I find hearing exceptional players is inspiring and motivating not discouraging. That’s simply a matter of your character and mindset and is largely under your control.
I find it's always best to check out guys that ride that line of melodic vs technical, fall too hard into the prior and you hear guys say, it's too radio rock or its too sappy, or for people's girlfriends, like some Wonderwall or safari song or something, ride too hard on the technical side, your yngwie, your dragonforce, your rings of Saturn type guys, its overwhelming, it's daunting, and you hear guys say, well that's never gonna happen why bother, And then you got your middle ground, satch type of guys, where it's exciting and enthralling, but also encouraging to try to push it to the next level, and work out some new chops and phrasing and new progression ideas, and not just, oh I don't wanna play chords all day, or I'll never be able to get these intricate swept arpeggios all over the neck Satch is always a big go to for me, the extremist is a great combo of inspiring melodies and awe inspiring technical lines, that just make you wanna go, I should be practicing right now, in stead of, oh man this is boring, or oh wow this is daunting
Agreed. Slash plays these insane solos that have inspired countless guitarists. Tom DeLonge writes cheeky songs made for teenagers. But they both inspire, because the melodies catch peoples' ears and they seem achievable.@@CaeridLock.
@@becksvlogs9057 the problem is that on the internet, where more and more people spend much of their time nowadays, the bar has been raised so high that anyone less proficient than Satriani is looked down upon.
When I went to NAMM years ago, the good ole Ernie Ball exhibit (which was beautifully PIRATE THEMED, arrrrrrr;) gave away free strings! I loaded up on the orange “light top, heavy bottoms”- It was magical.
Not in a cost effective manner. They way it works is there are a ton of LEDs that change the colors. I think it was originally done on a car as proof of concept. Would probably cost a couple thousand dollars, if not more, to retrofit the tech to an already painted guitar.
You know, I think you're touching on some real points and being conversational with the guitar players is a really good idea. If I can put my two cents in here, what I really hate about guitar is commercialism. I hate selling guitars, I hate having to listen to 75 people sell me their guitars, I hate guitar manufacturers showing me great guitar players to show me how great those particular guitars can play. I will be as honest as I can about you. If I lived somewhere and in that town there was an instrument builder, I would go to them and I would work with them to build an instrument that was what I wanted. This factory stuff is all well and good but it's factory and I'm not really convinced that factories are very good for human beings at all.
They make up the majority because that's what all those people like. Including me. I wish they weren't so popular and only special ones existed.. but it's okay because 80% of those are cheaper and less special ones. Mine aren't "expensive" ones (like the high end ones) but they aren't cheap, and they are amazing guitars.
@@craigwillms61 I’m not saying they’re bad, I just think the market is kinda over saturated with them. I walk into guitar center and literally half the guitars on the wall are strats. Don’t get me wrong though I like strats I have one
@@somemoron2502 Just yanking your chain. Mine are all older than dirt and I've had them for decades, I quit buying guitars a long, long time ago. I'm just glad young people still want to play guitar. You hardly hear much guitar in popular music these days.
I hate nothing about the guitar……. And people better than me are an inspiration and motivation! I love the instrument…… has always had my back….. been there through thick and thin! Love!
Love Yr. "take" on The Show: Not Merch'd-Out, Not Long-Winded...and NO (otherwise common) "RU-vid Posing"!! Guitars are TOTAL "Truth Machines"...for better or worse (depending, of course, on the Player's Mood @ any given time)! I ALSO am not discouraged by Great Players; but I think this comes with possessing a continually increasing skill level...where one can actually comprehend and then properly work on emulating said Players!
If you ask me what I hate about guitar I have to say 'my playing'. I had a stroke years ago and lost the left side of my body. I've re-learned to walk and stuff but I'll never be good as I was on the guitar and try as I might I can't progress anymore.
Im gonna be honest, I like the content of this channel but sometimes I hate watching videos that feel like a big promo/sponsored video that includes a little of what says in the title.
Firstly Im so gutted I missed Tyler at The NAMM Show! Hopefully next year! What I hate about the Guitar: I can't seem to get any better. What I love about the Guitar: It sounds so Good.
I hate that every time I buy a new guitar, and convince myself (and my wife) that it's the last one, I discover ANOTHER tuning that I need to have a guitar left tuned to. Science.
Time. Time is what I hate about guitar, and I guess all of making music. You can perfect everything else without having good timing and you can be so close but it still sounds no bueno. It seems so mundane yet it's so important ...all of the great players seem to do it so effortlessly, and keeping it well is a god tier skill that sets the good players apart from the great.
Nice riff after 6:10. I hate not being able to figure out the guitar myths and cutting through sales rhetoric to know for sure what aspects of guitar and kit are best for optimal tone.
What I hate most about the guitar is that it can be very generic and boring. Bass is fun to groove, drums make you want to move, organ is so soulful that it turns a night club into a church, and saxophone is so raunchy you'll need to go to church to clean up. Cello is extremely expressive, piano is super versatile, oboe can break your heart, and trumpet can make you feel unbreakable. Guitar is just a guitar. But what I love most about guitar is the rich tone of a screaming overdrive played with some spicy seasoning smoldering the pick. The guitar is just a guitar, but man, -it's a guitar.
