AC/DC and Bon Jovi Thanks for your videos Jamie. Personally I'm 43 and never had in 30 years the desire to quit guitar. Anyway, I agree that persons like you increase the desire to grow up! Cheers from Italy
This will be a long comment, but from the heart. I am 39 years old, I started playing when I was 17. At first, with only school on my mind, I was able to practice for several hours a day. The effects were visible, and I wanted more. Then came adulthood, work and marriage. The guitar was put aside. There was a desire, but no time. I often blamed myself that despite the promises I made to myself, I did not learn some awesome song that was on the radio and I knew I would learn it quickly. Currently, I focus on playing for pleasure. The need to prove to myself that I have let myself down is gone. I do not remember how long I have been watching your channel, but this is the first comment and know that you are also an inspiration. Sometimes through music, exercises, or simply statements. I wish you all the best, and for us, people who just play from time to time, I wish that it is simply a pleasure for us!
Same here dude. Started at 16. Currently 39. Same same same. Adulthood, work, wife and kids. Guitar went to the wayside. Still don’t have the motivation. I continue to watch these guys play and that does bring joy. I will attempt to make time to play again. Sooo much gear just sitting aside. I need to get back at it
I’n exactly the same as you - 39 and began at 17 and quit during my early 20s because I put too much pressure on myself to be good. Now I’m older I can focus better - I recognise learning something takes time- and I just play for enjoyment
Lmao sounds like we're all pretty similar here, I'm 35 started at 14 and have barely practiced the last few years, I see Jason Richardson and Polyphia playing insane shit and just sigh at my guitar in the corner...we gotta get our collective shit together guys 😂
Thanks for this insight.🙏, what you said happened for me last December holiday. My friends said If I could play "Enter Sandman" and "Sweet Child O Mine" and If I can maybe "Far Beyond the Sun". I'm so glad I was able to nail EnterSandman and Sweet Child well, but FBTS not that much. My passion came back when we are able to "enjoyi" and "have fun" from playing the music that we love. That's why I learn songs because it's fun, learning technique is secondary. Cheers!🎸 Oh, and my big 3 was. 1) Slash 2) Yngwie 3) tie between Nuno and Jimi Page
This hits so close for me, I've been playing for over 20 years and just recently had some amazing fun learning some old school disturbed. Its even more fun when you notice techniques in the past are easier due to all the time taken doing the less satisfying practice like sweep picking or alternate picking or down strokes. You can focus on the song learning and not learning the techniques IN the songs. When it all comes together its simply magical.
2017 was the worst year of my life. Discovered Buckethead the first part of 2018. His music really spoke to me and helped get me through the grief I was dealing with. I picked up the guitar because of him because one day I want to touch someone in such a profound way with music the way he did for me. Love your channel brother, thank you so much for what you do.
My biggest discouragement is arthritis in my hands and wrists. I'm struggling to find comfortable ways to play simple things. Maybe I should focus on what I can play for a while? My big three are... 1) Gary Moore 2) Rory Gallagher 3) Eddie Van Halen
Early on for me, it was Kirk Hammett, and James Hetfield that got me started. Joe Satriani is the guitarist that kept me going, though. Discovering him really excited me to learn more about theory, and to really practice. His music was a gateway to other artists too. Steve Vai became a huge part of my music life, and things kinda just skyrocketed again from there.
thanks for the reminder and setting perspective. Because at 55 years old - I get trapped into exercises to break bad habits and reeducate my hands. When I started, it was about being able to strum chords and sings covers start to finish (I seemed much happy with my playing back in those times) It is kind of like getting lost in a deep hole, so having this dialog from someone who clearly is at a professional level really helps.
Love it. I just finished my first year of playing video and I was thinking where to go from here?? Right back to where I started to clean up those easy songs I struggled with and perfect them!
Great points. I used a similar argument with a friend of mine who would always tell me he’s making these grueling practice routines and would knock me for learning actual songs. I’m like bro you have to enjoy it and running scales using economy picking gets boring.
instead of using exercises i just use parts of songs that i like. For Alternate picking i just use any scale line that john sykes uses. But sometimes exercises sound fun too (rarely). There is just no fun in playing stuff that doesnt sound good imo
My original top 3 would be Ritchie Blackmore, Angus Young and Slash! Current top is more the kinds of Synyster Gates, Marty Friedman 😅 Plus maybe Julian Lage, pure genius. thank you Jamie for the amazing content, as always, and happy new year 🎉
When I see people half my age and can shred like crazy, I can't help but thinking like "why am I even doing this?", but there's nothing to do but to practice more.
