Play the Layla riff, but mess every single bend. Also, make sure to bar the 10th fret of both B and High E with your index finger, during the hammer-ons and pull-offs. Last, but not least, don't mute any string!
Oh, God, you hit the nail right on the head. I don't work at Guitar Center, but, no offense to Eric Clapton or Derek And The Dominoes, but I HATE LAYLA! That's gotta be the MOST OVERRATED FUCKIN' SONG IN ROCK FUCKIN' HISTORY! No, seriously, you're right about this stuff.
Yeah I am not a big fan of Layla either. The only good part about the song is really the outro piano part and a lot of that is because of the movie "Goodfellas".
Layla is actually a good song, to be quite honest. It's just overrated, considering that Clapton has made *a lot* of better songs, but people think that Layla represents Eric Clapton at his best. Layla is a good song, but it's not even close to Eric's bests!
I feel myself get shaky before the snap. when I first started playing bass, my buddy was letting me use his old beater 5 string. I didnt think that maybe he had had it in a humid basement untouched for 5 years and that the moment I went to tune the D string that it would snap and I would spray blood all over the pickups. It split the meat on my right hand pretty deep, took 17 stitches to patch.
nychold I also would suggest to play the whole thing one fret below, but please no, so many people do that in videos, it makes me feel the need to kill babies (b4 someone smart from you starts calling 911, I'd like to let you know that it's a quote from an inspiring "vocalist" looking like the guy on Ratatouille - *end of hint* :) ).
I swear im psychic when it read play the guitar out of tune i thought of under the bridge because thats the song i play to check tuning and it sounds horrible out of tune
Here's another one. Go in and go to the desk and ask if they have a guitar that makes this sound, make a wash like sound but do it like an idiot that's never played guitar. Then after they proceed to go grab a Floyd setup guitar and keep trying to do dimebag harmonics without hitting where the harmonic actually is.
Use a coin as a pick Try to recnonnect amplifiers to dirrerent cabinets Play christmas songs off-season Sing along with your playing Count yourself in loudly Wear a jacket or/and belt with lots of rivets and ask to test expensive guitars Headbanging and violet dancing to others playing Test accoustig guitars by just knocking rhythms on the body
ULTRAMAXAMPAXAM well it's supposed to be played with fingers instead of a pick so it has a more subtle tone, and if you play something that easy in guitar center you'll just look like a joke lol
Sit in the shop for around an hour or so and come out without buying anything. ask them to show you all sorts of instruments and then just exit after an hour- play guitars randomly.
None of this will get you kicked out. However, piquing the interest of a hot bass player chick employee by laying down some slick slap funk lines will get the dude who has a crush on her to come over and give you a hard time for playing too loud and will "suggest" you buy something or leave. Tried and true at the Seattle Guitar Center.
- continuously check if the guitar has the neck straight [pretend you are going to play and recheck again] - play a single note on the thinner E string with a lot of emotion over and over again [do string bends A LOT] - Play "oops I did it again" - play the same chord and keep changing the pickups -.step on the jack till it comes out of the guitar several times - ask for a dirt box [Metal Zone preferably] and play "Jeux interdits" - ask for a guitar and a bass and keep switching them on the same amp - ask for the heaviest amp and play slow country music . tell them the guitar is a counterfeit - ask a guitar with the heaviest Bass strings gauge available - Pick a Baritone and keep tuning it to standard E
My favorite (for us bassists) is grabbing a expensive bass in stock and plugging it into the biggest amp in the store, turn up the bass tone all the way along with the volume and start pounding quarter notes onto the low-E string. I saw this guy do this at the GC in Hallandale Florida and almost shit myself laughing. This poor guy could not get any help so he grabbed a Thunderbird off the wall and decided to play the intro to "Runnin' With The Devil" through a Ampeg SVT at full volume. Everything on the walls were shaking, this went on for a good minute until one of the employees quit talking to his bro and unplugged the amp. That guy deserves a medal.
Here's what you can do. Act like you're trying to play a riff that you can't, and in frustration, rapidly strum all the open strings, tap like a madman, etc.
