John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin of Doncaster, England, had an important role in the development of “fusion” music. In 2018, he received the Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo. John also has a long list of artists with whom he had worked at some point in the past. While appearing on this list is hardly a guarantee of rubbing shoulders with rock royalty, few guitarists can claim to have shared the stage with Miles Davis. Miles’ most renowned album, Bitches Brew, featured McLaughlin.

John McLaughlin

Steve Morse

Steve Morse is the lead guitarist for Deep Purple since 1994 and the founder of the Dixie Dregs. Morse was born and reared in the Michigan city of Ypsilanti. Steve Morse became the lead guitarist for the popular rock band Kansas in 1986. While he was a member of the band, the albums Power and In The Spirit of Things were released. Despite the fact that he is now a part of the Flying Colors supergroup, Morse claims that while he was with Deep Purple, his comrades required him to ride in a separate van because he would constantly play guitar while they traveled from gig to gig.

Steve Morse

Peter Green

Peter Green was born in London, England, and was a co-founder of Fleetwood Mac. In 1965, he was hired by Mr. John Mayall, the British blues godfather, a guy who had discovered more than a few guitarists on this list, and his career took off. In truth, the guitarist who Peter Green replaced in John Mayall’s band was none other than Eric Clapton, who, as you might assume, is farther down this list.

Peter Green

Robin Trower

Trower was born and raised in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Due to his Jimi Hendrix-like powers and his ability to bend notes better than any other musician alive, he was regarded as one of the best guitarists of his time. His guitar playing got even more prominent when he was a member of the famed group Procol Harum in the 1960s. Trower’s pinnacle achievement is widely regarded as the album Bridge of Sighs, released in 1974. Trower created a band with Jack Bruce, Cream’s bassist, in the 1980s.

Robin Trower

Tom Morello

Tom Morello grew up in the Libertyville, Illinois area. He received a BA in Social Studies from Harvard University before becoming a rock god. Morello met Zack de la Rocha in the 1990s. Tom and Zack established Rage Against the Machine, one of the most prominent and influential rock bands of the 1990s. In Los Angeles, Rage Against the Machine performed outside the Staples Center Convention Center, which was hosting the Democratic National Convention at the time. The audience became increasingly outraged and angry as the act progressed, eventually resorting to throwing rocks at one point.

Tom Morello

Malcolm Young

Malcolm Young was born in Sydney, Australia, and co-founded Australia’s biggest rock band, AC/DC, with his brother Angus at the age of 20. While Angus took the lead, Malcolm began to play rhythm guitar. They adopted the name AC/DC after noticing the letters on the top of their older sister Margaret’s sewing machine, according to tradition. By the late 1970s, Malcolm and his band were touring Europe with Black Sabbath. They were thought to have had a strained relationship with Black Sabbath. When things got heated, Sabbath musician Geezer Butler allegedly pulled out a knife on Malcolm, according to one report.

Malcolm Young

George Harrison

Another brilliant artist of his day was a precursor. This founding member of the Beatles died of throat cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, which he blamed on years of smoking. In 1992, Harrison received the first Billboard Century Award. Marking Harrison’s “critical role in laying the groundwork for the modern concept of world music.”

George Harrison

Michael Schenker

Michael Schenker, the famed guitarist, was born in January 1955 in the little West German town of Sarstedt. He was named “a legendary figure in the history of metal guitar.” The German guitarist was a founding member of the rock band the Scorpions. He and his brother, Rudolf Schenker, created the UFO band in the mid-’70s. Schenker has left and rejoined the UFO band at least three times, and each time he has created a song.

Michael Schenker

Duane Allman

The Allman Brothers Band was founded and led by Howard Duane Allman, who was able to play with his brother, Gregg Allman. Duane was killed in a motorcycle accident in which his internal organs were destroyed. He died while he was only 24 years old. He was noted for his expressive slide guitar playing as well as his improvisational ability on the instrument. The Allman Brothers’ “Live at the Fillmore East” is widely recognized as one of the best live rock CDs ever recorded.

Duane Allman

Paul Kossoff

Paul Kossoff was a highly sought-after guitarist known for his remarkable timing and intricate soloing abilities. He was a guitarist in high demand because of his remarkable timing and complicated ability to solo as a member of the popular band “Free.” Unfortunately, Kossoff began using narcotics at the age of 15. On March 19, 1976, he died of a pulmonary embolism while flying from Los Angeles to New York. When he died, he was only 25 years old.

