Dumb Things Every Guitarist Has Done

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[@samuraiguitarist]

Don't even try and tell me you haven't done EVERY single one of these. New course, out now, on sale, 50% off, promo code "EARLYBIRD50", www.samuraiguitartheory.com

[@ritchieboon5830]

I haven't done any of these because I don't own a guitar 😎

[@hanreality.7266]

Yep, all of them except the battery one...

[@underwoodvoice9077]

Every damned one. Most of them multiple times.

[@matthewmay1494]

Yes. Every single one. The promo code could have been #15. An example of musician math.

[@maqdoombeta8468]

I have done every single one of these

[@megadethmofo2001]

No matter how many times you've broken a string, it ALWAYS scares the shit out of you.

[@Prodigy4132]

It somehow hit me under my wrist and now I have a permanent orthogonal scar since teenagehood which makes it look like i tried self-harm. Nobody ever commented on it though

[@lune0326]

@@Prodigy4132 damn now my fear of tuning strings grew even bigger

[@SamyGBmusic]

Man, when you put new strings on bass and start tuning...that haunting feeling of turning into scarface at any moment. 😨

[@audiowithdrawl5948]

@@SamyGBmusic I just remember feeling like I won a game of Russian roulette when my first bass string broke 🤣

[@theonlytrent85]

No many how many times I've changed a guitar string, I always wonder if I somehow screwed this up and am about to receive a steel whipping

[@shannonm7981]

Everybody thinks they're tough until they get stabbed by a guitar string.

[@zadtheinhaler]

A B-string snapped on me and cut open the back of my hand, and I still wince when tuning the unwound strings.

[@sto_cazzo]

Bass player here and once a fucking e string stabbed my arm, i still got the scar and hope it will never happen again

[@tchiksguitars]

happened to me today, I bled, my daughter put a Frozen bandaid on it, problem solved

[@Ntmoffi]

Had one on my headstock slap me on the eye when I was tuning up new strings. I wasnt very tuff after that. Got a nice scratch on my cornea from it. 😬

[@claudiocruzat8777]

@@Ntmoffi some people use glasses just to chsnge strings. After all we just have one pair of eyes.

[@psychedelicpain420]

You forgot the one where you literally lose the pick you just placed in front of you and keep searching in circles like a dog.

[@safe_in_sound]

WHY DOES IT KEEP HAPPENING

[@LeskoBrandon2x]

I lick my picks and stick them on my pick guard and will literally look for it all day 😂

[@safe_in_sound]

@@LeskoBrandon2x I straight up just started carrying 3 inside my wallet for emergencies and I won't be surprised if they're all gone

[@terrysaling3673]

After every practice the picks need to be picked up. And I still don't know how my pick ends up inside about every acoustic I play.

[@travisstubbs8854]

That's the worst

[@samanthapopplewell6572]

#2 😂 My husband did that and swallowed it. Had to have surgery to get it taken out and we have it in a frame sitting on our piano. It’s labeled “most expensive guitar pick.” LOL.

[@mad_squidward]

🤣

[@PegeCovers]

No way lmaooo. What a way to go out that would've been.

[@supreethcdscaroline]

What a beautiful story., I swear a tear came out of my eye. 😂

[@carsonly8665]

It had a journey inside his body

[@jaysjourney8436]

O_0 its been almost 2 deckades and i never got surgery... where tf did it go?!? Maybe switch him to a thinner pic diet.

[@RoosterFloyd]

A stupid thing I still do to this day, 10 years playing, is absent mindedly tune the wrong tuning key and wonder, for a brief second of idiocy, why the sound isn't changing.

[@goodfortunedj]

At least once a month 🙄

[@RoosterFloyd]

@Ballistic Gamer You going acoustic or electric first? I went acoustic, as it builds up your finger strength better. Going from electric to acoustic is harder than acoustic to electric they say.

[@RoosterFloyd]

@Ballistic Gamer Pretty sweet, you learning music theory or just winging it? I never learned music theory, I feel it and see it from my years of playing, but I would recommend getting into it pretty soon. I regret the rebel mentality I had to learning guitar and bass, I am sure I have a few bad habits and techniques that are more difficult than necessary. Considering my first guitar was stolen from a pawn shop, I didn't really have the money to get lessons.

[@jstarang1]

Or you tune the right string on a floyd rose lock trem and forget to loosen the nut lock bar tht runs across the strings and sit there like why the fuck is the sound not changing???

[@jstarang1]

@@RoosterFloyd definitely learn the theory early. I did the same from 13-25 then from 26 to my now age 33 started learning theory wish I would have as a teen. Best advice is learn the major scale inside and out and the formula for it (W-W-H-W-W-W-H) with that knowledge and knowing the order of the seven modes you can create any scale in your head without being near a guitar. Like c major is c d e f g a b c and with I said to learn you then know that the sixth spot of the major scale is the aeolian mode or the minor scale so if you play the sixth note a to the sixth note again tht tells you what the a minor scale is from Knowing c major so a to a in c major is a b c d e f g so that's the a minor scale. Imo the easiest scale to memorize for obvious reasons. The second note is dorian third is phrygian fourth lydian fifth mixolydian sixth aeolian or minor and seventh is locrian. The major scale is number one of course and is also called Ionian. Ionian is the most important. I memorize this with the phrase: "I Don't Play Like My Axe Loves." To help me remember the spot for each mode based off the first letter of each word. Hope this helps.

