50 UNPOPULAR Guitar Opinions (according to you guys)

What's your most unpopular guitar opinion?

A great riff can do a lot more for a song than a great solo can. There's always room for a solo to be improvised each time it's played, but every note in any iconic riff is eternal.

My old bass player got all pissy when I called him a "four string drummer". Funnily enough the drummer wasn't offended. 😁

Doesn’t matter what you play. How you learn. How fast you learn. Or any of that. As long as you are playing and having a good time that’s all that matters

I enjoy restringing on a Floyd Rose. Tuning one string while simultaneously detuning all the others is a really fun challenge.

To answer the heavy guitar/light guitar tone debate just buy the heaviest Les Paul you can find, record something with it and then start removing wood by taking a belt sander to the back of the guitar's body. Every few millimeters or grams of wood removed just re-record the piece and compare its tone to the original recording. C'mon Tyler, you can afford to do this experiment!

Unpopular opinion, it does not matter what guitar you play for a genre, you get can a good sound for any genre with any guitar

not necessarily unpopular, but i strongly believe every guitar player should build at least one kit guitar from scratch so we know how to do basic repairs.

Shecters are kinda insane for the price. An example of this is a shecter guitar for $1299 with glow in the dark inlays, an emg pickup with a sustaniac, and a floyd rose 1500. Its also the same price as a guitar that has none of that.

Mine: while not entirely unpopular, there is absolutely nothing wrong with learning overplayed/forbidden/annoying riffs because most of these riffs offer some value. Stairway taught young me a very rudimentary finger-style picking Smells like Teen Spirit was my intro to power chords Crazy train taught me palm muting The list goes on for things 15 year old me learned from the hated riffs.

If you have a Les Paul (even Epiphone), you have a signature guitar anyway. All of them have his name on it.

The guitarist being the most replaceable member is probably the most true honestly. Drummers are the hardest to replace, then singers, then bassists, keys and then Guitar as the easiest. Everyone wants to do the cool guitar frontman thing.

My unpopular opinion is that you can push and mod medium tier gear to become something special in your hands and make it become top quality or highly regarded The valvestate used on the in flames album or the lead 12 used by Billy Gibbons in studio, Kurt Cobain used the little lead 12s also as practice amps and used them as stage props, things like that

that's the sound of every Smashing Pumpkins fan dying inside when he called Bullet With Butterfly Wings "Rat in a Cage"

Unpopular opinion: guitarists are by far the snobbiest group of musicians out there. Doesn't matter what you play or how well you play it, you'll always have multiple comments crapping on what you're doing. Playing something fast and technical? "pfft sounds like crap" or "no feeling/soul whatsoever." Playing something slow and melodic? "THIS has ### views? my six year old could play this." I once saw a video of a kid playing a Metallica song for a middle school talent show, one of the comments from a 30 something year old was "I'd be embarrassed to play in front of people if that was my guitar tone." FFS let people play what makes them happy

Les Paul's are too heavy. I played a Les Paul live for years and never thought it felt uncomfortable.

I love this video. This is the best one you’ve done yet getting people to open up and talk about what they don’t like. I’m a say that’s pretty cool thanks for the video. Have a great day. I will be making comments.👍🏼🎸🎼🎶😄

12:25 people always judge "simple" art by saying "I could've done that" but the point is... you DIDN"T. They did. It isn't about the complexity, it's about the creative vision.

Unpopular opinion - Not everything in guitar playing has already been invented. Actually I think that we barely scratched the surface, and there is still plenty of room for new guitarists to make revolutions, big changes and creating new trails.

There is a Danish band called Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, an amazingly technical, yet melodic rock band; very mudically oriented. On their first record, the guitarist had two metalzones after each other and he has an AMAZING tone!