Stephen Carpenter

Stephen "Steph" Carpenter (/ˈstɛfən/ STEF-ən; lahir 3 Agustus 1970) adalah seorang musisi Amerika, yang dikenal sebagai salah satu pendiri dan gitaris utama band metal alternatif Deftones. Teknik gitarnya memanfaatkan senar terbuka yang berdering dan suara akord disonan, serta power chord stok dalam poliritme. Carpenter memulai karir musiknya dengan Deftones memainkan gitar enam senar tradisional. Setelah dipengaruhi oleh band-band seperti Fear Factory dan Meshuggah, dia mulai bermain gitar tujuh senar di akhir tahun 1990an. Setelah album ketiga Deftones White Pony, rilisan berikutnya akan ditulis dengan tujuh senar, hingga Diamond Eyes tahun 2010 dan Koi No Yokan tahun 2012, yang ditulis dengan gitar delapan senar. Dimulai dengan Ohms tahun 2020, lagu-lagu telah ditulis dengan gitar sembilan senar. Carpenter menduduki peringkat ke-60 dalam jajak pendapat The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists Guitar World. Deskripsi di atas dari artikel Wikipedia Stephen Carpenter, berlisensi CC-BY-SA, daftar lengkap kontributor di Wikipedia.

Stephen "Steph" Carpenter (/ˈstɛfən/ STEF-ən; born August 3, 1970) is an American musician, known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrhythms. Carpenter began his musical career with Deftones playing the traditional six-string guitar. After becoming influenced by such bands as Fear Factory and Meshuggah, he began playing a seven-string guitar in the late 1990s. After Deftones' third album White Pony, subsequent releases would be written with seven-strings, until 2010's Diamond Eyes and 2012's Koi No Yokan, which were written with an eight-string guitar. Starting with 2020’s Ohms, songs have been written with nine-string guitars. Carpenter was ranked 60th in Guitar World's The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists poll. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Carpenter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.