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lynxpilot wrote:Grant Geissman from Chuck Mangione's 'Feels so Good' album. That was my first failed attempt.
Recently, Keith Urban. Uses so little of his talent on songs that make radio but I saw him on some sort of documentary thingy and he's actually pretty good.
grant geissman, good reference, sick guitar solo on that song, so much better than the typical "smooth" jazz or other fusion stuff, of course not including the mahavishnu stuff, that stuff's great too
if you want to progress you have to step outside of what you normally play or listen to, my personal advice is to start learning some beatles songs, i'm talking like anything from rubber soul through let it be. every time you learn one of those songs you'll learn another chord and another chord change, it's all good stuff, also i'd start looking at some jazz, that's where the real meat is if you want to become a quality player, if you listen to a jazz guy play rock it's like a walk in the park for them, but if you ask a rock guy to play jazz his head will explode, shows you something right there.
george harrison, eric clapton, and mainly my father, that's who inspires me to play, and to write. over the years i've incorporated so many other guitar players that i could name hundreds, but those three guys are who i aspire to play like, harrison for his tastefulness, playing only the perfect part for the song, nothing more, and certainly nothing less, clapton for being a "guitar god" but still being even headed and not a thoughtless shredder, even though some may argue he's overrated, and my father for being my father hahaha
go with a telecaster, no doubt, i have one and it's my main guitar, and also if you're going for a beatles sound george used a telecaster on a lot of stuff from sgt.pepper-let it be, most notably the one he played at the rooftop concert when they performed let it be on top of apple records.
reggae is played by using quick upstrokes on the off beats, if you want to count it 1234 then you'd be playing on 2 and 4, but the way i like to count it is as 8th notes, like 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + , the + being the off beat or the "and." just think short up strokes, and it helps to build your chords from the high e string, as you're playing an up stroke from high to low. as for disco, don't worry about it, learn funk hahaha 
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