What is it about the guitar that attracts so many posers and soyboys?
Is it because it's portable, allowing """musicians""" to take their instrument to the quad or in front of the cafeteria and strum a couple chords while singing wonderwall?
is it because all you really need to seem like you know what you're doing is a few basic chords?
is it because soyboys gravitate towards genres like folk and indie, where the acoustic guitar is so prevalent?
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because guitar is for cool guys and you know it to be true
yes to all
I mean, yeah the portability probably helps. When was the last time you saw a guy with a drum set on the beach?
Everytime, literally everytime i come across someone in public playing giutar that isn't busking. They're playing fucking wonderwall, i want them to stop its infuriating its the most basic normie shit.
full drum kit not really. fucking bucket drummers though, most irritating shit on the planet
No point asking if you're just going to answer your own question. That said, I'll throw in my two cents:
Guitar is accessible. I started learning about 2 and a half years ago (time has flown) on my sister's old 3/4 size classical and was using it to play all sorts (the thing was a nightmare but built up some good hand strength). Anyway, it's so easy to build up proficiency just from the internet, there's fairy minimal technical help needed to play at least blues and rock etc. and any that is needed can be explained well in videos.
Notes are also very crisp on hollows/ unplugged/ low amp making a great instrument for ear training. The amount of cool sounds I've dipped into has been such a joy, I'll jam some SRV one minute and then folky Fleetwood Mac stuff the next.
Furthermore, guitar has the unique (perhaps except piano) of being a great all-rounder, you can play songs just on the guitar, get some bassier notes in there (youtube.com
I have a video of some guy bucket drumming in berlin wearing a horse mask. Funniest shit I've ever seen. He also had a bunch of pots and pans and random stuff, sounded pretty neat.
I've literally never seen someone 'bust out' a guitar and play wonderwall, this is a boogeyman meme made up by people who never leave the house.
Guitars are everywhere. There's more guitars then human beings
>I've literally never seen someone 'bust out' a guitar and play wonderwall,
that's because you never leave your house and have never gone to a uni campus
Ive literally never seen someone play wonderwall
What's odd about Wonderwall's ubiquity is as a novice guitarist I think it's quite a tricky song (if played accurately). I can't be fucked learning all those chords just for that song but then I'm not an Oasis fan.
Enjoy senpai. I started too learning this month.
because guitar is an instrument present in most mainstream genres of music, it's portable, it's cheap, and it's pretty easy to play
use your fucking brain OP
You can literally learn to play it in 1-2 hours without ever having touched a guitar before.
OP made all those points in his post
No.
Just show them how to play the chords and they're good to go.
I play Wonderwall all the time at parties, jury's still out on whether I do it ironically or not. Either way it kills, lol.
Fuck dudes with acoustic guitars, can we talk about "not like all the other-girls" and their basses?
those aren't difficult shapes, user
It took me at least two months to advance beyond three and four chord songs.
Yikes...
the very first long I learned on the guitar was Iggy Pop-The Passenger, then Space Oddity (I have a david bowie songbook that has sheet music as well as guitar chord fingerings), then just random ass songs I felt like learning.
While I am probably at the same level as the "guitarists" the OP is reffering to, I do not make any claims as to whether or not I play the guitar. I do play the keyboard though.
It's an easy way to get attention, especially from the ladies. It shows confidence and artistic ability (albeit sometimes very shallow).
In short it's the perfect way to trawl for pussy.
because guitar is awesome and attracts awesome people and people that want to be awesome but arent. They might become awesome but not all of them will
easy pleb pussy. club sluts eat this shit up.
>club sluts eat this shit [read: shitty guitar folk that they do not play in the club] up.
Say what you like, I have been playing for six months now and think I have made quite good progress in that time. Maybe other people just persevere with songs well above their level but as a beginner I found it far easier to restrict myself to songs where I am learning only one or two new chords at a time.
I wonder what stupid ass meme phrase you guys will come up with after "soyboy" to fuel your insatiable quest for (You)s.
What a is that?
*app
This one. Wouldn’t recommend it, I upgraded to the “premium” version but it still constantly tries to sell me shit.
Keep lurking /gg/. You can find links to high quality pdf downloads. No need to pay for this shit apps.
>soyboys
Stopped reading right there
why are so many people infuriated by people getting cheap pussy with 4 chords ?
The worst beach musician has to be the melodica player...
>someone strumming chords in the back at very acceptable volume
>chords are repetitive but it's s asoft sound after all
>when suddently
>mothefuker blows entire saliva in 10$ chinese crap that only produces frequencies above 20,000 Hz
>doesnt get the melody right nor the rythm
>you can even hear the spitting coming through
>plz stop
>no
>after 30 painful minutes of trying to improvise on hotel california only with the white keys, he asks everyone for cigarettes.
Maybe I should try to play some shitty pop songs...
I usually play some rock or metal and that got me nowhere, and I have been playing for years.
No chick dig that stuff, only shitty songs like wonderwall.
Well, at least I got some satisfaction while playing something good.
Currently working on Into the Void by Black Sabbath
Currently on a uni campus. If someone tried to play wonderwall, everyone would laugh at him. People are hip to the memes now.
I've heard "estronaut" once already, which I think is pretty funny.
this is true. Normies actually have some self-awareness and a bit more of a sense of humour these days, it's a rare positive. And this is at uni, the home of then pretentious douche...
