Featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players - and the best guitarists around today... ...
Before Clapton became a God, he was a just 13-year-old with a beater guitar that was so hard to play he put it aside for awhile. Yet the instrument proved irresistible, and when Clapton resumed playing at 15, he taped himself on a reel-to-reel recorder as he played along to blues records.
But your choices this year have recognised that newer talent made serious headway alongside familiar figures in 2022, and we think that speaks volumes.
Friday Top: 25 Most Underrated Guitarists of All Time
Tommy Emmanuel. With an abundance of famous super technical virtuoso players, music fans might overlook the greatness of a very unique acoustic guitarist like Tommy Emmanuel. ...
While John Taylor is a relatively unknown guitarist compared to the rest of the musical behemoths on this list, he does hold the Guinness Book of World's Record as the “World's Fastest Guitarist.” In fact, it's a title he's held since 2011 when he set the record for playing “The Flight of the Bumblebee” at 600 beats- ...
The numbers are quite shocking. Electric guitar sales have dropped by a third in the last ten years, from 1.5 million to only over 1 million. Small music retailers have been particularly hard hit by this trend, but even large music retailers have been negatively impacted by the decline in guitar sales.
In fact, studies show that 90 percent of people learning to play guitar quit within the first three months. And it's understandable! It's a completely new skill that takes dedication, patience, time, and lots of other ingredients to be successful at it.
[ Note: It is official that men who play guitar are more attractive, this study confirms. ] The theory behind this is really simple. An astonishing number of 9 out of 10 females agree to the fact that they find guitarist way sexier than an average male.
Simple answer no it is not harder for girls to learn how to play. Your fingers will hurt in the beginning and you will still need to learn how to make the same chords and read the same music as the boys.
Few people demonstrate YouTube's shift better than Jimmy Donaldson, better known to his 112 million subscribers as MrBeast. This week Donaldson, 24 and born in Wichita, Kansas, became YouTube's king, surpassing Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg as the most subscribed-to individual on the platform.
Which band has the most 1 billion views on YouTube?
The billion-view mark was first passed by Gangnam Style in December 2012. On January 13, 2022, Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" became the first video to hit 10,000,000,000 views.
Indian record label T-Series is the most-subscribed channel, with over 231 million subscribers as of December 2022. American YouTube personality MrBeast is the most-subscribed individual and fourth most-subscribed channel overall, with over 120 million subscribers as of December 2022.
