261 thoughts on “The Best Guitarist in the World!”

  1. kirk hammet
    the best guitarist

    He must be the be guitarist in the world his solos are amazing.Look at his solos from One,Ride the lightning,Fade to black and Master of puppets.

  2. Alexi Laiho
    Alexi laiho

    Laiho is best guitarist. Very fast and nicely playing. Awesome solos, and awesome playing. He is world best guitarist ever.

    Also: Van Halen, Steve vai, Carlos Santana, —

    1. Re: Best GuITARIST
      metallicaluke

      : ITS defInATELY mr.ygrg HONGkoNGs TOp Guitarist …. he is definately the BEst Guitartist…

      the best guitarist or one of the best guitaists is kirk hammit of metallica

  3. LOL AMERICAN GUITARISTS??? PLZ LOL!!!
    oscar c

    THE BEST GUITARISTS ARE NOT THE ROCK N’ ROLL GUITARISTS SPANISH CLASSICAL GUITAR IS WHERE ITS AT FLAMENCO GUITAR IS THE BEST GUITAR PLAYING IN THE WORLD IT BEATS JIMMY PAGE THE ROOKIE COMPARED TO PACO DE LUCIA AND JIMMY HENDRIX THE ROOKIE COMPARED TO JAVIER CONDE A 7 YEAR OLD, EVEN THOUGH IM A HUGE FAN OF ROCK N ROLL I GOTTA ADMIT THAT JIMMY PAGE, JIMI HENDRIX,SLASH,EDDIE VAN HALEN,ERC CLAPTON,CARLOS SANTANA THEY ARE ALL GREAT GUITARIST BUT NOT AS GOOD AS THE FLAMENCO GUITARISTS NO WAY!!!! NOT EVEN CLOSE I MEAN COME ON USING A PICK?? R U SERIOUS PLAY WITH YOUR FINGERS LIKE A REAL MASTER A LOT OF THESE AMERICAN GUITARISTS WERE ALL TAUGHT BY FLAMENCO LEGEND ANDRES G FOR UR INFO! LOOK UP JAVIR CONDE ON YOUTUBE.COM OR PACO DE LUCIA OR JUST TYPE FLAMENCO GUITAR!! THAT’S WHERE IS AT SO PLZ DONT SAY SLASH IS THE BEST OR JIMMY PAGE.ETC CAUSE THEY’RE NOT!!!!!

  4. Please expose yourself to music different than rock.
    Mo (via moderator)

    (Originally posted on 02:43:19 9/01/07)

    For all of you out there who say that Page, SRV, Van Halen, or even Hendrix is the best guitarist player out there… listen to other styles of music. My personal favorite is Paco de Lucia or Al di Meola… these guys have MUSICALITY beyond belief, fluidity, supreme control of the instrument, and godly technique. Their hands move just as fast, if not faster than many of those mentioned out there. Oh, and they aren’t shredding a metal-based or some pentatonic based scale… they are playing crazy arpegios and scale runs based on musically complex flamenco-esque chord structures that involve module changes, 9ths, 11ths, and 13th chords… Have you all ever heard of music theory? That in my mind is way more important than shred speed – it allows you to transcend beyond the basic scales and same sounding crap that’s always played in metal. It facilitates musicality, improvisation, and pretty much musical genius. I am an American and love rock as much as the next guy, but come on – most of the guitarists out there can’t match up to Paco, di Meola, or John McLaughlin … true musical geniuses. They are to guitar what Perlman is to the violin or yoyo ma to the cello.

  5. KEITH SCOTT = GOD !!!
    Badfan

    Keith Scott has been playing and recording with Bryan for 26 years. Anyone who has been to a show will know that it just wouldn’t be the same without Keith. The guy is a total legend and to many fans is more than just BA’s right-hand man. He can deliver a guitar solo that only a few musicians in the world have the talent to do and has created his own signature guitar style.

  6. Yngwie Malmsteen is the best!
    Patrick Laurin

    I think Yngwie Malmsteen is the best guitarist as he gives the best live performance and got full of neo-classical songs!

    1. Re: Yngwie Malmsteen is the best!
      Yngwie Malmsteen

      : I think Yngwie Malmsteen is the best guitarist as he gives the best live performance and got full of neo-classical songs!
      Yes I’m the best!! I’m the fastest and i have the greatest solos. I’m a god.