What I hate about the guitar is a 1972 cream colored hardtail Fender Strat with a maple neck, black pickguard, black pickup covers, and the big head stock.. a band I was in back in the late 80s the other guitar player had the Strat and I had a Gibson custom less Paul and we would switch guitars sometimes during rehearsal. We ended up trading guitars and I felt like I had a spiritual connection to that Strat after playing it for many years. I know that sounds weird but IDK how else to explain it. I know who stole it and I know who he sold it to and they are as tight lipped about it as an Aldebaran shell mouth! lol after all it's been over 25 years ago but the OCD in me won't let it go...
People who hate guitar can't separate the "rocker" aesthetic from the instrument. There's a TED talk done by a guitar hating DJ where he perfectly describes this concept.
Au contraire...they don't hate the guitar they love the guitar. They hate the time it takes learning to play it well otherwise they wouldn't play it at all!
I hate playing guitar because when the pick hits the first note, the first chord or the first muted power chord I know the rest of my day is pretty much over. I don't answer calls or texts unless it's an emergency. The only text that will get answered is when my drummer bro text says: "Dude, you wanna jam in 30?" My answer: "HELL YEAH! I'M JAMMIN' RIGHT NOW! CYA IN 30 BRO!"
I hate that I have 11 guitars and can go to a guitar store and leave with a new one feeling like I needed it, but have a self imposed rule if I get a new guitar it has to be different than what I have in a way I can explain to myself that I need it, and could continue to do this over and over.
I hate how I'm stuck playing a 99$ Washburn through a Fishman PA with a Behringer 'Vintage Tube Overdrive' pedal to approximate the sound of an actual guitar amplifier because I can't justify the expense of a new amp to myself. I hate seeing people with tons of high-end equipment they don't even use, to service a Fender Telecaster that got from their dad that they don't even play or practice. There is nothing more soul-crushing as a guitarist than being too poor to play guitar. Becoming hyper-paranoid about EVERY purchasing decision because if you get fucked over or don't get the right equipment you will have wasted money it took you ages to accumilate. I hate the guilt of buying anything new, feeling that your happiness wasn't a good enough reason to justify the purchase. Guitar is such a hyper-materialistic little hobby. I hate when people talk about 300 - 400 dollar amps and it being okay to choose a poor fit for you because ultimately 400 dollars isn't a lot of money, when 400 dollars is a rare sum to be able to spend on guitar shit all at once. I find that playing guitar as a hobby or a method of personal enrichment is much more purchase-driven than anything else, even music. I think that's why people often base their identities on what they buy when it comes to guitar. Advocacy for or against a guitar company, a singular model of guitar, or unsolicited proselytizing on behalf of an effects pedal that's more a cult than a consumer base. When you cannot purchase, you cannot have an "earned" identity within this community - you can parrot other peoples' talking points but you cannot speak from experience. I've been playing music for over 15 years and have only ever owned two electric guitars, as long as one of them still works then I'm in business but I've given up ever having a vision for how I'd like to sound.
I've been around long enough to know it's not all about gear. Yeah, tons of people will just talk about gear all day, and I've fallen into that trap myself, and a lot of guitar media is meant to sell you gear frankly (not shading Tyler with that remark). Once I had disposable income, I got all kinds of gear (mostly used) and started selling it off six months later because I realized I didn't need it and wasn't using it enough to justify keeping it. I just kept going back to a basic amp, basic pedal board, and my mid-grade guitar with good pickups. If you're sucking on a blues lawyer guitar, you're still sucking. If you're killing it on a Washburn, you're still killing it. I played for two decades on an Epiphone and a solid state amp I bought for $50 in 1997 from some random guy at a garage sale. It only did one thing well (weird sounding clean tone), but it did it well enough and I made it sound good. I got a dirt box for like $80 and that was me for 20 years. I'm probably a better player now because I only had tone options from my clean tone, distortion pedal, and my guitar's controls. I had to learn chords to create textures, because I couldn't do it with gear, because no money. There's a used Peavey Vypyr on GC website right now for $115, and I know for a fact that I can get at least one good clean sound out of it (used to own one). You don't need to spend $400 to get a working amp. There's probably something cheaper on there somewhere. You could also try a Sansamp-type thing if you're playing gigs through a PA. A lot of those sound better than the real thing now and are cheaper than a conventional guitar rig (that is suitable for gigging). Another good option would be acoustic. I got a brilliant vintage (but not a big name brand, just really old lol) nylon string for just a few hundred bucks about a decade ago and its a great guitar, and with an acoustic, that's a whole practice rig. This is the golden age of playing guitar on the cheap, Fuzzy. Guitar youtube might be materialistic, but music isn't. Don't give up.
Tosin IS an amazing guitar player, but i find him less amazing in improvization on the spot tbh.. i dont mean this at all as a dig to him.. hes a fecking god imo.. but i have noticed this and offer it as a constructive perspective. The best player in the world is probably sone asian 5 yr old jamming in his bedroom, no joke, since internet became a thing weve seen so many bedroom wizard guitar players that are amazing, find them inspiring even though intimidating and enjoy the guitar playing journey i love that i will never ever master it, there is always more to learn and practice... the thing i hste the most is writing n amazing riff and then forgetting it the next jam . :)
“Errrrr! I’m Tosin Abasi, I have cool hair, jacked arms, shredding super powers, my guitars are sick AF, and life is F’n awesome” 😒 Said in a mocking (totally not super jealous) tone of voice.😏
