Originally Posted by: CSchlegelThe unique sound, style or musical identity of any given guitarist consists of their approach to three board categories:

1. Physical playing technique (their physical "touch").
2. Note choice (their preferred scales, chords, voicings, licks).
3. Gear (their guitar, amp, effects, settings, & in some cases studio production).

I couldn't agree more that all this is apart of it... but I can't help but wonder if there's more to it. If it just came down to this, which a lot of guitarists do at the beginning.. they seek out strange scales that 'speak' to them, get gear, modify it, do different combinations, develop different ways to play or better technique, larger lick vocal, blah blah... seems like there's maybe something more.

It's like when the science world really revealed that MJ actually does 'hang time' and that although you can teach pro athletes to hang, it's better if they just do it. Strengths and weaknesses.