Guitarists tended to rely on simple, repetitive riffs, rather than more complex solos or counter-melodies.

He was 43 on the list of Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time and was ranked at 88 in a similar list by Uncut Magazine.

On November 23, 2011, Paul was ranked at # 18 on Rolling Stones " 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ".

In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named Duane Allman, Warren Haynes, Dickey Betts, and Derek Trucks to their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, with Allman coming in at No. 2 and Trucks being the youngest guitarist on their list.

He has received wide critical recognition for his guitar playing, ranking at # 12 on Rolling Stones list of " 100 Greatest Guitarists " in 2011.

Guitarists also made use of the vibrato arm on their guitar to bend the pitch of notes downward, electronic tremolo effects and rapid ( alternating ) tremolo picking.

* Tom Morello, Grammy Award winning guitarist of Gĩkũyũ descent through his father, well known for his tenure with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave ; ranked # 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Spin Magazine has listed MacKaye and Picciotto together at No. 86 on their list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time for their unique and interlocking guitar style in Fugazi.

* Placed 85th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists.

* Placed 4th on Guitar World Magazine's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists.

He was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of " The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ".

* Placed on Guitar World magazine's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists.

Gibert has been voted number 4 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the " Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time ", as well as a spot in Guitar World's " 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time " list.

" In 2010, Gallagher was ranked # 42 on Gibson. com ’ s List of their Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.

Gallagher was also listed on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, ranked at 57th place.

Green was The Black Crowes ' Rich Robinson's pick in Guitar World's " 30 on 30: The Greatest Guitarists Picked by the Greatest Guitarists " ( 2010 ).

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Rolling Stone ranked him number sixty-nine on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time in 2003.

" He was placed at # 6 on a list of " The Twenty-Five Most Underrated Guitarists " by Rolling Stone.

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Rolling Stone lists him 36th on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the rock band Living Colour, Reid was named # 66 on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Although not mentioned on the Rolling Stone list " 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time ," Guitar Player praised him as one of the " 50 Greatest Tones of all Time.

Guitarists Jan Savage and Jeremy Levine with drummer Rick Andridge completed the original quintet, but Levine left shortly after the first recording sessions for personal reasons.

Guitarists who influenced him include Jimi Hendrix, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, and George Harrison.

Early to mid-20th century American singer-songwriters include Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Blind Willie McTell, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Son House, and Robert Johnson, ( Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an " Early Influence " in their first induction ceremony in 1986, he was ranked fifth in Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time ).

Guitarists who have had works dedicated to them by Dodgson include Julian Bream, Gabriel Estarellas, Angelo Gilardino, Nicola Hall, John Williams, the Eden-Stell Duo and the Fragnito-Matarazzo Duo.

The most common tuning is D-G-B-D ( from lower to higher pitches ); other tunings include D-A-B-E ( Portuguese ancient tuning, made popular by Júlio Pereira ) and G-G-B-D and A-A-C #- E. Guitarists often use D-G-B-E tuning to emulate the highest four strings of the guitar.

Solo works include Variations ( 1959 ), Discanti ( 1970 ), Saeta ( 1972 ), and ten serial pieces included with his book Serial Composition for Guitarists ( 1982 ).

Recordings with Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists include Show of Hands ( Editions EG ), Live in Europe ( DGM ), and most recently the Inner Knot compilation, The Plague of Crafty Gutarists.

These include the Grand Prix in the VI International Promotional Competition " Guitar Talents ' Review " ( Gdańsk, Poland-1999 ) and the title of " The Greatest Hope " in the " Tenth Gdańsk Meeting of Guitarists "; First Prize and Prize of Public in the VIII International Guitar Competition in Coria ( Spain-2004 ); First Prize in the Russian International Guitar Competition-" Guitar in Russia " in Voronezh ( Russia-2002 ).

Guitarists such as Pat Martino, Al Di Meola, Larry Coryell, John Abercrombie, John Scofield and Mike Stern ( the latter two both alumni of the Miles Davis band ) fashioned a new language for the guitar which introduced jazz to a new generation of fans.

Guitarists often use dissonance — along with specific scales, intervals and chord progressions — to create a sense of dread.

Guitarists of all styles came to admire various Atkins albums for their unique musical ideas and in some cases experimental electronic ideas.

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Guitarists tend to use only two basic inversions or " chord shapes " for the tonic chord ( music ), the open 1st inversion E and the open 3rd inversion A, though they often transpose these by using a capo.

Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars.

Several magazines and websites have compiled what they intend as lists of the greatest guitarists — for example The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, or 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World magazine.

In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published a list called The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time is mentioned in many biographies about artists who appear in the list.

Guitar World, a monthly music magazine devoted to guitar, also published their list of 100 greatest guitarists in the book Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time from the Pages of Guitar World Magazine.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

Guitarists may also learn to use the chord types, strumming styles, and effects pedals ( e. g., chorus effect or fuzzbox ) used in 1970s-era jazz-Latin, jazz-funk, and jazz-rock fusion music.

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Guitarists were not afraid to play solos, octave leads, and grooves as well as tapping into the various feedback and harmonic noises available to them.

Guitarists Dougie Boyle and Bernie Holland were featured.

She is also listed at number 89 in the Rolling Stone list of 100 Greatest Guitarists.

Guitarists also use fingerpicks.

Guitarists in the rock, blues, jazz and bluegrass genres tend to use a plectrum, partly because the use of steel strings tends to wear out the fingernails quickly, and also because a plectrum provides a more ' focused ' and ' aggressive ' sound.