I started playing guitar back in 1986 when I was 12. I was a huge fan of Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen, and I wanted to play guitar like them. David Gilmour was a huge influence, too as Pink Floyd was my moms favorite band, and she and I loved listening to them together. I stopped playing guitar a long time ago because I have a learning disability, and it makes learning how to play nearly impossible. I struggle to learn even basic chords as I can't remember things I've learned, and due to how difficult it is I usually end up crying after trying to figure things out. It's caused me to give up trying though I still watch videos about guitar. I think part of me still dreams about being a good player even though at 50 I mostly feel like it's too late. Plus I'm disabled, poor, and couldn't afford decent gear or to repair my broken guitar even if i wanted to. I wish It was easier.
Amazing - great to hear and you hit the nail on the head. I’ve gone back and rediscovered use your illusion one and am having a last playing and trying to play some of it! As a result I have a new found love and appreciation of an album I already liked! The idea of playing full songs too is also so underrated! I found that after a period of wood shedding or working hard at something I give myself a fun break or reward by learning something fun that gets me recharged! Slash, Paul Gilbert, Jimi Hendrix are 3
Funny thing about learning guitar. After you get some experience, learning about pick angles, string escaping motions, left/right hand mutings, etc... it is kinda hard to just enjoy learning a song. You want every chord, every lick to sound perfect.
Mark Knopfler(Dire Straits On Top🎸), Slash and Randy Rhoads, although it's impossible to actually choose 3 when there are hundreds to choose from like Guthrie Govan, EVH, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Brian May etc
That hits close to home, really. I picked up the guitar at 9 years old, but quickly gave up. I wanted to play Iron Maiden and Metal. I picked up the guitar again in 2016, and started improving relatively quickly. From 2018 onwards it was always on and off, usually 2-3 month runs, only to not play for next 4-5 months or so, focusing mostly on technique. I always played an old strat knockoff, unplugged, barely felt like playing anymore on many occasions. A couple months I've bought an Ibanez S621 and a Yamaha THr10ii, and devoted myself to learning some of the songs that made wanna pickup the guitar back in the days of my childhood. The Prisoner, Die With Your Boots On, Aces High, Hallowed Be Thy Name all from Iron Maiden, also Thin Lizzy's Dancing in the Moonlight. I've never had so much fun playing guitar as I am now, and I've probably improved more in the past 2 months than I have in the past 3 years. Looking back, the periods in which I had the biggest improvements in my playing were always the times when I dedicated myself to learning songs I liked.
My main source of discouragement is other musicians. I have had so few positive experiences with musicians relative to the negative ones. Most of them rarely miss an opportunity to humiliate and degrade others. It’s like they’re not happy unless the people around them are full of doubt and self-hatred. Jazz musicians and music teachers are particularly territorial and risk-averse. What a sham.
I know I've never heard you play but as a fellow musician I just want to say you fucking rock, and you should keep being more and more awesome because you fucking deserve to. Keep rocking, friend.
everyone likes to act as if they are a prodigy right? but thats low self steem disguised as ego, whenever someone is mean to you remember that they feel so small they need to try to put you on their level.
Every time I start to feel like I can’t come up with anything I try to make something much simpler than usual, but sounds awesome. I grew up with a lot of nu metal and it’s a lot of big heavy power chords so I go back to that kind of stuff. After I write something cool with that I usually move on to making something lamb of god-ish which is more technical but harmonically not super fancy, then I go back to more modern stuff that I like making.
Randy Rhoda’s Megadeath Metallica are my big three. I think to keep being inspired on guitar you have to keep learning that’s the key for me!! Rock on bro.
I wanted to play guitar because of my favorite bands in the 70's and 80's. Just want to play my favorite songs. Been trying for years off and on. Learned a lot of chords and rhythm last summer but didn't have any lead chops. Working on that now. Rock on!
My two favourite guitarists are still the same as they were back when I first started: Jason Becker and Yngwie Malmsteen. I guess I'm lucky, because this means I can practice sweeping constantly, and I always have a blast with it!
