Hilarious Blunders I Made Learning Guitar

[@puredragonn]

when i started playing guitar, i thought that if the tuners were aligned it was in tune.

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Hahaha rite on lol

[@marathon8123]

me too

[@goy1849]

@MrWarden504 The dark ages

[@superbaby8799]

only if it was that simple

[@zoranhome]

Oh no lol

[@pzhikcloethaegeslikhrethyi4225]

When I started learning guitar, I didn’t know how to tune at all, so instead of learning the names of the strings and tuning them accordingly. I googled pictures of tuned guitar pegs and changed them to look like the images I found

[@user-zb8tq5pr4x]

You weren't the sharpest note in the tab, were you

[@loud6037]

Lmao :D

[@sundigest1121]

omg Im dead

[@zemeira3074]

I used to do the same thing xDD

[@fhirdvnk7327]

You must be small

[@vtvr7681]

The master has failed more than the beginner has tried.

[@HamburgerMolester]

I wish someone told me that when I was a teen. Its applicable to life in general.

[@domenickrathof984]

I really wish I found this before submitting my senior quote lol

[@KimionTM]

My hilarious blunder: For the first 3 months i was wearing my guitar on my neck without putting my arm through it like you normally would. Thats also why i had neck pain after a while

[@bubbasawyerr]

oh my god, i did the same thing. when i visited my uncle from illinois he finally showed me how to actually use a strap.

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Oof i figured that out like a few minutes after wearing a strap for the first time. I thought I bought a strap that wasn’t good xD

[@roccojc8071]

Kimion omg same!

[@parthibnagenmaten]

You’re not alone

[@steel3454]

Kimion I did the same thing after playing for over a year. I didn’t play with a strap much.

[@TheHannes1996]

I wrote my first song on a guitar that was out of tune. One day my dad thought that it would be a good idea to tune the guitar for me, since I obviously didn't know how to do it. I went to play my song and it sounded nothing like the other times i played it. I was so angry. I thought the fucking guy just killed my music career.

[@guitarplayer9000]

My man making microtonal music before it was cool

[@cursedcliff7562]

This is giving off some serious John Frusciante vibes

[@seanclancy9746]

I had the same experience, and 20 years later, I still haven’t quite been able to recreate it

[@kozhikkaalan]

XD

[@ThomasNimmesgern]

Too much order can kill you.

[@FernandoReyesL]

My hilarious blunder: I thought I could make a living out of music. Still laughing 14 years later

[@GuisoBoy]

: (

[@RPSchonherr]

Me 41 years later and still looking for my big break... or at least someone to play along with me.

[@horizon5417]

Rip

[@metalforlife4ever]

Hahah

[@FernandoReyesL]

@lion dude, come on! Its a joke. But you are actually tremendously wrong, there are tons of musicians making a living out of playing 1 instrument

[@IanGregoryBlain]

I once bought the tablature to Hotel California and because it said "played with 12 string" at the top, I figured that the tab was useless because the numbers started with 7 and 9 and I thought those were the string numbers. I brought it to a teacher to have it "transposed for normal guitar" and he said that the numbers on the tab were fret numbers. I still feel stupid to this day

[@Amnct]

I’ve been playing 8 years now and had no idea why it would say played with 12 string. Had to look it up to see it’s just a double necked guitar.

[@amelyalilyorme1247]

Amnct1221 usually a 12 string guitar is only 1 neck, but each string is doubled, either by the same note, or an octave higher

[@althejazzman]

@@Amnct A double neck guitar isn't a sound as such. You can't play both necks at once unless you have 4 hands. A double neck guitar usually has one 6-string neck, and one 12-string neck so you can switch between them within the song.

[@IanGregoryBlain]

@@althejazzman Yeah you guys are right, It's pretty clearly a 12 string if you listen to it. Imagine the nightmare of thinking I'd have to play a double neck guitar at the same time 😂

[@TK-oj2ml]

@@Amnct and that is mostly because if u want to play it live, you gotta use the 12 string neck for the opening (and rhythm part, if u want) and the 6 string of course for the solo, 'cause it's almost impossible to play the solo on the 12 string neck with that very light G string (a 9 or 8 gauge G4 tuned string to be exact), and of course you can't just bend a couple of strings like a normal one but if u record in a studio or you have someone dealing with the solo and you're playing rhythm and that intro only, then just a normal 12 string is enough. You can even split that into 2 6 string (a normal one and a nashville-tuned one for cleaner sound)

[@Turt3752]

When I first tried playing my sister’s electric guitar while she was at college (I was 15), I thought the strings should be tuned to a scale. I knew that low E was the lowest note. So, I went E, F#, G#, A, B, C#.

[@1m3agle]

Tbf it kinda makes sense

[@Turt3752]

Daniel Cook I’m a trombone/euph player, so I wasn’t musically ignorant. Just guitar ignorant

[@1m3agle]

@@Turt3752 honestly I could understand that conclusion. Makes sense at surface level

[@GodsUnrulyFriends]

I play sitar. The "tarb" (sympathetic strings under the frets) are actually tuned to the notes of the raga one is playing.

[@casperes0912]

There's enough alternate tunings out there you probably could make it work

[@louis8290]

I didn't know that distortion was an effect made by pedals, I thought an unplugged electric guitar would make that sound naturally.

[@noir371]

I thought that at first too, I was like why does it sound wrong😂 Got so upset

[@JLG7869]

One time when i did not own an electric I really wanted to play smoke on the water on electric guitar. So I was at a music store and I just grabbed a guitar and sat down and tried to play. I was very disapointed.

[@33114567]

Same here ☹️

[@mehmed6529]

How?!?? How does one even think of such a thing?

[@zachinabox2951]

When I played guitar at like 7 all I wanted to do was play AC/DC songs and couldn’t figure out how they got it to sound so mean, so I thought it was the guitar I had that just wasn’t able to make those kinds of sounds. Quit playing bc of it.

[@JBergmansson]

The string around the thumb is generally hilarious.

[@ej832]

this comment is generally hilarious

[@PrivateParticular]

Do you mean “genuinely”?

[@JBergmansson]

@@PrivateParticular No, I simply mean that it's a case of the timeless classic "the string around the thumb", a joke which never fails to incite laughter.

[@shanemiller2046]

Do any of you actually believe that? True story here... I was in Prison ... The monkeys tie a string around their toe and to they're Wang to play with it all the day long.

[@melsantonil]

hahahaha yea right!!!!

