Our Inspirational Guitarists
"To inspire" literally means to breath life into someone or something.
Great guitar players spend about as much time listening to music as playing. This sharing of
ideas, energy, and talents, passes the music on to the next generation of torch-bearing
musicians... why not you?
But the Best Guitar Players are not always the Best Guitar Teachers. Learn Guitar from the Best Guitar Teachers.
For the Best Guitar Teachers, you can Learn from Guitar DVD's, Jam Along Guitar CD's, Guitar Lesson Books, or from online Guitar Lessons from the the Jam Play Pros
When you practice these lessons, you improve and make progress towards your Black Belt Guitar Certification.
Adrian Legg
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Voted Guitarist Magazine's Guitar Player of the Decade, Adrian Legg is unlike ANY guitar player you have ever heard. Don't try to imitate him, because you can't. But hearing his fingerstyle in almost every guitar tuning imaginable will give you an appreciation for the depth of possibilities for the instrument that most of us only scratch the surface with.
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Category: Acoustic Fingerstyle
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Published on: 30 Dec 2003
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Billy Gibbons
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When you think of Billy Gibbons, you think of ZZ Top, or maybe you've heard of ZZ Top, and didn't know the name of the blues juggernaut behind the raunchy sound. The blues and rock concepts Billy relies on are simple, but packed with enough energy to keep packing in the crowds at tours around the world. ZZ Top's sound is one of the favorites of Hollywood directors and producers as well. This trio really packs a wallop!
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Category: Blues
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Published on: 30 Jan 2004
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Derek Trucks
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Derek Trucks is the youngest player ever to be voted into the Best 100 Guitar Players of All Time poll. When you hear Derek, you'll know why. Derek is one of the premier slide guitar players of all time, with deep southern roots and branching out to world music. |
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Category: Rock
Subcategory: Inspiration
Published on: 02 Aug 2004
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Eddie Van Halen
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There is before Eddie Van Halen, and then there's after Eddie. In the world of Rock Guitar, there has arguably never been another player with a greater impact on how the guitar was played. Eddie's musical sensibilities combined with chops, virtuosity and unique techniques blazed new trails for the up and coming generation to follow. |
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Category: Rock
Subcategory: Inspiration
Published on: 22 Sep 2004
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Eric Johnson
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Eric Johnson is known for his exquisite tone, technicality, intense attention to details, raw speed, and colorful playing. His genre spans instrumental rock, jazz, country, fusion, and blues, having absorbed the styles of many of the fathers of each of these styles and amalgamating them into a powerful manifestation of his own style. If you have not listened to or studied from Eric's many available instructional offerings, you are missing an opportunity of a lifetime.
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Category: Rock
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Published on: 21 Oct 2003
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Gary Moore
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Gary Moore is a multi-talented blues-rock artist, and is a big favorite among many of our polled members. Gary's style is straight forward driving rock/blues, but his phrasing and licks are all original, groundbreaking and unmistakably Gary Moore signature work. Gary is a must-own artist if electric blues is your game.
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Category: Rock
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Published on: 18 Nov 2003
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Jeff Beck
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Jeff Beck is arguably the most creative and influential electric guitar player of our musical era. His work has inspired other greats such as Steve Morse, Eric Johnson and others today. Jeff was a contemporary and acquaintance of Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, but Jeff's playing was all his own. When you think of modern electric guitar, whether it is straight up rock or jazz fusion, you think of Jeff Beck.
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Category: Rock
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Published on: 22 Oct 2003
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Joe Satriani
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Every serious rock lead guitar player should own a few Satriani albums, to hear the purest form of neo-classical and avant garde rock with high distortion. Harmonics, whammy tricks, stretching, modes, modulation, and violin-and harp-like rifts, intertwined with raunch, and heart-wrenching polyphonic acoustic work. Nobody makes music theory work quite like this guy.
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Category: Rock
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Published on: 13 Nov 2003
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Ottmar Liebert
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Ottmar Liebert has forged a unique blend of flamenco, salsa, bossa nova, and contemporary rock and blues classics through years of study, experimentation and sheer genius. Ottmar's style will add new dimensions to the way you see and hear guitar, and you'll find classical and latin styles more accessible than ever before.
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Category: Flamenco
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Published on: 09 Feb 2004
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Ritchie Blackmore
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Category: Rock
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Published on: 20 Jul 2004
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Steve Morse
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Steve Morse is set apart from all other guitarists by his raw speed and precision picking, underscored by classical and jazz training and unequaled songwriting and improvisational genius. Steve's licks and signature sound are among the most difficult to imitate, and seldom tried. Steve has played, toured or recorded with the Dixie Dregs, Kansas, Triumph, Lynard Skynard, the Steve Morse Band, Rush, Al DiMiola, Paco DeLucia, Manuel Barrueco and most recently, Deep Purple. Take this opportunity to be inspired by one of the most prodigious talents ever.
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Category: Rock
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Published on: 21 Oct 2003
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Tommy Emmanuel
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Tommy Emmanuel is one of the most overall brilliant guitar players in the world, and voted best all around guitar player and entertainer in Australia. You never knew you could get so much music out of an old acoustic guitar. Tommy Emmanuel sends all of us back to school. |
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Category: Rock
Subcategory: Inspiration
Published on: 09 Oct 2007
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Bios on these inspirational guitarists coming soon...
These players were deemed inspirational black belts by our members. If you would like to see others added
to the list, please mention them in our
Guitar Speak forum.
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