Randy Rhoads got me into the instrument initially, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani made me want to take it seriously, and Paul Gilbert is where a lot of my little idiosyncrasies come from. Thank you for this video. I got back into seriously playing and learning after digging myself out of a slump, and have been having the time of my life.
I sometimes get discouraged by the guitar virtuosos on social media. I think it's better to just focus on yourself and your own goals for playing. Shawn Lane said, "There is beautiful music to be made at all levels of playing."
Slipknot got me started in my music journey, made me want to pick up the guitar. Then it was Megadeth, but John Petrucci and Dream Theatre solidified my passion and love for the guitar! It’s so motivating but so discouraging to know what your musical idols can and have played! Only answer to our problems is to practice, learn songs and techniques, stay disciplined and achieve our goals.
Difficult pickin any top three.. but videogame music, dod/ocremix is probably what got me into guitar, and with time, i switched out pick and distortion in favour of fingerstyle classical/flamenco ^.^
I think I get caught up in the opposite. I tend to spend my practice time improv-ing and playing songs I love. And I feel like I’m stuck in a rut playing full songs and not enough technical skills. Trying to find those new licks and new techniques to use is difficult.
"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins". Dizzy Gillespie. i practice even when i feel like shit, music is all i have. music is all i want. and the guitar is a defying instrument. and learning songs is how i learn jazz vocabulary. no one wants to listen to licks, people need a story to connect to
Edward van Halen Angus/Malcolm Young Jimi Hendrix One of the most basic answers I guess, but those guitarists inspired me when I was younger. Closely followed (time wise, order of discovery) by Dimebag Darrel So a top 4 if you will. Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Michael Romeo, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, they all came later. This list can be way longer but I don’t want to start a new book here 😂
Great tip, m8! Also, kinda disappointed that my no1 influence isn't one of your mentions and it seems nobody gives a note about Ritchie Blackmore anywhere, but he's my fav, along with Rory Gallagher and Eddie who I think should be at least shoulder to shoulder with Hendrix. :)
I swear, this video was a sign from God. I couldn’t figure out the solo to Paranoid by Black Sabbath (since Tony Iommi is my main inspiration, and I also would love to solo like Kirk Hammett btw), and right when I gave up for the night, and feeling discouraged, I saw this video. That’s creepy. I’ve only been playing since June and ever learned a full song until about 90% of Paranoid.
My "big three" is more like four: in chronological order, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Satriani, Yngwie, and EVH. That's right, even though I have been listening to Van Halen since the 80's, it wasn't until I'd been playing guitar for 10 years that I started trying to play like Eddie.
I didn't start playing until the late 00's, but the biggest thing that got me to start playing was wanting to learn Go Go Power Rangers... Beyond that, my big 3 guitarists that had me motivated to play were Adam D from Killswitch Engage, Andy James, and Oli Herbert from All That Remains. Maybe a little bit of Matt Tuck (Bullet for my Valentine) or Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom) thrown in there for good measure.
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For me was Santana,Gary Moore and Eric Clapton! Keep rocking Jamie !Thanks for the content!
Judas Priest & Iron Maiden
Knopfler, back in the mid 80s
AC/DC and Bon Jovi
Thanks for your videos Jamie.
Personally I'm 43 and never had in 30 years the desire to quit guitar.
Anyway, I agree that persons like you increase the desire to grow up!
Cheers from Italy
probably Alexi Laiho and Priest
This will be a long comment, but from the heart. I am 39 years old, I started playing when I was 17. At first, with only school on my mind, I was able to practice for several hours a day. The effects were visible, and I wanted more. Then came adulthood, work and marriage. The guitar was put aside. There was a desire, but no time. I often blamed myself that despite the promises I made to myself, I did not learn some awesome song that was on the radio and I knew I would learn it quickly. Currently, I focus on playing for pleasure. The need to prove to myself that I have let myself down is gone. I do not remember how long I have been watching your channel, but this is the first comment and know that you are also an inspiration. Sometimes through music, exercises, or simply statements. I wish you all the best, and for us, people who just play from time to time, I wish that it is simply a pleasure for us!