[@TheNerdyGinger]

I bought a WAH pedal because for some reason I thought “A.H.” on guitar tabs was some unnecessary abbreviation for wAH 😂

[@ItsMeVolatility]

TheNerdyGinger That’s pretty good lol

[@nehemiahzo_]

I knew you were the WWE guy

[@kirkhammet5697]

Good choice.

[@swagmiredoesall]

Idek what A.H. on guitar tabs means

[@pureviolet2742]

@@swagmiredoesall harmonic

[@Bill-Door]

When I started learning guitar, the very first thing I would do was go on youtube and find video lessons of scales or easy riffs. I would watch the lesson, see where the guy put his fingers and would draw 6 lines to represent each string and use numbers for each fret, sort of like my own crude version of guitar tab. After a few months of this, I could play the blues scale smoothly and a couple simple riffs, so I thought I would start looking up real guitar tab and try learning songs that way but everything I played from tab just sounded horrible. "Who the hell wrote this? It sounds all wrong". It took me longer than I would like to admit, before I realised that the tabs I wrote myself were actually upside down when compared to the legit tabs that the rest of the world uses. It's as if I had taught myself how to read and write right to left.

[@yeknommonkey]

Billy Door KZbin is such a gift. We used to pass around photocopy’s of tab that someone Sourced from a guy they knew... i learned to play songs I’d never heard as that was the tab that was going spare. With no Spotify etc to listen you had to hope your parents owned it on vinyl. I learned blackbird from tab having never heard the song. It was such a beautiful listen when I finally got to hear it many years later.

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Lol thats cute

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

xD

[@dodecafono]

When I learned flamenco guitar techniques by myself, I learned the finger rasgueo in the inverse way, I mean index, middle, ring and pinky instead of pinky, ring, middle and index...

[@TheFeralcatz]

@@yeknommonkey Jesus it's hard to imagine playing Blackbird without ever hearing it. Lowkey kind of impressed if you managed to pull it off.

[@jville7474]

You ever tape a long LEGO piece with clear hockey tape on the 2nd fret as a capo to play Wonderwall?

[@TheFeralcatz]

There's nothing wrong with a good improvised capo! A pen can work too in a pinch.

[@Scott-J]

Canadian intensifies!

[@ipappim7336]

@@TheFeralcatz I use pencils with rubber band

[@tinyj4520]

Why not a screwdriver and rubber band?

[@Starfire-nv3nk]

How about a capo with a rubberband

[@tomasmunoz508]

My hilarious blunder: I started learning guitar whe i was 14 year old. I had a spanish guitar, but i liked rock n roll, so i learned power chords and bending notes. Here's the thing: spanish guitar's strings are really thick, and it requires a lot of bending to go 1 tone higher... so i got used to bend really hard... when i got my first Electric guitar 3 years later, the first song that i played was Layla by eric clapton, and just as i played the intro solo I broke the HI E string... i tried then knocking on heavens door's first solo and i broke the G string...

[@tiihtu2507]

Holy s---- 🤣

[@cosmic_guy3897]

Looks like your set to play some David Gilmour now

[@cyav.e3234]

That's a blessing and a curse at the same time lol

[@cursedcliff7562]

Congratulations, you are now qualified to bend on bass

[@katchupp5067]

exactly the same exerience what can i say besides spanish guitars are really cheap.

[@Valto4life]

This is not a hilarious blunder, but a sad one. I was just starting to play electric guitar and I used to get my strings changed at a small local guitar store once every few months. It was usually the experienced owner who serviced me so he knew I was a total beginner and handled the thing from beginning to end. One time I came in and at the counter was a new guy who worked there. I asked to have my strings changed like normal and he told me to pick which ones I wanted from their selection. I had no idea what to pick or that there even was a choice beyond what brand you wanted so I went with the ones that had a cool looking spider on the front. They were DR mega heavy strings meant for drop tuning, probably 12 or even 13 gauge when I needed just regular 9 gauge. He then asked what tuning I normally played at, to which I confidently answer "normal" since I had no idea what he was talking about but didn't want to seem uncool. The new guy said he'd try, but he wasn't sure if he could do it and told me to come back in an hour or so. When I went back, he was there waiting for me with the manager of the store. He had completely broken the nut of my guitar and the neck had a huge crack at the back of the slimmest part of the neck close to the tuning pegs. I had bought my guitar from them a year earlier so they just gave me a brand new one of the same model as compensation (I was seconds away from crying at this point) and the new guy got fired because of me.

[@666makasin]

Holy shit! Can't imagine how scary that was but it's weird that guitar couldn't handle heavy strings in standard tuning. Some bluesman use 12's in standard tuning, just need some truss rod loosening. Guy is a dumbass through that he haven't explained you properly that you're better off with lighter strings from same manufacturer.

[@HECKproductions]

well its kinda his own fault too since he should know either to ajust the truss rod or not to do it at all if the model couldnt handle it

[@aliatheli]

Yeah, one of the first things I was told when I went into guitar center legit yesterday and asked about strings was what gauge. I told him whatever was normally used, so he gave me 12s and he told me that the gauge is super important to not change as it’s going to stress the neck out/ can be very bad for your guitar without proper setup as I would be changing them myself. (I have a steel string acoustic btw) But seriously, if you don’t know what you are looking for, picking through strings is a lot. There are so many options. But at least you got a new guitar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@f1rebreather123]

Valto very sad, but it was kind of the employees fault

[@TheVamxie]

Should have told man to not get fired just train him

[@anotheruser9876]

String Theory noun To attach ones thumb to ones big toe for rhythm consistency.

[@lvbboi9]

Physics teacher: *heavy breathing*

[@jarecl]

I lost it when he played here comes the sun with the string lmao

[@hanreality.7266]

Jarecl me too!

[@OttosTheName]

I thought that was kind of brilliant tbh :p that would have been the best hack if it had worked.

[@hanreality.7266]

OttoNL can you imagine how annoying it would be for your thumb though? Constantly being yanked? 😂👍

[@TheNinnyfee]

Me, too. That blunder was so fun!

[@cybrunel1016]

One of the funnest blunders I've made in my youth was re-stringing and old classical with steel strings. Put it back in the case for a few weeks, and lo and behold found some decent firewood when I opened the case. Oops !

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Lmao!! I did the same thing. Except my guitar actually kept together pretty well. For around 50 quid, Im actually very very surprised now looking back at it. Even the neck isn’t warped!!

