50 UNPOPULAR Guitar Opinions (according to you guys) 

An unpopular (and bad) opinion: “guitar stores are useless - just go online”

Bass is one of the most important parts of a band.

I like the way Telecasters play but think they're ugly

Strapping your guitar very low is just better. Looks badass and you can still play very difficult chords and stretches

Guitarsolos are irrelevant to the non-musician audience

Also, as a music fan, it’s nice to hear the riff instead of a solo crammed into the arrangement, especially when you’re at a show.

that's not really a opinion it's more of a fact

that's not true. There are plenty examples of artists playing their riffs differently live vs. in the studio.

Hot take I fucking hatttte 95 percent of solos. There are a few that I actually look forward to hearing but most of the time I would rather here the riff again or just end the song before it. I defiantly gravitate to songs with no solos, or very short ones that are over before I can be bothered by it.

The solo Eric Clapton did on "Old Love" MTV unplugged. That's one of them.

i was wondering why you were such a chill cool guy and then i saw your picture and i know why now

I think that’s true until you take the stage at a paying gig. Then what matters is whether the audience is having a good time

This is the kinda mentality I'm going in with as I'm about to purchase my first guitar and try to self teach myself at 32. Glad to see others who think the same

​@@dealphawolfI highly recommend Rocksmith if you're going the self taught route. It keeps playing fun even through challenging times too.

That's not unpopular lol

A floating one anyway. If it's decked ala van Halen, it won't be a problem.

Just no😭😭😭it’s hell

YOUR A PSYCOPATH

Definitely went thru some growing pains with my Floyd rose too lol

You're a masochist

I like that, do you know how addictive that is?

honestly i should try it. it looks like fun but for some reason i really hate fakes or look alikes. like if i want a les paul it should be a gibson and if its a strat it should be a fender. i dont know why im like this. but i guess i dont have a fender. im more of a gibson fanboy but a telecaster kit would be cool :). im pretty sure this is an unpopular oppinion as well XD im sure there are alot of les paul style guitars that are better than gibsons but it doesnt feel right XD

@@Peron1-MC It’s a weird emotion right? Intellectually I know I shouldn’t care, but I do for some reason. I hate it. Have you ever noticed though if a player amazing like Steve Vai, they can play whatever they want and it’s cool anyway?

i built my current guitar body from scratch

@@Peron1-MC All guitars are just wood with strings on, now enjoy!

I think people are just feeling the extra vibrations and interpreting it as sound.

Does it have to be a Les Paul? Or can he use a knock-off?

Darrell Braun guitar took a guitar and recorded various takes and slowly sawed off parts of the body

This experiment would work best if you used a 1959 L.P.

@@bloemundude You can't. Joe Bonamassa owns all of them now.

True

I agree with that

Squier affinity strat for metal

I think its more the amp and pedals than the guitar

Popular opinion

I love me Schecters ❤️

That's just fact...

Four string drummer sounds cool tho he should've played it off 😅

@@Hevvvyyy 🤣🤣

lmao, good one !

If I was the drummer I'd be more offended that the bassist is offended

A good drummer who isn't a fucking weirdo is a unicorn.

Not to mention Sweet Child O Mine which is literally an exercise for alt picking and string skipping

I feel like making a point of playing stairway in guitar shops. Anyone who would (pretend to) have a problem with that is basically a hipster.

I went to college for music and then life happened for 21 years. I've used both of those songs to learn several different styles for those exact reasons. I have I only focused on listening to music with my kids and showing them my party trick of "learning a song in 10 seconds" it's been absolutely amazing for re-developing my improv skills. Im remembering scales scales I forgot for decades and my playing is so much smoother than it ever was before. I'm just happy to be playing again to be honest.

Well I think we all lost the plot in terms of why this riffs are "annoying" in the first place. They kick so much ass and so many people agreed that they kick ass and wanted to play them, to the point where sooo many people loved these chords that it became annoying because EVERYONE already knew and loved them. that means they most have been some pretty fucking tasty riffs you were making.

agreed

I don’t know man, I know a lot of drummers

@RU-vidr well, most good guitar players are able to play the bass as well and vice versa. So I think theyre both as replaceable after this the drums and then the singer

Actually idk if its bass players or drummers or maybe singers

As a guitar player, I agree 110%

@@therealtartigrade5916you might know a lot of drummers but really great drummers are hard to come by because they get snatched up for all sorts of projects. I’m talking about the sort of players that end up on zildian live or vf jams

Correct fine player have a look at ulco bed as well

@Chuck Wood Carolina HC ecstasy is some of my favorite Frank guitar work ...The whole album is amazing

Frank Zappa was a better politician than songwriter.

