Christopher Mayer I agree I’m 13 and only listen to 70s-80s-90s rock and metal of only my peers had the same good taste in music I hate pop and rap it’s soulless to me I just don’t get it...
I wanted to play after listening to cage the elephant and Steve vai. I'm 13 and I'm the guitarist and singer of my own band. It pisses me off to see how stage set ups went from drums, basses, guitars, and pianos, to just a computer hooked up to a keyboard with an auxiliary cord.😖
Question: why does it seem like everyone wants to play trumpets, baritones, saxophones, tubas, french horns, flutes, clarinets, and recorders, but hardly anyone wants to play electric guitar
I'm a guitarist of 9 years. I'm not sure about the commercial industry, but socially the electric guitar is dying. I've spent years mastering the most difficult of skills, but my playing is "just noise, too loud, just hitting random notes." But some pretty boy with too much gel in his hair playing "Wonderwall" is "talented."
That's because women have really shitty taste in music. Look at a vast majority of bad pop music, women are the target audience for most of it. Also, only other musicians will appreciate soloing and complex rhythms/techniques. I hated solos until I started playing guitar.
Scrotie Wantubsis That's not a fair statement, just a huge generalization. There are plenty of women who like rock and metal. Btw tho, I didn't even talk about women in my comment. I was just speaking broadly.
A sale, in this case, is the number of units sold by a major manufacturer to a store. It doesn't count custom work, sales by smaller manufacturers or many foreign manufacturers and used guitar sales to individuals.
Nope, once the industry starts listening to what the kids are looking for instead of selling "vintage pickups" and "50's wiring". For instance, Line 6 has the right idea with the Variax.
If you notice, all the people featured in this newsclip playing electric guitar is not young (under 18). So, guitar is dying slowly. Guitar is difficult to start and difficult to master but is essential in music (even worship music). Guitar makers have to embrace technology better to customise guitars to add value to guitar buyers. I want a blue strat, with blue glazed lines matching colour headstocks, rounded body double-cutaway, a 2-1-2 DiMarzio pickup, no floyd rose but normal tremolo, rosewood finger board with aggressive shark-tooth pattern inlays. No dealer will do this for me without charging an exorbitant price. But China did it for me. I am sure the DiMarzio is oem but sounds good though rusty (hey my original LP humbuckers from famous US manufacturer I bought is rusting too) and I wish they had copper-taped the electronic cavity (hey, US manufacturer did not do it too and is more noisy than my cheapo China strat). I wish the China used a better guitar bone nut but I will mod it one day. I am using this guitar over the original US LP on a day-to-day basis. Yes, I am a novice and newbie but guitar manufacturers gotta do more and up their game rather than just mindless over-saturation esp in USA and force their production runs and offerings onto customers..
benlovestorock Why didn't you just buy Warmoth or AllParts or Mighty Mite? You can exactly buy the parts that you want online for cheaper than it would cost to get the same specs on a brand name guitar- especially if it's custom shop. I, personally, have a very strange guitar (by most people's tastes) and I had to buy an MJT tele body with a custom colour they made for me with the specific kind of relicing I wanted. And I did the same for the neck through Warmoth. I bought my own boutique pickups, boutique front mounted tremolo bridge and I took my parts to the best repair shop in town, I plopped the parts down on the counter and I let them do their magic. A few weeks later, and I now had a guitar! Don't knock it till you've tried it- just make sure you really know what you want in terms of specs because some things will be incompatible or just end up not working out the way you wanted it to
Is The Electric Guitar Dying A Slow Death? Answer: Yes ... if you see it from the perspective of modern music industry. Most of the youngsters don't give a shit about guitar except they are heavy metal fans or other guitar-based-music-lovers. The only comercial music genre where the electric guitar still rules is in country music.
Nenad Ptic .... By appearances you make a point. But when I plug in and whined up my stine, eyes bulge. Jaws drop. Almost more than when I was a kid. You see freinds, when people see me, they just see another swingin dick walkin the streets. But when I play. People see a greatness that they didn't befor. That is the true power of the guitar. It exposes greatness. That is such a positive thing friends. It really is. Keep jammin players. Never stop. Luv to you.
