Joni Mitchell
Mitchell, a Canadian singer-songwriter, is influenced by folk, pop, jazz, and classical music. Her songs frequently incorporate feelings and sensitivity with social and philosophical concepts. She was elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and is a nine-time Grammy winner. She has created songs for the guitar in almost 50 different tunings, playing what she has dubbed “Joni’s odd chords,” and almost all of them feature an open, or non-standard, tuning. Guitarists can provide accompaniments with a wider range of textures and greater variation by using alternate tuning.
Joni Mitchell
Kurt Cobain
The fact that Kurt Cobain was not a traditional performer is the key to his significance as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He did this by reclaiming the electric guitar from note-smashing technicians and giving it to artists, freaks, and poets instead. Alternative rock was not created by Kurt Cobain. Yet he gave it the metallic strength it needed to rule since he loved Cheap Trick, the Melvins, and Kiss. Not all of his performance was untrained wind; he also displayed a grasp of the quiet-loud-quiet dynamics used in “Lithium” and virtually all other Nirvana songs, as well as unusual chord progressions.
Kurt Cobain