ANY BREHS PLAY GUITAR?

[TEKBEATZ]

My new band, Gloria Gloria

I play lead guitar and supply background vocals.

This is dope

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I really miss playing. I don't have time anymore.

There’s always time. If you can take a shyt, you can play a lick.

 

[Water]

I started taking bass lessons over the summer.

 

[DOSDUMUNI]

This is dope

Thanks breh!!

 

[DOSDUMUNI]

My band just premiered our IG any brehs that follow lmk we will follow ya back

 

[Wildin]

Ayo

Why the fukk hasn't anyone told me? 20 years I've been playing guitar. fukked up the tips of my fingers, calluses, peeling, pain. I was of the mindset that the pain just came with playing and eventually if you play enough, you'll just get used to it. Sore ass fingers from barre chords, wrist cramps, doing hand stretching exercises.

I threw some 9s on my guitar. Because why the fukk not? Never did it before. Always 12s, always 11s. Sometimes 10s.

I threw some 9s on this bytch and literally hit the . I coulda been Hendrix, Prince, bill withers, BB mf king fukking tito Jackson. This shyt is like night and day.

Absolute zero discomfort, no finger pain, no tight hands, no wrist issues. I feel a mixture of all at the same time. All those years wasted. I mean I grinded out learning all the chords, on 12s with weak ass fingers. These shyts are like strings of cotton now.

I feel like a fool on the prescription medication commercial

"Now I can play without the pain"



I'm legit happy, but pissed at the same time. I had met the glass ceiling. I was at a point where I wasn't getting any better and I was like " this is as good as I'll ever get, this is how it is. Everyone has their limits".

I got the metronome out and I'm going back to the basics (again), just drilling down. I can't believe this shyt.

I put 9s on all my shyt. I always knew it wasn't the guitars, I've got some with different size necks and I was never accepting of the excuse "my hands are too small, there's something wrong with my hands". These mfs play like they 'sposed to.


I was googling after I bought the 9s and bb king played with 9s,8s or 7s or some shyt and said "why work hard?" Or some shyt. Unbelievable.

 

[BlkAxeMan]

Why 12's at all, unless you play jazz or strictly acoustic? That sounds brutal. I like 10's best.

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

Guitar - Schecter Omen Extreme 6

Bass- Schecter Omen Extreme 5

Schecters blow everything else out of the water

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Ayo

Why the fukk hasn't anyone told me? 20 years I've been playing guitar. fukked up the tips of my fingers, calluses, peeling, pain. I was of the mindset that the pain just came with playing and eventually if you play enough, you'll just get used to it. Sore ass fingers from barre chords, wrist cramps, doing hand stretching exercises.

I threw some 9s on my guitar. Because why the fukk not? Never did it before. Always 12s, always 11s. Sometimes 10s.

I threw some 9s on this bytch and literally hit the . I coulda been Hendrix, Prince, bill withers, BB mf king fukking tito Jackson. This shyt is like night and day.

Absolute zero discomfort, no finger pain, no tight hands, no wrist issues. I feel a mixture of all at the same time. All those years wasted. I mean I grinded out learning all the chords, on 12s with weak ass fingers. These shyts are like strings of cotton now.

I feel like a fool on the prescription medication commercial
"Now I can play without the pain"



I'm legit happy, but pissed at the same time. I had met the glass ceiling. I was at a point where I wasn't getting any better and I was like " this is as good as I'll ever get, this is how it is. Everyone has their limits".

I got the metronome out and I'm going back to the basics (again), just drilling down. I can't believe this shyt.

I put 9s on all my shyt. I always knew it wasn't the guitars, I've got some with different size necks and I was never accepting of the excuse "my hands are too small, there's something wrong with my hands". These mfs play like they 'sposed to.


I was googling after I bought the 9s and bb king played with 9s,8s or 7s or some shyt and said "why work hard?" Or some shyt. Unbelievable.

And this is why I tell people to try different things, try what works FOR YOU, there are no rules set in stone to playing this instrument, and don't listen to what people wanna tell you. Sh*t, Albert King played his guitar upside down with a funny tuning, and Albert Collins used a capo and was a top blues player.

Case in point, a good 20 years ago I was in guitar center, asking for some low gauge strings, I don't even remember, they were like 7's, 8's or 9's, and I asked for the Reverend Williy's which is Billy Gibbons brand, and the person behind the counter tried to clown me, "Oh you putting these on a les paul? What's gonna happen when you bend? They'll snap immediately?"

I'm like m'fukka just give me the strings, they sell them for a reason. Some people love to gate keep and believe a Les Paul needs 10s and a Strat needs 9's and you can't have anything else but that on. Smh. Then you try bending a string and slice your fingers in half.