Not anymore after this comment of you bowing down to some, stuck up scrub avg vitali, or prank invasion level youtuber, and after you attribute all your legendary to this person like you never were something to begin with. I'd suggest delete ur own comment while u can
That last one killed them all. I with this Comment edition GOES ON and ON and ON and ON and ON!!! Play "For the love of GOD", the first 4 notes, and repeat the 4th note 3 times, and repeat. :)) and pretend you're so fucking awesome like you're the one who made it(the song)
Sort of a universal thing to do with any incompetent sales sales person is just to stare at them looking annoyed. Start to explain something to them and after three words just say, "You know what? Never mind I'm fine here. Why don't you go dust or something?" or, "Are you sure you really work here?"
1. Ask a salesman for one of the guitars on the wall (that is over $1K). These are reserved for teenagers walking in with mom and dad and a blank check. 2. Demand a pick that doesn't suck from the salesman. It is like charging for condiments at a restaurant. Even a Jazz III costs them less than 40 cents. 3. Repeatedly plug a guitar into a tube amp that not on standby. The science behind this is inconsistent. Needless to say, I have never actually seen a tube/speaker/transformer blow from doing this. 4. Let the salesman know that you are, "just looking", but ask for help as well. Help is only something you get when they see $$$ in return. God forbid they build a rapport with very potential future customer. Instead they discourage anyone from ever going back. 5. THE most important one. Try to turn a high wattage tube amp (like a triple rect) past the pre-amp stage for over 10 seconds so you can ACTUALLY HEAR ITS REAL SONIC CHARACTERISTICS. Yeah that $3-8K boutique class A tube amp there that you are on the fence about. You want to hear it at stage volume before purchasing? Forget about it. Guitar Center is where clueless noobs go to buy their first guitar. Getting kicked out is actually commendable in my book.
On another note : Grab an expensive guitar and plug into the worst amp that you can find. Pick the most "metal" sound possible, all scooped mids, max treble, bass at 5, gain too high. Sweep pick for days but fail miserably
Do what CSGuitars says NOT to do - Clean channel - Cheap drive pedal - All the gain, All the gain - Metal Zone - No mids - More gain - SLAYERRRR! - ALL THE GAIN!!!!
Just get an electric guitar without a locking nut and go into a corner or somewhere where you won't be spotted easily. Then plug it into an amp and turn it up loud enough so everybody in the store can hear it pretty loudly. Then one by one starting from the low E string, tune each string up until the string snaps, keep doing it until all the strings are broken, then just get up and stare at the employee until he says something, then leave the store without saying a single word.
go to guitar center every single day at lunch, ask to play the $10,000 custom that they need to get the ladder for, plug into the vintage fender blackface and play midnight rambler for 40 min straight. Buy nothing. Then visit the acoustic room and ask them to unlock the 3 most expensive guitars then play Pantera riffs on them.
other fun ways to fuck with a music shop... 1: go to every amp casually looking at it, and turn all the knobs on every single one to max 2: pick up every single guitar on the wall and play for 5 seconds, then put it back and sigh very heavily 3: ask to sound check every effect pedal you can, then leave without buying a thing 4: play acoustics with metal songs, and go super heavy on pick slides 5: re-tune every guitar you pick up to drop D, but change the high E string to D as well 6: walk around and look at amps, and turn on every one you can, all without instruments plugged in, then walk away 7: grab a tab book and a guitar and sit and pretend you're learning a new song 8: ask to try out different microphones and sing offkey at the end of each lyric, and then blame the mic for sounding bad 9: sample every guitar pick type they have, then leave without buying a thing
Fun story, I once went into a guitar store in which they didn't let us use pick to try out guitars, mad as i was I started using my index finger nail as a pick (as I played classical guitar and had my nails just a bit overgrown), the employee had to come see if i was using a real pick xD
NOTE: I do not know when I will make another videos due to a serious illness. I really do apologize for that. Cheers Guys and Girls \m/
i was training guitar and thinking about this video and came her today :/
I hope you feel better soon.
Take your time amigo, but when you're back in the saddle I wanna see a video of you actually trolling guitar center 😂 get well soon buddy
I hope you get better man you're amazing
Paranormal Guitar Channel iii
jesus fuck when the greasy hand reached out I physically cringed
pr0ng I like how he couldn't even go through with touching his guitar for that one and had to cut away
pr0ng I love the profile picture
pr0ng 501like
I environmentally cringed. But seriously, why do some people do that with video game controllers?
physical cringe? that's like saying butt fart or hard boner
It was physically hurting me to watch the last one.
