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@The SNES Man its tough to find a balance. but at least none of you are narcissist: its freaking annoying when someone literal things the world revolves around them
The worst one is when you have the "I'm great" feeling while playing something, and then a day or two later find a flaw in it, and then have the "I'm shit" feeling from it now instead.
Yup. It's necessary for moving forward though. It really drives me to do better and explore other genres. I mostly play metal but when a friend showed me Vulfpeck I did a Sean dive into Cory Wong's music I was like "damn, I suck." Spent the last year learning funk and jazz stuff, listened to some of his bluegrassy stuff and remembered one of my favorite country artists, Jerry Reed. Listened to The Claw and in like "damn, my finger picking fucking sucks" so I started learning a bunch of country licks and working on my finger picking
Ira Glass had a quote about hating your artistic work. “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
I’m shocked by the no mentions at all about the g string. Great video the part about feeling good and bad at same time, the ego part and the personality part was on point
The "technical" discussion reminds me of seeing Terry Pratchett at a book signing. During the Q&A, one fan asked an extremely detailed question as to why Pratchett chose 7 colors for his magical system. "Was this an homage to the Babylonian system of temple magic or perhaps medieval Italian folk magic, or..." and on and on and on. Pratchett patiently listened and answer "I chose it because I thought seven sounded cool," and that was that.
I'm not a guitar player (synths are my main thing) but after stumbling across this channel about a month ago I've been really enjoying the content. I've been hooked ever since! :)
Love this video style of just “websploring”. I think I just like hearing you use these different sites/headlines as a basis for you to make conversation and express your views on different things :)
When I was younger we didn't have cell phones and computers were housed at military bases and university basements. We were into guitars, cars and girls. I believe much of the energy and interest has shifted to Apple products.
On comparing ourselves to others: I’ve often had the experience where I meet another guitarist after we’ve heard each other play, and we both think the other one is the better player. 😀 Which I think usually comes down to the fact that we’re always good a different things.
Yes, I have this struggle often where one moment I feel like I sound amazing and am onto something special and then the very next moment I doubt everything and feel like I sound like a cheap toy fisher price toy.
As far as the popularity of guitar waning, I heard quotes from Fender and Gibson whenever the pandemic started that were a kin to every day is Black Friday. So, even if the popularity of guitar has gone down over the past 10 years, I think it has probably grown in the last three years of the pandemic.
New guitar sales are down 33% but there's tons of websites to buy used guitars, parts to repair/refurbish guitars, diy kits to build guitars; they may be just as popular as ever. The fate of guitar music is not tied to the quarterly profits of Fender and Gibson.
One of the best things I’ve done is record myself playing, Sometimes I genuinely don’t believe I’m able to play a song so having a recording of me doing so helps a lot
Yes, Taylor Swift both on a mainstream as well as on a 'music lover' level is still one of the most popular artist out there! She's mostly known for her way of translating experiences into eloquent lyrics, and although it isn't personally my thing, it's really cool how she's been inspiring people like that for over 10 years now!
same I don't like her but credit where credit is do I know a lot of guys and girls that were snapped away from hip hop and boy bands because of her so for me that's a big W
I'm 48 and just started playing the Bass during the pandemic. I feel like I am in a toxic relationship and can't get out. We hate each other so much. Sometimes I feel like it's a romantic movie where we have problems but the storyline will bring us together in about 2 hours and our love for each other will see no bounds. Mostly it's me thinking about throwing her over the balcony because I can't even satisfy a basic rhythm and she drunkenly tells her friends about how I have zero "timing."
Between the infinite possibilities provided by amps, pedals, different kinds of guitars and now, even plugins, saying you don't like guitar is like saying you don't like sound.
I spent thousands of dollars on 11 guitars, 3 bases, 2 keyboards, 7 amps, and 40 devices(pedals). I hate guitar. Days of my life are going to be lost to an Empress Zoia,and I hate guitar!!! ---though I might need to get a few more someday----but I hate guitar...