      1. Re: Yngwie Malmsteen is the best!
        Dalton Hodkiewicz

        : : I think Yngwie Malmsteen is the best guitarist as he gives the best live performance and got full of neo-classical songs!
        : Yes I’m the best!! I’m the fastest and i have the greatest solos. I’m a god.

        um… he made me play guitar. He is really my only true influence i’ve found. The guy plays like… yeah god.. he can practically sleep while playing, and it’s still the best. His shapes and patterns just make so much sense.. they’re amazing

  7. YALL HAV FORGOTTEN ABOUT STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
    Stevie junior

    u guys sound like a bunch of girls blowing each others’ skirts up, just shut the hell up already and watch Stevie Ray Vaughan one time and you will know who the best guitarest is!!!!he is so underrated…..he should b #1

  8. Jimmy Page Is The Best In My Opinion
    Josh

    He is the best in the world in my opinion. All of his songs were original and the material he wrote for Led Zeppelin was superb. His skill was endless also.

    1. Re: Jimmy Page Is The Best In My Opinion
      william

      : He is the best in the world in my opinion. All of his songs were original and the material he wrote for Led Zeppelin was superb. His skill was endless also.

      Hey man you really don’t know much about guitar playing or the history of rock do you? Whilst Jimmy was a great GUITARIST he was a great guitar PLAYER. The passion he displayed was second only to few but when you say his skill was endless then you really are talking crap. Please make sure you know your facts and don’t go blabbing around the place until you do. You make yourself look like an idiot.

    2. Re: Jimmy Page Is The Best In My Opinion
      Rohan

      : He is the best in the world in my opinion. All of his songs were original and the material he wrote for Led Zeppelin was superb. His skill was endless also.

      HELL YEA! i totally agree with you

  9. Hendrix
    hendrix junior

    Hendrix is by far the best and if you think he was always skunked up he was amazing before he was skunked up he just looked different he is and always will be the best

  10. You guys r pretty uneducated
    Alex

    hey i love all the guitarist mentioned in this topic but none of them r anywhere near being the best guitarist in the world and i think the quwstion iself is stupid.

    the best guitarist is probably some 60 year old man who’s bin playing in his room for 30 years non stop, who knows and who cares just because u can play guitar fast doesn’t make ur music better.

    and i see alot of stuff saying vai it technically the best when he really isn’t. alan holdsworth is alot more technical than him and that’s a fact even stevie would agree(alan being one of stevie favorite guitarists)

    and pat metheny, one of the greats guitarists and musicians in the world, has 16! grammys and 4 golden globes he holds the world record for the most grammys which beats vai’s 2 so i don’t know why you r making a big deal out of it

  11. Ignorance!! Steve Vai all the way.
    I Drink Beer

    Steve Vai is the best guitarist who has ever lived.
    Vai was trained under Joe Satriani for nearly a decade during his teenage years and trained under Zappa during his stay at Berklee School of Music. Zappa affectionately dubbed Vai his "little Italian virtuoso", and also said that Vai was by far the best guitarist he had ever heard. Steve played in the David Lee Roth Band in mid-80’s and fired out two multi-platinum albums with the band… two of the hit singles "Yankee Rose" and "Tobacco Road" are known to this very day for the unbelievable riffery laid down by Vai. Also during this time he starred on the movie "Crossroads", where two of his tracks "Eugene’s Trick Bag" and "Head-Cuttin’ Duel" showcase Vai’s shredding prowess… I daresay that the two tracks from Crossroads contain the most impressive pure technical guitar work I have ever come across… like nothing Malmsteen or MichaelAngelo have ever produced. After five years with DLR, Vai bailed and joined Whitesnake for a year, and then left to start his solo career. After several semi-successful solo albums, he released "Passion and Warfare", which is largely considered among the guitar community to be the best virtuoso guitar album ever produced, with "For the Love of God" headlining quite a few noteworthy numbers. Since, he has undertaken a wide array of work… movies, video game soundtracks, cover records, etc. etc. etc. Steve Vai is hands down the most well-known and respected studio guitarist today… and we haven’t seen the last of him.

    Facts:
    – Vai is a two-time Grammy winner and 12-time nominee. He won in 1994 for Best Rock Instrumental for a cover of Zappa’s "Sofa" and won as a producer in 2001.
    – Vai has the fastest ever metrometered recording at 21 notes/second. The fastest Malmsteen has officially reached I believe is 17.
    – Vai played lead guitar for many tracks on XBOX’s famous Halo 2 video game, including the title theme song alongside a full orchestra composed by Marty O’Donnell.
    – What’s more, Vai is set to produce the entire Halo 3 soundtrack and New Line Entertainment is looking to Vai to produce the soundtrack to the Halo movie which is in production, to be directed by Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame.
    – Vai owns three studios and is a well-known producer and keyboardist.
    – AND FINALLY – the coolest thing about Vai? check this…

    Before an 80’s tour with David Lee Roth, Vai publically challenged potential concert-goers by asking them to bring in the most complicated pieces of classical score they could find. He said if he couldn’t sight-read the score on the spot and play it flawlessly the first time through, he would pay the person who brought in the sheet music. Fans reportedly brought in full copies of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a half-hour violin concierto.

