#Who do you think is the greatest guitar player ever in terms of technicality and musicality?

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wise flint
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Jason Becker imo

oblique plover
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I gotta go with Tim Henson

lethal ridge
fierce nest
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Shawn Lane, people who go with Tim Henson make me šŸ’€

dull kiln
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Dimebag solo wise and maybe synyster gates and Jason Becker imo maybe also Randy Rhodes

analog vector
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This man can play anything ever written by anyone. Any Classical piece, any electric piece, with the finest technique I've ever seen. He's easily the best technician alive.

We didn't specify having to compose music.

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Jazz, fusion, rock, classical. Clicks and whistles without boomer bends or with, Whatever.

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Most electric players (all mentioned above except Henson) can barely play two notes at once in the same rhythm. Polyrhythmic phrasing with three plus notes they'd all fall apart.

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Shawn Lane was fast but needed a plectrum, and was 90% single note phrases.

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Henson has room to expand his technique to catch Dukic by the time he's 54. Lane is gone already, sadly. Becker has ALS and it's a damn shame because for a while he was ahead of Dukic with a plectrum before his disease limited him to being a fantastic composer.

The rest mentioned are not even close

wise flint
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Good answer

wise flint
wise flint
glad rapids
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Guthrie Govan for the technicallity and EVH/Petrucci for the musicality (they're both amazing player, but what is really important is their image/popularity, and the parts they created)

elder anchor
delicate wyvern
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Tim henson isnt even the best in his genre

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Id go with Zoran or Tosin Abasi

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imo tosin is leagues better than henson musically and technically

elder anchor
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Gotta check him out

delicate wyvern
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his music isnt for everyone but hes fantastic

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id recommended the woven web, para mexer, and if you wanna be impressed then wave of babies or microaggressions

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his band is called animals as leaders

elder anchor
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I'll check them out

hidden orchid
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To Tosin Abasi or Manuel Gardner Fernandez personally

Or Andres Segovia hehe

hidden orchid
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Guthrie Govan for technicality I agree 100%

delicate wyvern
hidden orchid
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Well thereā€™s both technique technicality and theory technicality too

elder anchor
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O new opinion

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He's definitely not the best but he's definitely interesting

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Tom morello

keen wedge
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EVH

thick jungle
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I'm a sucker for David Gilmour (and players like him, such as Steve Rothery and Andrew Latimer)

hidden orchid
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Oooh yea David Gilmour underrated pick

kind walrus
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hoestly yeah

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Gilmour is the goat

fast radish
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^^^

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Eric Johnson is underrated too imo

thick jungle
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I'll also offer a nod and a glance toward Robert Fripp

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And i dont know about "greatest ever" but Wilko Johnson is extremely underrated, taking his technique into account. The album he did with Roger Daltrey is a great first listen if you haven't already.

versed sluice
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Marty Friedman

warm kiln
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gotta be either Lane or Gilbert

hard vortex
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Guthrie Govan

supple tangle
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john "the savior" petrucci Gsus2

rancid crescent
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Alexi Laiho the Wild Child

quaint needle
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stevie t

dull pumice
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Shawn lane or Guthrie govan no doubt

hard vortex
quaint needle
fast radish
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Lol

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Ay man nothing wrong with Stevie t

quaint needle
ashen coral
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Ron Jarzombek.
known for Blotted Science, Watchtower, and Spastic Ink.
I wouldn't call him my favorite but he's the most technically impressive one I've heard, I think.

golden token
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Steve Lukather

open prairie
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Guthrie Govan

icy pivot
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Yngwie before the car crash

prime solstice
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tim henson

icy pivot
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Actually now that I got time to think about it

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In terms of technicality, either 90s Paul Gilbert or Anton Oparin

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But they both have the same issue.

Not enough songs where they get to apply their musicality

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(nothing mind blowing there either)

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Yeah, mix of technicality and musicality it's either Shawn Lane or Yngwie before the crash

hidden orchid
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Imo my list (not in any order)

Guthrie, Tosin, Gilbert, Yngwie in terms of electric

Then for classical Iā€™m going with the ā€˜classicsā€™ Segovia and TĆ”rrega (mainly cuz I only listen to those two)

icy pivot
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Based

quasi zealot
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Lord and savior petrucci Gsus2

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In terms of musicality its either vai or guthrie

lapis shoal
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BERNTH for technicality

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And Randy Rhoads for musicality

zealous sonnet
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guthrie

timid yarrow
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The Asian guy from dragonforce

hard vortex
icy pivot
zealous sonnet
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actually what am i saying itā€™s jason becker

vivid crest
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David Gilmour

keen lark
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I would say that Guthrie Govan is probably the most dense guitar player of our generation, as far as the capacity to comprehend and articulating themselves on the instrument. He's certainly not my favorite, as I don't think his music has extended the instrument past its typically tonal qualities. G.G. does sit on the shoulders of those like Shawn Lane, who I would argue was the most musically and mechanically refined of all of the highly dense and technical players of the 80s/90s.

Jason Becker has a quality to his music that is certainly masterful, yet full of a deeply carefree and youthful kind of energy. His technical spirit was very well practiced, but I think its hard to argue he was the best.

icy pivot
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He's nowhere near the most technically sound

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As in

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he's fast and musical but he's sloppy

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Like let's say in the realms of shred and country

keen lark
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I was saying Shawn Lane was mechanically refined

icy pivot
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oh my bad

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I was about to mention Shawn in that case lol hyperkek

keen lark
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not GG, I could have phrased that better, but I agree with you

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I think the reason why I have a huge amount of respect for him and mentioned them together is because he did some of the best known transcriptions of Shawn's music, who does have a huge reputation for his mechanics

quasi zealot
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Life is roblox

torn thistle
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amen

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also hendrix and a few others. not a fan of the new polyphia-esque stuff. are they good, yeah.

trail timber
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Every riff is so spicy

sturdy granite
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Me

keen dew
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Tom Morello is my pick

lofty pike
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Shawn Lane

lapis shoal
hidden orchid
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Haha valid

icy pivot
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Like,

Guthrie is clearly very fast, very skilled and very versatile but he definitely is not as clean as a lot of players who aren't as good as he is.

That's perfectly fine music-wise IMO (as far as the music is concerned anyways)

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99.9% of us are hyperkek

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I don't think he has. Weird though because IMO Petrucci is a bigger target

worn sigil
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dimebag darrel was incredible

burnt wind
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Muhammad SuiƧmez

jovial anchor
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I must say Herman Li and honestly Synyster Gates is even up there another one is Dave Mustaine

cunning shale
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Metal: Hizaki from Versailles
Non-metal: Derek Trucks

royal hornet
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Guthrie for free flowing, dirty accented riffs..
Rabea massad for prog rock, heā€™s really starting to make waves with a sound thatā€™s very much his
Fredrik akkensonā€¦ Opeth guitar player, currently moon lighting and writing with Ghost also

austere shore
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the best technically.. as in the best right hand, and left hand.. the one guy whos never off.. whos pick never makes a mistake.. whos muting is perfect always.. ands guitar is never ever outta control.. .. Paul Gilbert.

royal hornet
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Me

sturdy granite
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No me

tacit zinc
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its gotta be tim henson

pearl vale
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Mark Knopfler with Dire Straits

raw belfry
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Jaguar

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PRS SE series

hard vortex
raw belfry
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I read guitar

tall leaf
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Paul Gilbert