Best laugh I've had all week...
Anthony 123 I have a mild heart attack when a string breaks.
am I the only one that this happened to.
I sweat when tuning the e string....
Anthony 123 I actually did that last one no joke lol. I had no idea what I was doing
for me too. I experienced that thing once.
That's happen to me the first I try to tune a FR guitar because I forget to loosen the locking nut. Still hurt watching it even on a skit like this.
One of my trumpet students turns on the 'demo' mode on all the display pianos as he leaves.
Ron Johnson XDD
Ron Johnson He's my spirit animal
Ron Johnson Must be a pain in the ass
so that's why we sit in the last row...
Ron Johnson What exactly is a demo mode?
Play the Layla riff, but mess every single bend. Also, make sure to bar the 10th fret of both B and High E with your index finger, during the hammer-ons and pull-offs. Last, but not least, don't mute any string!
Oh, God, you hit the nail right on the head. I don't work at Guitar Center, but, no offense to Eric Clapton or Derek And The Dominoes, but I HATE LAYLA! That's gotta be the MOST OVERRATED FUCKIN' SONG IN ROCK FUCKIN' HISTORY! No, seriously, you're right about this stuff.
Thats because it is litteraly meant to be a musical joke, a parody of 08/15 love songs.
Yeah I am not a big fan of Layla either. The only good part about the song is really the outro piano part and a lot of that is because of the movie "Goodfellas".
I like the Slide Guitar work by Duane Allman on that song.
Layla is actually a good song, to be quite honest. It's just overrated, considering that Clapton has made *a lot* of better songs, but people think that Layla represents Eric Clapton at his best. Layla is a good song, but it's not even close to Eric's bests!
when you have a trauma and you get scared every time a string breaks, even on videos
andrexfucksomewhere I even flinched haha
I have a scar from a string whipping me.... ‘twas not a good time
I feel myself get shaky before the snap. when I first started playing bass, my buddy was letting me use his old beater 5 string. I didnt think that maybe he had had it in a humid basement untouched for 5 years and that the moment I went to tune the D string that it would snap and I would spray blood all over the pickups. It split the meat on my right hand pretty deep, took 17 stitches to patch.
@@greasyt9400 jesus fuck, thanks for the warning
Part 2: Where you actually go to Guitar Center and do this?
agreed, can't w8 for it :D
Philminator that would be genius
Philminator yess
Yeah, except the whole thing would be forced and staged, because no one would give a natural reaction with the camera there.
Just with rude employed leave nice employees alone
Play smoke on the water with only your index finger and move your head in time as if you are playing the powerchords
omg, you are evil!
The Animated Lemon there's no power chords in that riff lmao
Evan Lafferty you dumb
The best bit of playing smoke on the water is to fret the 7th fret instead of the 6th. Sounds annoyingly almost right
they plug in the bass into a guitar amp.
hhaah dang savage lol
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The owner of my main did that once, it blew his amp up
I have done that before
Never heard of Royal Blood?
who else turned their volume down, thinking he was gonna play an level 1000? lol
Jose Torres I was so prepared to have my ear drums blown out
Jose Torres yup
Jose Torres you have a portuguese name, are you portuguese?
@@RafaelCosta-je8vn Rica is a great
I turned my volume up
I SCREAMED "NOOOOOOOO" AT THE GREASY HANDS ONE
Diller same
I did too
bro same i was freaking out lol
Grab the most expensive guitar in the store, tell them you’re just browsing.
this was painful
especially the out of tune under the bridge, hurt my soul :(
En Emerson My soul to squeeze
windows sound and blue screen won haha :D
Alex Schmeia I laughed my ass off right there
Alex Schmeia that was my submission :D
i died, lmfao.
I played the video on fullscreen and was like WTF Nooooooooooooo
I`ve almost choked because i had to laugh instantly!
Haha, even if you are breaking strings on purpose, the jumpscare is always there.
It's even more scary than any of the new horror movies.
There are hardly any employees working in a guitar center to kick you out. That shit is going out of business soon.
Steve Stell not the one I'm near, that place is packed
one of the largest guitar stores ever probably not
The rumor-of-the-month for 11 years running.
Fuck yeah he featured my idea! I´m frecking GENIUS!