@@madamkirk Hes not for everybody

@@gilwood7530 All good. I definitely enjoy his work ☺️

I was elated to see that comment featured, because I very much agree with that person about Corgan being an underrated guitarist - and then, yeah, Tyler butchered the name for that song and I physically felt pain.

ha, I didn't even catch that.

@@autumnvolume4181 Billy Corgan says "Billy Corgan is an underrated guitarist."

I know, triggered my nostalgia arthritis....

That reminds me, I mustn't forget to by Billy Corgan Tone Paint.

Might actually give them a listen

Just two? Smh

I think this goes for any hobby honestly, especially popular hobbies like guitar

That's not an unpopular opinion, that's just a fact. And it is indeed annoying.

I guess you haven’t met many classical Piano players…

@@dirgmario I only know a handful of classically trained pianists. While some of them are definitely snobby, from what I've seen it's mainly towards other classical pianists who don't have proper technique or timing or whatever it is they're looking at. This is definitely anecdotal, but I don't see them go out of their way to crap on players outside their genre. I never hear them say "Billy Joel is a trash pianist, pop music sucks!" the way I hear some guitarists hate on others outside their genre. I've seen people say John Mayer is outright bad, Hendrix is overrated, Joe Pass just makes noise, etc. It's like so many people can't understand that others want to make their own music that suits their own tastes, and rather than just not listening to it they feel compelled to tell them they suck

Yes - guitar players are competitive idiots who are making up for their inability to play sports - and very jealous of each other. Also - "audiophiles" are stupid and they listen to their equipment instead of enjoying music - and many likely have hearing damage and not even aware of what they can't hear anymore.

Very well said!! 👍👍

Absolutely. 👍👍👍

This.

I agree with you here. I tend to find simple music more enjoyable anyway. Prime example is yesterday by the Beatles. Such a simple song musically, rhythmically, and lyrically but man is it a great song. On the other hand while "Through the fire and flame" is certainly impressive from a technical standpoint, I cant really say I particularly enjoy it.

This is what I have said about art all my life, particular to abstract painting, but also about musicians. As he said, no one did The Edge's sound before he did. I didn't do it. You didn't do it. Have some respect for the people who create sounds (or art) that is new and innovative. I know I do, no matter the genre.

I Remember my first time picking up a strat as a bass player i thought it was a toy lol. The weight difference was huge

guess what

@@robertsmith4433 I'm afraid I can't.

I stand with you on this one. He's incredibly creative...

Great musician and creative; not the best guitarist out there.

I just recently started learning guitar about a month ago and this comment gives me hope lmao. What excatly do you mean? Seems like Hendrix and EVH have set the bar high

yeah, that would be possible if guitar centred music was mainstream

True! Just look at ichika nito!

If you ask me, I think you just pointed very interesting thing - the height of a bar. Is there really a bar on certain height? Isn`t it just that Hendrix pushed guitar in a new spot, and Eddie did exactly same thing, just different area? Come on, Page used even violin bow on his guitar. Did it go anywhere high? I don`t think so, but after all it`s all about trying things that no one has ever tried and seeing if it works. For example let`s take a look at playing techniques. We got tapping, we got the pick, and fingerstyle, probably way more if you get more precise. But is it really all? Sound is vibration. Guitar is as simple instrument as it gets in therms of physics - vibrating strings that send vibrations to the air. Possibilities are limitless. Maybe you`ll find this comment inspiring, maybe naive and dumb, maybe a little bit of both. This is just my point of view and it serves only one real point - to give me hope, and it does it well. Have a great day and may your strings always remain fresh.

​@@kuba6344 Recent exemple is tosin abasi with his thumping technique, or selective picking (sorry for my bad english)

For me, the right equipment and tone is integral to the kind of music I'm writing. Certain things are simply impossible to play unless I have a six string fretless bass. Certain sounds I would have never discovered if not for a loop pedal and effects. I've heard great music ruined by shitty equipment or poor tone.

@@alecrisser12 I understand what you mean. But, I also listen to a lot of music that many people would consider lo-fi or just plain bad production. 😂 Joy Division, early Swans. Old Elliot Smith stuff. It’s more about the atmosphere and songs than a pristine sound.

@Mr Nobody Never thought his tone was much removed from a good Fender tone. And a Neve is not gonna add anything that you'll hear in the mix.

@Mr Nobody "Usually know" Approaching 50% maybe? lol.