[@TheNinnyfee]

Yep, guilty as well. I was lucky, one of the strings snapped because there was too much tension on it. Then I guessed that these were the wrong strings and my guitar survived. Close call, though! :D

[@Yngsatchvai]

Same! My mother let me have her old folk guitar so i put steels on it and heard a loud POW while having supper. It ripped the bridge right off😣😁

[@matthewstephens8630]

I swear when I was reading this, I literally felt the exact heart dropping/soul crushing you must have felt upon the first glance inside your guitar case. Ow. So sorry. 😥

[@cybrunel1016]

@@Yngsatchvai Yep, I heard a POW too, and loud enough to wake me up in the middle of the night, lol.

[@reno145]

My guitar blunder is not from a playing standpoint, but rather an instrument standpoint. I was at the NAMM show with the store I worked for and we were at the Fender booth. They had a new line of Strats and a voice behind me asked what I thought. Without turning around, I went on and on about how much I hated the Floyd Rose bridges because they were harder to string and adjust than the Kahlers. As I continue, I turn around to see the name tag on person who asked the question. Yep. I had just spent the better part of an entire minute ragging on Floyd Rose bridges to none other than Floyd Rose himself.

[@reno145]

@Matthew As I recall some 30 years later, he didn’t have much of a reaction. My reaction was “holy crap…….”. I tried to salvage the situation by saying double locking bridges on all the series would have been better, but I understood the need for a more economical price point, even if it would make selling these a bit more difficult. Why? Because people who didn’t know much about the physics of guitar playing would just see Floyd Rose, know that is what EVH uses, and then be confused because their guitars wouldn’t stay in tune. (Note: This was way before the advent of locking tuners. That series went away quickly, but the HM Strat soldiered on and was a great seller for us.)

[@BeamMonsterZeus]

@@reno145 You may have influenced the man to make some improvements, all things considered.

[@karadajz_zvani_dokolenko]

holy fuck i would've just died of embarrassment

[@wotelle545]

I had the Star Wars soundtrack on cd and when I was like 6 I told my dad to come into my room bc I learned the main theme on my guitar, what I did was popped in the cd hit play and hit the low e string to roughly the melody of the song

[@guitardemon778]

When i started i wanted to learn metal(-core) on guitar. So i just looked at some tabs and after a hard time learning these fast riffs i played along to the songs. There was one thing i didn't realize: there's a difference between drop b and standard e... I heard it didn't sound like the original guitar parts but i thought that's because they used a better type of distortion...

[@J.Shambles]

Guilty. Except I did this on an acoustic guitar so I thought that was the reason it didn't sound right

[@themightymcb7310]

Yeah I did this. I didn't know what drop D was for a good 6 months because I was too busy learning Metallica riffs to notice. Then I tried to play The Thing That Should Not Be and that didn't work out well at all.

[@adancein]

I was always soo annoyed with all these people and their non-standard-tuning. Often, I would play along to a song and suddenly go: "ah f'ck you, why does it have to be in e flat?" I was too lazy to tune up the song by a half step or my guitar down. I simply stopped learning the song. Eventually, I bought a 7-string.

[@jugalgogoi9113]

@@adancein yeah right. and if you a little varied taste, like if you go from slipknot to beatles to jimi hendrix standard tuned strat will annoy you.

[@thehonkening1]

@@adancein I'm like that to this day. Haven't even begun learning a lot of my favorite Alice In Chains and Hendrix songs cuz I'm too lazy to tune down to Eb

[@GuelermeDias]

"My first blunder was trying to learn the riff to Smells Like Teen Spirit and almost stumbling upon More Than a Feeling by Boston"

[@pavidus]

GuelermeDias reminds me when nirvana did that before playing smells like teen spirit at the reading festival back in 1992

[@danielpedic154]

I violently coughed when he said he tuned his guitar down an octave

[@savethewhales7256]

That one didnt age well

[@emileberlinerblau]

@@savethewhales7256 WAS ABOUT TO SAY!

[@daishoryujin95]

Ah, I see that you're allergic to bad decisions.

[@alonewanderer4697]

i tuned my lowest string down a fifth and actually was able to still play lol

[@mk_rexx]

Just so you know, I once (few times actually) converted my first acoustic guitar into an acoustic bass using only two E strings, an A string, and a D string. Needless to say, the intonation is horrible but I'm poor and I love bass so I just make use of it. Fortunately, we bought a $60 5-string bass that only needed a basic setup. Unfortunately, the acoustic guitar earlier is still subject to my torture and is currently an octave mandolin-ish thing. Enjoy coughing

[@jgrrv686]

When I got my first guitar I was messing around with the tuning pegs and accidentally snapped the high E string. I completely freaked out and started crying thinking I had broken it and was scared to tell my mom. I eventually did and I was quite happy to hear from here that strings break all the time and are easily replaced.

[@zoomosis]

It's scary when this happens on a piano.

[@cursedcliff7562]

@@zoomosis *casually playing piano* VERY LOUD SNAP "oh no"

[@karadajz_zvani_dokolenko]

same

[@ShallieDragon]

My hilarious blunder: being given an acoustic guitar, despite wanting to learn to play rock and metal. I thought all players started on acoustic, and then "upgraded" to electric.

[@666makasin]

My parents thought the same way. They said electric guitar was expensive and I have to learn acoustic before approaching electric anyway so after few weeks I was bored with it and stopped trying. After 7years I still dreamed playing punk and metal and was finally able to afford my first electric guitar. I'm so sad that I wasted so much time but I'm grateful that I was still able to achieve my dream.

[@mikemacpherson8138]

This happened to me as well. My folks bought me an acoustic to learn on so that I could later upgrade to electric. My folks also told me I had to learn how to ski before learning how to snowboard. Not sure where they found this logic. There was no internet back then.

[@cris5555]

Shal Music FX That's what they say at schools where I live hahaha

[@EpicurusWasRight]

Shal Music FX There are a lot of elitists and “experts” who mislead beginners telling them to start with acoustic and learn electric after.

[@J__C__]

And many people think that to this day. When I told everyone 2 weeks ago that I was going to buy a guitar to learn, they automatically assumed people start on acoustics and then move to electric guitars. My sister even offered to lend me my nephew's acoustic guitar that he got last Christmas...hahano. Nope. I was told to buy an electric first because they're actually easier to learn for beginners. And that's exactly what I did. 5 days in and I still haven't learned very much. A few chords, so far. Turns out, I have zero finger dexterity right now lol. Gotta keep practicing 👍

[@sanyo_neezy]

Sammy G: *tells a hillarous Story* Sammy G's face and voice: hillarious 😐

[@frabert]

That ornithology solo sounded like perfectly normal jazz to me, to be honest.