Play Sweet Child O Mine intro on the correct frets for standard Eb tuning, but on a standard E tuned guitar.
Thats retarted all you have to do is slide up or down one fret
nychold you monster
That one isn't as bad as other suggestions. Maybe add that you are playing at a non smooth/incorrect speed and missing a lot of the notes.
nychold I also would suggest to play the whole thing one fret below, but please no, so many people do that in videos, it makes me feel the need to kill babies (b4 someone smart from you starts calling 911, I'd like to let you know that it's a quote from an inspiring "vocalist" looking like the guy on Ratatouille - *end of hint* :) ).
only one of ten will tell the difference
I swear im psychic when it read play the guitar out of tune i thought of under the bridge because thats the song i play to check tuning and it sounds horrible out of tune
Here's another one.
Go in and go to the desk and ask if they have a guitar that makes this sound, make a wash like sound but do it like an idiot that's never played guitar. Then after they proceed to go grab a Floyd setup guitar and keep trying to do dimebag harmonics without hitting where the harmonic actually is.
without what
press the show more button
Given that you can play pinch harmonics, deliberately fail at such
Another one:
Play the riff for walk by Pantera and dont bend the string when you are supposed to. That would make Dimebag turn in his grave
2:17 is more shocking than every Horror Movie xD
Trooper- Jarhead ikr
Use a coin as a pick
Try to recnonnect amplifiers to dirrerent cabinets
Play christmas songs off-season
Sing along with your playing
Count yourself in loudly
Wear a jacket or/and belt with lots of rivets and ask to test expensive guitars
Headbanging and violet dancing to others playing
Test accoustig guitars by just knocking rhythms on the body
What's wrong with playing nothing else matters with a pick
yea like realy , didnt get it :|
ULTRAMAXAMPAXAM .... Yeah, lost me there too.
ULTRAMAXAMPAXAM well it's supposed to be played with fingers instead of a pick so it has a more subtle tone, and if you play something that easy in guitar center you'll just look like a joke lol
also you can't even play that song with a pick given you have to play distant strings simultaneously.
Eric Pech but it was specifically with a pick
Sit in the shop for around an hour or so and come out without buying anything. ask them to show you all sorts of instruments and then just exit after an hour- play guitars randomly.
I got a guitar center add before this
No you didnt
@@kaspies8150
I did on another video on this channel, It wanted me to download their app, didn't even know they had one
Seven Nation Army gag takes it, no contest. 👏👏👏👏😂😂
Go to the Drum section, ask to try out a kit and have a friend yell "Dude! Play IN GADDA DA VIDA!"
None of this will get you kicked out. However, piquing the interest of a hot bass player chick employee by laying down some slick slap funk lines will get the dude who has a crush on her to come over and give you a hard time for playing too loud and will "suggest" you buy something or leave. Tried and true at the Seattle Guitar Center.
Nitrousoxide2k g o d
Press X to doubt
@@fuseki23 x
i went to guitar center today and half the amps were turned all the way to 10 i was laughing so hard
you could play sweet child o mine terribly
Easy riff:
tune to drop C with high gain and distortion and play this:
000000000/100000000/100000
and then power chords
Hmmmmm, sounds like an Asking Alexandria song xD
- continuously check if the guitar has the neck straight [pretend you are going to play and recheck again]
- play a single note on the thinner E string with a lot of emotion over and over again [do string bends A LOT]
- Play "oops I did it again"
- play the same chord and keep changing the pickups
-.step on the jack till it comes out of the guitar several times
- ask for a dirt box [Metal Zone preferably] and play "Jeux interdits"
- ask for a guitar and a bass and keep switching them on the same amp
- ask for the heaviest amp and play slow country music
. tell them the guitar is a counterfeit
- ask a guitar with the heaviest Bass strings gauge available
- Pick a Baritone and keep tuning it to standard E
I suffered with that string break :(
I've almost got a heart attack.
haha, he jumped when he snapped the string, that would 100% be me
The last one was epic.
