Scott Henderson comes to mind. I guess moreso than just tone, note choice and inflection has a bigger influence on that feel.
Any others? How/why do you feel their playing is sax-like?
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Guitar players that have a sax-like lead tone?
Scott Henderson comes to mind. I guess moreso than just tone, note choice and inflection has a bigger influence on that feel.
Any others? How/why do you feel their playing is sax-like?
Re: Guitar players that have a sax-like lead tone?
Me, when I plug into my Roland GR-33.
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Can you post a vid of an example of this Scott Henderson sax thing tc? Im curious to hear what you mean.
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I don't know about sax like but, for horn like, Alan Holdsworth.
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Re: Guitar players that have a sax-like lead tone?
Allan Holdsworth, for his tone and unique phrasing:
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The late John McGeoch (Magazine, Siouxsie And The Banshees) played both instruments. Some of the sax phrasing is evident in his guitar melodies. Sometimes, he double tracked the two instruments so well that they are difficult to tell apart.
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Re: Guitar players that have a sax-like lead tone?
Check out Jeff Watson on the Night Ranger tune Hearts Away
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Holdsworth big time. I saw him at a clinic he was giving at a Carvin outlet in Sherman Oaks about 15 years ago when his signature Carvins were coming out and he was explaining how he was jealous of horn players because the note would sustain as long as they blew so you could all kinds of things with the note, so he's always been trying to duplicate that effect, to the extent that you can with a guitar anyway. Said he hates overdrive and distortion but that it's the only way he can approximate the horn effect on a guitar so he just lives with it.
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Originally Posted by LesStrat
Re: Guitar players that have a sax-like lead tone?
Not quit saxlike, but you can really hear the smooth hornlike qualities of his tone in this video. He has actively gone out of his way to remove the percussive attack of guitar strings from his sound.
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He spent a lot of time trying to make picked notes, hammer-ons and pull-offs sound as close to identical as possible.
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Secession would be a horror. But barring a major national crisis like a Black Death magnitude epidemic or nuclear attack to erase once and for all the myth that truth is negotiable, it is coming.
Re: Guitar players that have a sax-like lead tone?
Steve Howe does at times.
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A perfect example of a player who found his own voice- and one that not many people could copy if they tried.
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Give the drummer some downers or something. Sheesh.
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Slash has a sex-like lead tone.
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====Me, when I plug into my Roland GR-33.
What you pug into that Roland ? I love mine too .
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Here is a great representation of Allan's sax like legato:
(no video, but live...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLo-m...e_gdata_player
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I think Petrucci gets in the neighborhood in this song starting around 6:20
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Scott Henderson was the first one that came to my mind as well.
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A Brian Moore guitar.
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