Merkaba

^ I guess intense would explain it best.

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Don

This brilliant thread is gonna be like an eternal sticky, eh?

boo boo

Whatever, your options still could have been better, then maybe your poll could have been at least almost valid, thats what you wanted isnt it?...Valid answers for a valid poll?

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tomwaits4no1

I don't feel qualified to vote, but Sonny Landreth is my personal favorite. Richard Thompson is up there, too, on my list.

Don

Will you stop your personal vendetta against me please? For the tenth time, I had a huge list of guitarists (which I posted in this thread and you would like because many are your picks) in a word processor, and I randomly selected 50 of them which is the max for this forum.

boo boo

Next time you should try to decide who deserves to be on the poll and who dosent, Kurt Cobain and no Shawn Lane is just ridiculous.

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Don

Thanks for the tip oh-wise-one, but no matter who I picked of course there were gonna be disagreement. Some people picked Cobain, so go figure.

boo boo

Either they were joking or they are just stupid.


Everyone knows Kurt Cobain isnt remotely close to the ability of many of those players, even Kurt Cobain knew it.

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I didn't realise any one who had an opposing opinion to you was stupid...

boo boo

Its not my opinion that Cobain was a technicaly weak guitarist, its a cold hard fact...Technical skill can and should be measured objectively and based on facts and every aspect of technical skill, im pretty damn sure no one voted for Cobain seriously thinking he is the most technicaly skilled guitarist, more likely it was the following.

1. They havent heard of the other players, so they vote Cobain.
2. They dont understand the concept of technical skill and instead they chose to go by their favorite.
3. They voted for Cobain as a joke.

You may like someones riffs, but it dosent make them skilled, if you know just 3 chords you can make a whole variety of riffs based on just those chords alone, Cobain just happened to have a great ear for melody and he wrote some of the greatest riffs of all time, but his riffs are great because of their ridiculous catchyness, not because of their complexity or dificulty, where technical skill is actualy a factor, i can make a catchy riff (though not as good as Cobains riffs) but does that mean i have more technical skill than Yngwie Malmsteen?...No it dosent.

I have heard Cobains entire discography, he could usualy play clean and not screw up, but that is primarly because pretty much everything he plays is simple, the most complex riff he has ever done is Mr. Moustache, and thats nothing a high school kid cant figure out in a couple of weeks.

Technical skill in terms of guitar playing should be judged on these factors.

- Overall experience and knowledge of the guitar.

- Ability to both compose and perform complex riffs, solos and fills.

- Ability to play different genres and styles of guitar.

- Ability to play in various time signatures and scales.

- Ability to play cleanly and without missing or messing up notes.

- Ability to master a variety of different techniques, such as finger picking, alternate picking, hybrid picking, sweep picking, speed, legato, tapping, bending, tremollo, vibrato, arpeggio, soloing, riffing, phrasing, timing and improv ability.

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