I feel myself get shaky before the snap. when I first started playing bass, my buddy was letting me use his old beater 5 string. I didnt think that maybe he had had it in a humid basement untouched for 5 years and that the moment I went to tune the D string that it would snap and I would spray blood all over the pickups. It split the meat on my right hand pretty deep, took 17 stitches to patch.
Play the Layla riff, but mess every single bend. Also, make sure to bar the 10th fret of both B and High E with your index finger, during the hammer-ons and pull-offs. Last, but not least, don't mute any string!
Oh, God, you hit the nail right on the head. I don't work at Guitar Center, but, no offense to Eric Clapton or Derek And The Dominoes, but I HATE LAYLA! That's gotta be the MOST OVERRATED FUCKIN' SONG IN ROCK FUCKIN' HISTORY! No, seriously, you're right about this stuff.
Yeah I am not a big fan of Layla either. The only good part about the song is really the outro piano part and a lot of that is because of the movie "Goodfellas".
Layla is actually a good song, to be quite honest. It's just overrated, considering that Clapton has made *a lot* of better songs, but people think that Layla represents Eric Clapton at his best. Layla is a good song, but it's not even close to Eric's bests!
nychold I also would suggest to play the whole thing one fret below, but please no, so many people do that in videos, it makes me feel the need to kill babies (b4 someone smart from you starts calling 911, I'd like to let you know that it's a quote from an inspiring "vocalist" looking like the guy on Ratatouille - *end of hint* :) ).
I swear im psychic when it read play the guitar out of tune i thought of under the bridge because thats the song i play to check tuning and it sounds horrible out of tune
Not anymore after this comment of you bowing down to some, stuck up scrub avg vitali, or prank invasion level youtuber, and after you attribute all your legendary to this person like you never were something to begin with. I'd suggest delete ur own comment while u can
Here's another one. Go in and go to the desk and ask if they have a guitar that makes this sound, make a wash like sound but do it like an idiot that's never played guitar. Then after they proceed to go grab a Floyd setup guitar and keep trying to do dimebag harmonics without hitting where the harmonic actually is.
Use a coin as a pick Try to recnonnect amplifiers to dirrerent cabinets Play christmas songs off-season Sing along with your playing Count yourself in loudly Wear a jacket or/and belt with lots of rivets and ask to test expensive guitars Headbanging and violet dancing to others playing Test accoustig guitars by just knocking rhythms on the body
ULTRAMAXAMPAXAM well it's supposed to be played with fingers instead of a pick so it has a more subtle tone, and if you play something that easy in guitar center you'll just look like a joke lol
Sit in the shop for around an hour or so and come out without buying anything. ask them to show you all sorts of instruments and then just exit after an hour- play guitars randomly.
None of this will get you kicked out. However, piquing the interest of a hot bass player chick employee by laying down some slick slap funk lines will get the dude who has a crush on her to come over and give you a hard time for playing too loud and will "suggest" you buy something or leave. Tried and true at the Seattle Guitar Center.
Here's what you can do. Act like you're trying to play a riff that you can't, and in frustration, rapidly strum all the open strings, tap like a madman, etc.
- continuously check if the guitar has the neck straight [pretend you are going to play and recheck again] - play a single note on the thinner E string with a lot of emotion over and over again [do string bends A LOT] - Play "oops I did it again" - play the same chord and keep changing the pickups -.step on the jack till it comes out of the guitar several times - ask for a dirt box [Metal Zone preferably] and play "Jeux interdits" - ask for a guitar and a bass and keep switching them on the same amp - ask for the heaviest amp and play slow country music . tell them the guitar is a counterfeit - ask a guitar with the heaviest Bass strings gauge available - Pick a Baritone and keep tuning it to standard E
My favorite (for us bassists) is grabbing a expensive bass in stock and plugging it into the biggest amp in the store, turn up the bass tone all the way along with the volume and start pounding quarter notes onto the low-E string. I saw this guy do this at the GC in Hallandale Florida and almost shit myself laughing. This poor guy could not get any help so he grabbed a Thunderbird off the wall and decided to play the intro to "Runnin' With The Devil" through a Ampeg SVT at full volume. Everything on the walls were shaking, this went on for a good minute until one of the employees quit talking to his bro and unplugged the amp. That guy deserves a medal.
That last one killed them all. I with this Comment edition GOES ON and ON and ON and ON and ON!!! Play "For the love of GOD", the first 4 notes, and repeat the 4th note 3 times, and repeat. :)) and pretend you're so fucking awesome like you're the one who made it(the song)
Sort of a universal thing to do with any incompetent sales sales person is just to stare at them looking annoyed. Start to explain something to them and after three words just say, "You know what? Never mind I'm fine here. Why don't you go dust or something?" or, "Are you sure you really work here?"
1. Ask a salesman for one of the guitars on the wall (that is over $1K). These are reserved for teenagers walking in with mom and dad and a blank check. 2. Demand a pick that doesn't suck from the salesman. It is like charging for condiments at a restaurant. Even a Jazz III costs them less than 40 cents. 3. Repeatedly plug a guitar into a tube amp that not on standby. The science behind this is inconsistent. Needless to say, I have never actually seen a tube/speaker/transformer blow from doing this. 4. Let the salesman know that you are, "just looking", but ask for help as well. Help is only something you get when they see $$$ in return. God forbid they build a rapport with very potential future customer. Instead they discourage anyone from ever going back. 5. THE most important one. Try to turn a high wattage tube amp (like a triple rect) past the pre-amp stage for over 10 seconds so you can ACTUALLY HEAR ITS REAL SONIC CHARACTERISTICS. Yeah that $3-8K boutique class A tube amp there that you are on the fence about. You want to hear it at stage volume before purchasing? Forget about it. Guitar Center is where clueless noobs go to buy their first guitar. Getting kicked out is actually commendable in my book.
Do what CSGuitars says NOT to do - Clean channel - Cheap drive pedal - All the gain, All the gain - Metal Zone - No mids - More gain - SLAYERRRR! - ALL THE GAIN!!!!
other fun ways to fuck with a music shop... 1: go to every amp casually looking at it, and turn all the knobs on every single one to max 2: pick up every single guitar on the wall and play for 5 seconds, then put it back and sigh very heavily 3: ask to sound check every effect pedal you can, then leave without buying a thing 4: play acoustics with metal songs, and go super heavy on pick slides 5: re-tune every guitar you pick up to drop D, but change the high E string to D as well 6: walk around and look at amps, and turn on every one you can, all without instruments plugged in, then walk away 7: grab a tab book and a guitar and sit and pretend you're learning a new song 8: ask to try out different microphones and sing offkey at the end of each lyric, and then blame the mic for sounding bad 9: sample every guitar pick type they have, then leave without buying a thing
Love the video. I don't even go to guitar center unless it is the last resort to find something. I will literally visit every other shop in town and Craigslist before I go to guitar center. Nothing but clones there.
