Hey guys! I've created this playlist some time ago and maybe you can use it to discover new guitarists or guitar songs.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0HLIrJUjl...wQhWRGCsUZs0z4g

Most of my favorite modern guitarists are there. Which one would you add?

Andy Wood
Muris Varajic (Gotta give props to a GMC Legend)

I didn't know that Muris had an album at spotify...

isn't it amazing all the stuff you can learn at GMC

yeah!

Thanks for that Gab,

Not got time to listen to it all but I like that first track by Plini, Every Piece Matters

Cheers

Drive Safe is one of my favourite tracks, it has it all melody and insane technique

Save it! You'll enjoy many songs from this list.




Cool! Thanks for sharing. Muris is a killer guitarist! Is him active nowadays? I don't see new videos in his channel.

Nice Playlist Gab!!
Nice to see Lari Basillio there, love her stuff!!!


I haven't heard from him in a long time. Messaged him on his birthday but didn't hear back from him. He usually messages back. Haven't heard from Emir for a while too.

Have you seen this series with Phil x

Yeah, thats a mind blowing track!!

One thing that really amazed me is how he can keep shred musical. The fast section in this track is very long, full of lines, string skipping and unison, but even being very long, it's very enjoyable.




That rock solo is a bomb!

I have to admit I watch all youtube guitar videos from a guitarist perspective, it's been a long time since I listened seriously to instrumental music in general. I am not sure I would want to listen to string skipped shred arpeggios unless it's a very short section from a musical solo that lifts the song.

to me , Eddie stop improving once he started playing keys ..I look at Phil as what Eddie might have become if he focused on guitar

Eddie played classical piano before he played guitar, so did Alex. And Eddie also played drums before he played guitar while Alex played guitar before switching to drums.
Phil X is a killer guitar player as well as a nut. 🙂

Speaking of former instructors, here is the track I did with BEN HIGGINS which was a revisit of a collab he did quite a while back. I always loved the backing track and really wanted to do it as a duet. He re wrote the harmony bit that connects it all and then we just went nuts on it. It's a bit juvenile, but it's wads of fun

Here is the link on SPOTIFY

https://open.spotify.com/track/4I2MSCiMuKkA...GTBmxVOdgNXWpBQ

hehe yeah, that's why I like the songs added in my spoty list.




Interesting thinking.







GREAT one!!!

I am not saying he wasn't awesome

If pop songs had a solo

https://youtu.be/DDY5aGqPsz8

Sounds great!!

If that ain't the love child of Marty Friedman and Blues Saraceno I don't know who is 😲

hahaha well spotted!

Agreed!!!

Playing wise it seems to be mostly Marty though, in this video at least!

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his style reminds me of this guys who did this live Scorpions cover that went viral on youtube then he joined Scorpions live later on.



I didnt know Bleues Saraceno but searching him made stumble across this video and he said pretty good stuff which might impact your thoughts about becoming a professional guitar player these days. that was a nice guitar talk i guess.

Anese I havent checked the whole video yet, but I can understand if Blues sounds grumpy about the industry.

He released some iconic instrumental albums just when Grunge was becoming mainstream... bad timing to say the least.

If he had been out earlier I think he would have been considered one of the greatest 80s guitarists.

Well said. He missed it by maybe a year or two. He was an amazing player IMHO. He just came in at the tail end of the whole "guitar God" thing, right when it was no longer cool to be a guitar god and everyone was selling their shredder guitars for a fender jaguar and buying flannel shirts That's why FLUFF can't play leads. He cam up during a time when playing lead just wasn't considered cool.

Todd

Absolutely loved this LP when it came out (1992).

On a side note, Damian Salazar is a street musician from my city. He became famous first because Roger Waters discovered Damian in the streets of Buenos Aires and invited him to play... then something similar happened with Scorpions! They invited to play at the big concert his Still Loving you version.





Some time ago I've wondered what he was doing and I found this track (used for red dead redemption 2 videogame):

Hey Kris
At 1:10 to 1:50 he talked about how he’s into making rock and blues themed stuff for films and tv shows rather than just spending a lot of time writing a record, where we still don’t know if that gonna sell very well or not.
I don’t know much about the music industry but for the likes of me whos still considered a new comer to the guitar world I had this idea in my head that the only way to make a decent living out of playing the instrument is to be in big bands or write a shredicilous solo album, while in fact I didn’t know that there’re more ways to invest in musical works such as video gaming music, commercial music..etc., they might pay less than being a rock star but I think there’s more potential into it to find it’s place in the music market.
one of the those examples that truly amaze me is "the dethklok" project of metalocalypse by Brendon Smallman, the show was a success from what i see. and i did really liked the show from a music perspective and also it was very funny. adding into that i wasn't into death metal at all.

That is truly awesome!! If a street musician can do stuff like this, what excuse to the rest of us have?

speaking of that guitar god era, a while back i was watching one of steve vai guitar talk videos that he's being doing lately on his youtube channel, he talked about how he struggled during that time when the grunge wave hit pretty hard and everyone thought that it was over for this shred thing. but what caught me the most he talked about an article in some magazine (he didnt mention the magazine name or any info related to the article) but he talked about it like most of the audience knew what was it, he went through how it hurt him so much reading that one and how aggressive it was criticizing him.
anyone have an idea what that article was ? or maybe there was series of articles hit one after the other during that time.



I saw this amazing young guitarist from russia the other day, i think you should take a look

This is def one of my fav instrumentsl albums of all time! 👌👌👌

Love that track, didn't know it had been used in a Game!


Definitely!!!

For any reason I didn't get this album in time so my favorite was "Never Look Back". Now I'm re-checking Plaid, THAT phrasing!!

Here you can see a young Saraceno playing with Poison on Argentinian TV, breaking everything and running out!!

What the heck happened? One minute they are doing their tune, then bam, drummer is on the floor, and they all run off stage. Ahh poison

hahah that's crazy.

Yup, that Russian Kid is AMAZING. This might have been the article VAI was talking about. He went from being a GOD to being slammed in the press for a few years and now is back to GOD status Grunge came in and all the sudden people stopped playing solos. many of the guys in grunge bands (e.g. kobain) were not lead players. They were rythm players and song writers. Almost like guys in punk band. The drummer in Nirvana is a far better guitarist than Kobain was, but Kurt had the "Zeitgeist". The excess of eighties playing had run it's course and it was time for something new. So things switched from hyper technical to anti technical for a while. The good news is that kids still wanted to learn to actually play, so now youtube is full of folks, like that Russian kid, who still play Racer X Covers. Shred will never die as long as there are young players coming up who want to actually learn to play

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Thanks for putting that cover Todd
i'll try to find a copy of that issue somewhere on the internet.

Sure thing I'm sure there is a fully copy on the web someplace. Yeah, "shred" has surely gone up and down a bit. Even legends like Steve Vai had a tough time during grunge and now great players are doing music for Disney tv shows and such just to pay the bills. But heck, whatever it takes as long as you are playing and still making money, it's a good thing. IMHO.
Todd