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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Some of the fastest guitarists have not been the best at creating beautiful melodies. It is one thing to be fast, and quite another to create beautiful music, which often involves much more than sheer speed.
One of the legends of guitar, Eric Clapton, refers to himself as "Slow Hand". Other guitar masters such as Carlos Santana and Jeff Beck understand how to pause for feeling, and are gifted at accents and understatement.
Judging and rating guitarists really is subjective. For example my favorite guitarist, because of his inventiveness and expressiveness, is Jimi Hendrix, however Jimi was unorthodox in every way. He played left-handed, and strung his guitar upside down.
I am such a fanatic that I own the same guitar that he often played:
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Right on! I have that same Strat for the VERY SAME reasons
Hendrix was WAY ahead of his time.
As for this "greatest player in the world video"...while he is very good, many of his notes were flat, especially his bends. I watched the vid a couple times and counted no less than 10 notes that he TOTALLY missed.
So...no...the guy in this vid is not even CLOSE to the greatest. Listen to Hendrix, or Stevie Ray, or Clapton. Or for other styles, Al Dimeola and Paco de Lucia. These guitarists understood how to bring their guitars to life.