Originally Posted by: PlatonicShredNo, I didn't. Zakk Wylde's intonation is not perfect, he can't read music, he doesn't possess the technical facility of a virtuoso, and even for emotion he's not that hot.

So, no I didn't prove him to be anything but a good player who's just not a virtuoso.

You seem to want to put him in as a virtuoso, even though you admit that all his fast licks are just a few pet licks---whereas other guys ((even Yngwie)) have a very large amount of licks they can run at warp speed. He does not have the total control over alternate picking or legato that virtuosos have, another fact admitted by you.

At any point a player is limited, or it is apparent that they are limited--they are not a virtuoso. Yngwie could play anything he wanted to right now. You cannot say the same thing about Zakk.

I didn't say all his fast licks, I was referring to his acoustic playing. So where did you find the information that Zakk can't read sheet music. If he learned to play piano w/o being able to read sheet music, he had one hell of a teacher who happened to dislike sheet music.

This thread is going nowhere even after it was resolved, I think I'm just gonna go to bed.