discovering guitar sounds

I was watching videos of Testament on youtube so I decided to look up lessons by Alex Skolnick, one of the guitarists for Testament and Trans Siberian Orchestra, and I found a video of him playing a jazz version of Metallica's "Fade to Black". It is very graceful which is surprising in a way because Metallica is a distant deviant of jazz in a way with some of their openings. Alex however made it even more graceful. It's funny how someone can make a guitar take so many sounds. Such as Emmpu of Nightwish. In the new album Imaginearum he not only plays the metallic guitar sound but also plays the soft subtle acoustic, and the graceful jazz. Then there is the twang of country guitar which also pits my interest because many of the guitars in country are actually tuned in D; the only difference is they do not contain as much or any distortion which gives them their twnagy noise. I've been experimenting with each lately and it's fun. I can see why guitarists who play one genre such as metal would want to deviate from their norm.




here are a few examples...