    He never lost the bet…. that’s straight f*cking talent.

    1. Re: Ignorance!! Steve Vai all the way.
      tom

      vai vai vai (Very Artistic Instrumentalist)
      steve vai is no doubt the best guitarist of the century and he does it ”for the love of god” because its his” passion and warfare” but let me tell you guitar players steve isnt even at the ”crossroads” of his life jam on steve may speed and sound
      beauty and brilliance be the ”Gem” of your life

    1. Re: SATCH
      Danny Miller

      Now boys, stop and think real hard. Think about the artist’s contribution to the guitar world. My definition of the greatest is the one who has given us the MOST pure guitar music. There are, and have been many great ones, but Chet Atkins tops them all. He gave us over 100 albums of total instrumental guitar music. Who has even come close to that?

    1. Re: SLASH!!!!!!!!!!
      Purple

      : SLASH IS THE BADEST GUITARIST EVER FROM MY POINT OF VIEW HOMIES

      ha did you see the video featuring the mexican singer Paulina Rubio?? It ‘s a shame! a bad end for his carreer ..poor guy =P… Matthew Bellamy and MUSE rules!! he is the greatest guitarist !

    2. Re: SLASH!!!!!!!!!!
      Abby

      That’s a strong comment…
      i’m much worse than slash,
      so he can’t be the "BADEST GUITARIST EVER" now can he?

      i personally think he is awesome.

    3. Re: SLASH!!!!!!!!!!
      chris

      slash is the greatest guitarist in the world expt steve morse n maybe eddie jimmy page yh he is a brilliant guitarist but everyones a complete prick n say heeess amainzg just coz hes frm led zep he aint ne wherwe ne slash seriously ppl need to stop wanking over him

      1. Re: SLASH!!!!!!!!!!
        alex

        slash this slash that he may be **** ing amazing but to be honest salsh admits hendrix is better than him so there listen a fukin’ master of the guitar tell you who is the master of guitar. peace out =o

      1. Re: SLASH!!!!!!!!!!
        orlando

        Yeah men slash is the greateshs got feeling and technique and thas all it counts
        steve vai satriani yngwie or however is written don`t have the feeling that slash had
        and that’s the most important thing

  12. Worlds Best One Is Asian #1 Aamir Zaki
    Junaid

    well i think Aamir zaki is the #1 in the world right now u know why caz he is the number 1 asian guitarist indeed .. and caz he is #1 in asia which is the largest continent with 60% of the earth’s population so its mean more peoples listin his beautiful peaceful music .. he gain this with his music not with media power …peace out

    1. Re: Worlds Best One Is Asian #1 Aamir Zaki
      gal form west

      hmm well not 100% agreed but he is so good i downloaded his few songs i didnt understand the language music have no language ..bottom line is he is good one

  13. The best world guitarist
    Luis Curbelo

    I think Europe has better talented guitarists than USA for example:
    Gus G,Michael Amott,Christopher Amott,David Chastain,Fredrik Akesson
    and many many others that I consider more talented than any other American guitarist.

    1. Re: The best world guitarist
      Matthew Baluran

      :You’re wrong!!!!!!! There alot more better guitarist in the USA than in Europe. FOR EXAMPLE, Jimmy Hendrix came from the US, Eric Clapton came from the US, Lee Ritenour came from the US, Steve Lukather came from the US, Steve Morse came from the US, Larry Carlton came from the US and George Benson came from the US. So you can’t just say Europe is better than the US, because these people took guitar and music to the next level. And besides those guitarist you posted were not well-known and i’ve heard them play they SUCK!!!!

    2. Re: The best world guitarist
      Herve

      I agree : from Paco de Lucia to Birelli Lagrène, and many others, Europe has the best! They are much more inventive and able to create a personnal sound and not just doing a kind of boring virtuosity like Vai .

      1. Re: The best world guitarist
        Joel

        Personnel taste!It’s like trying to solve a paradox.Each guitarist its good in its own way,and I’m sure that whatever level you are you always learn just like you can learn from an toodler.Not this US versus Europe, aren’t we talking about music?Some may sound different from due to their background and that’s amazing to see and ear.Music has no border.Each musician seek inspiration from others no matter how good or bad you think they are!Enjoy them while you can!

  14. best guitarist - paul gregory, modjango
    James Nesbitt

    check this out – http://www.flybywireless.com/rodrigo‘s.htm

    It’ll take a little while to download, but worth it!

    Wait til it kicks in…..it starts off slow like the classical piece, but then….well, wait and see.

    The band site is here: http://www.djangoreinhardt.net

    they’re from near Liverpool, just type modjango into google, and you’ll find a few reviews rating Paul Gregory as one of the best in the world.

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