Paul Kossoff

Billy Gibbons

If his beard didn’t reveal it, Billy Gibbons, 70, is the lead guitarist and lead singer of ZZ Top. Gibbons established The Moving Sidewalks as an opening act for The Jimi Hendrix Experience early in his career, which allowed him to become good friends with Jimi. ZZ Top’s Texas blues boogie sound, which is currently selling out shows all over the world, is unquestionably due to Billy Gibbons’ genius.

Billy Gibbons

Joe Bonamassa

Joe is on this list for a reason. Joe Bonamassa is well-known for opening for B.B. King. When B.B. King first began playing, the audience fell silent for a time when they realized it was the kid who was making the sounds. The audience went berserk when the truth was revealed, and Bonamassa has been performing in front of large crowds ever since.

Joe Bonamassa

Mick Taylor

Mick Taylor, a product of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers school of producing rock guitar gods, was the blues virtuoso Mayhall was looking for. Taylor stayed with The Rolling Stones until 1974, proving that he was a cross between Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Taylor, according to Slash, the guitarist for Guns N’ Roses, had the greatest influence on him as an artist.

Mick Taylor

Dave Mustaine

Metallica’s first lead guitarist was Dave Mustaine. He was born in the California community of La Mesa. Due to his drinking, drug addiction, hostility, and feuds with Metallica members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich, Mustaine was sacked from the band on April 11, 1983. Despite this, he had a successful career as a result of the band he established, “Megadeth,” where he was noted for both singing and playing fast, outstanding lead lines. Isn’t it amazing?!

Dave Mustaine

James Hetfield

Here’s James Hetfield, speaking of James Hetfield! Hetfield, from Downey, California, is a guitar colossus. Hetfield is credited for developing the sound of “speed metal” and instilling an unmatched sense of wrath in the music business. In 2001, Hetfield went to treatment for drug abuse. Since then, he’s been based in Vail, Colorado.

James Hetfield

Pete Townshend

Townshend was one of the founding members of The Who, one of the most well-known rock bands of all time. In his memoir, he talked about growing up in London shortly after WWII, saying, “I wasn’t trying to play beautiful music. I was confronting my audience with the awful, visceral sound of what we all knew was the single absolute of our frail existence—one day an airplane would carry the bomb that would destroy us all in a flash. It could happen at any time.”

Pete Townshend

Kirk Hammett

When he was 16 years old, Kirk Hammett, a member of Metallica, was hired as a replacement for Dave Mustaine, Metallica’s former guitarist. Hammett’s parents flew him to New York to meet with the band when leader James Hetfield reached him. The band was not thrilled when the boy went into the room, but after he nailed the solo for the smash “Seek and Destroy,” they recruited him on the spot.

Kirk Hammett

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry, a rock & roll pioneer, was born in 1926. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 90. Joe Lynch said that “Berry contributed three things to rock music: an irresistible swagger, a focus on the guitar riff as the primary melodic element, and an emphasis on songwriting as storytelling.” Chuck Berry is without a doubt responsible for the current state of rock music.

Chuck Berry

Steve Howe

Steve Howe is the lead guitarist for the progressive rock band Yes. Howe was the lead guitarist on Lou Reed’s first solo album after leaving The Velvet Underground, further solidifying his fame. After quitting Yes, Howe had a potential solo career. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Steve Howe

Rory Gallagher

Rory Gallagher was an Irish vocalist who specialized in blues and rock. More than 30 million copies of his records have been sold around the world. Gallagher died of a failing liver caused by alcohol, opiates, and an MRSA infection on June 14, 1995, at the age of 47. He has influenced a lot of blues guitarists because of how effectively he plays the blues.

Rory Gallagher

Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde began his musical career as a member of the modest band Stone Henge, where he was the lead guitarist. He was subsequently hired as Ozzy Osbourne’s lead guitarist after an audition, a position he occupied for a long time. He’s also in the heavy metal band Black Label Society, where he sings lead. Due to his remarkable theatrical presence, Wylde is well-known. When Ozzy went on stage, he used to complain that it was difficult to get the audience to look at him because they were all too interested in Wylde.

