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"It's another bandwagon!!!"

Bah, guitars. Can't anybody learn an original instrument? Unless you've had about 10 years experience, it'll sound crap, and most people only want a guitar because everybody else has one. I just don't understand why people can buy 3 different guitars in a year, on the basis that their previous one isn't good enough. What about the piano, saxophone, trumpet, violin, cello, heck even the drums are better than guitars. I'll tell you all this now:

You'll never make it in a rock band.

I know it's your dreams and everything, but starting to learn the guitar in years 7 - 11, just as everybody else is, is not the way to do it.

My guitar was £700 quite amusing

My mate had guitar, he's good.

I thought I'd try it

Been playing for about a year, alright at it.

You have a weak argument

½pint wrote:
> The fact
> is, you can't learn to read music by playing guitar, you don't learn
> theory and they're much more expensive.

What makes you think they want to? I played piano and did all my theory and practical exams etc from when I was about six or seven and got very little happiness from it. However, I persisted as I didn't want to be a quitter and as I matured I knew it would be a good thing to be able to boast of Grade X qualifications when applying for Uni/jobs etc.

I started playing on a £120 acoustic guitar (about the cost of six hours of piano lessons) when I was 14 or 15. I taught myself and have had untold amounts of joy sitting around in my room strumming along to my favourite tracks. Fair enough, my second guitar was far more expensive but when I think about the time I’ve spend happily playing it I can only come to the conclusion it was money well spent.

The logic behind your argument seems a little spurious. Have you ever removed a card board box from a youngster pretending he's an astronaut because the chances of him ever going into space are next to zero? I think most people play the guitar for fun rather than in gunning for a career.

I play guitar. Really, really badly. But I enjoy it, so there.

BEARDS. wrote:
> I used to play the Trumpet. Then I stopped.>
> I used to play the Piano. Then I stopped.
> > I have a guitar. I never even started.
> > I'm great.
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I bet you were one of those kids who had a wardrobe full of stuff you never saw through...roller skates, scouts uniform, karate suits, ballet shoes...

But we all know that the majority of people playing guitars just want to be part of Slipknot. Or some other trashy nu metal band. The fact is, you can't learn to read music by playing guitar, you don't learn theory and they're much more expensive. You say that a trumpet or saxophone would cost loads, but let's put it in perspective. For a functional, middle-range saxophone, you'd pay what? £300? For a guitar, you'ld probably spend about £100 on your first. But then, if you want a half decent guitar, prices are far in excess of £300. Then you have to buy amps, leads 'wah wah' (whatever) pedals and stuff. It's stupid. People get crazy about it, and I'm telling you that's all that it is. A craze. A bandwagon. Albeit a very expensive one. I'm telling you, by 2004 Guitars will have gone the way of yoyo's, Pokemon and pogs.

Me and my mate started playing guitar at the same time, quite a while ago now, and it's been very helpful really - we encourage each other to practise, we both have the same influences but different strengths, help each other out, but there's always competition between us to push us on. All my other friends play trumpet/sax etc, and we've already got one too many ska bands around here..

There are a fair few other players about, but providing it's something you want to do, why not? Doing it because you can look cool posing with a guitar or want to be able to say you play to impress people is not really a reason, but we both really like it, and play it for our own enjoyment..Nowt I can see wrong with anyone doing that.

You're bloody worse than my sister.

She has started, then quit:

Swimming
Trampolining
Ballet
Line-dancing
Guitar

I used to play the Trumpet. Then I stopped.


I used to play the Piano. Then I stopped.


I have a guitar. I never even started.


I'm great.

But the only way to be a true rock gawd is to play an Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix solo in the middle of a guitar shop to be a flash git in front of all the potential players looking round.