I'm physically imperfect & most certainly mentally-guitarded🤤🎸😵💫 Mates call me the guitarcheopteryx, a fossilized curmudgeonly dinosaur, fallen guitarchangel and wizened guitarcheologist since '79. So, I say always let's have music! Yes, let's have music at all times; whatever your (de)vices may be... and curb your unslakable ravening GAS not, like Hell, you can only so far ith a Buffet & Crampon Cie. a Paris Bb clarinet, chromatic Hohner harmonicas & Hohner harmonica (why), a cheap alto-sax, a McNeela banjo - none of which I can play to save my life. I do also own mayhem in a morass of mutiple red-hot rampant ramped-up guitar gear amps pedals assorted garden-variety accessories. Actually, I am pretty bad neither a liquid nor solid but gas is where it's at. I don't even live on Earth I live on Planet Waves, I'm the Klotz klass klutz klown, BOSS ME25 ME80 GT1 GT100 which of all the 3x 4x 5x Mods/Dels/Rev's, the amp models cabsims OD's dists/boosts EQ Settings & Parameters of all of these I've NEVER EVER EVER used - I have 6 guitar tones/fx settings & that's the whack. Why I have all the varioius multi-fx on any of the burgeoning backcatalog of BOSS up the wazoo, as well as a NuX Ampforce dual, rats, a Duesenberg Violet Trem, 4 envelope filteratii, 8 chorus stomps (chorii), squier SX gorilla laney marshall fender blackstar roland jc-120 s/state valve mini modeller heads & amps my wife wants to set fire to, walls of strats teles ibanezRG's x4 wft why I hardly ever use whammy-bars... never almost... a custom LP with SD's gretsch electromatics x2 epiphones yamahas ukeles12-string tim armstrong hellcat 12-string maton cw80 12-string guild western series rubiks cubes my missus has the patience of St. Francis of Assisi... I can ONLY play guitar & have done so for the past 43years I'm tragic. I can ONLY play guitar & have about 6 tones I use playing electric guitars, but my #1's are acoustic 12's. 12-strings are my bag. FYI, far too many musical instruments are grossly insufficient, woefully inadequate & nowhere near enough for true muso's who know their adagios from their acciaccatura's, their Django's from their Kravitz's, their Moog's from their Eno's, Woody from Arlo, the grateful from the dead. Peace respect & be nice to ya missus random pets & wild animals & especially other folks always..😊imperfect cadence.🎼 I know you know this all already; hoo-roo via Terra Australis Incognita 🪃Didyabringyabongalong Station, Central QLD, Australia🦘
Thinking about whether you are good or not is still just thinking about yourself. Guitarists love to dig for compliments, so they say they suck-this enables them to make the conversation(whether in one's own head or with people) about them. You don't need to think you're amazing or you suck in order to improve or learn something new. 'they make me want to quit guitar' is a confession that you view music as a competition.
Re: guitar culture: There's a story I heard, and I may be getting this completely wrong, but I think it was in Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography? But allegedly someone asked John Lennon what amp he wanted for a show, and he just answered with "one that works". Take this with a heaping spoonful of salt cause this is the least reliable source for anything I have ever posted anywhere
totally relate to you on not preferring to listen to guitar instrumentals unless it's to support a visual element. for me it's songs with vocals. i do love gear talk though.
I think the problem with most guitar instrumentals is that there is so much repetitiveness at the sacrifice of playing a lot of different melodic ideas. Imo, a good guitar instrumental/instrumental track should be able to keep your interest, and those are more rare than not
For me, guitar has been my ultimate joy and my ultimate sorrow. Joy when it all comes together and the sorrows of my hands and fingers not doing what I want them to do.🎸🎸🎼🎵🎶💓💓
Have you ever had an internal bruise in your fingertip? Like after a lot of bending or hours of practice, your calloused fingertip is fine, but there is a pain that you feel deep near your bone? I hate that.
Wagon wheel haha. Forgot to learn it as a special request on a gig. Between sets I get it up on Spotify to see if I could wing it. Didn’t even have to touch my guitar before I realise it’s just a 4 bar loop in A. Played it in the next set, went down great. Not a single person thought my attractive-ness had increased 😂
I gotta say, I'm a self taught guitarist, mediocre at best, very self-conscious and constatly I find myself being dissappointed by my lack of skill or lack of stable progress. What you said about all of us being mad at ourselves for not sounding as we'd like to is really quite comforting and gives me new strength to go and pick up my six string and keep practicing. I'd be more than happy to join the guitar help group, if you don't mind, haha.
8:18 Dude, I'm totally going thru that right now! But I couldn't work out what the hey was going on.. I was thinking it was one of those "quiks" you get sometimes But as soon as U described the nail separating, and causing that "exquisite" pain, I knew that it. I can get it from. an afternoon of drinking beer - and I think that, in concert with my bendy Benerson...my Bender "Bending" Rodriguez tendency! The beer hurts, btw, if you're wondering, because I prefer beer in a can...and all.those ring pulls, say 15 or even 18-20, eventually..the nail lifts from its bed, and 😖😩 "OUCHiness!" occurs!
I remember going to the Cotati Accordion Festival having some older guy do a tirade against guitar playing, I play both instruments but neither of them are my main instrument.
As a girl with long nails in school, I ran into this issue with bends a lot, once sliced my finger under the nail while playing on 8's and it got infected. It was absolute AGONY for ages till it cleared up.
Learn the classics that touch the heart, and you’ll always have 1 foot in the door to panties/or drawers whatever you like. There’s nothing sexier than seeing someone in their element.