[@counterfeit1148]

The entire thing is in the wrong key, every note should be one note higher.

[@cameronphoenixrose882]

I was hoping I wasn't the only one that thought it sounded fine! (besides the last note, that was gross)

[@J.Shambles]

After playing acoustic guitar for a couple years, I bought an electric guitar that had a tremelo system with a locking nut. I didn't know what a locking nut was and assumed that that's just how nuts look on electric guitars. So I tried tuning up and wondered why it wouldn't get any closer to the correct note no matter how much I turned the tuning machine until the string broke and I realized something was not right.

[@corbynjanes13]

I did the exact same thing when I was learning guitar. My mom bought me a white strat with I locking nut and I broke it before a even played a song

[@viewycuquito4203]

djentyjosh213 me when i got my tremolo ibanez for the first year(this means i never restringed it myself), until i got it restringed at sam ash and figured it out.

[@setheinsteiner2980]

My hilarious blunder was thinking les pauls were called "humbucker guitars". I thought this was right until people started looking at me weirdly when I said "I have an Epiphone Humbucker".

[@petersenior5432]

Yes, I literally just have a humbucker pickup ripped from an epiphone guitar

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

Billy Gibbons wanted 'one of those guitars with the big pick-ups'. A friend was visiting some legendary store & ended up buying him a firebird because it was the only guitar that had "big pickups". So you're in good company

[@chaddonschaddons7084]

My biggest blunder was at around 2001 or 2002, I was in my grandfathers cornfield at night and there was some sort of light coming from the roadway so I started running and heard some incredible music that was so unbelievably original. Everything was absolutely perfect from the melody, harmonics, rythym and even the guy singing was just perfect. It was the Greatest song in the world but I forgot how it went. That blunder of forgetting it will haunt me for the rest of my life.

[@FacePomagranate]

I hear the very musicians who performed that fateful night forgot how the song went too... But they made a pretty good tribute to it.

[@alikamran6414]

I could never find a guitar teacher so I bought a CD of Bert Casey's lessons. I somehow had managed to play a couple of simple tunes on piano by ear. But listening to Bert's lessons, especially on tuning the guitar was a mission that went on for several days. I tried to tune by listening the note he played, and the most hilarious tuning I did was EEEEEE :D

[@TRNFloyd]

When I started, I started with the "song that must not be played in music stores" and didn't know how to do the finger picking for it in the intro. I assumed it just had to be played really quickly. I also taught myself via tabs which, 12-13 years ago online we're not the greatest quality, which didn't help. I remember showing it to some guy over the phone and he laughed at my mistakes. I've since corrected those mistakes. lol

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

I’ve always learnt by ear. No lessons whatsoever. ;)

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Well actually I did only use tabs for Wonderwall, but thats because i wasn’t bother to properly learn it, i just wanted to play it for the sake of having a guitar and being able to play wonderwall. Lmao.

[@douglassmithe9799]

Assuming you're referring to Stairway to Heaven, my older brother made that exact same mistake hahaha

[@no_nameyouknow]

@Raul Smoke in the Water can actually be played by new players though, that is the point Stairway is more difficult so players tend to butcher it.

[@ethanpederson]

Yeah you definitely shouldn’t play Smells Like Smoke on the Stairway to Wonderwall in music stores.

[@RyanWreckcrow]

Well, I used to play palm mutes with my left hand, while wondering how could I play palm mutes on other notes if I had my hand "locked" on the top of the nut. My cousin who let me borrow his guitar: "this is how you tune your guitar, this is how you hold a pick, this is a power chord.. I'm going on a trip, see ya in a year".. He forgot to tell me what a palm mute is and how, so I thought I made a genius move by resting my left hand close to the nut, to basically make a palm mute, though no one had ever come up with something so awesome. Boy was I wrong..

[@eldong5250]

lol I think J Mascis did that too, he said it wasn't until well into his career that he learned to palm mute

[@BigCleverName]

Yeah I always thought palm muting was in the left hand

[@12babyapes59]

Hendrix used his forearm to mute.

[@pepito217]

Yeah that sucks... I learned that palm mute should be done with the right hand very early on, but i used to do it in normal strumming position - over the pickups - and wondered why it just sounded like ghost notes

[@vapid2689]

When I was 15 I convinced my little step brother that he wanted a guitar (step mom would buy him one but not me). He got a guitar, amp, the works. He played for one week then left it alone. My plan worked! It was when I commandeered his setup that I discovered I'm a left handed guitar player. Oh well, I at least got to pose for some cool pics for my livejournal.

[@TheFeralcatz]

So close, yet so far.

[@m.i.qurashi2456]

What are you talking about, I am a left handed person myself and I can easily play normal guitars.

[@vapid2689]

@@m.i.qurashi2456 ...good for you?

[@m.i.qurashi2456]

@@vapid2689 I mean to say that you can still learn how to play guitar

[@AnyDrug]

....and the amp was left handed too..? xD

[@shehzaanaabdulla3047]

When I first attempted to tune my guitar I clipped the tuner onto the strings... like a capo. This made perfect sense to me since surely the tuner is measuring the strings, right? It also didn’t help that my tuner had the string numbers backwards (referring to low strings with low numbers), which was pretty confusing. It took me almost two hours of trial and error before everything clicked... and yet this was one of the most satisfying moments for me on guitar.

[@hvze9848]

When I started playing bass I thought you actually had to slap the strings. Like, an open-palm pimp slap. My strings filed a restraining order a month later.

[@stavborochov1673]

5:15 I do not believe you actually did that. Thats wayyyy too stupid.

[@samuraiguitarist]

Lol you give me too much credit. It is 100 percent true.

[@stavborochov1673]

@@samuraiguitarist young stoner

[@patrickftw8464]

Stupid, or absolutely genius? Innovative af

[@gitsurfer27]

"There's a thin line between smart and...stupid" - Spinal tap

[@DirtJunkie1620]

It's fucking genius! 😂😂

[@Hennu_TRM]

There were a couple days where I legit thought 0-3-4 was smoke on the water. Fortunately, my ear corrected that one before I embarrassed myself in front of anyone.

