Talk:Lead guitar

message: Is it considered lead guitar when a professional guitarist has a backup band?  Does lead guitar imply that the musician is a member of a band and not a solo musician?  If it is the case that a solo musician cannot be labeled as a lead guitarist, certain names, namely Joe Satriani, should be removed.  (Ngoah89 16:32, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never listened to Satriani myself, however if what Ngoah89 says is true then Satriani is infact not a lead guitarist because a lead guitarist must always have a band to be a lead guitarist.--Mikeoman 21:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Satriani

message: I think, Dave Murray of Iron Maiden should be removed, or Adrian Smith and Janick Gers should be added. All guitarists there play both lead and rythm guitar. --Martinxxxx72 22:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iron Maiden 

message: I was surprised at the number of people in the list who are the only guitarist in their bands (The Edge, Tony Iommi, etc.)  Does their inclusion in the list indicate that they are primarily known for their solos?  Or is "lead guitarist" a common term for "only guitarist" (which I guess isn't that strange if, unlike me, you call an electric bass a "bass guitar")?  This also raises questions about how one-guitar bands handle multi-guitar songs in live performance, but I am sure this answer varies from band to band. Boris B 02:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In agreement with the above statement, while guitarists such as Iommi are worth mentioning, maybe a separate list should be created?--88.111.194.74 22:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  One-guitar bands? 

message: I think this article is flawed, the opening suggests, that it is most common in rock music, this isn't necessairly true, for example with blues when the singer isn't singing, then the lead guitarist makes a riff BB King for example. or perhaps more obviously in jazz if we make an example of Herb Ellis or Emily Remler, they solo whilst the other musicians vamp. 
The opening needs to be more open ended, soon I will add my own introductory and it will sound like this 'lead guitar refers to guitar being played with scales/modes or appegios in complimention to the rhythem guitar" i'll think up a better way of saying this. 
I propose we make 3 different paradigms, lead guitar in rock, lead guitar in the Blues and lead guitar in Jazz. Blues and rock are two styles of guitar that I have experience with, the rock article is fine I think it needs a few thing adding to it and I will encorporate a lot of the stuff from the current article and put it in the rock section. With the Blues I will keep it basic, I will introduce it by briefing stating what the blues are, then going on to explain that the blues predomintely uses a pentatonic scale, talk about call and responce and mention a few notable guitarists. I will keep it basic for now and if people want to improve it they're welcome to.
Jazz lead guitar I know very little about, all I know is it uses modes, so what I will do is i'll leave it as a stub and then somebody who knows better can upgrade it. I'll make the changes on the 8th or 9th March, if anyone has any objections please let me know before then. --Mikeoman 09:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over emphasis upon rock music 

message: The article claims that heavy metal was the music that sparked fast techniques, this isn't necessarily true, though I am unsure as to the first fast picking guitarists, I know that fast lead guitar stems as far back as the 1940s with Django Reinhardt, this statement needs editing although I am unsure, does anybody know who pioneered fast lead guitar? for now I will leave it as it is --Mikeoman 09:56, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  False fact 

message: There seems to be a lot of confusion over what lead guitar is, so I think as wikipedia's for everyone- not just academics musicians etc., we should make it simpler, so I'm going to add a few examples of the relationship between the melodic and the rhythemic, firstly i'll talk about playing lead over strumming a few chords as that seems to be popular, also it's what turns up in the electric guitar exams in Britain so it's worth a mentioning, i'm going to have a shot at describing dissanance (excuse the spelling) but it may be dubious so i'll keep it very simple, secondly i'll talk about vamps because I think people may only think that the guitar can only be played with the guitar, the only example I have in my record collection is Jimi Hendrix with his Jelly 402 with the bass playing vamps, there's loads others, but none come to mind, i'll add some more later after doing some research.--Mikeoman 18:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion over what lead guitar is 

message: I've created a new section here on Heavy Metal lead guitar, a lot of the stuff I wanted to mention wasn't in wikipedia so it's a tad short, please critise it or suggest what needs to be added.--Mikeoman 13:34, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heavy metal lead guitar 

message: I've created a new section here- please give me your comments, critisms, whatver here- I want to know that the section is understood  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikeoman (talk • contribs) 13:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blues lead guitar 

message: Kurt Cobain of Nirvana? Lead guitarist? Really?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.233.54.197 (talk) 02:39, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kurt Cobain  

message: I think it is pathetic that this article is so short.  Bestows the mental capacity of media zombies who are destroying the universe with their dinkyism. Sorry for not having anything more positive to say but I am not an editor or a media person... I actually play lead guitar instead of this garbage being played elsewhere in the media and it annoys me quite a bit at how lead guitar work is marginalized these days. Hey! Make this article longer! It is 1/3 the length of the "Rap Music" article. Have a nice day, none-the-less.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.44.235 (talk) 00:50, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dinky Article 

message: Does anyone know how it got the name "lead"?  To me, that implies that other band members and vocalists would be following the "lead", which, since the lead guitar is usually improvising, would sound quite bad.  Maybe the namer was thinking of some songs that begin with a lead guitar solo.  Or maybe the namer orders guitars by pitch from highest to lowest; the lead is usually playing the highest notes.  But if the lead guitar is leading your band, you're in trouble.  In my opinion, the bass guitar is the "real" lead guitar.  But then, I play bass :)
--Jerrykrinock (talk) 01:36, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: A "lead" is another name for a "solo," at least among rock guitarists.  When I was taking guitar lessons in the 70s, the teacher would say, "Now, when you're going for a lead over this chord progression...," or someone might say, "After the second chorus, the lead starts."  I don't know how common this term is for jazz guitarists, though. Alloy (talk) 08:57, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did it get the name "lead"? 

message: Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 22:42, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

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message: At a glance:
* almost entirely a personal essay, with a sprinkling of random footnotes
* most of the significant points have no clear source, so likely original research
** notice that it's divided into five sections, and (surprise) there are five citations, one for each chunk, so apparently pasted in just to make the page look "legit enough"
* three of the five cites refer to one source, so clear overreliance
Interestingly, though the phrase "lead guitar" appears thousands of times across W'pedia, I have yet to stumble over an instance that links back to Lead guitar. Though maybe forgivable when talking about musical groups or individual musicians, this is a significant oversight for (say) Electric guitar or Rock and roll.Weeb Dingle (talk) 18:31, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  the article needs overhaul