Another easy song to learn on acoustic: Steve Earle's "F the CC". It's only two chords (A and E), and you barely have to move your hand on the fretboard.
Guitar has become my main instrument focus since 2013, but bass is how I came up in band culture. Even then I sing and play horns and harmonicas and percussion, even drum kit and keyboards so I don't have the focus a real guitar shredder has, nor a taste for big loud amps. I had my tude about guitarists myself, but these days it's much less of an issue. 5 amp revolution is one thing that helps, and good modeling amps. It was always guitar, and still is when I encounter low brow jam situations, that's so easy to turn up loud that it drowns out even the drums even with only a Fender combo amp cranked, especially if it has real tubes. 40 Watts can tear off your head at 5 paces on a tube guitar amp, but barely push anything below 300hz beyond the cab on a bass amp, let alone even reach your ears let alone give you a bass massage. When stacks are the norm, it's all over. Even if the bass goes SVT 8X10 it can't top a stack of 4X12's with a 100w Marshall on top. Then it's nearly impossible to hear the vocals without getting feedback. The narcissistic idiot who just noodles endlessly facing their amp is getting such a sonic massage they can totally drop out of awareness of anything happening around them. It can happen to any instrument, but it really began to happen to guitar not right away when Les Paul was more the person than a legendary guitar design, but when guitar got big and Marshall stacks became the norm. Amps so tall they project sound at the whole body of the wanker now out of phase with good relationships, no wonder it's such a common tale. I walked out on the last big guitar band I ever want to be in with just such a guitarist in a small practice room, lost in his amp's vibrations and unable, or unwilling to hear anything from the rest of the band. Caustic wankers who shred, but have catastrophic relationships are so common it poisons the reputation of the instrument.
Totally feel the I'm good/I suck dichotomy. Some days I really happy with my level of playing and how I perform. Other days I feel like I'm terrible. But most days I recognize that I have my own strengths as a guitarist and just focus on those. I've played in many bands and have yet to be kicked out for my playing. Other reasons maybe, but not that.
Off your right shoulder, above the yellow pre-amp, hanging on the wall is a guitar that seems to have it's control knobs catty-corner from the usual placement...please explain that someday. AND thanks loads for the Derek Trucks reference. Wow...
How I feel right now. I fucking hate it and just bought a new electric 5 months ago… but it’s okay. I’ve been playing the keys a lot more because it’s what I’ve been feeling. Glad to hear everyone feels this every once and a blue moon
the instrument itself cannot be at fault, its the element introduced to it that carries it to a point where it can be seen as the ultimate curse thats to blame. just like any other tool, it all depends on the user.
Oh yeah I love my guitars but sometimes I just get so frustrated at my lack of improvement and creativity that I don't want to touch them. But I still love them
Talking about that whole wishing you were better/your favourite guitarist. If I could magically obtain the guitar abilities of any guitarist Sammy G wouldn't be the very top of my list (that would be Mateus Asato), but I would certainly be very happy indeed if I didn't get a choice and was assigned him.
In the early 60s I picked up guitar. I am a big fan of Chet Atkins and impressed girls by finger picking Dylan songs. Now arthritic hands and elbows are prohibitive. Still, I can listen... and watch UA-cam - guitar content and, in Oregon, the weed helps with pain but doesn't free up a bone on bone thumb. Luckily, I can still give cops the finger - so, listening to Hendrix is still an option. Peace thru music ✌😎🎸🖕☮
I hate myself, but really, I hate camera angles towards the side of people's faces, it takes me away from the video and feels like the person is no longer talking to me but past me.
Taylor Swift is still huge. I'm 18, I listen to her on occassion, my dad does, at least three friends I can think of that are like HUGE Swifties. Definitely still a thing. I wonder what the sales for acoustics are like?
I hate guitar when.... ...I am trying to dial in tone. I finally "fix" my sound. Only to come back to it the next day and wonder how I screwed up so much. I hate my tone, always. I can love it once. But as soon as I record it or come back to it, I hate it again.
To be fair, I think with the pandemic a LOT of people started picking up the guitar, but at the same time it's becoming so so so much more common for people to buy USED guitars instead of brand new ones. Wouldn't that kind of skew that statistic about the number of new guitar sales dropping?
Depending on when the article came out, they could have been using data that they got in 2020 at the start of the pandemic. A lot of people were stuck at home and decided it was a good time to buy a guitar and finally learn. Fast forward a year or two later and Companies see the projected sales based on a peak business year (2020) and makes an estimate based on that. Another factor could be the fact that the cost of living really jumped this year. Food shortages, gas prices, housing and rent prices. People can't afford to have hobbies really and if they can afford it, they probably don't have time for it now. I work two jobs, I come home and play for an hour or two and then I'm off to bed. I don't have time to play as much as I would like, so I know I don't need a new guitar because it wouldn't get played. The used market is a bit weird now because everyone thanks their guitar is worth the same now as it was new. Which is made worse by Reverb having ads for overpriced gear. Klons, Dumbles, JBL K&D speakers, Macintosh Power Amps, etc. on the front page. It also doesn't help when you have a place like 'WackyWally'sGuitarGear' selling things at a higher price because they are a company that gets merchandise shipped in. Then when an individual seller who is selling used gear sees the prices they also think there's is worth that much. You can find great deals on used if you look. However, you have to look hard and you have to be careful.