I think this Washington Post article is probably correct. When I was a teenager, in the '60s, I idolized Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds, Keith Richards in the Stones, George Harrison in the Beatles, Eric Clapton in the Cream, Mike Bloomfield in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. They were all my "heroes". Before them, were the Ventures, Scottie Moore, and Chet Atkins who were the "heroes" of my older brother who grew up in the '50s, when it all began. These days, when I go to the gym to work out, the rock music I hear over the speaker system is computerized and synthetic; rarely with guitar. If i want to hear great guitar playing I need to go to a jazz station. I have owned many electric guitars in my lifetime, but now, getting older, I have migrated to playing only acoustic. I hate heavy medal and that seems to be the only style teenage guitar players are interested in. If I go to Guitar Center, I think about buying a Telecaster, but never do. Those days are behind me now.
Don't be a procrastinator and go buy that Telecaster. Make it a vintage one and don't be cheap and think you need to save your retirement. This is what you saved it for.
Thanks for the encouragement! Maybe I will. Hopefully, we can convince the kids we know to get off their computers and get into garage bands, like we did when we were their age!!
The "smartphone" has become an obsession . It's an incredible tool . But when you see people constantly using them , I mean constantly , this is obsessional . There's so much in the world to learn and a lot of kids today aren't learning anything because of this obsession with the "smartphone" . Pick up a camera , not the camera in the smartphone to document every moment in your life for all to see on Facebook , but a real camera to learn a skill . Photography is a wonderful art form . And so is music . Learning a keyboard or fretboard is a wonderful journey to unleashing your creative side . Skills last a lifetime and allows you to express yourself . Art is a wonderful thing !
So true! I try and resist spending time on my phone or computer, because it takes me away from more important things, like playing my guitar or mandolln.
@@jamiej14544 Gen Z here. I'm 18, not a fan of rock music, more of a hip-hop genre fan. I play kalimba and synthesizer at a beginner level, trying to learn acoustic guitar and wanna buy an electric soon. I love listening to people's covers. All of the people who play instruments, electric guitar in particular, do covers. So no, I don't think electric guitar is dying
It's a few different things. Social media is a vast world that the teens and the 20 something's are inondated with compared to when us 30 and 40 something's had simply a few different styles of music to choose from with radio, cassettes and cds and MTV back in the day. And I'll probably get some hate for saying it but what music do you hear blasting from car stereos now? Long gone are the days where it's Metallica, Iron Maiden, Van Halen or classic/hard rock stations. Nope, it's all rap/hip-hop and kids aspire to be as "ghetto" as possible and anyone that rolls down the road listening to music with distorted guitars is an unhip grandpa. Far from the truth but that's how each generation comes to pass and along with our main instrument of battle, the guitar, we have become the old guard.
After stopping in Guitar Center I’d say yes since everyone shopping looked to be 60+. The only 20 somethings in the store were working there. Most of the high priced guitars were gone.
If the electric guitar is in trouble, you sure can't tell from the prices of the better ones. There's a glut of product, not a lack of interest. George Gruhn pretty much nails it.
The guitar at 0:28 is a good example of Gibson's bad marketing. A reissue of the simple Gibson Les Paul Special TV Yellow (1956) now costs €7,500.- in Holland. Good replicas from the Far East could be found under €300.- (now discontinued) I would buy one from Gibson if it would be let's say €500.- and if it would be of consistent quality. When I made my choice, the faded version was €899.- and it got its ass kicked by the Chinese €250.- replica, because the Faded Series got inferior low output pickups. When I pay €899.- for a Gibson I expect at least a good pair of pickups. It's a matter of good quality control and of good marketing: knowing your customer and his wallet.
