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I was looking through the October issue of Guitar Player Magazine and came across some "40 Common Newbie Guitarist Mistakes" and I decided to post them here to help new guitarists who have not seen this list, so here it goes.

For copyright issues I am not stealing this information from Guitar Player Magazine. All the credit for this information goes to them.

1. Investing in distortion boxes instead of a good amp.
2. Learning 100 intros and no entire songs.
3. Limiting yourself to one style of music, usually metal.
4. Not taking the time to learn music theory.
5. Playing "Smoke On The Water" on the high-E string.
6. Playing too loud and too much distortion.
7. Setting your amps gain to 10 and mids to 0.
8. Relying on picks.
9. Not learning how to perform a basic setup.
10. Not maintaining your gear.
11. Not jamming enough with other players.
12. Over use of legato with a complete disregard for tempo.
13. Poor phrasing.
14. Weak Vibrato.
15. Buying too many effects.
16. Listening to tone snobs.
17. Immediately launching into thirty-second-notes during a blues solo.
18. Thinking that playing the local bar circuit constitutes a "tour".
19. Believing that opening for a national act means you're on your way.
20. Not knowing the difference between tube watts and solid-state watts.
21. Relying too much on printed music and tabs.
22. Thinking a year of lessons and $5,000 worth of gear makes you ready to play in a band.
23. Wearing your guitar way too low.
24. Using too much hand/finger pressure when fretting.
25. Taking guitar lessons from a friend.
26. Giving up immediately because you sound like dog doo.
27. Not learning how all of your gear works
28. Tuning every guitar at Guitar Center to dropped D, and not returning them to standard pitch.
29. Bringing full stacks to tiny bar gigs.
30. Saying "All [insert hated style of music] sucks, dude!"
31. Learning with your eyes instead of your ears.
32. Not learning to play in time with good grove and feel.
33. Not investing in good earplugs for playing loud gigs. ***(This is very important)***
34. Obsessing about playing burning solos, and not caring about rhythm guitar.
35. Thinking that playing fast pentatonic-box patterns makes you a hot guitarist.
36. Not putting casters on viciously heavy amps.
37. Wearing bowling shirts emblazoned with flames and dragons.
38. Realizing guitar is too difficult and taking up bass instead.
39. Spending more time on Harmony Central than actually practicing.
40. Forgetting that playing music is meant to be fun.

Hope this helps all of you who are beginners or didn't know this information. I admit I have to work on some of this too also.

Enjoy!

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