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Originally Posted by tore
He does? I'm not saying I disagree, but besides Surfing with the Alien, I haven't heard much Satriani. Could you give some examples of him playing different styles of guitar?
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He does everything from Acoustic Fingerpicking (Tears in the Rain; Always With Me Always With You).
To talented tapping and legato (sections of Surfing with the Alien).
Ballads (Cryin'; Starry Night).
Odd Time Signatures (Satch Boogie).
Effect manipulations; e.g. using a volume pedal in a way nobody has been able to duplicate properly yet (Searching).
Retakes of classics (Sleep Walk).
Beautiful use of modes (Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness; Why; Belly Dancer).
And despite being a talented lead guitarist, he is also a talented rhythm guitarist who knows how to give room for vocal melodies (Strange; Phone Call; Big Bad Moon) ... even though he isn't a talented singer.
If you've only checked out "Surfing With The Alien", you really need to check out the albums "Flying in a Blue Dream" and "The Extremist" - "Strange Beautiful Music" is also a rather good album.
Try to disregard his two most recent albums (he tones down the technical complexity a whole lot).
The way I see it, the only thing Buckethead can do that Joe Satriani can't is raping the **** out of a killswitch.