Same here dude. Started at 16. Currently 39. Same same same. Adulthood, work, wife and kids. Guitar went to the wayside. Still don’t have the motivation. I continue to watch these guys play and that does bring joy. I will attempt to make time to play again. Sooo much gear just sitting aside. I need to get back at it
Amen dude - same
I’n exactly the same as you - 39 and began at 17 and quit during my early 20s because I put too much pressure on myself to be good. Now I’m older I can focus better - I recognise learning something takes time- and I just play for enjoyment
I'm 40 with a similar story.....is this a trend?
Lmao sounds like we're all pretty similar here, I'm 35 started at 14 and have barely practiced the last few years, I see Jason Richardson and Polyphia playing insane shit and just sigh at my guitar in the corner...we gotta get our collective shit together guys 😂
Thanks for this insight.🙏, what you said happened for me last December holiday. My friends said If I could play "Enter Sandman" and "Sweet Child O Mine" and If I can maybe "Far Beyond the Sun". I'm so glad I was able to nail EnterSandman and Sweet Child well, but FBTS not that much. My passion came back when we are able to "enjoyi" and "have fun" from playing the music that we love. That's why I learn songs because it's fun, learning technique is secondary. Cheers!🎸
Oh, and my big 3 was.
1) Slash
2) Yngwie
3) tie between Nuno and Jimi Page
This hits so close for me, I've been playing for over 20 years and just recently had some amazing fun learning some old school disturbed. Its even more fun when you notice techniques in the past are easier due to all the time taken doing the less satisfying practice like sweep picking or alternate picking or down strokes. You can focus on the song learning and not learning the techniques IN the songs. When it all comes together its simply magical.
2017 was the worst year of my life. Discovered Buckethead the first part of 2018. His music really spoke to me and helped get me through the grief I was dealing with. I picked up the guitar because of him because one day I want to touch someone in such a profound way with music the way he did for me. Love your channel brother, thank you so much for what you do.
My biggest discouragement is arthritis in my hands and wrists. I'm struggling to find comfortable ways to play simple things.
Maybe I should focus on what I can play for a while?
My big three are...
1) Gary Moore
2) Rory Gallagher
3) Eddie Van Halen
Early on for me, it was Kirk Hammett, and James Hetfield that got me started. Joe Satriani is the guitarist that kept me going, though. Discovering him really excited me to learn more about theory, and to really practice. His music was a gateway to other artists too. Steve Vai became a huge part of my music life, and things kinda just skyrocketed again from there.
Hendrix, page & slash
thanks for the reminder and setting perspective. Because at 55 years old - I get trapped into exercises to break bad habits and reeducate my hands. When I started, it was about being able to strum chords and sings covers start to finish (I seemed much happy with my playing back in those times) It is kind of like getting lost in a deep hole, so having this dialog from someone who clearly is at a professional level really helps.
Love it. I just finished my first year of playing video and I was thinking where to go from here?? Right back to where I started to clean up those easy songs I struggled with and perfect them!
Great points. I used a similar argument with a friend of mine who would always tell me he’s making these grueling practice routines and would knock me for learning actual songs. I’m like bro you have to enjoy it and running scales using economy picking gets boring.
instead of using exercises i just use parts of songs that i like. For Alternate picking i just use any scale line that john sykes uses. But sometimes exercises sound fun too (rarely). There is just no fun in playing stuff that doesnt sound good imo
SRV, Billy Gibbons, and Prince. I cannot play like any of them, but they are my guitar heros!!!!!!
My original top 3 would be Ritchie Blackmore, Angus Young and Slash! Current top is more the kinds of Synyster Gates, Marty Friedman 😅 Plus maybe Julian Lage, pure genius. thank you Jamie for the amazing content, as always, and happy new year 🎉
When I see people half my age and can shred like crazy, I can't help but thinking like "why am I even doing this?", but there's nothing to do but to practice more.
Synyster Gates, Matt Heafy, and Alexi Laiho are my top 3. I also look up to Jesper/Bjorn of In Flames, Will Swan, Akira Takasaki, and Vito Bratta.
I started playing guitar back in 1986 when I was 12. I was a huge fan of Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen, and I wanted to play guitar like them. David Gilmour was a huge influence, too as Pink Floyd was my moms favorite band, and she and I loved listening to them together. I stopped playing guitar a long time ago because I have a learning disability, and it makes learning how to play nearly impossible. I struggle to learn even basic chords as I can't remember things I've learned, and due to how difficult it is I usually end up crying after trying to figure things out. It's caused me to give up trying though I still watch videos about guitar. I think part of me still dreams about being a good player even though at 50 I mostly feel like it's too late. Plus I'm disabled, poor, and couldn't afford decent gear or to repair my broken guitar even if i wanted to. I wish It was easier.
