[Kevin Bowling]

I'm with some of the others in that you left out my favorite categories. For me it's Fingerstyle (doesn't have to be mellow), Blues,Country/Bluegrass, Southern and Classic rock. I chose Country because it was the only option available.

Kevin

[mikelyn]

I voted country, but realy prefer slow blues, like iltpff said "fingerstyle, mellow, easy music"

[munky]

Originally Posted by krissovo

Where is the Blues?????

All around us.

[Kraco]

Wow, I feel right at home now, I never would have thought so many of you were into country music. Just another reason I like this place. lol

[Stratrat]

I'm pretty amazed that country is leading the poll too! I'm guessing that "screamo" is a harder-core version of "emo" music (aka "I hate myself, I hate the world, I hate my parents, I hate life....").

[blackcat]

I enjoy listening to blues and folk mainly,though i do listen to other stuff sometimes

[Hey]

Dude... Sorry but...

What About THE BLUES???!!!???

Rock and country arnt the only types of music on the planet.

[knight46]

I grew up with the Classic's, Blues, Rockabilly, R&B, and RocknRoll. All music touches me in some way. Even Rap with its driving bass has "some" redeamable qualities. I just love Music...

[Ledhead V-2]

Screamo?!...is that anything like emo or extremo? Though I haven't had the "pleasure" of hearing any of these new variants of "rock" that seem to pop up on an almost weekly basis, something tells me -- judging by the names alone -- that I'm really not missing out on a whole helluva lot.

I voted for classic rock though I wish you'd included blues-rock as an option (I'm aware however that you can't list every genre). Led Zeppelin, Foghat, Humble Pie, Rory Gallagher, Savoy Brown, John Mayall, Cream (along with Clapton's other bands -- Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes, the Yardbirds), the Allman Brothers, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After, George Thorogood, ZZ Top, Elvin Bishop, and yes, even the Stones in their earlier days, all fit more comfortably into the blues-rock category than they do into the more generic classic rock. Back in the late '60s and the first half of the '70s, that's were those guys were classified as: blues-rockers. After #!%*! disco claim along and ruined it for everybody and blues-rock had pretty much run its course, these people eventually came to fall into the more-encompassing classic rock category.

Ahh...those were the days...

[Ledhead V-2]

Originally Posted by krissovo

Where is the Blues?????

Where?...Buddy Guy, Gary Moore, Walter Trout, Rob Tognoni, Eric Sardinas, Joe Bonamassa, Jonny Lang, Dave Hole, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Cray, Roy Buchanan, Jeff Healy...there's tons of really hot blues artists out there.

[papadog65]

Back in the days of sporadic playing and open chords, I used to play Country. Now I can do a bit of Blues & Jazz progressions. For listening, it depends on the moment; anything from classical to opera to blues to jazz to country or ethnic. As long as it sounds "musical", I'd probably like it. I doubt that "screamo" will find its way into any of my playlists!

[Chaotic Kittie]

Metal, blues, hard rock, classic, etc.

Most kinds of music, actually.

[agent0064life]

Rock, hard rock, punk, and then something random to throw me off.

[Stratrat]

Originally Posted by papadog65

Back in the days of sporadic playing and open chords, I used to play Country. Now I can do a bit of Blues & Jazz progressions.

"Cowboy chords" are one thing, but as I've started playing more Country on the electric I've found that it's much more difficult than rock/classic rock.....you don't have all that distortion & FX to hide behind! Those country boys play some mean licks, and it's a lot harder to do it fast & clean than it is to do it fast & dirty!

[Ledhead V-2]

Originally Posted by Stratrat

"Cowboy chords" are one thing, but as I've started playing more Country on the electric I've found that it's much more difficult than rock/classic rock.....you don't have all that distortion & FX to hide behind! Those country boys play some mean licks, and it's a lot harder to do it fast & clean than it is to do it fast & dirty!

When I first started learning a year and a half ago, I asked the guy who helped me buy my guitar and amp (a lead player in a local band) about stompboards and the rest of FX. He said these gizmos can actually impede your progress for the same reasons you hinted at: they make you sound better than you really are and you're apt to be more easily satisfied with your playing. As much as I like rock and blues-rock, I find that I'm appreciating "cleaner" players more as I go along. Matter of fact, I've virtually stop setting my amp on high-gain metal settings and stick more to blues-crunch or the warm and bright clean settings. Half the time I don't even plug in at all.