[@carsonwood2095]

I was surprised I didn’t see him holding a guitar upside down shaking it to get a pick out

[@thisguyhd6591]

We don’t do that

[@pippadee8266]

I've lost picks in there a few times and done this, but I'm still pretty new to guitar so maybe you're not meant to do that idk

[@anastasiiak.3416]

@@thisguyhd6591 dont speak for the rest of "us"

[@carsonwood2095]

@@pippadee8266 I know you’re not supposed to do that but it happens. I would think it’s fairly common but maybe it’s just me

[@carbcrusader7306]

@@thisguyhd6591 speak for yourself, I’ve done that countless times. Sometimes my wrist is just a little too loose and my grip isn’t all there and my pick flies out of my hand straight into the sound hole. It’s like the thing wants to be in there.

[@megappman2658]

The plastic on the back is literally so true, didin’t realize it was there until 10 months later

[@porsche_918]

Lol I had my guitar for years before I realised

[@megappman2658]

@@porsche_918 Who would even notice right away lol

[@metal422life]

You're supposed to take that off?

[@luvpeaceluv]

@@metal422life I wanna know that too, it's not like it bothers or something lol

[@GrainsOfArt]

Did this with my phone... And my guitar

[@CallumK911]

You're missing the end of the last clip.... You plug it in and forget you have everything up really high and almost deafen yourself and the country

[@rachelwinchester9840]

Yes!

[@briskit4887]

I started reaching up for my headphones when I saw him reach for the cable

[@horsracing]

😂😂 So true

[@Goandgetit00]

Yep.

[@KirillTheBeast]

Bass player here: I was about to make the same comment. This has only happened once to me (I swear lmao), but it scarred me so hard that I've gone on and prevented the same shit from happening to other people twice already.

[@RhettShull]

Can confirm, have done all of these. I feel attacked.

[@touchgrass472]

Same

[@agolooritte3057]

I m not even a guitar player but i did almost all of these when i saw one. Sorry dad...

[@syer3789]

are you guys telling that you tried to get your fart in tune ?

[@agolooritte3057]

@@syer3789 with and without app. Kidding man, we do weirder things. Like playing the guitar like a drum, and play it with a cello bow...

[@Kai.Lingard_Music]

Ain't it aha

[@jillpongo2959]

That’s not just guitarists. That’s just anyone who gets their hands on a guitar

[@PancakeTheKat]

Or a ukelele....

[@theguy1080]

Ye

[@nurhidayatiklanuraks6370]

😂

[@theawkwardartist_]

Or ,strangely enough, a violin

[@____m6698]

Idk why i read that as 'gun ' i was like OvO wha--

[@idith7403]

I watched this and realized I haven’t peeled the plastic off the back of my guitar…

[@ellisfeldman4163]

I don't get how this is bad

[@JohnTheLobsterMan]

@@ellisfeldman4163 I don’t have a guitar, but I think it’s a case of “how have I just noticed this now”

[@Mattm182]

@@ellisfeldman4163 it’s not “bad” it’s just funny. I had clear plastic over my Taylor 114e’s pickguard for 6 years before discovering its existence a few months back and peeling it off, revealing a nice fresh pick guard.

[@oaksapling__]

I don't play guitar but I do play bass and there was plastic on the front 👁️👄👁️

[@anibalgimenez7433]

I noticed a year later tho

[@Squagglimole]

OK checking the pitch of the fart with the tuner absolutely killed me.

[@AyoBrooooo]

Same here 🤣🤣🤣

[@Josh-zz2pi]

I will happily watch the scariest horror movie instead of tuning my high e string

[@DashCamExtrodinaire]

😂😂😂😂👊

[@kthulhukif]

I always wonder why I'm not wearing safety glasses halfway through putting new strings on.

[@copaxan]

im wearing a shirt with your pfp on it

[@averin5193]

I've started holding the guitar stretched away from me with my tuner facing towards me, just in case it decides to get uncooperative

[@Josh-zz2pi]

@@copaxan hell yeah🤘🏻

[@jochem420]

The last one especially hits hard, when you plug it in and forget to take all your volume knobs down and accidentally blast over your neighbours house

[@pdc250]

Remeber doing this for the first time with my new 500 watt Marshall amp on full volume. Never shit myself so much before that 😂

[@slxsarc.entertainment7906]

And fxxk up your own ears to

[@weepyllama]

Lmao I thought about back to the future 😭

[@gultenpan8689]

@@pdc250 oh my god I barely go past a third on my small spark amp

[@pdc250]

@@gultenpan8689 now I have learnt to control the volume by gently stroking the dial with my sleeve 😂

[@ItsJustJesterr]

Hey! You forgot the part at the end where you finally plug it in, and blow your eardrums out because you forgot to turn the volume back down!

[@botcherbutcher7608]

Came here looking for this.

[@karlusarn]

That happened ones now I turn everything down before plugging it in hahhaa

[@m4xhunt3r_yt]

Like that scene from Back to the Future

[@joehguitar7967]

Or the opposite: you're getting no sound out of the amp and are convinced that your guitar or amp is hopelessly broken. Then you see that one patch cable halfway unplugged...

[@bafflingbubble]

Number 5 really hit hard for me, I had my first electric guitar for 7 or 8 years and never even realized there was plastic on the back, I felt pretty stupid pealing that thing off after all that time

[@TheRockinDonkey]

I’ve discovered this on guitars that I bought used.

[@kattdemko7259]

I thought the blue on the back of the tuning pegs was just the color of the metal I kept them on anyway cause I liked the color lmao 💀

[@mentosz9609]

@@kattdemko7259 what does it mean by taking it off late

[@TiuNinja5000]

Dude, i just bought a epiphone SG (i bought it today) and i noticed that plastic just a couple of hours after getting the guitar, i have a Washburn, maybe the plastic is still there, i'll check that later hehehe

[@valvenator]

LOL! It's a cool feeling when you see that plastic all scratched up, you finally realize it peels off and you almost feel like you just got yourself a brand new guitar.