Zakk Wylde

Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa, a nonconforming free-form improviser who died of lung cancer in 1993, was a pioneer of nonconforming free-form improvisation. Zappa was a prolific musician who released more than 60 albums as a solo artist and with his band, Mothers of Invention. Zappa is a self-taught guitarist who is widely considered as one of the twentieth century’s most influential guitarists. Zappa later conducted orchestras and released jazz and classical music CDs in his senior years.

Frank Zappa

Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Malmsteen, born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck in 1963, gained to prominence in the 1980s for his neoclassical metal sound. Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the most prolific performers working today, with 20 studio albums under his belt. He signed with Mascot Records in 2018 and shows no signs of slowing down.

Yngwie Malmsteen

John Petrucci

John Petrucci, a founding member of Dream Theater, was born in 1967 and is best known for his work with the band. Petrucci’s name appears in every “Top Guitarist” article and post in magazines and on the internet. He’s best renowned for fusing classical and jazz phrasings into rock chord progressions, resulting in a sound that’s unlike anything else in today’s rock.

John Petrucci

Prince

Although you may not think of Prince as a shredder, his guitar playing is enough to make anyone’s mouth drop. Prince was noted for his mastery of a variety of musical genres, including disco, punk, R&B, new wave, soul, pop, and psychedelic music. Prince is one of the most successful musicians of all time, having sold over 130 million CDs to his adoring followers.

Prince

Synyster Gates

Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates is the band’s lead guitarist. In 2016 and 2017, Total Guitar named him the Best Metal Guitarist in the World. He’s a passionate jazz aficionado, and one of his biggest influences is Django Reinhardt, the legendary gypsy guitarist. Danny Elfman, the frontman for Oingo Boingo, is also mentioned as someone he admires. Did you know that M. Shadow, the lead singer of Avenged Sevenfold, is his brother-in-law?

Synyster Gates

Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana was born in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. He walked onto the Woodstock stage, virtually unknown, and completely wowed the audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, his band Santana grew to notoriety by pioneering a mix of rock and roll and Latin American jazz.

Carlos Santana

Angus Young

Another member of AC/DC is Angus Young. He is well-known for his lively appearances, schoolboy-uniform costumes, and parody of Chuck Berry’s duckwalk. Young, who is 65 years old, is influenced by blues, power chords, and Scottish folk music in his playing technique. Throughout his solos, his ability to play one-handed arpeggios is evident!

Angus Young

Dimebag Darrell

Damageplan’s Dimebag Darrell has never received professional guitar instruction, but his style is legendary. He made superb use of the major third in his riffs and leads to create dissonance in minor key tonalities. He had great plucking skills as well but preferred legato phrasing. Something terrible happened on December 8, 2004, during a Damageplan event at the Alrosa nightclub in Ohio. During the first concert, a disturbed fan leaped onto the stage and shot Dimebag Darrell many times. On the scene, the guitar icon was pronounced dead. He died while he was only 38 years old.

Dimebag Darrell

B.B. King

B.B. King, who was born in 1925, was the first to introduce the world to a sophisticated guitar solo style. Using string bending and vibrato, he pioneered new techniques for electric blues. B.B. (short for Blues Boy) is no doubt the unquestioned “King” of the blues guitar. He was a long-time blues friend and one of the all-time greats. King passed away peacefully in his sleep in 2015, at the age of 89.

B.B. King

Mark Knopfler

His younger brother, David Knopfler, is a co-founder of the rock band Dire Straits. The number 70 label was dubbed a virtuoso. He is a four-time Grammy winner, a three-time University of Music Honorary Doctor of Music, and a finger-style guitarist. Sultans of Swing is an amazing classic of guitar showmanship from Dire Strait’s first album.

Mark Knopfler

Randy Rhoads

Randy Rhoads, a member of Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne’s bands, had a big influence on neoclassical metal. Hundreds of well-known guitarists mention him as an influence. At the age of 25, he died unexpectedly while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne in 1982. A single-engine plane carrying a few members of the band, including Rhoads, collided with the top of the tour bus, spun out of control and killed everyone on board.

