How come you can't play a guitar welll?

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Posted: 2/12/2017 10:46:43 PM EDT

Playing a guitar seems a lot harder than shooting.

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:48:24 PM EDT

[#1]

Because I'm lazy and don't practice enough.

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:49:37 PM EDT

[#2]

Because I have absolutely zero rhythm. None.

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:50:03 PM EDT

[#3]

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Because I'm lazy and don't practice enough.

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Basically.

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:51:16 PM EDT

[#4]

I don't want to learn how to play the guitar. I just want to wake up one morning knowing how to play the guitar.

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:51:50 PM EDT

[#5]

I've never touched one.

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:52:25 PM EDT

[#6]

I used to play, lost interest

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:55:19 PM EDT

[#7]

Because I don't.........Practice, practice, practice. Muscle memory. Practice. .....as much as I should to achieve a level of playing "well", but I like it

Posted: 2/12/2017 10:57:26 PM EDT

[#8]

Don't put much time into it, can't read sheet music. I know some chords and am happy to strum away knowing I'll never be a guitar god.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:00:02 PM EDT

[#9]

It's all about keeping and maintaining a rhythm much like the drums. Momentum is your friend not your foe.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:03:00 PM EDT

[#10]

Practice. Scales.

Practice. Chords.

Practice.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:07:01 PM EDT

[#11]

I'm pretty sure they just don't make them for right handed musicians

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:07:44 PM EDT

[#12]

Cuz I mangled two of mah finger tips on mah frettin' hand.

Chords are a bitch.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:08:23 PM EDT

[#13]

I can't play a guitar at all.

At near 60 and with arthritis in both hands...yeah, no lessons for me.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:11:37 PM EDT

[#14]

I can't mentally associate musical notes with finger/hand positions. I can play short tunes by memory but I cannot put my fingers in a position and know the sound that'll be produced before I play the note.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:12:39 PM EDT

[#15]

Is this a quote from a movie? Guitar is much easier than shooting.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:13:13 PM EDT

[#16]

I had a hard enough time learning to play the radio.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:15:01 PM EDT

[#17]

I do play pretty well, just not pretty good.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:15:17 PM EDT

[#18]

15 years ago, I wasn't a gun owner, but I was performing locally for $50/hr as a solo act.

Playing 4 or 5 nights a month made me a lot of money that eventually turned into guns.

I've asked my family to kindly kick me in the rear to get out performing again this year. I think I've played maybe out 5 times since 2008.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:15:55 PM EDT

[#19]

Not blessed with long thin fingers, ala vai gilbert.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:17:40 PM EDT

[#20]

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You know how you make a guitar player stop? Put sheet music in front of them.

On the same token-
How do you get the drummer off your doorstep? Pay him for the pizza.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:17:48 PM EDT

[#21]

My left hand is kind of spastic (getting better), so, it's been two years since I've been able to play. Too bad, since I had just put together my best sounding strat clone. Triple minihumbuckers, kingswood fretboard, paduok neck, fret wire specified (forgot the dimensions) schaller hardware, and for this guitar, I chose a standard light weight alder body.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:20:21 PM EDT

[#22]

I have small hands and can't get my fingers everywhere they need to be. Even using my right hand to put each finger in the right place I couldn't do it.

I'll stick to shooting.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:20:39 PM EDT

[#23]

As with anything else, the secret is simply practicing. The more I practiced, the luckier I was at hitting the right notes and chords.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:20:45 PM EDT

[#24]

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15 years ago, I wasn't a gun owner, but I was performing locally for $50/hr as a solo act.

Playing 4 or 5 nights a month made me a lot of money that eventually turned into guns.

I've asked my family to kindly kick me in the rear to get out performing again this year. I think I've played maybe out 5 times since 2008.

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Damn shame to have talent and not use it. I never had much, but wish I did.

Got lots of cool gear though.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:21:57 PM EDT

[#25]

I have absolutely no skill. I started taking lessons in high school. Then I took them again a few years after being out. I kept having this pipe dream that I'd actually learn. It never happened. I should sell the guitars but I like them. Maybe my son will have the skill I never did.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:23:21 PM EDT

[#26]

I can play some Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel tunes but otherwise I suck at any other style. I do like to play classical guitar too.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:23:21 PM EDT

[#27]

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I have absolutely no skill. I started taking lessons in high school. Then I took them again a few years after being out. I kept having this pipe dream that I'd actually learn. It never happened. I should sell the guitars but I like them. Maybe my son will have the skill I never did.