[@gagewaterhouse4323]

Forgot the “blowing your ear drums out after the last thing”

[@davyboy9397]

I was waiting for that to happen 😅

[@dasumma1]

@@davyboy9397 everytime lol

[@sastrinidis]

That was implied

[@TheChewman2001]

Breaking a string while tuning is always the scariest thing ever.

[@woodybatter3896]

Had a Breedlove 12 string bridge burst apart on the last string. My pug has never recovered!

[@TheTallGeekGuy]

Yes it is

[@jacobkim3690]

Especially at a friend house and the guitar isn’t yours

[@TheTallGeekGuy]

@@jacobkim3690 that would suck

[@heavymetal_cutting_fabrication]

Seems to hit me in the face every time if it breaks while tuning.

[@fangyfacealexa4378]

you forgot "untuning your strings on purpose and not being able to get them back into tune"

[@Unus_Annus_]

I got dangerously close to that when I tuned in C

[@Unus_Annus_]

@@clarkalarcon4057 real tuners are more accurate. You can easily get a cheap one

[@clarkalarcon4057]

@@Unus_Annus_ oh sorry, these people are serious musicians and im just a campfire guitarist.

[@zozodioz]

@@Unus_Annus_ Memento Mori

[@ama.teur_anime_art]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@scarletbard6511]

I remember just reaching on the wall side of my bed to plug in my charger, and THE FUCKING THING EXPLODING because of a guitar string being in the way.

[@tohaason]

Wouldn't work with European style plugs though.. fortunately.

[@downeedles9249]

@@tohaason Bet ?

[@tohaason]

@@downeedles9249 Look at the design of the so-called "Europlug". It's designed so that you can't short circuit it by placing something (e.g. a guitar string) across the poles.

[@kawkynz3340]

Forgot the “playing with the opposite hands”

[@jasminericenic]

thought process: “hendrix was able to do it, so why can’t i?”

[@dkdldkwokekdn]

now i wanna try

[@haginwald2536]

@@jasminericenic plot twist: we are not hendrix. plot twist 2: hendrix was not human

[@colindavis1810]

I've actually been teaching myself to play upside down (I'm left so I try to play on a right handed guitar and it works sometimes)

[@Unus_Annus_]

@@colindavis1810 I’m left handed. I’ve tried to use right handed banjos and guitars, but I’m way better off sticking with my left handed ones

[@vrxuw1]

The E string just makes me paranoid of it breaking and slashing me in the face

[@jessyfretz5800]

It's true. And breaking it on an acoustic will scare you to death.

[@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411]

Sometimes im glad we bassist dont have to experience this traumatizing experience. I guess being less popular in western countries is the price to pay...

[@duckszn.]

@@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411 darn right But I did used to play guitar but I got more interested in the power of B A S S

[@joseph39]

I am scared to even tune any other strings because i broke the e string

[@averyplaysguitar]

Tuning my guitar is a stressful experience. Especially since it's got a Floyd Rose bridge.

[@andyandy2498]

When he farted at the tuner, I giggled, but when he said "heh G Sharp." I teared up with laughter.

[@leonardomauricio330]

lmaoo

[@patrickswayze2596]

That damn well nearly broke me also hey hahaha 😂😂😂

[@ralphstreemkejr.]

My farts are F sharp minor (F#m).

[@liamcurran6955]

The coin one hits too close to home hahah

[@STSGuitar16]

There’s also that sheer terror you feel when tuning up that high e for the first time anticipating it to snap at any moment, which leads directly to #12 here

[@Raver-1601]

Funnily enough, I nailed the 1st time. Wasn't so lucky for the 2nd tho

[@phoenixofthestix]

yeah, violin tuning prepared me for that thank gods, only guitar string i've snapped was rusty as hell

[@timavery3256]

Any tips for not breaking it when tuning it down to drop d? Have broken twice in a row

[@sebastianharris-aldred8057]

I snapped a high E string once so I changed all the strings and the high E snapped so I changed the High E for a second time and it snapped. I was so mad.

[@STSGuitar16]

@@timavery3256 lol not sure man, I’ve never popped a string when tuning down. Which string you keep popping? High E? Maybe check out your nut slot and make sure there aren’t any burrs or sharp points in the slot. If there are, take a file and GENTLY file the burr away. Remember, you can always take away more, but you can never add back, so go slow slow slow and check after every stroke of the file. Try not to widen the slot, just get rid of the problem area if there is one. You can buy a set of nut files, but one of those small, thin, metal fingernail files would probably work. Hope this helps! If not, hit up google or some guitar subreddits. Good luck!

[@Five_31]

The 6 yr old guitar pulling off the plastic film part was funny af

[@reaganharder1480]

I remember this point of my first nice guitar. which I purchased from the used section of my local Long & McQuade...

[@VictorFerreira-mh5zk]

is it wrong to pull off the plastic?

[@prawtism]

@@VictorFerreira-mh5zk weird to keep it on for 6 years, unless you plan on selling

[@CynHicks]

I have a guitar I bought nearly 10 years ago with it still on. Lol

[@vitopalazzolo1546]

Actually

[@danikataylor3335]

the last one is too accurate, the amount of times i’ve got my amp and everything ready and just not understanding why my guitar isn’t working and then realizing it’s not plugged. but he forgot one, when you place down your pick and suddenly it travels across the world into another dimension

[@jennifers8156]

One time at school I plugged the electric guitar into it's amp and me and my friends spent ages trying to figure out what the problem was and they thought I had broken the amplifier. When we called the music teacher over, he found out, and much to our dismay, that the amp was indeed not switched on.