Amazing - great to hear and you hit the nail on the head. I’ve gone back and rediscovered use your illusion one and am having a last playing and trying to play some of it! As a result I have a new found love and appreciation of an album I already liked!
The idea of playing full songs too is also so underrated!
I found that after a period of wood shedding or working hard at something I give myself a fun break or reward by learning something fun that gets me recharged!
Slash, Paul Gilbert, Jimi Hendrix are 3
Kirk Hammett, Steve Vai and Jeff Loomis were some of my first big ones.
Funny thing about learning guitar. After you get some experience, learning about pick angles, string escaping motions, left/right hand mutings, etc... it is kinda hard to just enjoy learning a song. You want every chord, every lick to sound perfect.
Mark Knopfler(Dire Straits On Top🎸), Slash and Randy Rhoads, although it's impossible to actually choose 3 when there are hundreds to choose from like Guthrie Govan, EVH, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Brian May etc
That hits close to home, really. I picked up the guitar at 9 years old, but quickly gave up. I wanted to play Iron Maiden and Metal. I picked up the guitar again in 2016, and started improving relatively quickly. From 2018 onwards it was always on and off, usually 2-3 month runs, only to not play for next 4-5 months or so, focusing mostly on technique. I always played an old strat knockoff, unplugged, barely felt like playing anymore on many occasions.
A couple months I've bought an Ibanez S621 and a Yamaha THr10ii, and devoted myself to learning some of the songs that made wanna pickup the guitar back in the days of my childhood. The Prisoner, Die With Your Boots On, Aces High, Hallowed Be Thy Name all from Iron Maiden, also Thin Lizzy's Dancing in the Moonlight. I've never had so much fun playing guitar as I am now, and I've probably improved more in the past 2 months than I have in the past 3 years. Looking back, the periods in which I had the biggest improvements in my playing were always the times when I dedicated myself to learning songs I liked.
Great advice.
My main source of discouragement is other musicians. I have had so few positive experiences with musicians relative to the negative ones. Most of them rarely miss an opportunity to humiliate and degrade others. It’s like they’re not happy unless the people around them are full of doubt and self-hatred. Jazz musicians and music teachers are particularly territorial and risk-averse. What a sham.
Happy new year!
I know I've never heard you play but as a fellow musician I just want to say you fucking rock, and you should keep being more and more awesome because you fucking deserve to. Keep rocking, friend.
everyone likes to act as if they are a prodigy right? but thats low self steem disguised as ego, whenever someone is mean to you remember that they feel so small they need to try to put you on their level.
"The negative one." Slipknot
This is the opposite of my experience. Playing with other musicians rules. Sorry your experience is what it is, I hope that changes for you soon.
Every time I start to feel like I can’t come up with anything I try to make something much simpler than usual, but sounds awesome. I grew up with a lot of nu metal and it’s a lot of big heavy power chords so I go back to that kind of stuff. After I write something cool with that I usually move on to making something lamb of god-ish which is more technical but harmonically not super fancy, then I go back to more modern stuff that I like making.
Thanks, dude. Needed to hear this today.
Youre such a beast. Such perfect, clean technique. Im 31, been playing since I was 12 and I learn new things every time I watch your videos.
Great Motivational video 👍…Carlos Santana is the reason I started playing 🎸
Randy Rhoda’s Megadeath Metallica are my big three. I think to keep being inspired on guitar you have to keep learning that’s the key for me!! Rock on bro.
Thank you! This is a great advice. Keep up the great work!
I guess my top three is: David Gilmour, Slash and Brian May.
I wanted to play guitar because of my favorite bands in the 70's and 80's. Just want to play my favorite songs.
Been trying for years off and on. Learned a lot of chords and rhythm last summer but didn't have any lead chops. Working on that now. Rock on!
Excellent advice!!
Mick Mars, EVH, and Satchel
My two favourite guitarists are still the same as they were back when I first started: Jason Becker and Yngwie Malmsteen. I guess I'm lucky, because this means I can practice sweeping constantly, and I always have a blast with it!