[@theholymackerel1066]

Similar to that: I thought that playing the open E string twice, then open D string, then open A string twice... sounded like the intro to Enter Sandman. Trouble is...I played it in front of people before my ear corrected it. Haha

[@GiovanniMascheroni]

Me too. But I thought it was 0-2-4. And I indeed embarrassed myself in front of people

[@thehonkening1]

@@theholymackerel1066 omg that's hilarious

[@grogueQ]

@@theholymackerel1066 you probably don't even remember writing this since it was 3 years ago, but your comment reminded me of what I thought the Blues progression was: E to A to D. I told my friend who played too, I said hey play this, I'm going to jam over it, but then when I tried something just didn't sound right.

[@onlyfromadistance7326]

We all gotta start somewhere... I've been starting for many years now...

[@nateorion2957]

Then u ain't practice enough my guy, I been playing for a few months and I'm already starting to put together my own cord progressions and riffs, and right now I'm working on a song, it definitely takes time, so if you invest enough into learning you will come out on top eventually, keep it up my guy, and you'll learn, but if you keep setting it down for a couple weeks it won't make a difference, or at least not a big enough one, so I encourage you to pick it up every day, don't take this the wrong way, just do you and keep working on it and I know you can do it 💯

[@luthien47]

@@nateorion2957 you know there's ways to be positive without being a condescending asshole

[@babayaga1767]

so you younger guys wont' understand this but, when i started playing bass in the 70s, i didn't know that my turntable played a half step fast. so i learned everything in closed keys. imagine whole lotta love in F.

[@jamessalva4192]

5:28 this is what sunrise sounds like in hell

[@humbledtolearned]

🤣🤣

[@jazzram_]

lol

[@SG-wj2qj]

Got my first guitar, Didn't know what the f*** I was doing but I was told to change the rusty strings. Legit tied a knot through the tuning peg. It somewhat worked (the look on my guitar teachers face was priceless) Also when I did that, I didn't have a tuner. Couldn't tune by ear (oviously) and just kept turning the pegs until the only chord I knew how to play (G chord) sounded correct. Boy was I off haha

[@JadoLT7]

When I tried to learn guitar, I didn’t know that strumming or picking patterns existed, so basically when trying to learn an Ed Sheehan song, on ultimate guitar, anytime I saw an Em, G, C and a D, I only strummed that single chord and waited until the next chord came along

[@RPSchonherr]

Not necessarily wrong.

[@akaherb8815]

Rookie but not incorrect per se

[@diakounknown1225]

I guess it works.

[@iantaakalla8180]

That song is simple enough that that would work if you were playing that song.

[@OsbornIOW]

I really like and appreciate You Tube Guitar players (Or any You Tubers) that kind of open up and give true accounts of there mistakes and/or weaknesses. Nice to know they are just as human....

[@Huskermats02]

I was set to perform at a benefit concert at my school and I knew I wanted to do something unexpected to blow the crowd away in the middle of my set, so I decided to make my guitar do a 360° ZZ Top spin. I practiced it a couple of times in the school foyer before the show started and 3 out of the 4 times: I smacked myself in the face with the headstock of my guitar! On the fourth time I practiced, I ended up hitting myself so hard, it knocked my glasses off of my face (they didn't break fortunately). During my set, the song has a sound break and that's when I did my guitar spin...but this time, my guitar did NOT hit me in the face: albeit it came down harder than I thought and smacked me in the hand. The audience roared in applause as I had hoped and this gave me enough time to adjust my guitar and continue the song. It went so well that I even received a standing ovation.

[@ZOBENGRAUZIS]

Thats not a blunder - thats lucky dude

[@EricssonB]

“...confidence than skill...” Ouch. Me at guitar club during lunch in high school.

[@darcybrennan8287]

When I had only been playing guitar for a couple of weeks, I went to my teacher and asked if I could learn beast of burden by the Rolling Stones. We learnt it, and my puny fingers were hurting. So my guitar teacher said that Keith Richards played in open G tuning, and that songs like this are much easier to play in that tuning. My little idiotic brain some how got open G tuning mixed up with tuning my A string up to a G. Long story short, the a string snapped in my face, I had a bleeding lip, and I did not know how to restring a guitar. Looking back on this blunder, I find it pretty hilarious.

[@AstralElephantFuzz]

To be fair, that's on your teacher. He should've showed you open G tuning after telling you about it. I know guitarists that have played for several years but couldn't tune to open G simply because they haven't had use for it and thus don't know what it is. Assuming someone who has played for just couple of weeks knows open tunings is plain stupid.

[@jimandrew1380]

When I first started playing guitar at the age of 12 no-one had ever told me that the strings could snap so when it happened practicing one day I didn't play for another month as I was saving up money for a whole new guitar...... Not my finest moment.

[@Bladavia]

I got a teacher pretty quick, so I avoided a lot of stupid stuff, but before that I had learned basic chords with diagrams found online. Turns out pretty much all of them were wrong. From that day I learned to be very careful with online resources. However I loved tinkering with my guitar. I had a cheap Ibanez S with a ZR-2 bridge (basically a Floyd Rose), and while changing my strings once, I thought it would be a good idea to adjust the tension of the spring behind the guitar, even though there was no reason to. I showed up to the next lesson with the bridge completely tilted forward, basically at a 30° angle with the body of the guitar. Thankfully it was an easy fix, just tensioning the spring back. However, another guitar I tortured was my grandparents', it was a cheap strat copy that was only used as decoration on the wall. It had no vibrato bar on the bridge, so while trying it, I put a screwdriver in the hole and used it as a lever to create some vibrato. Turns out it was way too much force, and I had bent the bridge. Dive bombs on a Strat is a bad idea. That guitar would never be in tune again.

[@zoomosis]

Reading that last part, I honestly think it was just the cheap bridge that let you down. You can dive bomb on a Strat with no real problem. Look at some old videos of Randy Rhoads playing his Flying V, eg. the song "Mr Crowley" from the "After Hours" TV show. This was in a time before Floyd Rose bridges became popular, and as far as I know his V had a regular Strat bridge, or close to it. And of course Jimi Hendrix did huge whammy dives on his Strats, and his whammy bar was on the wrong side on account of his guitars being upside down...

[@TheNinnyfee]

No. 4 should be titled "Here comes the thumb", I loved that so much! :) I recently blundered, I got my first steel-string guitar and picked at the same spot on the guitar I picked my nylon-string on. I then wondered why it was so hard to pick the strings and why it sounded a little quiet. I then looked down and realized the sound-hole was to the left of my hand and closer to the frets than on my nylon-guitar... Fixed that easily and now practicing is way more fun, but if course I rolled my eyes regarding my stupidity.