Randy Rhoads

Gary Moore

Another member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Gary Moore, has been dubbed a true virtuoso. He was a solo performer and a member of several bands. As a recording artist, he had eleven solo Top 40 songs in the United Kingdom. He recorded an album with former Cream members Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in 1993. Moore, who was 58 at the time, died of a heart attack in his sleep in 2011.

Gary Moore

Tony Iommi

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is a founding member. After an accident in a factory where he worked as a teenager, he changed his playing approach. On his right hand, he lost the tips of his middle and ring fingers. He went on to become one of the all-time great rock guitarists.

Tony Iommi

Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani has received 15 Grammy nominations. Before becoming a rock hero, Satriani made a fortune as a guitar instructor, even training a young guitarist named Steve Vai at one point. His breakthrough album, Surfing With the Alien, sealed his position as one of the finest instrumental rock guitarists of all time, featuring the classic illustration of Marvel Comics’ Silver Surfer on the cover.

Joe Satriani

Jeff Beck

Criticizing guitarists who played with The Yardbirds is tricky. The Yardbirds were made up of simply Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page. Jeff Beck is a remarkable guitar genius whose work spans several genres, including blues-rock, hard rock, and electronica. He has reached the age of 75 and shows no signs of slowing down. He’s recently been seen performing with Johnny Depp at live events.

Jeff Beck

Steve Vai

In the year 1960, Steve Vai was born in Carls Place, New York. At the age of 18, he began his musical career by copying a difficult Frank Zappa song on notebook paper and submitting it to the artist. Zappa mailed a plane to Vai after reading the page, and Vai flew a few to Los Angeles and joined the band. Vai is another virtuoso who has been labeled as an outspoken performer.

Steve Vai

Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore is a guitarist and composer who was a founding member of Deep Purple. Single guitar notes are hard-punched, combining his free-flowing jamming style with softer, almost pipe organ sounds to produce an unmistakable sound. He is 75 years old and is known for his excellent riffs and classically influenced solos.

Ritchie Blackmore

Slash

Slash is the lead guitarist for Guns N’ Roses. Since he began his career in 1981, he has gained critical recognition for his guitar skills. Slash later formed Velvet Revolver, a supergroup band, including some of the world’s top guitarists, including Lenny Kravitz, who hailed him as “probably the best guitarist he’d ever played with.”

Slash

Alex Lifeson

Alex Lifeson is a guitarist for Rush, a Canadian progressive rock band. He plays electric and acoustic instruments, as well as the mandola, bouzouki, and mandolin. In 2013, he was enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lifeson, who is now 67 years old, wants to be a painter, a restaurant owner, and a pilot.

Alex Lifeson

Brian May

Brian May is Queen’s (we all know who they are) guitarist and one of the band’s founding members. May is noted for his soaring guitar solos as well as his ability to combine rock & roll and classical music styles. His unusual voice is instantly recognizable, regardless of the band he is with at the time. After Freddie Mercury’s death, Queen as a band was placed on pause for almost a decade. Brian May, on the other hand, has resurfaced since then, bringing Queen back to the forefront of rock.

Brian May

Stevie Ray Vaughan

In the 1980s, Vaughan was a key figure in the blues resurgence. Vaughan’s lightning-fast fingerpicking was recalled by David Bowie, who chose him to play guitar on his new album Lets Dance in the mid-’80s. The Stray Cats and Eric Clapton were among the opening bands for Vaughn, who was an instant hit. At the age of 35, he perished in a helicopter crash in 1990. He is still regarded as one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton is God. At least, that’s what the graffiti scribbled on London homes used to say. Eric Clapton, a member of The Yardbirds, Cream, Derek and The Dominos, is the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s first three-time inductee. Clapton has 18 Grammy Awards to his name and has sold over 100 million albums throughout the world.

Eric Clapton

David Gilmour

Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour was a member of the band. He is widely considered as one of the all-time great guitarists. Pink Floyd transformed their sound from their beginnings as a blues/folk band into an acid rock genre that no other band could equal. The albums Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall continue to sell millions of copies each year as new fans of the band emerge.

David Gilmour

Eddie Van Halen

The founder of the hard rock band Van Halen is an absolute beast on the guitar. Gene Simmons of Kiss discovered Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex, who went on to form one of the most popular rock bands of all time, headlined by David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. In 2012, Guitar World magazine ranked Van Halen first among the best guitarists of all time. On October 6, 2020, he, unfortunately, passed away.

