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[maxwelldewitte]

Curious:
Whenever you tell someone you play the guitar, they always go on 'Can you play a song for me?'
What do you play them?

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This post has been edited by maxwelldewitte: Dec 29 2007, 06:02 PM

[Chris Evans]

Arrgh! yea dont you just hate it when people do that to ya! Especially when they dont really know you and they find out you play the guitar and they go "ooh I got a guitar, I`ll go get it and you can play something for us" they appear with the oldest, nastiest, kids (i mean lil kids) sized acoustic guitar, the strings are a 1000 years old and a mile off the fretboard, they give it to you, sit down and say "go on then, play us a song!"

I usually just strum a bit of Bryan adams or Bon Jovi in that case thats after I`ve spent a while tuning the thing coz its never been in tune in its life!

But if they are at my house and its all my stuff then I`ll whack a backing track on of some description and play along with that, anything really, Joe satch etc nothing that I`ve got labelled to play to other people when they ask

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This post has been edited by Smells: Dec 29 2007, 11:30 PM

[mattacuk]

Arrgh! yea dont you just hate it when people do that to ya! Especially when they dont really know you and they find out you play the guitar and they go "ooh I got a guitar, I`ll go get it and you can play something for us" they appear with the oldest, nastiest, kids (i mean lil kids) sized acoustic guitar, the strings are a 1000 years old and a mile off the fretboard, they give it to you, sit down and say "go on then, play us a song!"

I usually just strum a bit of Bryan adams or Bon Jovi in that case thats after I`ve spent a while tuning the thing coz its never been in tune in its life!

But if they are at my house and its all my stuff then I`ll whack a backing track on of some description and play along with that, anything really, Joe satch etc nothing that I`ve got labelled to play to other people when they ask

Oh wow, everything here holds true for me also. Recently this girl came home from travelling the world, shes never in the UK for more than a couple months. She asked how my guitar practice was going, and I said yeah its going really well and that id progressed alot since we last spoke.

She asked me what songs I can play now, I said that I dont play other peoples songs and that I concentrate on learning guitar the correct way through learning techniques, theory and such and useing exercises.

She replied "oh, well I would have thought you could have played something bye now" And that she prefers the sound of an acoustic guitar because you can play it at partys I felt really quite insulted actually, considering the amount of time and effort I have put into my studies. Of course I didnt bother argueing. I did try to explain that the tehnical level of any of her Pop songs would take me about five minutes to pick up, and that I needed something substancial to practice daily.

Also this is the same girl who when I showed her paul gilbert she said "oh thats rubbish all he can do is play really fast " and that she wanted to hear some teenage boy band.

So in summary, in future if people ask me if i play guitar I say no

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