[@johnretana2072]

i had put down my pick one day and the next day as i’m walking i see a similar looking pick turns out it was mine stuck in snow😂🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Meatball996]

I swear to god you take your eyes off your pick for a second and it vanishes into dust like in infinity war

[@sofi3217]

ikr i lost one months ago and i found it yesterday at school

[@axelvelasquez-lopez677]

Hahahahahahaha, I know, this is so true

[@Badz789]

As a kid, I would always be dropping the pick into the guitar and shaking it, trying to get the pick out.🤣

[@leavingtheisland]

I've gotten very good at this...sadly!

[@wretch1]

Extremely difficult with a solid body electric though lol

[@upd0g1]

You forgot “forgetting to turn the volume down on the amp and giving yourself a heart attack”

[@AshutoshXettri]

🤣

[@justcama]

Usually the feedback from plugging it in or the strings still resonating when plugged in tells me it's too loud

[@upd0g1]

@@justcama yeah that’s what I’m talking about. Either the initial fuzz or the click is loud as shiz or maybe you hit a string a little bit and it’s whining as you lean over. Only seems to happen when you want to play quietly as well

[@justcama]

@@upd0g1 so true, haha 😄

[@0000song0000]

ahhh i thought i was the only one 😢 we need our ears

[@LeadGuitarGi]

I feel slightly called out. Literally, the only one of these that I haven't done is figure out what pitch my own farts are.

[@saiklono8503]

same, done everyone except that and the pedal one

[@Butt-Head9]

Yet

[@julius14]

Same here

[@luckyluke4276]

But something tells me you’re going to

[@ask4982]

I read somewhere that all toilets flush in E

[@gavinw9206]

I was wearing a capo on my nose when I found this-

[@moto_45__]

Ha classic capo nose

[@drxzt]

lmao

[@mustangwolf1997]

My nose is so big, I regret attempting capo nose. It hurt so much. And then I tried again. It hurt more.

[@moto_45__]

@@mustangwolf1997 you should try it a third time just in case

[@mustangwolf1997]

@@moto_45__ I probably will. Not even for the joke. I'm just not a smart man.

[@crawshbonte211]

The last one was hilarious. I’ll do the same thing only I’ll be playing and not have any sound and realized I never turn the volume on my guitar up😂

[@-Pol-]

I have one guitar with a kill switch that gets me so... so... often.

[@don_huzan]

That moment when you’re jamming with headphones in your amp and the headphone Jack comes undone and the entire neighborhood hears you

[@peachesandpoets]

In an apartment. At 4 am.

[@kylemartineau8269]

Woke up my kids the other day by accidentally doing this, wife was NOT happy to say the least

[@don_huzan]

@@peachesandpoets LOLOL

[@don_huzan]

@@kylemartineau8269 that’s hilariously unfortunate!

[@adamsibbring3482]

I always do that at like 3 in the morning 😭

[@rachelmartinez2560]

Me a noob guitarist: "the future...it frightens me"

[@DannyRoss_]

Here’s some advice Super glue your picks to your eyes, they only disappear when you look away, can’t look away if they’re glued to your eyes Do the case thing once on purpose, it only ever happens once and then never again, so do it in a safe environment like on soft carpet, won’t have to worry about it happening whilst gigging then When tuning the high E, stand as far back as possible behind bulletproof glass whilst someone else tunes it for you

[@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411]

@@DannyRoss_ for the high E, ask the bassist to do it. We're made out of vibranium so it cannot physically hurt us. The sudden snap will leave an emotional scar though.

[@SuperMan-ij6vt]

Me a noob who has done half of these things: maybe I am an actual guitarist

[@trinitynicole1012]

@@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411 This made me laugh so fucking hard because all my buddies make me tune their E string because they’re excuse is “you play bass. You won’t pop a string and if you do it won’t hurt”

[@pontiacattack249]

@@SuperMan-ij6vt what's it like to be a noob guitarist these days? Not trying to be a dick, just haven't been a newbie for a long time.

[@isacspaak6499]

bassist over here, guitarists are truly a different breed. i’m terrified of you guys

[@basstoyofacebc9616]

No sheeee-aight! What’s up with these guys!😆

[@jimatoooooon4812]

yeah, guitarist are weird

[@SNESpaghetti]

As a guitarist, *chokes on pick*

[@promeyboy]

Yeah lol

[@DankNstien]

My poor girl had a number of burns up on the head by the tuning keys where I would stick my cigarette while playing drunk and forget then burn all the way up

[@edeledeledel5490]

Absolutely spot on.... One omission is being on stage playing, having forgotten to loop your lead between your guitar strap and the guitar body, and standing on your lead, instantly disconnecting yourself from your amp with a loud "crack"

[@nathanz602]

15: Has the amp turned all the way up and forgets about it.

[@familyaccount2210]

my parent have screamed at me for it😭

[@utterlychaotic5814]

i did that while practicing at 6 in the morning (don't ask why) my parents screamed at me

[@gargaduk]

@@utterlychaotic5814 Why would you even turn it up all the way though?

[@cami7495]

My soul literally leaves my body lmao

[@THAT1ZELDAFAN]

You've seen K-On?

[@jim62000]

damn, this was a rollercoaster of anxiety

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Yea, except for the coin guitar pick one. The moment you discover 25% of Brian Mays tone. 0,O

[@XenoTravis]

@@aylbdrmadison1051 metal picks are underrated as well.

