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Top Guitar players of all time

Here is my list of the best guitar players of all time:

  1. Jimi Hendrix – one of the most influential and most creative guitar player of the 20th century, he was the first to showcase the unlimited explosive possibilities of electrical guitar playing. He was so good at manipulating and controlling fuzz, feedback and distortion. He influenced a lot of modern day guitar virtuoso.
  2. Eddie Van Halen – “falling down the stairs and landing on my feet” that is how he describes his guitar playing. He has changed the face of guitar playing because of his heavy guitar playing and dare devilish antics and exhibitions on his guitar. Most popular of all is his right hand tapping technique.
  3. Eric Clapton – Slow Hands, as he was popularly known. He has been the most influential guitar player of all time, being able to cope up with different tactics in different scenarios. When he was 20 years old, he was already a legend. He has placed blues on the mainstream level. He is one artist that knows how to grow up.
  4. Pete Townsend – he was popular for violently shoving his guitar on his marshal stacks after performing. He is a capable song writer and an amazing guitar player.
 

SLIDE TECHNIQUE

Knowing a lot of guitar techniques is an advantage, especially when you are a beginner.  Practicing various techniques would boost up your guitar performance in your skills.  This is one way of getting there, because techniques are proven to enhance different aspects of your guitar playing, therefore, improving your guitar skills as a whole.  If you are a beginner guitar player, you should know that knowing how to execute different guitar techniques is your key to becoming an excellent guitar player in the future.  Although you could not learn all guitar techniques at once because each technique has their own levels of difficulty and should not be digested in one go, you can start up with learning guitar technique one by one.  Like for example the slide guitar technique.  This technique is guaranteed to get more life in  your guitar playing especially in your soloing techniques.  Slides are used if you want to go from a note to a note without taking the pressure off your fingers as you move.  All you have to do slide it up or down to the next note creating a smooth prolonged transition between two or more notes.  Start slowly and then once you master it you can move one to the next one.

 

THE EQUIPMENTS THAT YOU NEED

When performing on stage, there is nothing worse than being not ready in terms of equipments.  So for your benefit, we have compiled the necessary equipments that you need when performing on stage.  So be ready and be alert while I explain to you and tell you what the need when performing on stage.

  1. Extra guitar strings- you will never know when your strings will give up on you.  What if it does while you were performing?  So, it is always better and to bring an extra pair of strings just in case crap happens.
  2. Extra guitar- brings extra guitars very much useful for a lot of things.  You can use it to change tunings.  Or use it when a guitar has a string broken.  Either way, you could use it as a substitute.
  3. Extra cord- it is also smart move to bring as many cords as you can.  It the most unfortunate happens, you have back up.

The important thing is in the whole idea behind this, is you should always bring a back up of everything.  Something to substitute malfunctioning ones or you broken one.  By doing so, you’re ensuring yourself a smooth – flowing performance.

 

SONG WRITING

Have you ever experience mental block when writing a song?  This is a common problem for most songwriters because not all of the time they’re inspired to write a song.  Not all that time, a new idea pops up inside of their heads.  Sometimes, there are days when they simply couldn’t think of anything at all.  You wish there is a solution to this?  If you sum it all up, it’s all about the inspiration.  If the inspiration is not there, fear is simply nothing to write about.  The good news is, you could actually go grab or extract something from anything that you could even get an inspiration from it.  Yes, this is absolutely true.

You must always think that there are no rules in songwriting and you could always sing about anything under the sun.  A good song could come up anytime and from anywhere.  It can be built around a make or a riff or chord even from anything.  Consider this as a challenge for you.  Let me share to you a tip.  Try and looking around you and if you notice something even if it is not significant, write something about it.  And if it doesn’t mean anything, add metaphors and adjectives that could make it significant.

 

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