@Mr Nobody Lol. There are many things you can do in recording that affect tone more. How do you know a certain sound is not the compressors or limiters? Who knows what was used?

Yup me too. Can admire the shredders for their skills but it leaves me dead emotionally :)

@@martin-1965 Both of these comments resonate with me. Gilmour's playing is beautiful and emotional to the point of being me to tears. (There, I said it!)

That sounds like a popular guitar opinion.

Listen to Brothers and then tell me Yngwies music won't touch you

I actually enjoy yngwies vibrato and bends more than gilmores lol

This opinion is a gift from God

Fat agree

MCR is what got me back into guitar :D

PREACH!!!

uh sure, red things are faster so green things must be louder....

Some songs wouldn’t be written if they were played in an acoustic first.

Re: "Green guitars are louder": Coors Light (the silver bullet) has, for pretty well its entire existence, based most of its advertising around it being the coldest beer.

I totally agree. My jaw drops every time I watch a video of him performing live

I agree, I have a 50 year old junker acoustic with old strings and its the best sounding acoustic I've ever played. Too bad the frets look like someone sat on them though. When I get enough money I'll refret it.

I did the same for my mates little one, but open C. She loved that. Perfect for beginners as they can just strum open, or use a finger or two up and down the fretboard and find what sounds good to them.

If you’ve never listened to Frozen Love by Buckingham Nicks (pre Fleetwood) do yourself a favor and give it a listen. So much tasteful playing.

Definitely! He never gets onto any "greatest guitarists" lists, but his playing is incredible!

I dont like the band or the songs but yeah he is really good

That’s the same reason why I play an SG haha

@@Seanph25 I really dislike playing SGs only because they're so incredibly light. You can probably guess what guitar i prefer

@@MrPonthus yeah I probably can haha, weight was never really a problem for me, I just really liked the upper fret access on the SG, and the neck position being a little further to the left was similar to my acoustic at the time.

I just switched from Fender strat to Les Paul. My only regret is that I wish I would have done it sooner

yeah, Strats are odd to play with the low bridge, mid pickup in the way, volume knob in the way and trashy sounding low E.

Unpopular opinion: Tyler is a poser.

Tyler the creator?

Tyler the creator?

I keep old rounds on my p bass. TI flats on my fretless jazz bass. Fresh rounds on my stingray. Different tones for different basses for different styles.

Eb or D standard is not an alternate tuning, its just a bit lower than standard

I recently learned the reason guitars are tuned to E standard is due to the circle of fifths BEADGFC (Adjusted to EADGBE to make chords easier and the low B requires an extra string).

Same here. With unlimited amount of tabs available, I played for several years before learning some theory (still have never taken a lesson), and it's amazing how the fret board becomes so much easier to understand after knowing just a little theory. That also helped in breaking down the fret board into shapes where you know which notes should and shouldn't be played. I remember hearing guitarists always talking about visualizing the fret board in shapes and never understood what they hell they were talking about, haha.

@@travis9368 The CAGED theory saved me. I really began to understand the interconnecting fretboard with that.

E flat standard and D standard are not alternate tunings, hence the name D "standard". The standard refers to the intervals between each string. So it doesn't matter if your tuned E-A-D-G-B-E or D--G-C-F-A-D. Your still tuning in standard intervals.

same because I started with a yamaha pacifica

I don't care for the strat knob placement but i do agree with the middle pickup getting in the way with picking, not finger picking but picking with a pick. I lowered my middle pickup all the way because of it.

same. I guess I never worked on picking technique bc I always just let my pinky flop around lol. It never occurred to me to tuck that mf so it's always grazing the vol knobs

@@Healcraft Exactly - and where they put the jack for the cord is BS too.

I agree. My solution for my cheap squier strat was to modify the pickguard and convert my volume knob into a roller knob like the ones on a jazzmaster or jaguar rhythm circuit. That way the volume is in the same place without getting in the way. Works great for me. It would only be a downside for people who like to use the volume knob for swells.

Especially if you use a floating bridge.

Correct

Who?

Guitarist from At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta

I’ll second that! I never liked poison, but always admired the sound and structure of his playing

I just saw Poison on the Stadium Tour a few weeks back, they fucking rocked and I’m a huge Poison fan now.

CC is excellent in both the riff and solo department and deserves more credit than he receives

He could write, he could play, but holy cannoli his tone was the nadir of hair metal.

CC was almost as sloppy a player as I am. He gets the appropriate amount of credit.