[@Frosty_Jockey]

G sharp! :)

[@gabrieledomingosjardim5358]

@@aylbdrmadison1051 I use coins when I don't have a pick with me hahahah

[@CyrusMcWin-bd3sl]

The guitar falling out of the carrying case brought back trauma. Lmao

[@kazuhaatyourservice7552]

“When you have no pick but instead you use coin” thats so relating

[@SumitKumar-jn7sb]

Did you got kazuha

[@hoppy5359]

Honestly ive used an old gift card as a pick, took some scissors and cut it jankily into a pick and used that, not my proudest moment but i felt like bear grylls, improvise adapt and overcome.

[@rebeldetail6134]

Guy from queen uses a coin

[@spaghettiman3757]

@@rebeldetail6134 which one

[@rebeldetail6134]

@@spaghettiman3757 Brian May uses a sixpence coin

[@oltro15]

Alternate title: What non-guitarists do when they find your guitar

[@sRichterMusic]

If i saw seomone choking on my picks i wouldn't help them but slowly watching them die.

[@mrschneider9685]

Maybe...

[@bisneytm1511]

Yeah you totally didn't do this 😉😉

[@vyomadubeyy]

When someone puts your plectrums inside your guitar🤡

[@beahgg]

@@sRichterMusic Kdksifisif

[@Debuci410]

Let us appreciate that he went so far with so much pain and an high E string breaking for this short clip

[@gamecat2320]

He proceded to swallow a pick

[@cockichioumaigod2805]

Bruh he broke probably one of the most important strings in the guitar💀

[@TheCheezMann]

Let’s not forget dropping a pick inside your acoustic guitar and having to shake it for 5 minutes before the pick finally falls out

[@chance2smoke]

if you drop enough picks inside you can use it as a maraca.

[@kevinfrain7901]

The open case one makes me laugh cause I was playing a show one night, about to start setting up, and my guitar player grabs his brand new SG (just got it a week before, first show with it) and didn’t realize the case wasn’t latched. Picked it up and the brand new ax falls out of the case and the neck snaps off. I’ve never seen so many emotions at one time

[@BlowUpTheOutsideWorld]

Is your guitar player ok?

[@JimmyFeelsIt]

Daaamn, how can anybody laugh at that😭 that's just straight up heartbreaking

[@TheMRMEAN69]

Oh noooo!! I would’ve cried with him!

[@jcm78]

It would have broken at the body or the headstock eventually. Go ahead and get one of them out of the way and wear the scar proudly!

[@jeremyparker9873]

My jaw dropped reading that.

[@cycoekiller119]

The open case one is a universal experience for people who play instruments >

[@burnttoast8105]

or having zip-up binders at school

[@RedMelodyMusic]

Pianists: ha imagine having to put your instrument in a case.

[@Shugarbug1]

And then I wonder why half my keys are broken and there's little shiny things on the floor (I play the alto sax)

[@bobthefrog6295]

I remember this one time I didn’t close my clarinet case well and all the reeds fell out

[@-jayjay]

i remember at some point forgetting to zip up my violin case and it fell out and broke into 3 pieces 😃

[@melanietamberino4864]

No one: Absolutely no one: *guitarists casually snorting the guitar*

[@albertbatfinder5240]

Where was the 45 minute battle to get the friggin’ guitar pick out of the friggin’ sound hole?

[@josephgonzalez9371]

Bro I hate that shit!!

[@JonathanSH]

I’m dreading the day I drop a tiny jazz pick in my semi hollow body

[@aleaxe1212]

Haha mine are only 30 minutes

[@aleaxe1212]

Haha mine are only 30 minutes

[@bkpickell]

I don't own an acoustic and I have done it a hundred times.

[@Bigbuddyandblue]

When an old worn out cable jack is shorting out and crackling and buzzing, but you just keep wiggling it until you get a clean signal, then try to play, gingerly keeping the guitar and cable in that same position and keep playing.

[@BeretBay]

All too relatable

[@mitch.w]

Ive been doing this for ages lol

[@ZaveAres]

Is there a guitar cable that exists where I don't have to do that shit

[@thegr8malachite370]

@@ZaveAres 😂😂😂

[@christianbarker1121]

The Squier experience 🤣

[@lunchmeat9118]

The fact he had to sacrifice a high e string for this has to make this one of the most respectable guitar videos ever

[@davidsatriowibowo5727]

I broke that string ln my friend's guitar, he hasnt noticed it until now :D edit: I mean, he does noticed that the string broke, but he doesn't know that I did it yes

[@jacyoutube4459]

that's the most common string to snap, you don't think we all have an extra backup of that one? they're like $7 btw lol

[@Idiomatick]

@@jacyoutube4459 I always snap the low e cause of slap

[@citizennozmeda7232]

@@jacyoutube4459 $7 for a whole pack maybe. Guitar strings are so cheap.

[@blown_off_socks]

Unless he was going to change the strings anyways.

[@MikoSquiz]

#8 is something Brian Molko from Placebo does routinely in his guitar parts, #10 is something EVH used to do for the tone

[@meatmagician]

The g sharp got me, I literally do that all the time- I'm not even ashamed

[@meatmagician]

@Lilly I literally die and have to resurrect myself every time

[@tieman3790]

On my first guitar i didnt notice it until i got my second guitar. I was like wait is that on my first guitar too? It was. After 2 years lmao

[@RichardLoweJr]

@@meatmagician Yes

[@Hanako_the_Simp]

@@meatmagician XD

[@starrrzzz2905]

@@meatmagician Same though!

[@jonahbisgould-menendian7471]

The “g sharp😀!” Killed me😭😭

[@joshy5677]

Guys we are living in the end times rn Jesus can return anytime soon. SO PLEASE TURN TO THE LORD He's waiting and Loves you very much ✝️

[@maxeclipse4065]

What instrument is he using to record the pitch?

