My favorite guitar solo is The Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold
I'm playing that song on my guitar ^^
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=osxCNX...eature=related

everybody_knows · 12-12-2008, 11:21 AM

Favorite guitar solo? Probably have to go for one of the obvious ones...."Comfortably Numb", "Hotel California", etc.

Though the Edge's solo in U2's "The Fly" is pretty sweet.

09-06-2008, 10:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
Plastic Flute ICHiBAN HoOT Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 16,766 My Profile	GUITAR My favorite musical instrument. Maybe this should be a forum. But I would love to start with .. What is your Favorite Guitar Solo? *I know so hard... yikes. My uncle an Bro used to play this all the time. its one of my all time favs Now my sons best fr loves it, and thats just electric. My fav acoustic not solo but ck it out ..well one of them is this* The enharmonics suck me right in . Or just yack about your first guitar ..Mine was a Yamaha . Segovian Scales .very hard. Umm somtimes you are just blown away by a lead!! RIGHT? Post it. Last edited by Plastic Flute; 09-06-2008 at 10:45 PM..

09-08-2008, 05:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 4,314 My Profile	Zappa and Puddle of Mudd on the same page, really? Favourite solo, there are too many, at the end it really depends on the mood, the classic lyrical phrasing type ones("Stairway to Heaven", "Comfortably Numb", "Hotel California", "All Along the Watchtower", "Sweet Child O'Mine", "Fade to Black", "Mr.Crowley", "Highway Star" etc), the more sophisticated ones "Mediterranean Sundance", anything from Holdsworth "Tokyo Live". Basically I dig any player that has an individual expression and identity(there are way too many clones and dopplegangers which hurts and stagnates the advancement of the instrument). There are also way too many players who also don't really "hear" the music and just play based on scales and don't really have a language of their own. Sure the instrument being geometrically inherently pattern based could lead to that, but that's why expression is so important and there are so few guitarists with a voice of their own(Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Holdsworth, Di Meola etc). Vibrato has always been very important to me because it is so expressive and individual. Steve Morse has that nervous hyper adrenalin shake, I think he is easy to pick out, while Gilmour's is more of the lyrical type. Pat Metheny has unusual technique, he can get around on the fingerboard for sure but he's not a real technician in the purest sense of the word. His technique wasn't modeled to eneable him to be as flexible as possible, I think it was modeled specifically for the sound and musical vision he has. Great player too. I'll post sum videos later when I have time. Last edited by Captain Beefheart; 09-08-2008 at 06:17 AM..

09-08-2008, 06:40 PM	#4 (permalink)
Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 4,314 My Profile	Aight, let's him them. Greg Howe playing a cover of a classic from Tony Williams Lifetime(Holdsworth). Listen deep and check out the interplay between the musicians, don't try just to digest the music as B flat 13sus, leading to a G 13 raised 9 flat 11 which resolves to a Fmajor9 flat 5 raised 7,or whatever. Just listen to the music. Even the most unmelodic, dissonant phrases just sound beautiful to me. And yeah Chambers is really killing it on drums. I love chicken picking and this is a classic rock song, lots of pentatonic scales thrown in there. Great tone as always. Classic s!hit. Love the tone and he has jazz sounding elements like those Montgomery-esqe octaves. The original Super Guitar Trio. You can hardly call their music flamenco even though it has flamenco influences. Paco is of course killing it, McLaughlin is very influenced by the indian rhythm system which provokes some unusual picking patterns that doesn't fit into strict alternate or sweep picking. Dimeola actually projectesbetter and his runs are cleaner on alternate picking passages. Tremolo picking. I've noticed that no matter how "worldish" his Pat Metheny Group may sound at times..the guitar solos are drenched in jazz. His solos are always so incredible, harmonically and rythmically diverse and complex..and the fact that he blends the elements of the group with his up front jazz guitar solos is dope. Metheny is one of just a handful of musicians out there who is actually pushing the boundaries of Jazz and keeping it evolving. Last edited by Captain Beefheart; 09-08-2008 at 07:12 PM..

09-16-2008, 03:05 AM	#5 (permalink)
Captain Beefheart Mu nótahu Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: In a West End town, a dead end world Posts: 4,314 My Profile	This stuff is sick and burning. I love Ritenour and watching this I can almost forgive him for his forays into "smooth" jazz territory. The rhythm section with Vinnie and Marcus is foolishly hot on a good system. I turned the auxiliary up for this, s!hit can be literally heard across the street. Last edited by Captain Beefheart; 09-16-2008 at 03:08 AM..

09-06-2008, 10:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
Plastic Flute ICHiBAN HoOT Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 16,766 My Profile	.

11-11-2008, 02:42 PM	#6 (permalink)
BannedFromHeaven Soul on fire Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 74 My Profile	My favorite guitar solo is The Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold I'm playing that song on my guitar ^^ http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=osxCNX...eature=related

12-12-2008, 11:21 AM	#7 (permalink)
everybody_knows Newbie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 12 My Profile	Favorite guitar solo? Probably have to go for one of the obvious ones...."Comfortably Numb", "Hotel California", etc. Though the Edge's solo in U2's "The Fly" is pretty sweet.

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