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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
When the guitarist creates sounds that are aesthetically pleasing for me, then that is "good" guitar playing to me.
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I think that's true to a point. Although I also think it's possible to acknowledge that someone is a 'good' guitarist even if what they do doesn't please me. (Pat Metheny, for example, is not a guitarist I like, but is, I believe, a 'better' player than, say, Julia Cafritz, who I do).
I suppose for me, a 'good' guitarist is someone with the technical ability to play a number of different styles and not have to avoid more complex ones because their skill-levels won't permit it. It's likely that Metheny could get to grips with any Pussy Galore riff fairly quickly, while it's unlikely that Cafritz could cover a Metheny tune. Which has nothing to do with whether I actually like them or not.
I say this as someone whose guitar playing makes Julia Cafritz look like Django Reinhardt.