Your Guitar Misconceptions |
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Oct 27 2017, 08:56 PM
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What crazy ideas did you have about guitar when you were thinking about starting to learn?
One of mine was, when I was about 14 years old, I didn't want a gig bag, only a hard case or nothing and I would carry it carefully everywhere. I didn't want a gig bag because putting it in and out would turn the tuning keys and make it out of tune BUT, if I carried it over my shoulder, I would never ever have to tune it once it had been tuned by someone who knew how to tune  Once I got my first tab book and read "Full bend" or "Half bend", I thought "full" just meant, as far as you can push/pull the string and a "half bend" was half that physical difference  What crazy ideas did you have? -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE  “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 27 2017, 09:52 PM
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QUOTE (bleez @ Oct 27 2017, 09:26 PM)  I knew if you bend upwards the pitch would go up..... but I also thought if you bend downwards the pitch would go down  I remember being a little disappointed that it didnt. *I guess physics and basic intelligence wasnt my strong suit! That is the stuff of legends Scott. Pisses on mine for humour value. Nice one mate 
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 28 2017, 08:26 PM
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I remember my first guitar as an adult, I was about 25 years old, it had a floating trem on it, I still have it. Anyway, I finally got it into tune, and suddenly a string broke, I look down at the trem and it was angled at about 45 degrees with the back end in the air
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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it genuinely made sense to me at the time |
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Oct 29 2017, 06:11 PM
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I had the simply CRAZY notion that it was going to be quite easy to learn!!!
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Oct 29 2017, 08:15 PM
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QUOTE (Sensible Jones @ Oct 29 2017, 06:11 PM) I had the simply CRAZY notion that it was going to be quite easy to learn!!! I think we're all guilty of that
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 30 2017, 12:58 PM
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I started playing aged 9, I didn't have any preconceived ideas, but when I got older aged about 17 when I discovered Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert I was convinced the reason I couldn't play as fast as them was because they were professional or something that made them different than me (apart from discipline and practice)
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Nov 3 2017, 12:23 PM
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I used to think I could avoid learning how to palm mute by dampening the strings some how, because I wanted to learn lead guitar only and thought I would never need to play open strings.
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Nov 3 2017, 04:18 PM
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Legato was cheating
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Nov 13 2017, 08:30 AM
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QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Oct 29 2017, 07:33 AM) Paul Gilbert had the crazy idea that you could only play down strokes when he started I've heard it was up strokes, even. |
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