[@christophergutierrez8966]

When i first started i for some reason thought you were supposed to lightly touch the strings instead of pushing them down, so i would just mute the strings and couldn’t figure out what was wrong until my dad told me

[@Woah.its.alex_]

HAHA me too, i was so frustrated why i couldn't play anything and my guitar teacher was like "you have to push down on the string" o__o

[@BeamMonsterZeus]

Ah right, this is my first blunder too

[@davidpiersimoni9844]

5:15. You didn’t get a piece of string, you got a hockey skate lace because that’s how it’s done in Manitoba

[@krisimanasieva422]

KZbin “2 comments” Also KZbin “you can’t view them”

[@protostargaming3972]

Ah yes. You have a very unique comment. I've never seen it on any other videos!

[@krisimanasieva422]

Protostar Gaming your so right 🤣

[@alexisthibodeau1300]

krisi Manasieva haha you just had to put the comments "newest first" because they are set to "most popular first"

[@matthewe0218]

My guitarist blunder: I played guitar for a year before switching to bass

[@cursedcliff7562]

Checkmate yourself

[@DaedalusYoung]

Why did you keep SLAPping your guitar?

[@mikeroch9775]

Why is a davie504 fan watching a guitar video! Checkmate small pp man

[@CalebLiu]

who else couldn't tell if he was playing Ornithology right or wrong.

[@BubbleManxx]

Huh, sounds pretty good. Sammy G: "Sounds pretty rough, doesn't it?" Sounds pretty rough, yeah.

[@habbidasher6937]

Yep. Sounded fine to me. Turns out I'm very dense about jazz.

[@kaspafischer]

SG just played it in a different key than what Charlie Parker played... otherwise, it was fine... LOL

[@no_nameyouknow]

He was playing it right just two frets too low, not really a big deal for a guitarist. Just move it up two frets and done. Not like piano, you have to basically relearn a song to transpose it. One of the benefits of guitar over piano. Of course a piano is infinitely easier to see what notes you are playing, you can teach someone to read a keyboard in like a minute but some people never memorize a guitar fret board.

[@conquerncam]

guess im just into polytonal music

[@dufresnead11]

ok, but now i need to know who the NHLer is!!!

[@VoIcanoman]

Going to go out on a limb here and suggest it was Ryan Reaves. Could be wrong, but same age, same school, same city. Not too many people it could be. Also, he's on record as having played drums when he was younger.

[@dufresnead11]

@@VoIcanoman I feel like i remember him mentioning it on Spittin' Chiclets, but i could be way off. Thats pretty cool tho, I imagine Reavo could slam on the drums!

[@lolthatshilarious5602]

I was gonna guess Carey Price, also same age, and has been in a scrap or two. He said "if he wasnt busy beating people up". Hope we get an answer

[@dufresnead11]

@@lolthatshilarious5602 well sense Carey Price has only ever been in 1 recorded fight, i doubt its him. But your guess is as good as ours.

[@lolthatshilarious5602]

Price was just the first person that came to mind. Praying we get an answer lol

[@zachcaton8064]

So the only current NHLers from Winnipeg around Sammy G's age are Toews, Darren Helm, Dale Weise and Ryan Reaves. Could you imagine having Ryan Reaves as your drummer 😂

[@samuraiguitarist]

There are also a few who weren't born in Winnipeg but grew up there. But yes Ryan was a decent drummer back when

[@unlucky_charm29]

@@samuraiguitarist i cannot believe you played music with ryan fucking reaves, thats amazing

[@hotdogwater7037]

@@samuraiguitarist you played in a band with ryan reaves?!? thats so cool

[@joshc.6760]

My first blunder: (context, I'm left handed and thus play left handed guitar) I got a left handed guitar when I was seven. As a full size guitar, it was much too big for me to even attempt playing, so we stuffed it into my mother's storage closet, no sun touching the thing for over half a decade. One day I was inclined to search on youtube for some guitar chords. I tuned up my guitar and watched a video or two. Learned maybe four chords. About a month later, my mom had picked up on the fact that I was playing guitar now, so she signed me up for lessons. My teacher told my mom that it'd actually be easier in the long run if I played right handed. My mom agreed, but I simply said "Oh I'm in too deep to have to relearn all of that stuff right handed." I still play left handed guitar to this day and I can definitely say the struggle to find a left handed Jaguar is real.

[@joshc.6760]

also another short story, since the strings on said guitar hadn't been changed in a good six years or so, they were understandably very dead. One day while I was watching a youtube video, the high e string popped off right at the bridge. Me, being new to all of this, thought I had ruined the instrument. I searched through the shag carpet in earnest, looking for the little bead that was on the end of the string. Once I found it, me and my mom both freaked out thinking it was broken, so we took it to a guitar shop to possibly get it re attached to the string. Thank goodness the store was closed.

[@ballssss433s66]

Left handed jaguar

[@molekyyli]

Or maybe you would find out it wouldn't have worked for you. There are plenty of lefties who tried to play a RH guitar "cos it's more practical to play RH" but had to switch later a LH guitar. (and relearn everything). Some people can learn either way but unless you try it yourself to learn the other way too, you won't find out if you could do or you couldn't do that (and be at least equally good as you are now).

[@joshc.6760]

@@molekyyli yeah you hit the nail on the head with that one. I gave up on right handed guitar after like five months

[@molekyyli]

@@joshc.6760 Wait, I thought you never even tried it. :) So you listened to your teacher's advice and tried it? How it felt in compare to playing LH? I've never properly tried it the other way, so I'm curious to hear anybody's experience who tried it both ways.

[@jaycie9489]

I’ve learned guitar pretty fluently left-handed. What is strange though, is that I do everything else right-handed. I find it easier to play a normal guitar upside down for certain songs, and then for others, like Blackbird, I find it much easier on a lefty flipped guitar. Each one definitely has pros and cons, but when people ask me how come I play it like that, it’s only because I played guitar hero, as a little kid, left-handed, because no-one bothered to tell me differently. I can’t imagine the difference it would have made if someone would have just told me I was holding it wrong.