Funny but I've heard Fender and ESP say that they sell more guitars than ever. C'mon, UA-cam is full of guitar "heroes", people watch UA-cam instead of TV, like before, we have more access to guitar players, lessons, etc. etc. I wish I'd had UA-cam when growing up(!). :)
gibson fender ? they are over price , now there are so many cheap decent guitars that can compete those big brands, so if you people ask gibson and fender .. of course they are going down , the quality is not worth the money anymore esp gibson
Rock guitar is dead. It is what it is. Maybe in the next 25 years all the guitar rock hero's will be dead literally (Billy Gibbons is 70 right now). Then what? Some new genre of music like electric flutes and kazoos played with hip hop back beat on a single conga with some girl singer singing the same old heartbreak crush boy song. Radio junk. Goodbye Gibson Fender Marshall ...Angus ..seriously its dead. Kids today do NOT want to hear guitar solos drum solos bass solos..that's all over with. I got to see that stuff when I was in my teens and I am heading to 60's now. There is no more of the who's coming to town like when I was teen and sneaking back stage and all that stuff .. is gone gone long gone.
Maybe it's because Thayer are so people out protesting and rioting and don't have time to play guitar. Therefore guitar sales are down. If people would just play guitar more they'd calm down and stop all the noise in the streets. Well, that's my two cents anyhow...
My 24 electrics are alive and well, thank you. What is dying is the musical taste of people.
Christopher Mayer I agree I’m 13 and only listen to 70s-80s-90s rock and metal of only my peers had the same good taste in music I hate pop and rap it’s soulless to me I just don’t get it...
I agree
@@xochitl979 I wAs BoRn In ThE wRoNg GeNeRaTiOn
The most closed minded people are you
usually most people just give up on guitar
Silent because people are lazy these days
The mma vologger real talk forum ik no excuse of not learning now tho we have the internet
Noah R exactly
Why do people do this!? Just learn a power chord and boom you can play every song by Green Day and Blink182.
Yes , I've given up on guitar several times in my life , I'm down to just 9guitars and a bass hahaha . Since 1967
I wanted to play after listening to cage the elephant and Steve vai. I'm 13 and I'm the guitarist and singer of my own band. It pisses me off to see how stage set ups went from drums, basses, guitars, and pianos, to just a computer hooked up to a keyboard with an auxiliary cord.😖
Question: why does it seem like everyone wants to play trumpets, baritones, saxophones, tubas, french horns, flutes, clarinets, and recorders, but hardly anyone wants to play electric guitar
I blame the Simon Cowell's of the world bring back Jimmy Hendrix
Teens only like music about lean and xannies.
So make some chill rock music about lean and xannies.
I'm a guitarist of 9 years. I'm not sure about the commercial industry, but socially the electric guitar is dying. I've spent years mastering the most difficult of skills, but my playing is "just noise, too loud, just hitting random notes." But some pretty boy with too much gel in his hair playing "Wonderwall" is "talented."
That's because women have really shitty taste in music. Look at a vast majority of bad pop music, women are the target audience for most of it. Also, only other musicians will appreciate soloing and complex rhythms/techniques. I hated solos until I started playing guitar.
Scrotie Wantubsis That's not a fair statement, just a huge generalization. There are plenty of women who like rock and metal. Btw tho, I didn't even talk about women in my comment. I was just speaking broadly.
A sale, in this case, is the number of units sold by a major manufacturer to a store. It doesn't count custom work, sales by smaller manufacturers or many foreign manufacturers and used guitar sales to individuals.
You seem to forget most young people listen to indie bands. Pretty heavy on the ol guitar.
Nope, once the industry starts listening to what the kids are looking for instead of selling "vintage pickups" and "50's wiring". For instance, Line 6 has the right idea with the Variax.