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Yeah, I told myself the same thing and held on to my gear.

So, both my sons became drummers.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:23:24 PM EDT

[#28]

I used to play a lot.

I haven't practiced seriously in about 10 years, maybe more.

I've still got some chops though

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:23:42 PM EDT

[#29]

I've had guitars and beat the hell out of them for more than 40 years and I still suck.

I don't make any serious effort to learn, it's just a way to unwind my brain; strumming a six-string.

In my view, there are two types of guitar players, Mechanics, who learn it as a skill, and devote countless hours practicing and learning,

and Natural Talents, people who just hear the music in their head and instinctively can reproduce it on an instrument, and can hone it by devoting countless hours to practice and learning.

I am neither.

But I have met some natural talents.

One of my 13 yo daughters friends, who is a Nationally rated gymnast, walked over to her piano and played "Frozen" out of her head, a song my daughter was struggling with after 3 years of piano. Tracy had Zero lessons, but she could "Hear" the song, and had worked it out on her key board that she plays around with at home. She's prodigy at everything she tries.

Natural Talent.

I have a close friend who is the same way with almost any musical instrument. Crazy talented.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:23:49 PM EDT

[#30]

Oh, but I do play guitar; very, very well. I practice until I'm bored numb with it. Then I practice some more.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:25:13 PM EDT

[#31]

I can't play the guitar or shoot very well, but I have doing 'em, so the wife will always be annoyed about something...

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:25:52 PM EDT

[#32]

I play better now at 45 than I did at 19 but I'm a slower learner than I was then. When I was a kid I was better at picking up things now I can still do it but it takes me longer. Not physically but the mental part.

As for my skill level.. Im a rhythm guitarist, to me the groove is more important than anything. I can play some leads but for some reason it isn't as interesting.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:25:59 PM EDT

[#33]

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Because I have absolutely zero rhythm. None.

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You're not alone.

Going into the 5th grade mom asked "What instrument do you want to play in band next year?"

"I don't think I'll take band."

"What instrument are you going to play?"

I can say that I have failed at learning to play a trombone, a piano and finally a guitar.

It just ain't in me.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:26:02 PM EDT

[#34]

One of those things I wanted to learn, just never got around to it. I can make some pretty neat screeching noises though

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:31:53 PM EDT

[#35]

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I don't want to learn how to play the guitar. I just want to wake up one morning knowing how to play the guitar.

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Still waiting for that Matrix "I know kung-fu" system.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:32:34 PM EDT

[#36]

One has to be willing, and able to make the investment of time spent practicing.
I'm stuck on chords, and cannot lead for crap. I have gotten better with the things I practice, but it's been painfully slow.
Frustrating at times.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:37:07 PM EDT

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Playing a guitar seems a lot harder than shooting.

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Started learning too late in life, and couldn't develop the willpower to practice enough.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:43:14 PM EDT

[#38]

Arthritis and tendonitis.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:47:45 PM EDT

[#39]

Who says I can't?

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:48:43 PM EDT

[#40]

I'm missing a finger.

Posted: 2/12/2017 11:52:41 PM EDT

[#41]

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I've never touched one.

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Posted: 2/12/2017 11:54:22 PM EDT

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I'm missing a finger.

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Posted: 2/13/2017 12:00:14 AM EDT

[#43]

There are people who can play chords on a guitar, and people who can PLAY a guitar. There is a world of difference between the two. Most people can just play a few chords.

I can't play at all.

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:09:11 AM EDT

[#44]

FPNI and I have fat fingers.

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:10:53 AM EDT

[#45]

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Because I have absolutely zero rhythm. None.

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I got the white boy disease too. And I have noassatall.

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:11:15 AM EDT

[#46]

Talent and practice from my observation.

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:11:48 AM EDT

[#47]

Fingers so clumsy

voice too loud

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:12:36 AM EDT

[#48]

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Is this a quote from a movie? Guitar is much easier than shooting.

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Disagree

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:12:42 AM EDT

[#49]

Huh. I'm good at both.

Posted: 2/13/2017 12:18:00 AM EDT

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Basically.

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I peaked musically At "Mary Had A little Lamb" in 4th grade on a plastic Flutophone. I cant play an Autohaorp.

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