Originally Posted by Dan Tindall
He almost plays his guitar like it were a piano - the picking and strumming seem to be an intrinsic part of the melody, not just an accompaniment. Certainly made me think about how good you have to be to be any good at all at the guitar!


one lesson I took from Buddy Guy, Hendrix, and SRV growing up, was that rhythym is a crucial part of guitar playing whether you're doing "rhythym" or "lead" guitar. In fact I feel those terms are misnomers, because you have to be good at both to really excell at either. Hendrix used a lot of chords in his solos and the rhythym of his notes drove the band in the same manner that Sting's bass lines lead The Police songs headstrong. Even someone like Carlos Santana (one of my top 3 favorites) who does mostly melodies uses rhythym in very interesting ways. Taking a melodic solo line and repeating it on different beats of the measure, using syncopation, etc. Rhythym is almost more important during improvisation than the notes themselves!

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