On the fingernail thing, when it happens pull down on the end of your finger slightly and run a small bead of superglue (best to use the medical grade stuff) under the nail and it will prevent you from re-injuring yourself while playing while it heals.
1 big thing I am lacking and trying hard to learn (though quite terribly) is practice singing with your playing. it don't matter if you can play a song 100% right and x10 better then someone else because when that person sings it makes that song x100 and beats out any without the words... well that's really just my newly found opinion. sidetracked but wanted to just say thanks for the new video!
At least I avoided a few pitfalls in all my years of playing. I've never thought I was all that great! lol I'm pretty sure I'm ok and I'm fine with that. I never ever played for attention or thought I was cool. The reason I started, and the reason I still play, is as a ten year old kid I heard Back in Black when it released in 1980 and I just HAD to make that sound. The sound of good heavy distortion lit a fire in me that has never died. I don't care how old or infirm I get, as long as I can go CHUG CHUG I'll be ok.
I hate that most guitars have 21 and 22 frets when two octaves are 24 frets. Like that's a weird number to end on. Large pianos piss me off too they just had to end the piano on A and have 1 random sharp key hanging around at the end ruining the pattern of 2 and 3.
Playing guitar... I consider myself just about adequate and accepted I'll never be great. Singing... I've almost always been the singer in whatever band but, although I can do it - to a degree - I only ever hear my shortcomings, as with guitar. I still enjoy singing and playing, though.
For all those feeling the excruciating pain in the fingers: do not cut to short with the clippers. Rather keep some of the white bit than dare to cross that line, it will hurt, always.
About the guy who said he despised guitar culture, at least the r/Guitar subreddit is like the worst thing ever. Check out r/Guitars, much better community, friendly people and mods that wont ban you for asking guitar related questions.
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Lol, the immediate irony.
I've been wondering about this stuff. Thanks for the clarification.
The dichotomy of "I'm shit" versus "I'm great" is one that really hits home.
I fluctuate between both extremes in pretty much all aspects of my life - guitar, work, marriage, parenting, the list goes on
@The SNES Man its tough to find a balance. but at least none of you are narcissist: its freaking annoying when someone literal things the world revolves around them
The worst one is when you have the "I'm great" feeling while playing something, and then a day or two later find a flaw in it, and then have the "I'm shit" feeling from it now instead.
Yup. It's necessary for moving forward though. It really drives me to do better and explore other genres. I mostly play metal but when a friend showed me Vulfpeck I did a Sean dive into Cory Wong's music I was like "damn, I suck." Spent the last year learning funk and jazz stuff, listened to some of his bluegrassy stuff and remembered one of my favorite country artists, Jerry Reed. Listened to The Claw and in like "damn, my finger picking fucking sucks" so I started learning a bunch of country licks and working on my finger picking
@The SNES Man me too 😂
Ira Glass had a quote about hating your artistic work.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
I’m really looking forward to the “I’m so great” upswing in my conflicting paradigm. It’s been 16 years of “god I suck” so far
"Man, I got old and out of touch in a hurry." Me too, bro. Me too.
"Honestly don't think there is a normal guitar player out there." The last picture says it all man
I’m shocked by the no mentions at all about the g string. Great video the part about feeling good and bad at same time, the ego part and the personality part was on point
There is what I think is a bot trying to pass as samurai that comments I won a prize. Seems fishy
I don't guitar. I have never guitar'd in my life, but I love checking out other people's subcultures and whatnot, and your videos bring me joy.
Hey ☝️You've won a prize 🎉
Raa blangka Raa Raa blangka RABLANGKA! Lyrics done, now to composing....
That guy has probably never seen or heard guitar before.
Be sure and use an Ovation acoustic for the blanga-blanka part
The pizza guitar article was at least around 75% your fault, you gotta admit. Just saying 😂
at this point he should just become the pizzaguitarist for the lols
Your not wrong
How
▲ samurai pizza guitarist, oh yeah!
▲ samurai pizza guitarist, right on!
The "technical" discussion reminds me of seeing Terry Pratchett at a book signing. During the Q&A, one fan asked an extremely detailed question as to why Pratchett chose 7 colors for his magical system. "Was this an homage to the Babylonian system of temple magic or perhaps medieval Italian folk magic, or..." and on and on and on. Pratchett patiently listened and answer "I chose it because I thought seven sounded cool," and that was that.
