whats your style?????

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Simple -- who do you emulate (we all do) we gravitate to a particular style/genre player in style and form and tone--

And this can change over the years-----
Guitar:
USED to be a Angus/Adrian SMith/Joe Perry/CC DEville type---
I Wish I was Steve Vai---or Randy Roads

NOW---REALISTICALLY{{{ BB King--Clapton....slow hand style cleans mostly with a touch of grit and reverb are my style du jour I try some jazzy Les paul stuff too---when the mood strikes--

Bass
I WISH I was a John Paul Jones--Billy Sheehan or Steve Harris-- but my actual playing style is more Dave Ellefson and Cliff Williams.....low--- driving..........solid --
fer instance.........like this



So what or WHO are your influences and faves-- but more over who do you actually PLAY like??????
As these can be very different things
 
Style? What’s that? I have what some people refer to as the “Rick Strum.”

But my closest influence or who I might actually try and emulate, would be players like CSN&Y. Gordon Lightfoot. Petty. Acoustic players. I suck too much at electric to call what I do a style.
 
I think I have my own style, I don't try to duplicate any persons style. My favorite guitar players are Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Randy Bachman. What I concentrate on is the songs that I like and want to play, I don't look at the guitar player per say. I just want to play the guitar to a point where I am personally continuing to grow with it . Becoming more and more proficient in the Instrument.
 
I always wanted to play in the style of Alvin Lee, Rory Gallagher, or Martin Barre, with a little Hendrix mixed in.

I think that I'm a bit more like Eddie Clarke or Tony McPhee, although some people have said I sound like Slash. Why? I don't know.
 
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Schenker, yep that's where it's at for me.
I can't help it. That's the tone.
The partially cocked wah tone. Maybe out of phase.
Either way the tone and the playing just slay me on all of the UFO recordings.
It was melodic yet still rock.
Ballads, stadium rock,who cares, it moved me...

But my style is abominable slop.
Sorry, I can't lie.
 
Hackmaster said:
Schenker, yep that's where it's at for me.
I can't help it. That's the tone.
The partially cocked wah tone. Maybe out of phase.
Either way the tone and the playing just slay me on all of the UFO recordings.
It was melodic yet still rock.
Ballads, stadium rock,who cares, it moved me...

But my style is abominable slop.
Sorry, I can't lie.
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If Schenker is out of phase, you will notice him playing with selector switch in the middle position.
 
gball said:
In truth, it's Iommi for rhythm and Schenker for lead. I denied this for years but when I listen back to myself it's kind of obvious (maybe a little too obvious if you know what I mean) what my influences were.
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That's good company right there... :yesway:
 
I'm influenced by so many guitarists of the past and present. But the ultimate style for me would be that of Randy Rhoads. His style was perfection to me when it came to heavy guitar oriented rock. Sometimes I still try to emulate him, but I always end up sounding like this guy I know that lives in Groovy Beach... :ohno:
 
syscokid said:
I'm influenced by so many guitarists of the past and present. But the ultimate style for me would be that of Randy Rhoads. His style was perfection to me when it came to heavy guitar oriented rock. Sometimes I still try to emulate him, but I always end up sounding like this guy I know that lives in Groovy Beach... :ohno:
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It's a good place to have your head.
He was at the top of his game.
Randy added some shred to what his influences brought forth before him.
The "neo classical" flavor without the excessive noodling of others.
 
I think it depends on what type of music I am playing. I mostly play the blues, and when I do, I guess people might be able to hear that I'm more than a little inspired by B. B. King, Peter Green and Eric Clapton. Personally I don't think I come even close to their greatness, but they are the most important sources of inspiration for me.
 
Oh wow... it’s almost easier to answer who hasn’t influenced me in some way. I grew up listening to 70’s and 80’s hard rock and hair metal and heavy metal. In truth in a fan of all the sub-genres of metal except for black metal.

Early influences that I was and still am really drawn to was Kirk Hammett (I know I know, but they started my journey into thrash), tony iommi, Zakk Wylde. Those are my top three influences.

Now despite being a metal head, I don’t consider myself a shredder. I can’t sweep pick and while I can perform right hand legatos (tapping) I certainly can’t Go from sweep picking into tapping. But what I seem to be drawn to play wise is those long emotional sustains with sudden bursts of speeds here and there for flavor. I have been told I very much sound like Michael Schenker, Doug Blair (of W.A.S.P), and a good friend of mine noticed a touch of Brian May.

He’s also the one that said that I really should be in a power metal band, particularly one that has a very technical player to accentuate off of. Basically he’d do all the shredder stuff but I’d come in out of nowhere and make my guitar cry in power ballads.

I’m actually quite pleased with that and think that’s pretty accurate.
 
I always admired Rhoads' style and his work with Ozzy. However, it is Angus Young who appeals most to me as a composer.

Being an uneducated musician, I play based on feel and not theory. The raw tone and approach to solos makes perfect musical sense to me.

In much the same way, I like Zakk Wylde's 'Hammer of Thor" approach to playing over a more fluid style, like Vai or Malmsteen.
 
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