by Destroyerzero » Fri May 16, 08 11:35 pm
Favorite Lead guitarists who I learned a lot from....I wont say I idolize them....since they are them and I am me. I will respect their hard work and time put into their instrument.
Joe Satriani
I learned a lot from listening to him and his extended music theory explanations. Favorite songs by Satriani... He needs no introduction....
Crystal Planet
Surfing with the Alien
Ice 9
Devil's Slide
Summer Song
Steve Vai
Like Satriani, He loves the Lydian mode with a passion. Its the major scale but with a raised fourth (1,2,3,#4,5,6,7) and its the same as going from Root to the relative key one fifth above. Play the E major scale and then Starting from E, play the B major scale.
Liberty
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Fever Dream (Favorite Steve Vai Song)
Blood and Tears
Rhandy Rhodes
He played for Ozzy Osborne...Blizzard of Ozz Album...My favorite solos by him are the ones in Crazy Train and Mr Crawley. Too bad he is dead.
Dimebag Darrel
I liked Pantera a lot, but he knew how to make solos using the Diminished and Augmented keys passing over the blues and pentatonic keys. Cowboys from Hell, Suicide Note Part 1, Sandblasted Skin, Hostile and Cementary Gates are my favorite pantera songs.
Herman Li
His approach is a melodic form combination with Sam when both do their dragonforce solos together...Though most of their stuff sounds the same, there are some solos I like....
Valley of the Damned, Cry for Eternity, Operation Ground and Pound, My Spirit will go on and Through the fire and flames
Kirk Hammet
He has many ideas using pentatonic and blues scale as a basis for many things. I liked metallica's earlier works. My favorite songs which have his solos
Battery
One
Welcome Home Sanitarium
I would cite songs from Hit the Lights and Ride the Lightning, but most of those solos were created by Dave Mustaine when he was in the band.
Marty Friedman
Megadeth's lead guitarist loved harmonic minor keys combined with blues scale. He used accoustic and electric guitars....My favorite solo by him and favorite Megadeth song is "Holy Wars...The punishment due" where you find a classical accoustic guitar interlude, along with a call and response solo during "a punishment due" as well as an outro solo as well.
Slash
His thing was a softer, but more chordal and melodic approach to soloing. He wasn't about trying to show off. He was about trying to make the piece have a solo that sticks well with the song. Guns and Roses lead guitarists who had his beginnings in Funk before his time in GNR.
Sweet Child of Mine
Paradise City
November Rain
Rocket Queen
Garden of Eden
There are many other guitarists out there which I enjoy....if I wrote them all down...I would have a book written by the time I was done.