Eddie Van Halen

Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page founded the rock band Led Zeppelin. He was also a member of The Yardbirds, which many people were unaware of (as were Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck). As a twenty-year-old in the 1960s, he was one of the most in-demand session guitarists in the UK. Page, who is now 77 years old, has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Jimmy Page

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix managed to become one of the most unique and critically renowned performers of all time in his 27 years on this planet. He played at Woodstock, but due to his lack of reputation at the time, just a few people saw him. More people consider Jimi Hendrix to be the best guitarist who ever lived than any other guitarist. His talent to make sounds on the guitar that have never been heard before is renowned. Jimi Hendrix is depicted with his first guitar when he is 15 years old.

Jimi Hendrix

John Mayer

Most of you know him as the pop musician who is best known for his famous song “Your Body Is A Wonderland,” but did you know he can also perform some killer guitar solos? In fact, it was Stevie Ray Vaughan who inspired him to pick up the guitar in the first place! You can be sure that the blues isn’t dead in this day and age with singers like John Mayer!

John Mayer

Mateus Asato

This remarkable six-string virtuoso has taken the globe by storm because to his viral Instagram videos, despite the fact that he has yet to release an album of his own. You may be familiar with Mateus Asato, a guitarist from Campo Grande, Brazil, who now resides in Los Angeles. Since then, the Brazilian guitarist has traveled as a session guitarist with a variety of pop musicians, and is noted for his remarkable chord-melody arrangements.

Mateus Asato

Jake Bowen

Periphery, a progressive metalcore/djent band, has three guitarists, one of whom being Jake Bowen. For the song “The Price Is Wrong,” the band was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2016. Here’s an interesting fact: Jake Bowen is the nephew of Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci. We bet most of you had no idea!

Jake Bowen

Scott Lepage

Scott LePage of Polyphia is one of the band’s two guitarists. If you’re unfamiliar with the band, they were formed in 2010 and its roots are progressive metal. Their powerful sound helped them acquire notoriety at first. Later, their sound became more mainstream, merging guitar with rap/hip-hop music to produce a distinctive sound.

Scott LePage

Tim Henson

Polyphia’s other guitarist is none other than Tim Henson. The riffs he and Scott LePage wrote together had a big influence on today’s guitar scene, as they helped to shape the modern trap/hip-hop guitar sound. Polyphia is currently working on their fourth album, which is scheduled for release in 2021. After posting multiple clips of himself playing guitar on Instagram, Henson became well-known.

Tim Henson

Plini

Plini Roessler-Holgate is an Australian guitarist and songwriter. Before switching to his given identity, he released songs under the name Halcyon. He is noted for his remarkable guitar work as a progressive metal guitarist; in fact, Steve Vai has referred to Plini as “the future of exceptional guitar playing.”

Plini

Aaron Marshall

Aaron Marshall is a guitarist from Toronto, Ontario, who is best known for his band “Intervals,” which he founded in 2011 as a creative outlet. Apart from his work with his band, one of the things that people like about him is how melodic and beautiful his guitar playing is, as well as his riffs.

Aaron Marshall

Tosin Abasi

Oluwatosin Ayoyinka Olumide “Tosin” Abasi is a Nigerian-American guitarist who is best known as the lead guitarist and founding member of Animals as Leaders, an instrumental progressive metal band. Tosin’s band is recognized for its complex music, which features rapid time signature changes and challenging rhythms. He also popularized a guitar technique called “selected picking,”  as well as utilizing a bass technique called “thumping.”

Tosin Abasi

Javier Reyes

Javier Reyes is best known for playing 8-string guitar in the bands Animal as Leaders and Mestis. He combines traditional Spanish roots with progressive metal riffing, having studied classical guitar. Reyes has displayed his skill of the 8-string guitar as one of Animals as Leaders’ guitarists by playing intricate sections while remaining comfortable.

Javier Reyes

Tom Quayle

Tom Quayle, a guitarist from Leeds, is a British musician. This amazing guitarist is noted for his rapid, fluid legato lines as well as his ability to play over intricate jazz chord changes. He rose to stardom thanks to YouTube, and after auditioning for Guitar Idol 2008, he gained even more popularity. David Beebee, a guitarist from Leeds, and he just collaborated on an app. The program can be used by guitarists to learn how to play over chord changes.