If you notice, all the people featured in this newsclip playing electric guitar is not young (under 18). So, guitar is dying slowly. Guitar is difficult to start and difficult to master but is essential in music (even worship music). Guitar makers have to embrace technology better to customise guitars to add value to guitar buyers. I want a blue strat, with blue glazed lines matching colour headstocks, rounded body double-cutaway, a 2-1-2 DiMarzio pickup, no floyd rose but normal tremolo, rosewood finger board with aggressive shark-tooth pattern inlays. No dealer will do this for me without charging an exorbitant price. But China did it for me. I am sure the DiMarzio is oem but sounds good though rusty (hey my original LP humbuckers from famous US manufacturer I bought is rusting too) and I wish they had copper-taped the electronic cavity (hey, US manufacturer did not do it too and is more noisy than my cheapo China strat). I wish the China used a better guitar bone nut but I will mod it one day. I am using this guitar over the original US LP on a day-to-day basis. Yes, I am a novice and newbie but guitar manufacturers gotta do more and up their game rather than just mindless over-saturation esp in USA and force their production runs and offerings onto customers..
benlovestorock Why didn't you just buy Warmoth or AllParts or Mighty Mite? You can exactly buy the parts that you want online for cheaper than it would cost to get the same specs on a brand name guitar- especially if it's custom shop. I, personally, have a very strange guitar (by most people's tastes) and I had to buy an MJT tele body with a custom colour they made for me with the specific kind of relicing I wanted. And I did the same for the neck through Warmoth. I bought my own boutique pickups, boutique front mounted tremolo bridge and I took my parts to the best repair shop in town, I plopped the parts down on the counter and I let them do their magic. A few weeks later, and I now had a guitar! Don't knock it till you've tried it- just make sure you really know what you want in terms of specs because some things will be incompatible or just end up not working out the way you wanted it to
Is The Electric Guitar Dying A Slow Death? Answer: Yes ... if you see it from the perspective of modern music industry. Most of the youngsters don't give a shit about guitar except they are heavy metal fans or other guitar-based-music-lovers. The only comercial music genre where the electric guitar still rules is in country music.
Nenad Ptic .... By appearances you make a point. But when I plug in and whined up my stine, eyes bulge. Jaws drop. Almost more than when I was a kid. You see freinds, when people see me, they just see another swingin dick walkin the streets. But when I play. People see a greatness that they didn't befor. That is the true power of the guitar. It exposes greatness. That is such a positive thing friends. It really is. Keep jammin players. Never stop. Luv to you.
I think this Washington Post article is probably correct. When I was a teenager, in the '60s, I idolized Jeff Beck in the Yardbirds, Keith Richards in the Stones, George Harrison in the Beatles, Eric Clapton in the Cream, Mike Bloomfield in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. They were all my "heroes". Before them, were the Ventures, Scottie Moore, and Chet Atkins who were the "heroes" of my older brother who grew up in the '50s, when it all began. These days, when I go to the gym to work out, the rock music I hear over the speaker system is computerized and synthetic; rarely with guitar. If i want to hear great guitar playing I need to go to a jazz station. I have owned many electric guitars in my lifetime, but now, getting older, I have migrated to playing only acoustic. I hate heavy medal and that seems to be the only style teenage guitar players are interested in. If I go to Guitar Center, I think about buying a Telecaster, but never do. Those days are behind me now.
Don't be a procrastinator and go buy that Telecaster. Make it a vintage one and don't be cheap and think you need to save your retirement. This is what you saved it for.
Thanks for the encouragement! Maybe I will. Hopefully, we can convince the kids we know to get off their computers and get into garage bands, like we did when we were their age!!
The "smartphone" has become an obsession . It's an incredible tool . But when you see people constantly using them , I mean constantly , this is obsessional . There's so much in the world to learn and a lot of kids today aren't learning anything because of this obsession with the "smartphone" . Pick up a camera , not the camera in the smartphone to document every moment in your life for all to see on Facebook , but a real camera to learn a skill . Photography is a wonderful art form . And so is music . Learning a keyboard or fretboard is a wonderful journey to unleashing your creative side . Skills last a lifetime and allows you to express yourself . Art is a wonderful thing !
So true! I try and resist spending time on my phone or computer, because it takes me away from more important things, like playing my guitar or mandolln.