[@aarronwootton]

@@maxeclipse4065 butt trumpet

[@kanishkjaiswal7260]

D*

[@franciscovilaca900]

When you are joking with your band mates about dropping your pick in your guitar then you actually do it

[@DuCanonCreative]

I dont do it so much anymore because I use a pick often but I became a pro at getting the pick back out the hole, maybe down to 1 or 2 tries(methodical shakes lol)

[@chroma2992]

Yeah i use a hollow body and i once joked about dropping a lil bacon bit in it from one of our pizzas we ordered and ended up actually doing it on accident.

[@catosicarius2942]

My dad has an old guitar and it used to rattle from all the picks.

[@Zmargo702]

#13 is a one time only mistake. After that, you will ALWAYS check your case lol. Seriously heart attack inducing when it just flops out like that.

[@pineapple4142]

The case thing is universal for anyone who carries their instrument in a case with a handle

[@JerPlaysGuitar21]

As a violist whose instrument case has a handle, I can relate.

[@Starrrycandy]

Viola player here, Yep

[@ivyssauro123]

Bruh I have almost dropped my violin so many times like that

[@paperfoxka]

I'm a flute player and I've done that

[@nathantaylor2026]

Done it with my trombone before

[@nickbunch1]

Bro diagnosing the entire bord before realizing you never plugged the guitar in is on point. 😆

[@marshallginsler-viner9780]

I play w nylon strings and never use amps. I was once asked to play at a friend's wedding reception using an electric nylon acoustic. I got there early so the friend said oh just sound check. I spent ~5-10 min fumbling w the amp before realizing it wasn't plugged in to the wall

[@levinl.2613]

I'm relieved that me *licking* my electric guitar instead of using a pick is not a dumb thing.

[@courtneyraiyn-eshaiyn7815]

Omg me too 🤣 drunk 24 year old.....miss my younger years

[@tc98rocks]

When he farted and was like g sharp?! That made me laugh so hard 🤣

[@oscarisambard]

done about half of these, gonna do the rest tomorrow now that i’ve seen them

[@Fabian_Daja]

🤣🤣🤣

[@annalenah7540]

Du sprichst mir aus der Seele

[@draskjudd]

You forgot one important one, when you think the master volume is down plug in and sounds like a bomb just went off!

[@DylanWOWilliams]

So true...

[@aniquinstark4347]

Or you accidentally unplug your guitar while playing and it also sounds like a bomb went off

[@alfredozamora5867]

Literally the other night 😂🌉

[@courtneyraiyn-eshaiyn7815]

Worst

[@rustyaxelrod]

Playing the “hold my guitar up and shaking the pick out of the sound hole” game. Acoustic player version. I learned that one before Stairway.

[@patrickswayze2596]

Hahaha I actually thought that’s where he was going with that 😂😂😂 Too funny man, especially if you play guitar haha

[@MrSomeRedditor]

Bring it below the mouth, hold it by the top of the neck and the base of the body and very quickly flip it 180. It'll come out every time.

[@xrscreaminlada7002]

I did this on my first day with a pick

[@zoeywilliams4848]

The “G Sharp!” is so relatable lmao😂😂😂😂

[@CJTheSinger]

I’m a singer and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sometimes use my tuner to check what note I was hitting

[@murdond]

it was a G Shart lol

[@Tristandubbs]

Any human that plays guitar has done everything on that list, you are not kidding

[@daphenomenalz4100]

One more, the anxiety of seeing a guitar lean onto something and the fact that it always tends to fall when you're not seeing it😂

[@silentvoice7823]

Or in the middle of the night and you just hear a crash...

[@daphenomenalz4100]

@@silentvoice7823 woah

[@littlee602]

Him saying “G sharp!” really got me i can’t stop laughing xD

[@0xptomaine]

G shart

[@ernesto_longhi]

Me too!!

[@bustybobbuttertits3981]

@@0xptomaine lol

[@AshishDoingSomething]

G fart

[@salahghezaiel]

Me too lmaooo

[@laurenelizabeth8375]

THE END OF THE MF STRINGS HURT SO BAD-

[@thatonekidfromschool7554]

G, b, and e hurt my soul when they stab me

[@RoosterFloyd]

It sucks too, it's like a paper cut out a leaf cut, you just can't complain about it without looking like a baby, but it really hurts. I've been stabbed by a damn fork in my arm and that didn't put me down as bad as the day, when I was a wee lad, I thought running in corn with shorts and no shirt on was a great idea. So many corn leaf cuts...

[@STSGuitar16]

Man it never fails. Like little needles when they’re cut short at the post.

[@Invisible10118]

@@RoosterFloyd did you just say wee lad what are you irish

[@RoosterFloyd]

@@Invisible10118 I am but it's not even common in Ireland anymore. I just say it because I like it and it's a classic. Heheh

[@shatteredreams]

I've done almost everyone of these. THERE IS NO WORSE PAIN THAN BEING STABBED BY A GUITAR STRING

[@XxJERICHOHOLICxX13]

I swallowed a pick once. I was chewing on it while driving, hit a speed bump and just swallowed it. I didn’t choke on it or anything, it was like swallowing a pill. Just went right down the hatch. But there is a parallel universe where I choked on that pick and died. FAQ Q: was it a big pick? A: I use big stubs, so it was a very thick pick. Q: Did it come out okay? A: I cannot pinpoint the exact moment it came out, but I had no stomach or bowel movement issues afterward, so I can only assume that it came out OK. Q: Did you get it back? A: No.

[@BeardMan01]

Nope, in every dimension, we are all making the same colossal mistakes, over and over.......

[@zuzana5688]

@@BeardMan01 oooh I though my other-self is doing much better. But now... my hope was destroyed???