[@doctrinos1897]

When I started to learn guitar, about 57 years ago, first thing was to learn chords. Open chords first and then barre chords, easy chords like A minor, E minor, C, F, G and all that from lowest position, and then more complicated, at least for small hands, F#, G# and so on. Beatles and Beach Boys was on top of my favorites and I started to play along their records just to learn strumming and how to make it groove and sound lively. Then in some phase my brother bought Beach Boys Pet Sounds sheet book and I started to rehearse 5th, 9th 13th and all that stuff which makes color to music. In short, I learned to comp rhythms in time years before I tried my first solos inspired by CCR and Jimi Hendrix. All I'm trying to say is that I've seen too many young guitarists start with solos, fast arpeggios, distorted sound, massive sound walls and they learn all that but not to keep time. They remain to play alone because they simply can't keep steady rhythm and play and change chords fast enough to play with other musicians. And that's really a pity because they are really fast and technical soloists. But that's the way it is. They have completely different type of idols than I did, not worse or better, just different. Ok, that's that. I tried not to use Google translator just to keep up my english, so I'm sorry of casual wrong words. Keep up this brilliant channel!

[@BaliMystic]

I remember the great Pat Martino saying to the audience at a live interview that he learned a bunch of tunes on his record player to play in jam sessions. However, his record player was not spinning at the correct speed and so when he went to the jam sessions, he had learned all the tunes in the wrong key. So he went back and worked on his tunes and probably fixed his record player. Even the greats make hilarious blunders!

[@DanteMorius1]

When I was starting with a guitar I didn't consider using ears as an option to learn music. I was convinced that classical musicians use sheet music and pop/rock musicians use tabs. Period. So I wonder if you register as an,for example Iron Maiden Tribute/Cover Band, you get all OFFICIAL TABS from IRON MAIDEN by MAIL. Well... I was so stupid.

[@TheFeralcatz]

Tbf i'm still too lazy to try and learn things by ear. The internet makes it too easy to just look it up.

[@ayans7762]

Tbh theres nothing wrong with playing with the help of tabs when you are starting out. i personally used tabs all the time shamelessly when I was starting out but eventually now , I can pick a lot of things by ear and ik imma get better at it as time passes.

[@zoomosis]

I started learning guitar before the Internet was really a thing and even the official tab books often got their transcriptions wrong. Then years later I'd see the same mistakes with online tabs. Tabs aren't useless but learning and playing by ear is very underrated.

[@alexandershaer1079]

What’s the drummer’s name?

[@deadchannel3274]

I'm interested too

[@miahinenmias2641]

Me too lol :D ice hockey fan

[@danielanderson3338]

Ryan Reeves? One of the Stone brothers? Who is it!?

[@lolthatshilarious5602]

I'm thinking Carey Price. Same age and he said "beating people up and sniping g's" carey is on a short list of active goalies who have gotten into some scraps

[@ayans7762]

Oh do you mean the drummer of THE BEST BAND IN DA worLD, Shop Dawgs?

[@GretschPlayer1]

I spent two years really struggling with the guitar. I started when I was 11, and I couldn’t get to grips with anything, even after two years I could just about manage E, A, and D, but the changes between each chord was about ten seconds. My older sister started dating a guy who played guitar, so I asked him for some help. I really wanted to learn a Beatles song, so he kindly said he’d help. He sat and watched me sweating over my three chords and then said “you’re left handed aren’t you?” Me: Yes Him : why don’t you have a left handed guitar? Me: A........WHAT?........ See, I knew I was left handed, but I didn’t realise there was such a thing as a left handed guitar, I just thought that a guitar was a guitar. And, even though I was a Beatles fan, you’d think I’d realise that Paul McCartney is left handed? Nope! I thought his guitar pointed the other way because it was a bass. 😐

[@ianthomson9363]

I had a completely different approach to learning to play- I played along with records (this was a couple of decades before CDs. I wish I could supply some of my blunders but I can't think of any, though there must be a few. What I really wanted to say is that's a lovely Strat you have there!

[@danielfassler8900]

When I heard" here comes the sun" i thought of Rammstein. So imagine my shock when I heard the actual song

[@lexinwonderland5741]

Sammy's deadpan humor is one of my favorite things on youtube. Loved it and felt the nostalgia of learning guitar almost a decade ago. wild times.

[@M.J44]

My guitarist blunder: I followed an instructional CD to learn guitar when I was a kid. Problem was, my fingers just werent strong enough to properly fret an adult strat's strings. I was angry & thought the guitar didnt work until someone told me. Hahaha

[@josephwright5140]

I wanted to cover all apologies with my first band. Kurt tunes to down d and everything is a half step down. I had never heard of either technique and couldn't understand how some people got their guitars so low sounding. No worries, i figured out by ear that all apologies is in Db and tried to play that song from the 4th fret of the a string. Also i had a multi effect unit, never heard of individual stomp boxes (actually believed professionals use zoom toys) so had distortion on the whole song. Mind you the first time we attempted it was a talent show audition. We sounded very, very untalented. What a blunder!!

[@protostargaming3972]

My biggest mistake was when I was learning barre chords, I thought that a slide would help me so much.

[@TheFeralcatz]

Ha ha

[@drinksandsnacks8761]

Yo Sammy G! I played lead guitar in Gloria in Mr. E’s show and was up there with ya. I remember botching the solo on at least two of those nights. I liked those rock shows a good high school memory. you are inspiring me to pickup my SG again after about ten years. Going to re string it tomorrow. - Wisam

[@isaiascerda5656]

I knew power chords were two notes hit at the same time but I thought it was on the same string. Of course this is impossible because there is only one tension point on a single string. I was fretting the 3rd and 5th fret of the E string to start out smoke on the water. I actually convinced myself that there was a difference between that and a single note even though I obviously couldn't hear one. Only made my surprise greater when I lowered the 5th fret to the A string

[@adisharr]

haha that's great stuff man! We've all been there. I remember learning my first power chord and playing through a Boss DS-1 and thinking OMG THAT'S THE SOUND!

[@unclejack2093]

speaking of tuning the guitar, when I got my first ever guitar I borrowed from my friend, I tried to tune it BY EAR. I tuned every string about a fourth too sharp (E string was tuned to A, A string was tuned to D etc.) and the neck was bowed horribly. I wish I used a tuner sooner!

[@Shazar789]

Ears were doing well though if you got the intervals right

[@MichaelSmith-on1ig]

I started my musical journey with learning the violin an my teacher put some colored dots on the fingerboard for orientation. I later removed them since I had muscle memory and didn't need the dots anymore. When I first picked up a guitar I tried to peel off the dot inlays on the fretboard because I thought they where for students to learn the positions of the fingers...