I literally jumped on that last one.... please it's my worst nightmare XD
this was his face the whole time 😐
The greasy finger one stressed me out so much
The widows error messages and sounds killed me lol
Spend all day being annoying, then tell the Guitar Center salesman you've finally decided what guitar to mail-order from Sweetwater.
i DID THAT LAST ONE WHEN I GOT MY FIRST GUITAR WITH A FLOYD ROSE LOL
My favorite (for us bassists) is grabbing a expensive bass in stock and plugging it into the biggest amp in the store, turn up the bass tone all the way along with the volume and start pounding quarter notes onto the low-E string. I saw this guy do this at the GC in Hallandale Florida and almost shit myself laughing. This poor guy could not get any help so he grabbed a Thunderbird off the wall and decided to play the intro to "Runnin' With The Devil" through a Ampeg SVT at full volume. Everything on the walls were shaking, this went on for a good minute until one of the employees quit talking to his bro and unplugged the amp. That guy deserves a medal.
What's the name of song around 1:40? I'm sure I know it, just cant recall the name
Mateusz Szwed RHCP - Under the Bridge
Mateusz Szwed Under the bridge - RHCP
under the bridge - red hot chili peppers
Mateusz Szwed Under the Bridge
Mateusz Szwed 7 nation army
I jumped when the string broke
I did some of these as an employee to piss off my coworkers 😂
Here's what you can do. Act like you're trying to play a riff that you can't, and in frustration, rapidly strum all the open strings, tap like a madman, etc.
The last one actually scared me
2:10 is hilarious
That "bad" crazy train riff actually sounded kind of good
HAHAHA man - the blue screen was good, but then breaking the string - now that had me laughing. :) Much needed laugh for the lunch break. Thanks man!
I don’t know how I ended up here but I love it
OMG, I completely lost it at the sight of the Blue Screen of Death. Absolutely the funniest part of the video.
pick up a banjo and play foggy mountain breakdown on loop for 30 minutes straight
I died when the error msg came up 😂😂😭
Don't forget to share :)
Here's the link to the first episode of this series: goo.gl/wUjCLI
Paranormal Guitar Channel i love this vid
Armoured potato 181 Well luckily for you it's been done 10,000 times by every youtube guitarist on the planet. Knock yourself out!
Doctor Derpington You're not famous
Not anymore after this comment of you bowing down to some, stuck up scrub avg vitali, or prank invasion level youtuber, and after you attribute all your legendary to this person like you never were something to begin with.
I'd suggest delete ur own comment while u can
Paranormal Guitar Channel your tone is awesome! What's your rig?
Even as a Lowes paint bucket player I found this funny
OOOH nooooh alll of these where bad but the last one broke my heart along with the string you can hear the guitars pain oh gaaawd
Play Free Bird as rigidly as you can. No slides, no hammer-ons, just obnoxious strums.
These were golden! 👌😁
I lol'd at "Hold the guitar with greasy fingers." xD
play All Star - SMASHMOUTH
WINDOWS BLUE SCREEN JUST KILLED ME!!!HAHAHA
Why you guys troll gc so much ahha
When the string broke my soul still died and had that aweful chill go through my body
4th!
raghav srivastava Gross bro.
XD
That last one killed them all. I with this Comment edition GOES ON and ON and ON and ON and ON!!!
Play "For the love of GOD", the first 4 notes, and repeat the 4th note 3 times, and repeat. :)) and pretend you're so fucking awesome like you're the one who made it(the song)
2:26 LOL his face at the end. It's like "I don't understand how this could happen..."
1:54 That's some genious editing. Hats off.
but
but
but
I DO nothing else matter with a pick...
THATS NOT MAH FAULT
Play smoke on the water but with the high with the amp on the clean channel. Also make it sound like its the only think you know how to do.
Nothing else matters with a pick?!?!? How dare you?!?!
0:33 Uuuuuggghhhhhhhhhhh that drives me crazy lol. My mind is screaming PLAYMORESTRINGSDAMNYOU.
Seriously, the detune and turn everything to 10 really kills me🤣🤣🤣
Sort of a universal thing to do with any incompetent sales sales person is just to stare at them looking annoyed. Start to explain something to them and after three words just say, "You know what? Never mind I'm fine here. Why don't you go dust or something?" or, "Are you sure you really work here?"
To this day, I still get jumpscared when a string breaks
AAAARRGG!!!! I hate the unexpected sensation of breaking a string by over-winding. It's worse than popping a balloon.
Instructions Unclear: Accidentally played Free Bird perfectly
2:22 that freaking String snap scared me even though I was expecting it 😂😂😂
1. Ask a salesman for one of the guitars on the wall (that is over $1K). These are reserved for teenagers walking in with mom and dad and a blank check.