The cursed guitar pick was the perfect way to finish this video.
"Perfect" ...?
Where can I buy one 😂
I'm not a guitar player (synths are my main thing) but after stumbling across this channel about a month ago I've been really enjoying the content. I've been hooked ever since! :)
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Love this video style of just “websploring”.
I think I just like hearing you use these different sites/headlines as a basis for you to make conversation and express your views on different things :)
Yep, the Samurai is still the reigning guitar philosopher and therapist on the internet.
When I was younger we didn't have cell phones and computers were housed at military bases and university basements. We were into guitars, cars and girls. I believe much of the energy and interest has shifted to Apple products.
On comparing ourselves to others: I’ve often had the experience where I meet another guitarist after we’ve heard each other play, and we both think the other one is the better player. 😀 Which I think usually comes down to the fact that we’re always good a different things.
Yes, I have this struggle often where one moment I feel like I sound amazing and am onto something special and then the very next moment I doubt everything and feel like I sound like a cheap toy fisher price toy.
As far as the popularity of guitar waning, I heard quotes from Fender and Gibson whenever the pandemic started that were a kin to every day is Black Friday. So, even if the popularity of guitar has gone down over the past 10 years, I think it has probably grown in the last three years of the pandemic.
New guitar sales are down 33% but there's tons of websites to buy used guitars, parts to repair/refurbish guitars, diy kits to build guitars; they may be just as popular as ever. The fate of guitar music is not tied to the quarterly profits of Fender and Gibson.
One of the best things I’ve done is record myself playing,
Sometimes I genuinely don’t believe I’m able to play a song so having a recording of me doing so helps a lot
how do you not believe you can play a song you already played? 🤨
Yes, Taylor Swift both on a mainstream as well as on a 'music lover' level is still one of the most popular artist out there! She's mostly known for her way of translating experiences into eloquent lyrics, and although it isn't personally my thing, it's really cool how she's been inspiring people like that for over 10 years now!
same I don't like her but credit where credit is do I know a lot of guys and girls that were snapped away from hip hop and boy bands because of her so for me that's a big W
It's really unfortunate she's popular to hate-her music is well-written even if you don't like the style.
Even if it is shit.
@@johnberger55 what’s wrong with hip hop?
A generation of open chord strummers.
I'm 48 and just started playing the Bass during the pandemic. I feel like I am in a toxic relationship and can't get out. We hate each other so much. Sometimes I feel like it's a romantic movie where we have problems but the storyline will bring us together in about 2 hours and our love for each other will see no bounds. Mostly it's me thinking about throwing her over the balcony because I can't even satisfy a basic rhythm and she drunkenly tells her friends about how I have zero "timing."
That sucks
Morphine: 2 string Bass, Sax and Drums. Pretty damn cool sounding.
Between the infinite possibilities provided by amps, pedals, different kinds of guitars and now, even plugins, saying you don't like guitar is like saying you don't like sound.
I spent thousands of dollars on 11 guitars, 3 bases, 2 keyboards, 7 amps, and 40 devices(pedals). I hate guitar. Days of my life are going to be lost to an Empress Zoia,and I hate guitar!!! ---though I might need to get a few more someday----but I hate guitar...
I'm physically imperfect & most certainly mentally-guitarded🤤🎸😵💫
Mates call me the guitarcheopteryx, a fossilized curmudgeonly
dinosaur, fallen guitarchangel and wizened guitarcheologist since '79.
So, I say always let's have music!
Yes, let's have music at all times; whatever your (de)vices may be...
and curb your unslakable ravening GAS not, like Hell, you can only so far
ith a Buffet & Crampon Cie. a Paris Bb clarinet, chromatic Hohner harmonicas
& Hohner harmonica (why), a cheap alto-sax, a McNeela banjo - none of which
I can play to save my life.
I do also own mayhem in a morass of mutiple red-hot rampant ramped-up
guitar gear amps pedals assorted garden-variety accessories.
Actually, I am pretty bad neither a liquid nor solid but gas is where it's at.
I don't even live on Earth I live on Planet Waves, I'm the Klotz klass klutz klown,
BOSS ME25 ME80 GT1 GT100 which of all the 3x 4x 5x Mods/Dels/Rev's, the amp models cabsims OD's dists/boosts EQ Settings & Parameters of all of these I've NEVER EVER EVER used - I have 6 guitar tones/fx settings & that's the whack.
