Guitar playing styles or techniques that you don't care for...

[NobodyReally]

I hate sounding negative, but there are some things people do on guitar that I don't get or simply don't like. My 2 biggest cringes are...

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.

Sweep picking/arpeggios. This sounds like something you do to check intonation, only really fast. It doesn't sound good or even remotely musical to me. Nothing ruins a good solo like sweep picking.

I'm sure some will disagree, and still others will hate things that I think are awesome, lol. But I like hearing other people's opinions.

 

[guitarchaeologist]

This thread reminds me of a joke.
A guy approached a man on the street and says, I'll give you $50K, no questions. The caveat is I'll give your most hated enemy $100K. Would you accept?
The guy says, "Sure, why would I refuse $150K?".

If the link isn't obvious, it's that some of the most disliked techniques are often our own.

 

[Stratafied]

Shredding is guitar abuse.

 

[Handsome McClane]

I hate sounding negative, but there are some things people do on guitar that I don't get or simply don't like. My 2 biggest cringes are...

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.

Sweep picking/arpeggios. This sounds like something you do to check intonation, only really fast. It doesn't sound good or even remotely musical to me. Nothing ruins a good solo like sweep picking.

I'm sure some will disagree, and still others will hate things that I think are awesome, lol. But I like hearing other people's opinions.

+1000

I still like sweep picking though. In fact I can't think of anything other than thumping your acoustic that would bother me.

 

[Dick Blackmore]

I’m not a huge fan of the 2 handed tapping stuff like Polyphia, Sarah Longfield and Tobin Abassi it sounds like Nintendo.

 

[Scott Baxendale]

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.


This times 1000.

This and the guy who relies on a loop pedal where every song devolves into him starting out by making a percussion loop by banging on his guitar then spending the next 10 minutes with masturbating guitar solos over the top of his 4 bar loop.

 

[Scott Baxendale]

……also, John Mayer.

 

[Slider58]

I hate sounding negative, but there are some things people do on guitar that I don't get or simply don't like. My 2 biggest cringes are...

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.

Sweep picking/arpeggios. This sounds like something you do to check intonation, only really fast. It doesn't sound good or even remotely musical to me. Nothing ruins a good solo like sweep picking.

I'm sure some will disagree, and still others will hate things that I think are awesome, lol. But I like hearing other people's opinions.

With you 100%

 

[Chuck8436]

I hate everything I’m not good at!

Just kidding. I can’t say I hate any style. Even if it’s not my thing, I appreciate the skill it requires.

 

[Stratafied]

……also, John Mayer.

Hey Scottie !

 

[guitarchaeologist]

I never realized that percussive acoustic guitar was so disliked.
It's different, but hate-able?
Personally, I like it. Rodrigo y Gabriela? Michael Hedges? Tommy Emanuel? Come on, that's all great stuff!!!

 

[bluejazzoid]

I never realized that percussive acoustic guitar was so disliked.
It's different, but hate-able?
Personally, I like it. Rodrigo y Gabriela? Michael Hedges? Tommy Emanuel? Come on, that's all great stuff!!!

I was about to say the same... some pretty beautiful music there.

 

[davidKOS]

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.

Although I have rarely heard some of the "percussive acoustic style" done well, for the most part I am not enthralled by the sound.

I am open to the use of most of the flashy guitar "tricks" as long as it's done tastefully and fits the music.

My pet peeve is a guitar solo that comes out of nowhere and does not fit the arrangement, as if the guitar player just wants to show off and has no care for how his part fits the song.

I'm also not fond of the scooped metal tone either.

 

[davidKOS]

I never realized that percussive acoustic guitar was so disliked.
It's different, but hate-able?
Personally, I like it. Rodrigo y Gabriela? Michael Hedges? Tommy Emanuel? Come on, that's all great stuff!!!

Those guys were/are great players. But overall I'm still not a big fan of that style.

 

[Chuck8436]

I never realized that percussive acoustic guitar was so disliked.
It's different, but hate-able?
Personally, I like it. Rodrigo y Gabriela? Michael Hedges? Tommy Emanuel? Come on, that's all great stuff!!!

I love Mike Dawes



Especially the part at 0:50

 

[NobodyReally]

I liked it when I first heard it, because it was different and unique. But over the years it seems to have become gimmicky, and it's just way overdone now. Nowadays when I hear it on YouTube or something, I just groan and shut it off. Lol

I was about to say the same... some pretty beautiful music there.

 

[Slacker G]

Other peoples playing.

 

[Slider58]

I'm not really into fingerboard tapping either. When Eddie V. H. did it back in the late 70s it was exciting, he excelled at it. Then it seemed like every metal guitarist jumped on the bandwagon. It just became a case of "hey, look how good I am" YAWN.
I can do it, ( not brilliantly though) but I prefer not to.

 

[Eoraptor1]

I’m not a huge fan of the 2 handed tapping stuff like Polyphia, Sarah Longfield and Tobin Abassi it sounds like Nintendo.

You know, there may be something to that. Video game soundtracks are "a thing" now. Some of them even get full orchestrations. It's probable some of these players were influenced by the music from their favorite games.





JAMES

 

[Nate D]

Percussive acoustic style. This irritates me to death, hearing someone thumping and whacking away on the instrument. Even as a drummer I find it chaotic and annoying.

Is Tommy Emmanuel in that category?

I love him.

I don’t like shredding, but I like Steve Vai quite a bit. Wonderful player. He’s got such a wonderful sense of melody that I love in guitar playing.