What Threshold Must One Cross To Be Considered A "guitarist"?, Is there even a threshold?
Mudbone
Sep 1 2010, 03:31 AM
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When you first picked up playing guitar you weren't a guitarist, just to state the obvious. You couldn't play a C chord or the A minor scale because, again, you weren't a guitarist. Malmsteen, Hendrix, Vaughan - when they all started off they weren't guitarist, obviously. So, now that that has been established, is there a threshold to cross to be considered a guitarist? Is it just learning a few basic chords that you can strum on, or is there more to it than that?

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- Mudbone   What Threshold Must One Cross To Be Considered A "guitarist"?   Sep 1 2010, 03:31 AM
- - jafomatic   Is this about the difficulty numbers again? How a...   Sep 1 2010, 05:58 AM
|- - Mudbone   QUOTE (jafomatic @ Sep 1 2010, 12:58 AM) ...   Sep 1 2010, 06:14 AM
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- - JamesT   I remember I used to think about this kind of defi...   Sep 1 2010, 06:32 AM
|- - Mudbone   QUOTE (JamesT @ Sep 1 2010, 01:32 AM) I r...   Sep 1 2010, 06:51 AM
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- - Fran   Hmmm. Tough question! The other day I went to...   Sep 1 2010, 07:44 AM
- - sted   I guess the first time it occurred to me that I ha...   Sep 1 2010, 08:21 AM
- - Fingerspasm   I think there are different types of guitar player...   Sep 1 2010, 12:29 PM
- - emirb   Interesting topic! I actually play many gigs w...   Sep 1 2010, 03:47 PM
|- - Fingerspasm   QUOTE (emirb @ Sep 1 2010, 09:47 AM) I li...   Sep 1 2010, 03:54 PM
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- - Bear Rose   QUOTE (JamesT @ Sep 1 2010, 01:32 AM) I t...   Sep 1 2010, 06:52 PM
- - OrganisedConfusion   When you start sleeping with the guitar   Sep 1 2010, 07:11 PM
- - Gitarrero   IMO, you are a guitarist when you are able to play...   Sep 2 2010, 05:50 AM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   It's different for everyone. Guitar is just an...   Sep 2 2010, 03:21 PM
- - Azzaboi   MELODY and PASSION is what makes a great guitarist...   Sep 2 2010, 07:54 PM
- - Sollesnes   It took me two years or so before I could think of...   Sep 3 2010, 05:53 PM
- - Vasilije Vukmirovic   I think that when you learn to play regular chords...   Sep 8 2010, 11:54 AM
|- - Mudbone   QUOTE (Vasilije Vukmirovic @ Sep 8 2010, 06...   Sep 8 2010, 02:23 PM
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- - maharzan   Yea it depends on the crowd. If its a group of bes...   Sep 8 2010, 03:40 PM
- - Vasilije Vukmirovic   @Mudbone Yeah. I just wanted to said that guitar s...   Sep 10 2010, 09:03 PM
- - Mr T   When you know you'll never give up playing gui...   Sep 11 2010, 09:57 PM
- - Bogdan Radovic   It doesn't necessarily has to reflect your ski...   Sep 11 2010, 10:58 PM
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