Why I have all the varioius multi-fx on any of the burgeoning backcatalog
of BOSS up the wazoo, as well as a NuX Ampforce dual, rats, a Duesenberg
Violet Trem, 4 envelope filteratii, 8 chorus stomps (chorii), squier SX gorilla laney marshall fender blackstar roland jc-120 s/state valve mini modeller heads & amps my wife wants to set fire to, walls of strats teles ibanezRG's x4 wft why I hardly ever use whammy-bars... never almost... a custom LP with SD's gretsch electromatics x2 epiphones yamahas ukeles12-string tim armstrong hellcat 12-string maton cw80 12-string guild western series rubiks cubes my missus has the patience of St. Francis of Assisi... I can ONLY play guitar & have done so for the past 43years I'm tragic.
I can ONLY play guitar & have about 6 tones I use playing electric guitars,
but my #1's are acoustic 12's. 12-strings are my bag.
FYI, far too many musical instruments are grossly insufficient,
woefully inadequate & nowhere near enough for true muso's who know
their adagios from their acciaccatura's, their Django's from their Kravitz's,
their Moog's from their Eno's, Woody from Arlo, the grateful from the dead.
Peace respect & be nice to ya missus random pets & wild animals
& especially other folks always..😊imperfect cadence.🎼
I know you know this all already; hoo-roo via Terra Australis Incognita
🪃Didyabringyabongalong Station, Central QLD, Australia🦘
Thinking about whether you are good or not is still just thinking about yourself. Guitarists love to dig for compliments, so they say they suck-this enables them to make the conversation(whether in one's own head or with people) about them.
You don't need to think you're amazing or you suck in order to improve or learn something new.
'they make me want to quit guitar' is a confession that you view music as a competition.
8:32 “is switching from nail clippers to biting”. Lol
Re: guitar culture:
There's a story I heard, and I may be getting this completely wrong, but I think it was in Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography? But allegedly someone asked John Lennon what amp he wanted for a show, and he just answered with "one that works".
Take this with a heaping spoonful of salt cause this is the least reliable source for anything I have ever posted anywhere
I feel that.
I think it sounds pretty true, Lennon was known for not caring about gear and shit
Bro, you uploaded this as I was talking to a new friend of mine who just started playing. Perfect timing! We couldn't stop laughing!
Hi chris
great to see you chris
totally relate to you on not preferring to listen to guitar instrumentals unless it's to support a visual element. for me it's songs with vocals. i do love gear talk though.
I think the problem with most guitar instrumentals is that there is so much repetitiveness at the sacrifice of playing a lot of different melodic ideas. Imo, a good guitar instrumental/instrumental track should be able to keep your interest, and those are more rare than not
That blue graphic strat used in cory wong style demonstration is so beautiful
A ton of nails on the head in this one! Love your content man. You are so relatable.
For me, guitar has been my ultimate joy and my ultimate sorrow. Joy when it all comes together and the sorrows of my hands and fingers not doing what I want them to do.🎸🎸🎼🎵🎶💓💓
Have you ever had an internal bruise in your fingertip? Like after a lot of bending or hours of practice, your calloused fingertip is fine, but there is a pain that you feel deep near your bone? I hate that.
I'm too old to care about instagram... Ry Cooder said its better to drop out and NOT care about social media....
"Learn Wonderwall"
"Learn Wagon Wheel"
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Wagon wheel haha. Forgot to learn it as a special request on a gig. Between sets I get it up on Spotify to see if I could wing it. Didn’t even have to touch my guitar before I realise it’s just a 4 bar loop in A. Played it in the next set, went down great. Not a single person thought my attractive-ness had increased 😂
I gotta say, I'm a self taught guitarist, mediocre at best, very self-conscious and constatly I find myself being dissappointed by my lack of skill or lack of stable progress. What you said about all of us being mad at ourselves for not sounding as we'd like to is really quite comforting and gives me new strength to go and pick up my six string and keep practicing. I'd be more than happy to join the guitar help group, if you don't mind, haha.
4:23 I think he's talking about the sound of the pick. I like the percussive sound of it I'm surprised a drummer doesn't like it
8:18 Dude, I'm totally going thru that right now!
But I couldn't work out what the hey was going on..
I was thinking it was one of those "quiks" you get sometimes
But as soon as U described the nail separating, and causing that "exquisite" pain, I knew that it.
I can get it from. an afternoon of drinking beer - and I think that, in concert with my bendy Benerson...my Bender "Bending" Rodriguez tendency!
The beer hurts, btw, if you're wondering, because I prefer beer in a can...and all.those ring pulls, say 15 or even 18-20, eventually..the nail lifts from its bed, and 😖😩 "OUCHiness!" occurs!
I remember going to the Cotati Accordion Festival having some older guy do a tirade against guitar playing, I play both instruments but neither of them are my main instrument.
As a girl with long nails in school, I ran into this issue with bends a lot, once sliced my finger under the nail while playing on 8's and it got infected. It was absolute AGONY for ages till it cleared up.
Learn the classics that touch the heart, and you’ll always have 1 foot in the door to panties/or drawers whatever you like. There’s nothing sexier than seeing someone in their element.
