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Learning to play the guitar can be extremely rewarding. There is nothing like the feeling of finally mastering the difficult piece that you have worked on for weeks...or sometimes months. However, learning to play can often be frustrating too. Although the guitar can offer unlimited possibilities for individual musical expression to anyone with the time and patience seek them out, it is a very complex instrument; it requires years of diligent practice to master.

Having grown up in the company of musicians, I quite naturally fell in love with the guitar. I have always been amazed by people who play well, tackling difficult melodies and complicated chord progressions with apparent ease. Being a player myself, I have studied the work of many of today's well known players. Most of my personal favorites are in the field of rock music, but no matter what style of music one chooses to play, true talent always finds its way to the top of the mountain.

With so many talented players out there, and given the fact that I love each of my favorite players for a different reason, it would be next to impossible for me to choose one single player to be designated as the best of all time. So, with that in mind, I would like to tell you about a few of my favorite players. Below, you will find my top five choices for the greatest guitar player of all time.

1)Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was born in Seattle Washington on November 27, 1942. He was a true innovator, who took the art of guitar playing to new heights. Through the use of feedback, distortion, and numerous other sound effects, he explored sonic territory that had been previously uncharted. Hendrix often had to invent new technologies to help him create the sounds he heard in his imagination. Guitarists of today owe him a vote of thanks for creating many of the sound effects that are standard today.

Jimi received his first electric guitar at the age of eleven, as a gift from his father. He was very much influenced by the blues players of the time, which he discovered by listening to the records in his father's collection. He learned to play by slowly trying to copy these records. By the time he reached his teens, his skill as a guitarist had earned him quite a reputation, and he began to work as a back-up guitarist for many of the popular acts of the 1960s, such as Little Richard, The Isley Brothers, and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. After a brief stint in the army, Jimi returned to his music in 1965, forming his own

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