Yep i don't have a bass finger, amid finger, or a treble finger. Tone is a frequency. Technique is a style.

i’m glad you said you can have a tone similar to him. what people forget is that though tone is “in the fingers”, the fingers of the artist you may be trying to emulate weren’t just created out of thin air. many of our favorite guitarists spent countless hours practicing/playing along to their favorites. if you study and enjoy the same influences, you can sound very similar. it’s just easy for people to get discouraged with lack of practice and say “oh well, tone is in the fingers, ill never be like SRV”

I always understood "tone is in the fingers" to mean that it is your fingers' interaction with the guitar that makes tone. More specifically, I didnt think they meant the phrase to be about the physical makeup of the finger, but the application of the finger to the guitar. Am I the only one?

@@stevescuba1978 i think many people have now rebranded the statement to mean “you dont have _____’s fingers, so you will never sound like them”. I don’t believe this to be true, although there isnt much point in playing exactly like someone unless you are starting a tribute band. some people take things too literally

@@tanneryordan I agree. Also, different picks change the tone, so different fingertips should too, I guess.

I agree with you, I tried out a Schecter V-type guitar and I loved it. Had a Floyd Rose on it along with some weird-but-cool-looking case hardened pickups. The best thing about that? It’s $350, and it’s not far from where I live.

Looks killer too!! Personally I have never had trouble with my epi 2020 explorer in terms of tuning tho..

When I bought my PRS, there was Santana's, Orianthi's and Mark Tremonti's available for almost the same price of their entry guitar and they are all clearly better too! The body of my Orianthi's is amazing, and 2 different pickups really helps!

She has a very good taste, all of her guitars are killers!!

I played an Explorerbird recently and it was such a killer guitar. *Amazing* tone for rock stuff, and Firebird headstocks > Explorer headstocks. If you're in the market for a super high quality guitar for rock/metal, you like the thinner 60's-style Gibson necks, you don't need a trem, and cost isn't a huge concern, the Explorerbird is damn near unbeatable right now.

I bought one yesterday! It’s sickkkk

I have one too! Haven’t used it in a while, but if you are someone who just wants to jam with a heavy chunky sound and don’t want to spend a lot of money, then why not? If you are a serious musician and you play gigs then you probably are willing to spend the money to get a specific tone, but if you’re just having fun then it gets the job done.

One of the most sold pedals ever

I love my Metal Zone and I don't care who knows it!

@@pastorofmuppets1968 will always be my favorite pedal

Fax. Tonewood on guitar doesn't make much of a difference. I think it makes more of a difference on bass.

@@abowla7187 tonewood only affects Acoustics.

The video about scale length definitely opened my eyes

Best guitar video on the internet, hands down.

My 2 cents, tone wood only affects acoustic guitars. Strings, pick ups and speakers are the important part of guitar tone. I'll even maybe go along with bridge construction and maybe tuners because they interact with strings. Everything else is malarkey. Now get off my lawn.

I'll say the three biggest parts of tone are the speakers, the tuning of the strings and the pickups. I don't hear a difference with the string construction themselves so long as they're of some sort of metal so they actually get picked up

I think you really hit upon it.. I mentioned in a comment above, how there's this guy who basically takes a guitar down to basically nothing but strings and a pickup under the strings, and every other part of the guitar is eliminated eliminated so it is literally just the strings and the pick up , and sounds beautiful. Obviously when it's an electric you need a decent amplifier, but the tone in the guitar comes from strings and a pickup. There might be other things that contribute to this, but overall they are not required. Of course obviously without a guitar you cannot play the guitar but but this experiment showed that all it is is strings and this is the strings and decent pickup.

You can't hear microtones because you've damaged your hearing by playing without earplugs, and you're from America, so you think that your opinion is the unnegotiable reality.

@@diegowilson9711 so, you listened to a video that was compressed to be put on RU-vid through phone or computer speakers and can't hear minuscule tonal differences in the recording? That's crazy. It's almost as if sonic frequencies are scientific properties that can be drastically altered by a number of other factors. For the last time, PHYSICS EXISTS WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND IT OR NOT!

If picks make a difference, fretboards make a difference

I've changed pickups trying to make a guitar better and it did nothing to help the basic tone. Had to sell it... Also, that means that every guitar with a certain pickup would sound the same....

Message on Telegram to claim your prize!!.

OP the guy above is a scammer

@@Vivi_9 Yep I know thanks!

You can't chug on a neck pickup.

I use middle and 4th position for goth it just Feels Right to me

I play mostly cleanish rhythm, and I prefer the neck pickup too.

there is some really early footage of them playing where he is busting out a solo. Nothing amazing, but he knows his way around a scale. People act like he's rubbish, but some things he does aren't as easy as they look. I can solo all day but precise single note rhythm picking I sometimes mess up.