Another easy song to learn on acoustic: Steve Earle's "F the CC". It's only two chords (A and E), and you barely have to move your hand on the fretboard.
Guitar has become my main instrument focus since 2013, but bass is how I came up in band culture. Even then I sing and play horns and harmonicas and percussion, even drum kit and keyboards so I don't have the focus a real guitar shredder has, nor a taste for big loud amps. I had my tude about guitarists myself, but these days it's much less of an issue. 5 amp revolution is one thing that helps, and good modeling amps. It was always guitar, and still is when I encounter low brow jam situations, that's so easy to turn up loud that it drowns out even the drums even with only a Fender combo amp cranked, especially if it has real tubes. 40 Watts can tear off your head at 5 paces on a tube guitar amp, but barely push anything below 300hz beyond the cab on a bass amp, let alone even reach your ears let alone give you a bass massage. When stacks are the norm, it's all over. Even if the bass goes SVT 8X10 it can't top a stack of 4X12's with a 100w Marshall on top. Then it's nearly impossible to hear the vocals without getting feedback. The narcissistic idiot who just noodles endlessly facing their amp is getting such a sonic massage they can totally drop out of awareness of anything happening around them. It can happen to any instrument, but it really began to happen to guitar not right away when Les Paul was more the person than a legendary guitar design, but when guitar got big and Marshall stacks became the norm. Amps so tall they project sound at the whole body of the wanker now out of phase with good relationships, no wonder it's such a common tale. I walked out on the last big guitar band I ever want to be in with just such a guitarist in a small practice room, lost in his amp's vibrations and unable, or unwilling to hear anything from the rest of the band. Caustic wankers who shred, but have catastrophic relationships are so common it poisons the reputation of the instrument.
That guitar pick at the end would do really well at Rest in Pieces in Richmond.
Only people with no soul would not be touched by Derek Trucks’s music
I hate guitar, because youtube seems to think I love it. No idea why that might be...
Slightly askew is like every creative person lol. Nice video!
Totally feel the I'm good/I suck dichotomy. Some days I really happy with my level of playing and how I perform. Other days I feel like I'm terrible. But most days I recognize that I have my own strengths as a guitarist and just focus on those. I've played in many bands and have yet to be kicked out for my playing. Other reasons maybe, but not that.
"Ok, we're done here" 🤣🤣
Perfect reaction to that last… thing.
Off your right shoulder, above the yellow pre-amp, hanging on the wall is a guitar that seems to have it's control knobs catty-corner from the usual placement...please explain that someday. AND thanks loads for the Derek Trucks reference. Wow...
How I feel right now. I fucking hate it and just bought a new electric 5 months ago… but it’s okay. I’ve been playing the keys a lot more because it’s what I’ve been feeling.
Glad to hear everyone feels this every once and a blue moon
8:00 based
guitar looks simple but can be used in any genre I love your contents and looking forward for more
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the instrument itself cannot be at fault, its the element introduced to it that carries it to a point where it can be seen as the ultimate curse thats to blame. just like any other tool, it all depends on the user.
I just watched that short video about things all guitarists do and I have done every one of those things!!!! lol So I subscribed.
Damn been a while since I was on this channel. Congrats on a milli!
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Yup... We're definitely in a simulation... Too many of us have the exact same thoughts and feelings...sigh... existential crisis indeed....
You forgot about your Imgur secret door beep post with all the directional mics. Not guitar related though. :p
Oh yeah I love my guitars but sometimes I just get so frustrated at my lack of improvement and creativity that I don't want to touch them. But I still love them
"boy did I get old and out of touch fast." Relatable, man!
Talking about that whole wishing you were better/your favourite guitarist. If I could magically obtain the guitar abilities of any guitarist Sammy G wouldn't be the very top of my list (that would be Mateus Asato), but I would certainly be very happy indeed if I didn't get a choice and was assigned him.
Man I got old and out of touch in a hurry 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂 I can relate....
Next time I try and pickup a girl, Ill try and use my mushuggah riffs and slipknot solos
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In the early 60s I picked up guitar. I am a big fan of Chet Atkins and impressed girls by finger picking Dylan songs. Now arthritic hands and elbows are prohibitive. Still, I can listen... and watch UA-cam - guitar content and, in Oregon, the weed helps with pain but doesn't free up a bone on bone thumb.
Luckily, I can still give cops the finger - so, listening to Hendrix is still an option.
Peace thru music ✌😎🎸🖕☮
I hate myself, but really, I hate camera angles towards the side of people's faces, it takes me away from the video and feels like the person is no longer talking to me but past me.
Taylor Swift is still huge. I'm 18, I listen to her on occassion, my dad does, at least three friends I can think of that are like HUGE Swifties. Definitely still a thing. I wonder what the sales for acoustics are like?