2. Demand a pick that doesn't suck from the salesman. It is like charging for condiments at a restaurant. Even a Jazz III costs them less than 40 cents.
3. Repeatedly plug a guitar into a tube amp that not on standby. The science behind this is inconsistent. Needless to say, I have never actually seen a tube/speaker/transformer blow from doing this.
4. Let the salesman know that you are, "just looking", but ask for help as well. Help is only something you get when they see $$$ in return. God forbid they build a rapport with very potential future customer. Instead they discourage anyone from ever going back.
5. THE most important one. Try to turn a high wattage tube amp (like a triple rect) past the pre-amp stage for over 10 seconds so you can ACTUALLY HEAR ITS REAL SONIC CHARACTERISTICS. Yeah that $3-8K boutique class A tube amp there that you are on the fence about. You want to hear it at stage volume before purchasing? Forget about it.
Guitar Center is where clueless noobs go to buy their first guitar. Getting kicked out is actually commendable in my book.
I did the enter sandman one and now I'm banned from all guitar centers within a 40 mile radius
On another note : Grab an expensive guitar and plug into the worst amp that you can find. Pick the most "metal" sound possible, all scooped mids, max treble, bass at 5, gain too high. Sweep pick for days but fail miserably
So, the saddest part of this is that I'm a beginner and according to this video and some other I've seen, I'd be kicked out right away.
Do what CSGuitars says NOT to do
- Clean channel
- Cheap drive pedal
- All the gain, All the gain
- Metal Zone
- No mids
- More gain
- SLAYERRRR!
- ALL THE GAIN!!!!
Just get an electric guitar without a locking nut and go into a corner or somewhere where you won't be spotted easily. Then plug it into an amp and turn it up loud enough so everybody in the store can hear it pretty loudly. Then one by one starting from the low E string, tune each string up until the string snaps, keep doing it until all the strings are broken, then just get up and stare at the employee until he says something, then leave the store without saying a single word.
As an ex guitar center employee... Please do this. That company is terrible to work for
Guitar snobbery at its finest putting beginner guitarists off picking anything up in the shop
You wanna piss off guitar stores? Every guitar you pick up immediately retune the guitar to standard by turning the knobs the wrong way
Happened to me once:
-Dude can I lend your guitar?
-Sure.
- I love how you tuned it! (proceeds to tune it badly)
Worked at guitar center for many years; can confirm we hated everybody that does this
I like how the string broke and he was like,"oh shit, what did i do"
The Enter Sandman bit literally made me go "uuucchhhhh". I have heard so many people do that, its just..... come on.
go to guitar center every single day at lunch, ask to play the $10,000 custom that they need to get the ladder for, plug into the vintage fender blackface and play midnight rambler for 40 min straight. Buy nothing. Then visit the acoustic room and ask them to unlock the 3 most expensive guitars then play Pantera riffs on them.
Did most of these to a dude who constantly is rude at my local shop and he wasn’t delighted
That last one scared me yet I knew it was coming
I shared with my buddies who play. I tagged them and they love it.
other fun ways to fuck with a music shop...
1: go to every amp casually looking at it, and turn all the knobs on every single one to max
2: pick up every single guitar on the wall and play for 5 seconds, then put it back and sigh very heavily
3: ask to sound check every effect pedal you can, then leave without buying a thing
4: play acoustics with metal songs, and go super heavy on pick slides
5: re-tune every guitar you pick up to drop D, but change the high E string to D as well
6: walk around and look at amps, and turn on every one you can, all without instruments plugged in, then walk away
7: grab a tab book and a guitar and sit and pretend you're learning a new song
8: ask to try out different microphones and sing offkey at the end of each lyric, and then blame the mic for sounding bad
9: sample every guitar pick type they have, then leave without buying a thing
I almost lost it when the windows error message popped up towards the end 🤣🤣🤣🤣😫😫😫
Let's realise this.
He broke the high "E" string on a floyd rose guitar, just for us.
The biggest troll of all: That horrible tin can scooped mids asstone.
Fun story, I once went into a guitar store in which they didn't let us use pick to try out guitars, mad as i was I started using my index finger nail as a pick (as I played classical guitar and had my nails just a bit overgrown), the employee had to come see if i was using a real pick xD