@@dylanadams1455 Yep. Like accurately playing the intro to "Wire" (your hand playing a triplet with a non existent 1, against a dotted 8th delay at 140 bpm)

Lol Yes they are

🤣

@@Burnt_Gerbil My Les Paul has his signature on it though lol and I guess technically Fander is a signature series too then lol

@@righty-o3585 - If you had Slash’s signature on it, now it’s a signature guitar.

@@Burnt_Gerbil Sure it's a signature model. It's has Les Paul's name on it. Just like the Nick Lucas flat top, or the Roy Smeck model Harmonys.

They are literally the first name I think of when I think about a 7 string

Yeah. I just bought one a couple months ago. Normally went for like 1,100 and i got it for 700 in almost mint condition lol.

i have two Schecters a Diamond series C-1 Platinum 6 and a Reaper 7 both have been my favorite guitars ever

@@Ferrox_ I have a Banshee 7 FR-S I bought for about 1100 and a C-7 SLS Elite I bought for about 900. Both great guitars, and great fun. Couldn't recommend either of them enough. The C-7 thin C neck is the best neck I've ever played on a 7 string.

Schecters are the shit

He's out of line, but he's right!

Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads must have been playing backwards.

😂🤣 love how you threw in Cobain and Bieber

I actually love schecters lol.

Mine is great!

My 7 string schecter is so good I probably will never change it lol

@@lebarak69 I got my first schecter a diamond series omen 6 in 2004 and still have it. I put a Duncan invader in it in like 06 and it's still my favorite lol

Schecters are beautiful. I really want one, but I don't have the money :(

Are you trying to fuck your guitar my guy?

@@TheOnlyHollywood1 Maybe.

Definitely maybe for sure no doubt. Especially w/ a beautiful hot naked monogram of a woman or 2 on front 🔥 🔥 🔥 Long as that beautiful comfortable sexy piece of soulful art stays in tune.

i believe this to be true for almost all tremolo systems. most if not all of them aren’t made for dummies. they take proper setup and maintenance to be useful, on any budget.

Like he said, that's bad technique.

I LOVE the strat layout. As I'm playing, my pinky has access to the volume knob, for level changes for verses and leads and such. I wish all my guitars had that layout. To each, their own, eh ?

Telecaster has entered the chat

@@RockChalk263 He demonstrated a weird picking hand position in the video. If you're strumming, your hand is moving, and depending on the angle at which the guitar is hanging on you, it's easy to knock the selector switch off the neck pickup setting, especially if you've got large hands.

Yeah, compared to LPs, Strats are more weird to play. They also have really weird overtones on the low strings using distortion until they the newness is really bashed out of them

This is an absolute fact which this guy for some reason refuses to accept

Yeah there's literally no reason to not go for lighter woods and overall spec in to playability over "tone". Construction and hardware might have slight tonal differences (but do make a difference in sustain) so go for what you need and what feels good. Pickups are the thing you should be worrying about when it comes to tone, and even then you can get away with EQ'ing to have two different pickups to sound almost the same.

You've damaged your hearing by playing without earplugs and YOU can't hear the difference as a result. Science is not optional or opinion based. The laws of physics are true whether you agree with it or not.

@@Blackdiamondprod. That is such a ridiculous bs statement

@@Blackdiamondprod. Lol, you just made one of the most absurd assumptions I've ever heard. I always have earplugs in. But, let me ask you two things. First of all, did I say it makes "no tonal difference"? Secondly, tell me what electric guitars you have that have the exact same everything, with the only difference being wood. Plus, let's just point out that if you have earplugs in, you probably won't be able to hear small differences in tone (depends on your earplugs), especially at loud volumes. And, if I were to play a guitar, through an amp and cab (keep in that a majority of guitarists use at least some distortion), and even better if we add pedals, you could not tell me what the wood on that guitar is. You could only have a lucky guess based on the ones generally used. So relax with the hostile attitude smart guy

learn2bar m8

100% agreed poontang boomerang gets my mornings going

True. Playing hair metal riffs (and solos) ain't easy.

He was in Rob Halford's band Fight and absolutely ripped.

It might make them sound a little better but they won't sound like new strings. All you're doing is basically cleaning the dirt, oil, and dead skin from your hands off them.

And loves his Strats

I dont think that anyone Switches tunings often on a FR. That is just pure Torture :DD

@@ACowIsHuge yeah. I ain't trying to do all that. I'll just buy another guitar, thanks.

I think all Ernie Ball music man guitars are The Best of the Best