I’ve head so many greats say to simply learn songs. Including Jordan Ziff and Kiko Loriero.
thanks for this video!! mi favorite is Dimebag Darrel
Randy Rhoads got me into the instrument initially, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani made me want to take it seriously, and Paul Gilbert is where a lot of my little idiosyncrasies come from. Thank you for this video. I got back into seriously playing and learning after digging myself out of a slump, and have been having the time of my life.
Issei Noro, Jimmy Page and Tim Henson got me into guitar!
I sometimes get discouraged by the guitar virtuosos on social media.
I think it's better to just focus on yourself and your own goals for playing.
Shawn Lane said, "There is beautiful music to be made at all levels of playing."
Well said. Was just thinking similar thoughts. Thanks Jamie😊
Slipknot got me started in my music journey, made me want to pick up the guitar. Then it was Megadeth, but John Petrucci and Dream Theatre solidified my passion and love for the guitar! It’s so motivating but so discouraging to know what your musical idols can and have played!
Only answer to our problems is to practice, learn songs and techniques, stay disciplined and achieve our goals.
Difficult pickin any top three.. but videogame music, dod/ocremix is probably what got me into guitar, and with time, i switched out pick and distortion in favour of fingerstyle classical/flamenco ^.^
I think I get caught up in the opposite. I tend to spend my practice time improv-ing and playing songs I love. And I feel like I’m stuck in a rut playing full songs and not enough technical skills. Trying to find those new licks and new techniques to use is difficult.
Gary Moore, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani are my big three guitarists!
For me Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmoore Randy Rhoads, EVH and Gary Moore
My big 3... David Gilmour, Jimmy Page, and John Fogerty.
Slash, Angus Young, and Mark Tremonti. A few youtubers, including yourself, inspired me to learn again properly 18 months ago 👊
"Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins".
Dizzy Gillespie.
i practice even when i feel like shit, music is all i have. music is all i want.
and the guitar is a defying instrument.
and learning songs is how i learn jazz vocabulary. no one wants to listen to licks, people need a story to connect to
Angus Young and lately discovered Slash ....
Thank you!
Rob Arnold/Chimaira, Billy Corgan/Pumpkins, Bjorn Gellotte/In Flames.
great advise
Edward van Halen
Angus/Malcolm Young
Jimi Hendrix
One of the most basic answers I guess, but those guitarists inspired me when I was younger.
Closely followed (time wise, order of discovery) by
Dimebag Darrel
So a top 4 if you will.
Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Michael Romeo, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, they all came later. This list can be way longer but I don’t want to start a new book here 😂
Great tip, m8! Also, kinda disappointed that my no1 influence isn't one of your mentions and it seems nobody gives a note about Ritchie Blackmore anywhere, but he's my fav, along with Rory Gallagher and Eddie who I think should be at least shoulder to shoulder with Hendrix. :)
For me Knopfler and Gilmour was early starts.. and than Satriani make a mess 😊
Dude I have an original JBecker peavy signature similar to the jb24 you’re cradling
Where did you get those sticker for the freetboard? I kinda love that! :D
Jason Becker, Dave Mustaine, and Dimebag. Doesn't get much better than that lol
i dropped skateboarding for the guitar when i was like 14, after seeing bat country on MTV
I swear, this video was a sign from God. I couldn’t figure out the solo to Paranoid by Black Sabbath (since Tony Iommi is my main inspiration, and I also would love to solo like Kirk Hammett btw), and right when I gave up for the night, and feeling discouraged, I saw this video. That’s creepy. I’ve only been playing since June and ever learned a full song until about 90% of Paranoid.
My "big three" is more like four: in chronological order, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Satriani, Yngwie, and EVH. That's right, even though I have been listening to Van Halen since the 80's, it wasn't until I'd been playing guitar for 10 years that I started trying to play like Eddie.
Lil wayne , MGK, Cory . Big3 .
big country and the smiths
I didn't start playing until the late 00's, but the biggest thing that got me to start playing was wanting to learn Go Go Power Rangers... Beyond that, my big 3 guitarists that had me motivated to play were Adam D from Killswitch Engage, Andy James, and Oli Herbert from All That Remains. Maybe a little bit of Matt Tuck (Bullet for my Valentine) or Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom) thrown in there for good measure.
Wait.. you can speak?
??
72 hours work a week.... Guitar? Maybe in another life.