[@Trystero_]

Did it come out easily? 😂

[@downfromthereeefters]

Yeah that seems a pretty dangerous thing to swallow

[@micahgilbert9311]

Not trying to pick on you or anything, but were you trying to use it as a toothpick?

[@landini527]

you forgot "sticking the amp cord on your forehead when the amp is on just to hear it make a funny noise"

[@pipsdankmemes9706]

wait this is a thing?

[@jontraz5993]

@@pipsdankmemes9706 yup, forehead goes BZZT

[@_maddie_makes_music]

y e s

[@arthurting1857]

🎵What’s Scott thinking about?🎵 B Z Z Z T

[@jontraz5993]

@@arthurting1857 😂

[@jackstalenberg7170]

that last one hits home

[@bakermakingbread]

Dude it’s a little scary how accurate this is

[@TheGroovyGuitarDude]

Oof. #12 gave me some ‘nam flashbacks 😬

[@cjbono1]

Same here!!

[@A2Ztigers]

I did this when I was just starting out, couldn't get the string in tune. Turned out I was playing one string and tightening the other, and I managed to figure that out when it snapped.

[@skaakswaan455]

When you try to learn Candyrat stuff, and you only have one guitar

[@TheMainTagonist]

One time i did that and the string hit me in the face

[@CarlJohnson-ff6yb]

@@A2Ztigers same lol it makes me feel bruh i dont want to wait for another string

[@horo6249]

8 got me. That’s the one EVERYONE HAS DONE if they own a guitar

[@burnttoast8105]

YES

[@brucemerryman7365]

12 is the only one I have done.

[@maizomeno]

YES I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT ONE WHEN I SAW YOUR COMMENT

[@maximkovalkov1334]

there are some contemporary classical pieces that include that "technique" (well, of course there are)

[@帝君的狗]

ME TOO

[@QBG]

Damn. I guess I really am the only guitarist dumb enough to lean the wrong way with a plugged-in acoustic and force the jack to crack right into the body.

[@joelmiddaugh8229]

Smelling the inside of a new acoustic guitar is like aromatherapy. I don't even care if it's a laminate I whiff that sh!t up.

[@leeland446]

Lmao... agreed.

[@stephanevautrin7317]

Never did this but now I'm kinda curious

[@joelmiddaugh8229]

@@stephanevautrin7317 just buy a new acoustic guitar and I'm sure the power of smell will compel thee.

[@Wow-xp9dp]

My classic was at my grandparents house for a year or two (it was my moms) and it smells terrible (like my grandparents house but you’d actually inhale all the dust at once)

[@joelmiddaugh8229]

@@Wow-xp9dp "like my grandparents house..." Mothballs, I bet it smells like mothballs. Y'know, like the household product, not an actual moth's balls.

[@thisisremlin324]

I remember choking on a pick in front of my mom and her just laughing at my dumbass while I struggled to cough it back up.

[@YogurtCookies-qp5hi]

Number 8 is something we all tried our best to make a song out of, but it never worked.

[@patrickdeblasio1976]

I read your comment, attempted it and in the process stabbed myself with the high e😂

[@CommonTime64]

"you know you're right" type beat

[@deliverant9375]

Running with the devil

[@bouquetforeverymisery]

Counting Worms by Knocked Loose, it’s dumb but I love it ^^

[@FluffyTrainz]

Tommy Emmanuel succeeded with Mombasa: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJnFaHePnMiqidE

[@secret-fbi-man]

1,3,4,8,10 and 12 all hit home for me lmao

[@ozzuwazzoo4124]

I’m not a guitarist but For a school project in elementary school we were all given ukuleles. I swear I’ve done almost all of these as soon as I got it lmao

[@flutenanyidk1806]

Some of them apply to musicians in general. The case one is funny because there are varying levels of concern. Percussion doesn't always have this problem, but from my experience, if they do, they don't care. Same with anyone who has a trash instrument. Brass is usually mildly concerned, but not too worried. Woodwinds and orchestra kids tend to panic because our babies are literal glass. Guitarists, from my experience, are usually the most normal musicians and don't tend to associate with the nerdy classical music kids too often because they don't get many chances. The guitarists in jazz band are usually trombonists that play every instrument in the world efficiently and have a lot of hobbies. 😆

[@lightningmcqueen24]

Same

[@barmacidic2257]

@@flutenanyidk1806 shit, is the jazz guitarists being trombonists universal? I thought it was just my high school bands.

[@whatdadawgdoin3039]

I remember everyone playing ukulele in 5th grade graduation, it probably sounded horribble

[@suburbanshatters]

Does that Includes number 12?

[@illstrangleyou5749]

The stench of the guitar is just- **inhales** *glue and natural wood*

[@dylankagan9695]

Aroma*

[@samyjoseph4798]

The smell of an acustic guitar gives me life Qué wea tantos likes, ta bien si

[@firecrackerberry7833]

I'm like it with Guitars, Ukuleles, Baritones and any wood instrument lol 😆

[@goodbye.moonman]

+1 thumbs up for In Absentia profile pic

[@rasm0225]

Yep. I love the smell of my cedar top classical

[@theawakeningghost5026]

Just got one for my birthday lol

[@TimBuktu666]

nothing better than a fresh oiled one 😌

[@thatguyusaw]

That back panel plastic thing was so accurate 😂😂😂

[@monkehm]

I've been playing for nearly twenty years and I still wince a bit while I'm tuning up a high E string.

[@underwoodvoice9077]

I also play pedal steel guitar. The high string on that is a .013 tuned to G#. If that's not scary enough, one pedal pulls that to A. I always lean WAY back while tuning that sucker.