 

[Wildin]

And this is why I tell people to try different things, try what works FOR YOU, there are no rules set in stone to playing this instrument, and don't listen to what people wanna tell you. Sh*t, Albert King played his guitar upside down with a funny tuning, and Albert Collins used a capo and was a top blues player.

Case in point, a good 20 years ago I was in guitar center, asking for some low gauge strings, I don't even remember, they were like 7's, 8's or 9's, and I asked for the Reverend Williy's which is Billy Gibbons brand, and the person behind the counter tried to clown me, "Oh you putting these on a les paul? What's gonna happen when you bend? They'll snap immediately?"

I'm like m'fukka just give me the strings, they sell them for a reason. Some people love to gate keep and believe a Les Paul needs 10s and a Strat needs 9's and you can't have anything else but that on. Smh. Then you try bending a string and slice your fingers in half.

Exactly man. I grew up with a pretty shyt cascio keyboard (which was actually nice), then I had the mpc 2000, then the 2000xl and there was always nicer and more modern equipment out there. I was a firm believer in using what you have until that shyt is tapped out, til you can't do anymore which just means you need to become more creative.

One of my favorite life experiences was knowing a stoner cat who was broke, he'd just play the fukk out of this real piece of shyt Kmart guitar. Some real my first guitar type shyt. Made of particle board, thin plywood or maybe bolsa (bolsa might've been too expensive) and fukking cardboard.

He'd go home from work chill in his unfurnished crib, smoke weed and just play. Long story short, no lessons, no YouTube...dude was phenomenal. A cat I went to school with ended up working with us and his whole family plays guitar, his dad was taught by his father, who taught him and his brothers, they had expensive beautiful martins and Taylor's. Anyway these two got to jam together and the levels they were at, while coming from two completely different backgrounds in terms of learning and equipment was crazy.

It's ain't about the equipment, it's about the fundamentals, finding how to make that shyt work for you.

Pharrell has a video where he says the exact same thing, quit buying the newest equipment and thinking you need l, this, this, that and the other. When you can spend thousands of dollars and still suck.

With that said, had I known it was easier, id be much more experienced and probably a completely different person than I am now. I figured playing just came with pain and discomfort and you didn't complain about it.

And that's the funny shyt about life as you get older. A lot of the shyt your fed when your young is not truth. We grow up thinking with fitness and working out "if you ain't sore the next day, you didn't workout hard enough" "if it don't hurt, you ain't trying". When obviously there is a balance.

I used to just replace my strings with 12s 11s and 10s cause that's what my guitars came with. I legit had it in my head that I don't play enough or practice enough, when I did, often as much or more than others. But my fingers would get sore and I'd slowly stop playing, then regress and pick it up again.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Exactly man. I grew up with a pretty shyt cascio keyboard (which was actually nice), then I had the mpc 2000, then the 2000xl and there was always nicer and more modern equipment out there. I was a firm believer in using what you have until that shyt is tapped out, til you can't do anymore which just means you need to become more creative.

One of my favorite life experiences was knowing a stoner cat who was broke, he'd just play the fukk out of this real piece of shyt Kmart guitar. Some real my first guitar type shyt. Made of particle board, thin plywood or maybe bolsa (bolsa might've been too expensive) and fukking cardboard.

He'd go home from work chill in his unfurnished crib, smoke weed and just play. Long story short, no lessons, no YouTube...dude was phenomenal. A cat I went to school with ended up working with us and his whole family plays guitar, his dad was taught by his father, who taught him and his brothers, they had expensive beautiful martins and Taylor's. Anyway these two got to jam together and the levels they were at, while coming from two completely different backgrounds in terms of learning and equipment was crazy.

It's ain't about the equipment, it's about the fundamentals, finding how to make that shyt work for you.

Pharrell has a video where he says the exact same thing, quit buying the newest equipment and thinking you need l, this, this, that and the other. When you can spend thousands of dollars and still suck.

With that said, had I known it was easier, id be much more experienced and probably a completely different person than I am now. I figured playing just came with pain and discomfort and you didn't complain about it.

And that's the funny shyt about life as you get older. A lot of the shyt your fed when your young is not truth. We grow up thinking with fitness and working out "if you ain't sore the next day, you didn't workout hard enough" "if it don't hurt, you ain't trying". When obviously there is a balance.

I used to just replace my strings with 12s 11s and 10s cause that's what my guitars came with. I legit had it in my head that I don't play enough or practice enough, when I did, often as much or more than others. But my fingers would get sore and I'd slowly stop playing, then regress and pick it up again.

There's two types of people, those who practice and those who buy expensive gear.