Talk:Warren DeMartini

Dokken
I've heard from Juan Croucier that Warren DeMartini was a guitarist for Dokken for two weeks, filling in for George Lynch, but I don't know much about this.

Gringo300 11:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

nephew
Warren's nephew Sonny Demartini is a rap protige hailing from Batavia, Illinois.

roommates
"Warren was at one point the roommate of Jake E. Lee, Ozzy Osbourne's second lead guitarist during his interminable solo career".


 * Bias - the use of the word "interminable" makes this line somewhat derogatory.

Virtuoso?
Should Warren be considered a virtuoso guitarist? Or does he mimic someone else's guitar playing style?-Cory pratt10:22 July 24, 2006 Personaly I'm not too sure about the title virtuoso. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I'm unaware of any full intrumental recordings. I think he is an exceptional underated guitar player that I have many hours of listening to. I think that the time period that he was in the public eye, his talents were greatly overshadowed by other guitarists. Mick Mars was, I feel, another victim of this as well. I personaly think that his true talent lies in his rhythm playing. I've always thought this about Eddie Van Halen as well. Some guitar players just have that. They capture you with cool rhythm licks, and feed a basic solo into it. I'm certainly not putting either of them down for it, but anyone that knows anything about guitar playing can easily hear this. I would first like to hear a full instumental recording from Warren before making a decision on this subject. Hey, Here's one for all you guitar people out there. Paul Gilbert has an instrumental CD out now called "Get Out of My Yard." This is fantastic. I bought it off of Amazon. It's a five star. Peace to all, --IBANEZ470 17:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)John P.A.


 * I would call him a virtuoso guitarist, but in reality it's almost a matter of opinion in who we call virtuosos today. One of the definitions of virtuoso is a person who excels in musical technique or execution.  I do believe Warren has a very special technique and style that sets him apart from most rock guitarist.  I don't think having a similar technique to George_Lynch_(musician) makes him fall out of the virtuoso category also. 170.97.167.61 (talk) 01:14, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

false statement concerning vibrato should be removed
The following passage from the article is patently false:

"Warren uses finger vibrato, similar in style to George Lynch. This technique features moving the finger/wrist rapidly back and forth along the length of the string to alter the pitch (like a violinist), as opposed to bending the string."

The above statement is false due to the fact that vibrato on a fretted instrument is only achievable by moving the fingers perpendicular to the strings. Moving the fingers parallel to the string will change the pitch of a ringing string by only discrete, half-step values.

Changes in the pitch of a ringing string that are produced by sliding the fingers parallel to the string are called "slides". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ngstevens2 (talk • contribs) 15:39, 4 September 2011 (UTC)