@@jamiej14544 Gen Z here. I'm 18, not a fan of rock music, more of a hip-hop genre fan. I play kalimba and synthesizer at a beginner level, trying to learn acoustic guitar and wanna buy an electric soon. I love listening to people's covers. All of the people who play instruments, electric guitar in particular, do covers. So no, I don't think electric guitar is dying
It's a few different things. Social media is a vast world that the teens and the 20 something's are inondated with compared to when us 30 and 40 something's had simply a few different styles of music to choose from with radio, cassettes and cds and MTV back in the day. And I'll probably get some hate for saying it but what music do you hear blasting from car stereos now? Long gone are the days where it's Metallica, Iron Maiden, Van Halen or classic/hard rock stations. Nope, it's all rap/hip-hop and kids aspire to be as "ghetto" as possible and anyone that rolls down the road listening to music with distorted guitars is an unhip grandpa. Far from the truth but that's how each generation comes to pass and along with our main instrument of battle, the guitar, we have become the old guard.
Rock isn't seen as " rebellious" anymore
@@rahsillyyoo why is dat? Has it lost its charisma?
I hate mainstream music now
you've become your parents
@@rahsillyyoo modern music barely has guitar
After stopping in Guitar Center I’d say yes since everyone shopping looked to be 60+. The only 20 somethings in the store were working there. Most of the high priced guitars were gone.
NO.
Was the last guitar on the video a Fret King????
If the electric guitar is in trouble, you sure can't tell from the prices of the better ones. There's a glut of product, not a lack of interest. George Gruhn pretty much nails it.
They are not dying. Trust me.
The guitar at 0:28 is a good example of Gibson's bad marketing.
A reissue of the simple Gibson Les Paul Special TV Yellow (1956) now costs €7,500.- in Holland. Good replicas from the Far East could be found under €300.- (now discontinued)
I would buy one from Gibson if it would be let's say €500.- and if it would be of consistent quality. When I made my choice, the faded version was €899.- and it got its ass kicked by the Chinese €250.- replica, because the Faded Series got inferior low output pickups.
When I pay €899.- for a Gibson I expect at least a good pair of pickups.
It's a matter of good quality control and of good marketing: knowing your customer and his wallet.
All that bad mouthing
about the electric guitar
dying.Come on they're
as popular than ever!
People are buying 7 strings now.
Its way cooler to be a rapper dj or producer than play a guitar.
Anthony Jackson Unfortunately you are correct
remember how disco was death of the guitar? yeah that came true
Funny but I've heard Fender and ESP say that they sell more guitars than ever. C'mon, UA-cam is full of guitar "heroes", people watch UA-cam instead of TV, like before, we have more access to guitar players, lessons, etc. etc. I wish I'd had UA-cam when growing up(!). :)
Dying? My opinion is that they are growing
gibson fender ? they are over price , now there are so many cheap decent guitars that can compete those big brands, so if you people ask gibson and fender .. of course they are going down , the quality is not worth the money anymore esp gibson
It might be true. I just picked up an Epiphone V for $20.00.
Guitar is dying in the states because of ethical do gooders raiding Gibson. How anyone runs a guitar related business is beyond me.
Rock guitar is dead. It is what it is. Maybe in the next 25 years all the guitar rock hero's will be dead literally (Billy Gibbons is 70 right now). Then what? Some new genre of music like electric flutes and kazoos played with hip hop back beat on a single conga with some girl singer singing the same old heartbreak crush boy song. Radio junk. Goodbye Gibson Fender Marshall ...Angus ..seriously its dead. Kids today do NOT want to hear guitar solos drum solos bass solos..that's all over with. I got to see that stuff when I was in my teens and I am heading to 60's now. There is no more of the who's coming to town like when I was teen and sneaking back stage and all that stuff .. is gone gone long gone.
Are they high guitar is not dead.
The Knutsons?
who is a better "god" for the industry than Ed Sheeran? We are talking who can bring people to buy their first guitar. he is
For acoustic yes. Not electric
That does not really matter, speaking from a marketing prospective.
I know, he and john mayer. but ed is far more likely to approach an acoustic public
And Soon The Guitar Gods will Die Too!!!!
No
Maybe it's because Thayer are so people out protesting and rioting and don't have time to play guitar. Therefore guitar sales are down.
If people would just play guitar more they'd calm down and stop all the noise in the streets. Well, that's my two cents anyhow...
CHINESE OVERSATURATION!