[@underwoodvoice9077]

By the way, that's not the G# Sammy G is talking about...

[@ReizokoRyu]

God, the high E is such a scary little guy ... No amount of experience can toughen you up enough!

[@joermnyc]

Then you have a 12-string high E, “this is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!”

[@NicklePiefy]

@@joermnyc It's okay cause the extra one is thinner, but the same octave. That high G tho...

[@justinetillman4851]

*Yep, that's him officer, that's the guy whose been stalking my guitar life*

[@bohlalenchabeleng1370]

🤣🤣🤣🚶🏾‍♂️🚶🏾‍♂️

[@TheKitsune_Assassin]

The fact that almost every and any guitars have either played the stings by the head, chocked on their pick or smelled their new guitar is hilarious to me

[@immastranger6752]

Truth is the older the guitar.. the better the smell. You should get a whiff of my dad's 1965 Gibson Dove 🕊. My gramps bought it brand new. Never smelled better than now.

[@TimberlyPL]

Since i play mostly classical guitar i rarely use picks so i don't have chance to choke on them but by now im suprised i don't have permanent marks on my fingera from putting them inside a capo

[@tylercady3985]

@@TimberlyPL I've done the power ballad thing of having my classical on a stand on stage and switching between that and the electric. I once choked on my pick on stage because I put it in my mouth while playing the classical intro for The Unforgiven

[@KnikkyBastard]

Never choked my pic or smelled my ax ever lmao

[@XPlodeBoom]

Turning up the volume to full and joining the guitar 💀

[@IcecreamCat23]

I’m not a guitarist, but I am a violin player and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve packed up and realized I left my bow out

[@enbee_ash6740]

Oooft me too but with cello. Or you leave your rosin out and your like yeah I'll put it in next time and that fucker disappears to the deepest depts of time and space

[@IcecreamCat23]

@@enbee_ash6740 then you buy new rosin (which is like, $10 mind you) only to find your old one somewhere obvious

[@enbee_ash6740]

@@IcecreamCat23 hhahaha exactly

[@DannyRoss_]

@@IcecreamCat23 I think this is just a universal thing for all musicians, whether it’s a guitar pick, rosin etc There’ll always be something that just vanishes into the void

[@hugomartinez6519]

@@DannyRoss_ what can a piano player lose?

[@laurendukes3099]

There's a very talented guitarist I work with on occasions who regularly will start our gigs thinking he's having a full Amp failure. Only to find, it wasn't plugged into his guitar 😄

[@Kamikazeman1234]

Dropping your pick into the sound hole and shaking your guitar furiously to get it out

[@jesushernandez-gw2qj]

Oh my god, that happens to me a lot 😂

[@courtneyraiyn-eshaiyn7815]

Best one 😂

[@Dampramp-o4u]

Even the rooster in Robin Hood snaps a string while tuning

[@danielvelazquez6169]

As a guitarist, I can relate to this, specially in the second one, I once swallowed my favorite pick during a call 😂😂

[@Qofkidwhrbd]

Well one time when I was young I accidentally swolloed a button while chewing it in my mouth I was like... "well that happened" When I peed later I saw it in the toilet so all good I told my mom ofc 5 years later

[@TheBrickagon]

Somehow I can relate to many of these and I barely touched a guitar in my life 😂😂

[@greyarea8081]

@@Qofkidwhrbd it's more disturbing if you're a guy

[@Qofkidwhrbd]

@@greyarea8081 i- how-? - _ - Delete this now

[@shadowworld2488]

You forgot the one where you drop the pic inside the acoustic and try for about an hour getting it out

[@8WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot8]

I just leave it there for when I don't have a pic & need one lol 😊

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

@@8WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot8 yes my guitar slowly starts to sound like a snare because of all the pics

[@HPalternetive]

Yeah and usually it wont get out after that even

[@sammygutierrez9048]

You forgot the best part of the last mistake, connecting the cable with the amp cranked up, pedals all on, and missing the input jack many times as the room is filled with distorted echoing crackle, hums, and pops.

[@sebastienarthur6405]

Sticking your finger on the end of the cut 9. So many painful memories...

[@zarithayep2968]

That coin strumming reminds me of "look at this photograph"😂

[@jayce-__-_-_-]

That might have been the joke considering it was a nickel

[@kuurojdja8562]

Lol

[@JoeOrber]

Brian May, from Queen, always played with a coin and he sounded fantastic

[@kurtniederstadt97]

Billy Gibbons declared he used a peso at times back in his earlier years. All of us went out looking for the coin.😂😂

[@JSK_Technology01]

Yeah 😂😂

[@reyhananiz5099]

When you unplug the headphones from the guitar and accidentally _touch_ a string:

[@davidfallows6153]

Only just started playing a few days ago and I've already done a few of these 😃

[@sammykeepers1813]

Witch ones have you done?

[@Will-rj1sb]

@@sammykeepers1813 mind your business boy

[@knekoosh1613]

@@Will-rj1sb he just wanna know damn

[@alexasalazar1019]

Fr me too poking the strings 😭

[@bruhbruh3642]

@@knekoosh1613 that’s what I’m sayin

[@prestidigitation3924]

Number 13 applies to every instrument that has a case. And you know you've done it more than once.

[@MajorFenix]

My saxophone...

[@tsobf242]

I did that with my clarinet at least once. The worst.

[@emorcen]

After the first few times you just treat the dents as vintage marks :(

[@markohauck1660]

13 in more extreme (open gigbag swung on shoulder, guitar fell 1,5m to the floor) happend to me 5 min before I had my audition for music school. Unreal shock moment

[@autumnalburn]

Happened a few times with my violin. Thankfully the bridge didn't break