Tom Quayle

Martin Miller

Martin Miller, a professional musician and an inspiring and knowledgeable guitar instructor based in Leipzig, Germany, is establishing himself as a professional musician and an inspiring and knowledgeable guitar teacher. Miller has been playing guitar since he was a toddler, having grown up surrounded by music and instruments, but it wasn’t until he was in his teens that he began to take it seriously. He originally became well-known as a result of his great playing on YouTube, where he received a lot of attention.

Martin Miller

Guthrie Govan

Guthrie Govan is a guitarist and guitar teacher from England. He is most known for his work with The Aristocrats, Asia, GPS, The Young Punx, and The Fellowship, as well as his solo project Erotic Cakes. He’s collaborated with Steven Wilson and Hans Zimmer more recently. With his instrumental composition Wonderful Slippery Thing, he won Guitarist magazine’s “Guitarist of the Year” competition in 1993. He qualified for the live final thanks to his track demo, which he won over a number of other contestants.

Guthrie Govan

Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks is the founder of The Derek Trucks Band and a Grammy Award-winning guitarist and songwriter. In 1999, he became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band. In 2010, he and his wife, blues singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, founded the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Derek Trucks

Steve Lukather

Steven Lee Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, composer, arranger, and record producer best known for being the sole surviving founding member of the rock band Toto from 1976 till today. Lukather is a well-known session guitarist who has contributed guitar tracks to over 1,500 albums by a diverse spectrum of musicians and genres. Given his considerable session musician career, there’s a strong chance you’ve heard of him without even realizing it.

Steve Lukather

Shawn Lane

Lane began playing piano with his sisters when he was eight years old, but it wasn’t until he was 10 years old that he took up guitar seriously. He began intense practice when he was 12–13 years old. On two studio albums, he collaborated with Ringo Starr, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Reggie Young, Joe Walsh, Jonas Hellborg, and a bevy of other musicians.

Shawn Lane

Cory Wong

Cory Wong is a guitarist, composer, and producer living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a solo artist and in partnership with others, he has released a number of works. His musical background includes jazz, among other genres. In that order, he shared the stage with Vulfpeck, Stay Human, and Chris Thile. In 2020, he released numerous albums, including Live in Amsterdam with the Metropole Orkest and Meditations with Jon Batiste, a Grammy-nominated new-age record. He is most recognized for his work as a guitarist with the band Vulfpeck.

Cory Wong

Rob Scallon

Rob Scallon is a musician who became famous on YouTube after posting videos of himself performing metal songs with strange instruments (an example of which would be a banjo). His YouTube films span from comical music skits to informative ones that teach viewers about instruments they may be unfamiliar with.

Rob Scallon

Nili Brosh

Nili Brosh is an Israeli-American guitarist and lyricist. Brosh received his bachelor’s degree in music from Berklee College of Music in 2009 and began teaching in the college’s summer guitar programs the following year. Her debut album, Through The Looking Glass, was released the next year and featured a guest solo by Andy Timmons. She began touring with The Iron Maidens in 2010, as well as appearing as a guest with Stu Hamm, Andy Timmons, and The Aristocrats.

Nili Brosh

Orianthi

Orianthi Penny Panagaris is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who worked with Alice Cooper’s touring band and rehearsed with Michael Jackson for his ill-fated This Is It concert series in 2009. She was also named “2010 Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year” by Guitar International magazine. Carrie Underwood recruited Orianthi to join her band after she performed as her lead guitarist at the 51st annual Grammy Awards in February 2009. Following that performance, Michael Jackson’s management approached Orianthi and asked her to audition for the This Is It performances.

Orianthi

Nita Strauss

Nita Strauss hails from the United States and is a rock musician. She is the current touring guitarist for Alice Cooper and has a thriving solo career. Strauss began touring with her own band while she was a teenager, and she dropped out of high school in her junior year to pursue music full-time. Strauss began her career as a member of the Iron Maiden all-female tribute band The Iron Maidens, but she has since performed with a variety of rock bands, including Consume the Fire, Femme Fatale, and the video-game ensemble Critical Hit.