That is brilliant user
I saw Speedy Ortiz open for Tera Melos on halloween. Speedy Ortiz dressed up as bojack horseman characters, the drummer being Bojack. He was trying way too hard to be funny and it made everyone kinda uncomfortable.
Yeah wonderwall is actually an exit-level beginner's guitar song
Guitar has been represented for decades as the "cool instrument", so that naturally attracted a lot of posers who want to look cool. The guitar has been seeing somewhat of a decline in response to the popularity of electronic music, but you can't just whip out a Launchpad or something at the beach and start playing music on it. Maybe if you had a laptop and loud enough external speakers, but only until your battery died.
>all those chords
jesus are you fucking serious?
>learn all those chords
What do people mean by this? You only have to learn how chords are made and then you can know just about any chord.
Yes. It’s a thirteen chord song and although the shapes aren’t difficult the only chords out of them I know straight away from memory as a beginner are G, C, D and Em.
What the hell is wrong with folk and indie?
you literally move like one finger at a time
>needing to memorize chords before hitting the strings
can't you just feel it out as you're playing?
thanks for the blog update
It would still take you a while to put it all together, and for your fingers to form calluses.
>Tfw I bring a girl over and play stuff off of blood mountain and I don't even get laid
WHAT DO THEY WANT FROM MEEEEEE
I really like jamming and playing improvised leads with people. But most people can't play well enough to do that back and forth.
I've been playing for about 12 years. It's piss easy to learn the basics and for some reason despite it's prevalence in music for decades it piques people's interest when you tell them you play guitar.
Thankfully, anybody actually serious about playing guitar usually ignore the 'posers' and explore this wonderful instrument in their own way.
>can't play a song before you form calluses
Just move to Massachusetts and play some Neutral Milk Hotel on a college campus and get that hipster pussy.
I've been playing for 15 years now, when I first started playing it took me a month to be able to play a D chord in a song properly, and I was taking hour-long lessons 5 days a week. My high school music teacher was more of a pianist than a guitarist though, these days I'm way better than anything I ever saw him demonstrate on a guitar (although he could have secretly been able to shred for all I know)
Acoustic guitar is fun, it's versatile, portable, and no cables, batteries, or settings and knobs to fuss around with, just pick up and play. Your entire sound is just your instrument and your hands, if you wanna sound good you better get good, especially if you wanna play a guitar solo that doesn't buzz like a beehive.
Into The Void is my favourite Sabbath song to play, that opening riff is just so damn good
t. Pitchfork reader
Because normies want to fell like they are special so they learn to play one song like wonderwall or stairway to heaven to show people they are "special" and a "musician"
ah shit was that in austin? I wanted to go but felt like being sad af instead
Mass popularity of the instrument means very easy access to learning material. You have absolutely fucking absurd amounts of videos, web pages, channels, books, etc. covering many different ways of learning and techniques. Every other instrument pales in that regard.
Then there's the fact that it is a good solo instrument. You can play guitar by yourself and get some good sounding songs by yourself, without the need of additional instruments. Something like the bass guitar or drums are not ideal for this.
The guitar also covers a very large span of genres in recent popular music. It's a lot more culturally relevant to the modern era than the piano for example, which means regardless of your taste, you can play along to just about any song you know without altering the sound too much.
At least this was my logic when choosing the instrument.
No it was in Boston MA lol.
word, how was it?
been meaning to catch both those bands for years now
>What is it about the guitar that attracts so many posers and soyboys?
Because its the token instrument of mainstream music.
If at 50s instead of promotion rock and roll (and then rock, punk rock and metal), they promoted something else, people would be playing that.
If they promoted celtic harp, as some example you would see all those musicians playing celtic harp
You didn't grow up in the 90's
I'd never heard of Speedy Ortiz before this tour so I made the decision to not listen to them until the show so that the show would be my first impression. I thought they played pretty well, but I also had no point of reference like an album version of the songs to compare it to. But I though it was cool how they play accessible indie rock songs but throw in like a wonky chord or a little noisy bit here and there. Tera Melos was wicked good. They played mostly stuff from their newer albums but played Spoonful of Slurry towards the end of the set. Got to talk to John after the show for a little while and bumped into them at a nearby restaurant later on so that was pretty neat.
Ahh, I'm not super into speedy ortiz's latest album, but I figure it might have come across better in a live setting.
that's good to hear about Tera Melos though, my friends met them a while back and they're apparently pretty cool guys.
Yeah apparently Speedy Ortiz's first full length had Matt Robidoux on guitar, which was kinda funny cause I'd actually went to a local noise show he'd put together several months ago and I didn't know who he was until like, a month ago lol. Apparently he was kind of a douche though which I'm not surprised about cause he kinda gave off that sort of vibe.
But yeah Tera Melos were totally cool both times I've seen them.
wonderwall is like 3 minutes long. you can do it without calluses. i'm not sure what you mean by "put it all together"
>You only have to learn how chords are made and then you can know just about any chord.
Ok, how do I learn this?
read up/ watch videos on chord theory
Every year or so I try to learn but end up giving up because I'm bored
I'd rather have more fun playing Fahey and Drake
Because a guitar makes you look like a chad, or at least helps 50% of the way for soyboys.
Because it's low skill to start but really difficult to do well.