8:20 yeah you can super glue it in place
still have yet to hear wagon wheel out in the wild XD
good informative video so far!
Next, google "I love guitar"
Was that a Hofner “Verythin”?!
Jimi Hendrix quotes it best about sometimes you'll hate that guitar
I would say that guitar doesn't really get girls. They're like "Oh, that's nice."
40+ years of playing and never had my nail separate from bending.
My nail just separated from my finger for the first time this week. That hurt so much! I thought it was something I was doing wrong.
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Question. Who would win in a guitar battle. Samurai Guitarist, or Ninja Guitarist?
I hate guitar when....
...I am trying to dial in tone. I finally "fix" my sound. Only to come back to it the next day and wonder how I screwed up so much. I hate my tone, always. I can love it once. But as soon as I record it or come back to it, I hate it again.
To be fair, I think with the pandemic a LOT of people started picking up the guitar, but at the same time it's becoming so so so much more common for people to buy USED guitars instead of brand new ones. Wouldn't that kind of skew that statistic about the number of new guitar sales dropping?
Depending on when the article came out, they could have been using data that they got in 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
A lot of people were stuck at home and decided it was a good time to buy a guitar and finally learn.
Fast forward a year or two later and Companies see the projected sales based on a peak business year (2020) and makes an estimate based on that.
Another factor could be the fact that the cost of living really jumped this year. Food shortages, gas prices, housing and rent prices.
People can't afford to have hobbies really and if they can afford it, they probably don't have time for it now. I work two jobs, I come home and play for an hour or two and then I'm off to bed. I don't have time to play as much as I would like, so I know I don't need a new guitar because it wouldn't get played.
The used market is a bit weird now because everyone thanks their guitar is worth the same now as it was new. Which is made worse by Reverb having ads for overpriced gear. Klons, Dumbles, JBL K&D speakers, Macintosh Power Amps, etc. on the front page.
It also doesn't help when you have a place like 'WackyWally'sGuitarGear' selling things at a higher price because they are a company that gets merchandise shipped in. Then when an individual seller who is selling used gear sees the prices they also think there's is worth that much.
You can find great deals on used if you look. However, you have to look hard and you have to be careful.
i have a guitar exam tommorow in school and i'm not prepeared i've been crying for a week i still am😭😭😭😰😰😰
That last one... Jfc
On the fingernail thing, when it happens pull down on the end of your finger slightly and run a small bead of superglue (best to use the medical grade stuff) under the nail and it will prevent you from re-injuring yourself while playing while it heals.
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1 big thing I am lacking and trying hard to learn (though quite terribly) is practice singing with your playing.
it don't matter if you can play a song 100% right and x10 better then someone else because when that person sings it makes that song x100 and beats out any without the words... well that's really just my newly found opinion.
sidetracked but wanted to just say thanks for the new video!
At least I avoided a few pitfalls in all my years of playing. I've never thought I was all that great! lol I'm pretty sure I'm ok and I'm fine with that. I never ever played for attention or thought I was cool. The reason I started, and the reason I still play, is as a ten year old kid I heard Back in Black when it released in 1980 and I just HAD to make that sound. The sound of good heavy distortion lit a fire in me that has never died. I don't care how old or infirm I get, as long as I can go CHUG CHUG I'll be ok.
I a beginner with 1.5 years in. There are days what I can't get a barre chord that i'm really hating guitar playing.
I hate that most guitars have 21 and 22 frets when two octaves are 24 frets. Like that's a weird number to end on. Large pianos piss me off too they just had to end the piano on A and have 1 random sharp key hanging around at the end ruining the pattern of 2 and 3.
7:57 LMAO so true.
Playing guitar... I consider myself just about adequate and accepted I'll never be great. Singing... I've almost always been the singer in whatever band but, although I can do it - to a degree - I only ever hear my shortcomings, as with guitar. I still enjoy singing and playing, though.
the only 2 things i hate is restringing guitar with non locking tuners and when string broke during solo
this is too real
For all those feeling the excruciating pain in the fingers: do not cut to short with the clippers. Rather keep some of the white bit than dare to cross that line, it will hurt, always.
About the guy who said he despised guitar culture, at least the r/Guitar subreddit is like the worst thing ever. Check out r/Guitars, much better community, friendly people and mods that wont ban you for asking guitar related questions.
I started learning guitar to enable my getting ideas across to other players.
When the fingernail separates from the nailbed, use crazy glue to bond it together again.
"I got old and out of touch in a hurry"...i'm laughing sadness into my beer. Give it 3-4 years for the gut to start forming.
You weren't wrong about girls and guitars. Electric sales have decreased, but acoustic sales have increased.
Not really both have increased
When you see that disgusting pick at the end.. LOL "Oh no..."
love your content man!