Nita Strauss

James Burton

James Burton has been touring and providing studio support for a variety of singers for a long time. Burton’s first song, “Susie Q,” was written for rocker Dale Hawkins when he was 14 years old. The outstanding American guitarist had a significant impact on rock in the 1950s. He has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and the Rolling Stones have named him one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

James Burton

Thurston Moore

62-year-old Thurston Moors rose to fame in the 1980s, when he was best known for being a member of Sonic Youth. In addition, he was involved in numerous solo and group projects outside of the band. The Ecstatic Peace! record label was also run by Moore. He was included in the top 100 guitarists by Rolling Stones and has had a significant impact on numerous generations as a result of his songs.

Thurston Moore

Joe Perry

Joe Perry is the more known name of Joseph Pereira. The American songwriter and musician is best known for being the lead guitarist and founding member of the rock group Aerosmith. The group is frequently referred to be the “Greatest American Rock Band of All-Time.” Perry has an impressive 600 guitar collection. We’re just a little bit jealous.

Joe Perry

Roger McGuinn

Roger McGuinn, an American musician, is best known for serving as the Byrds’ frontman and bandleader. The Byrds achieved significant success in the 1960s by fusing traditional folk music with a rock tempo. For his work with the Byrds, McGuinn was also honored with a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There are countless rock enthusiasts all around the world that adore and laud him.

Roger McGuinn

Paul Simon

Paul Simon is frequently hailed as history’s greatest poet. Over the course of his over six-decade music career, many of those years were spent working on recordings for Simin and Garfunkel, a partnership that was established in 1956. Almost all of the songs were written by Simon. Despite the pair’s breakup, Simon started a highly lucrative solo career. His solo and group albums have each received 16 Grammy Awards.

Paul Simon

Johnny Marr

English musician and singer-songwriter Johnny Marr first achieved global recognition as the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths’, a band active between 1982-1987. Marr used to use his right hand to try to imitate guitar riffs using paint and strings as well. Marr has been playing in various other bands since the band disbanded and has also started a solo career.

Johnny Marr

Albert King

More than nearly any other blues guitarist, the six-foot-four, 300-pound Albert King was able to bend notes deeper and more powerfully. Many generations have also been said to have been influenced by his recordings. When his idol performed as his opening act at the Fillmore in 1967, Jimi Hendrix was awestruck. King stated, “I taught [Hendrix] a lesson about the blues,”. “I could have easily played his songs, but he couldn’t play mine.” Albert King was once nicknamed “The Velvet Bulldozer” because of this smooth singing and large size.

Albert King

Neil Young

A phenomenal musician and singer-songwriter from Canada and the United States, Neil Young began his musical career in the 1960s. He later relocated to Los Angeles where he joined Buffalo Springfield together with Richie Furay, Stephen Stills, and many other musicians. Along with being twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he has won numerous Grammy and Juno awards. Many people throughout the world hold Neil Young in high regard for his masterful guitar playing, profound lyrics, and distinctive voice.

Neil Young

Elmore James

Elmore James, a Mississippi-native who also played the blues on guitar and sang, was referred to as the “King of the Slide Guitar.” His voice has even been compared by some to sizzling. James has influenced numerous guitar generations, and his fans often practice day and night to sound like him. Elmore James died in 1963, but his enormous contribution to music was valued and acknowledged, leading to his later induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

Elmore James

Stephen Stills

According to Neil Young, his bandmate is “a musical genius.” Stephen Still is unquestionably one of the most well-known singer-songwriters of his time, but he may also be the most underappreciated guitarist. He is not only a well-known guitarist but a fantastic multi-instrumentalist as well. Stills has had success as a solo performer and as a member of two successful bands. The Rolling Stones list of “The Greatest Guitarists of All Time” includes him as well.

Stephen Stills

Mark Tremonti

American musician Mark Tremonti, 46, is well-known for playing lead guitar for the rock groups Alter Bridge and Creed. Over the course of his career, Tremonti has so far sold more than 50 million recordings. Throughout his career, he has also collaborated with numerous different performers. One Grammy has been given to Creed for the song “With Arms Wide Open” at the Tremonti awards. He is well-liked among his contemporaries and was even selected by Guitar World as “Guitarist of the Year” for three years running. Tremonti was ranked as the fourth-best heavy metal guitarist in history by Total Guitar magazine in 2011.

Mark Tremonti

RJ Ronquillo

RJ Ronquillo is a session guitarist located in Nashville, Tennessee. RJ is renowned for writing incredible gear reviews that you can watch on YouTube. He has performed and toured with a variety of artists, including Thompson Square, Stone Sour, Ricky Martin, and Stevie Wonder. His record credits as a session musician include records by Santana, Ricky Martin, 2Pac, and DMX.

R.J. Ronquillo

Andy Timmons

American guitarist Andy Timmons has appeared on stage with the Taylor Bay Band, Danger Danger, Pawn Kings, and Andy Timmons Band, among others (ATB). He has also released numerous solo albums and performed as a session guitarist. He released the first of his two CDs, That Was Then, This Is Now, and Resolution, on Favored Nations on May 2, 2006.

Andy Timmons

Jared Dines

Jared Dines is a heavy metal-themed YouTuber and musician known for his covers, parodies, and original songs. Dines held a position as a recording engineer before to concentrating solely on YouTube. He started a YouTube channel in 2011 to advertise his band, They Charge Like Warriors. Dines later became well-known for his metal renditions of well-known songs.

Jared Dines

Jason Richardson

Jason Richardson is an American guitarist who was born on July 30, 1991. He is well known for his work as a guitarist in both Born of Osiris and Chelsea Grin. His playing style is exceptionally quick and accurate. He is now working both independently and with All That Remains. He is also promoted by Ernie Ball Music Man.

Jason Richardson

Fredrik Thordendal

A Swedish musician named Fredrik Thordendal is most known for being the lead guitarist and backup singer for the extreme metal group Meshuggah, of which he is a founding member. Together with Marten Hagström, the rhythm guitarist for Meshuggah, Thordendal was listed among the top 100 greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time by Guitar World.

Fredrik Thordendal

Hubert Sumlin

Chicago blues guitarist and singer Hubert Charles Sumlin was renowned for his “torn, broken explosions of notes, unexpected cliff-top silences, and daring rhythmic suspensions.” He played in Howlin’ Wolf’s group. Throughout his career, he had a huge and well-regarded impact on the music industry. In Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” Sumlin came in at number 43. Simply unbelievable

Hubert Sumlin

Matthew Bellamy

He is an accomplished guitarist as well as a vocalist, composer, producer, and musician. Few songs haven’t been performed by Ariel Posen, a lifelong musician. Posen was born in Winnipeg, although he spent a lot of his early years traveling with his musician parents to different performances. At age 9, he picked up the guitar and began a career that eventually took him throughout the world for his individual performances, as well as gigs with the Juno Award-winning roots rock band The Bros. Landreth.

Matthew Bellamy

Brent Mason

For all of the greatest country stars and in other genres, Brent Mason has contributed to nearly 1,000 albums. He is a well-known studio musician who Chet Atkins first became aware of. He has received numerous accolades for both “Musician of the Year” and “Guitarist of the Year.” Mason has contributed to nearly all of the country hits. Mason is renowned for mainly relying on his acrylic nails to produce an exceptionally smooth and consistent tone with a focused and rapid attack on the strings. He has his own guitar models and effects pedals in addition to being a gifted musician and guitar teacher.

Brent Mason

Charlie Christian

Charlie Christian single-handedly brought the electric guitar into the mainstream when he joined Benny Goodman on stage in 1939. Christian’s solo performances on Goodman songs like “Flying Home” and “Honeysuckle Rose” mark the earliest examples of the electric guitar being used well as the lead instrument in a big band arrangement, even though he wasn’t the first guitarist to jump in and play electrified. Sadly, Christian, who was 26 years old, passed away from tuberculosis. A generation of legendary jazz guitarists, including Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow, and Jim Hall, were influenced by his work.

Charlie Christian

Chet Atkins

Beginning in the 1940s, Chet Atkins recorded innumerable songs both as a solo performer and as a studio player. He actually established the groundwork for early rock ‘n’ roll with a large portion of the session material he recorded and/or produced in Nashville with musicians like Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers. Despite being at ease with a variety of musical genres, Atkins is most often linked with country music and the acoustic guitar. Travis, as well as well-known guitarists like Doc Watson, Les Paul, Jerry Reed, and Mark Knopfler, joined Atkins in recording a duo album.

Chet Atkins