[@maxgood5006]

I was asked to play electric bass in a jr high jazz band. The director sent me home with the music for Peter Gunn, and an electric bass. I thought the frets with the dots on them were the notes. I showed up two days later and was immediately asked to leave after this terrible event had taken place haha. Now I play Bass in a high school jazz band and we took state last year. I’m so glad I didn’t give up when I got kicked out that first day.

[@plasterpenguin]

Thanks for sharing, this was great. I also found it interesting to hear a love supreme blazing on a clean strat tone. Nice playing, man!

[@richardhawley8041]

More of a pedal blunder than guitar but an important lesson none the less - on the day of my first proper gig with my first band I was given a flanger and a phaser to try out. I actually hate the sound of phasers now but at the tender age of 16 I just thought "cool, a guitar effect!" because at the time I'd never used any. I ended up with both of them going at once through entire songs with the effects maxed out. When I heard it played back on video, all you can hear is flanger and phaser making whooshing noises for 5 minutes. Subtlety is key kids.

[@zoomosis]

When I first started on electric guitar I used to run a Chorus pedal into an Overdrive pedal, where normally you'd put the Chorus after the Overdrive. It wasn't "wrong" as I've since learned it's something Jake E Lee did too, but I did it for every song, and I left the Chorus on the entire time. In hindsight it must've sounded pretty awful.

[@sambosmans3473]

wow man, every time i think about times i fucked up i get panic attacks... Hearing you saying this relieves me so much!

[@sydepipez]

My hilarious starting to play guitar blunder: Thinking just having a guitar makes you cool. I remember taking my guitar to school just a couple days after I got it to show my friends. Small problem: I couldn’t play. Not one chord. Not one note. Didn’t even know the names of the strings. Carrying around a guitar but never actually playing it is really not very cool at all.

[@rodimusmaximus3912]

When I decided I was gonna take guitar somewhat seriously and get a higher quality one, I went and got a used ESP Les Paul copy from a local pawn shop. It was right before work so I didn't have time to run it home, and I didn't want to leave it unattended in my car, so I brought it inside and left it in the break room. Everybody in the building was asking me to play this or that and I'm just like "I've only been playing for 5 months lmao"

[@Jinnuksuk]

Best burst of laughters I've had in a while. One noob blunder that immediately came to mind is when I started trying to practice playing the guitar standing up but my strumming was pivoted on my elbow. I started out playing sitting down so I could only do decent strumming and picking with the guitar up to my neck. My Dads' guitar straps were too long for me in their lowest setting so I started hooking the horn strap button on the strap inserts and that still wasn't enough.

[@mikaylalyanne5248]

i love the toe string one because it souds exactly like something i would do

[@onusgumboot5565]

I learned before internet and video lessons. I didn't even know about guitar magazines until decades later. I put on a record and tried to play along. On vinyl the songs were not always in tune, as the producer would speed up or slow down tracks to give them the tempo he liked. This changed the pitch. For different songs on each side you had to retune your guitar. I didn't know sometimes if I needed to go up or down, and would learn songs a half step off from what others played. So there was that, and all the scratched records, from trying to hit the same part of a song over and over.

[@jonasdigioia7474]

Sammy: *breaks guitar string first year of playing* Also Sammy: "This story could make a football arena of people literally die of laughter" Jk sammy ;)

[@alabamahebrew]

Hey Sammi G I love that pickguard you put on that new Fender!! It seems quite a few people do not like the feel of that anodized aluminum one that comes stock on that model. When I was younger and it was the late 1970's I was into KISS and one day while fiddling around on my step dad's Gibson Hummingbird I figured out how to play the KISS song Cold Gin. Now in case you are not familiar with that song, it is basically just all power chords. Once I discovered this great secret of putting your fingers in that position will make you sound like a rock star, I then played everything, and I mean everything lol, using power chords shapes. As you can imagine most things I played sounded horrible lol. But all was not lost, finally about 6 years ago when I was 48 I decided to really learn how to play the guitar, wow, who would have thought there were so many different shapes lol. But in my defense, a lot of the songs that were popular when I was first getting started on the guitar were played in a power chord shape. I would watch various TV shows that had different rock bands and solo acts and I was tuned in on the guitar players especially. "Iron man", Smoke on the water", "Cold Gin" - all of these were in that shape as you know, so of course to a beginner it might "seem" like that is how you would play most songs, right? lol

[@dexterfawkes7981]

Who's that drummer that went to the NHL

[@GuitarQueero1]

Right? I wanna know!

[@capslock196]

They are childhood friends so he must be canadian, that might help

[@tuomashaukka5667]

@@capslock196 I mean technically yeah, but there are quite a few of them in the NHL. :D

[@qualitytrash2257]

Probably Ryan reaves he is from Winnipeg and is 33 like Sammy G

[@TytoMobile]

@@qualitytrash2257 Ryan Reeves would be a drummer lol. Although there are 29 active Manitobans in the NHL, and about 9 are the right age to friends with good 'ol Sammy G. Including the playoff king himself, Dale Weise.

[@Scott-J]

The wound strings on my first acoustic guitar had broken so badly the windings would slide around the core before I realized they needed to be replaced.

[@jakeborg7181]

6 Blunders. One for every string. The first blunder starts with Teen Spirit Played on the 1st string 'E'. In the third blunder, Sammy hits the 3rd string 'D'. ON HIS THIRD ATTEMPT!! COINCIDENCE?! I THINK NOT!

[@counterfeit1148]

Isn't it from the highest string to the lowest, so D is the fourth string?

[@jakeborg7181]

@@counterfeit1148 shit you got me there.

[@No_Purchase_Necessary]

I kinda love this.. it's funny looking back on how we thought and went about figuring things out when we were still green.. I sometimes miss that way silly way of exploring the world around me. My first jam session was full of learning moments 😊

[@ailyas3556]

my greatest blunder when learning guitar: *learning guitar* C H E C C M A T E *G U I T A R I S T*

[@noturbrother]

imagine playing a six string bass tuned an octave higher and calling it a 'guitar'

[@ailyas3556]

@@noturbrother i know right, very smol pp move

[@daishoryujin95]

This Is Getting Annoying

[@ailyas3556]

@@daishoryujin95 i know right

[@noturbrother]

@@daishoryujin95 Just Like People Who Type Like This

[@Hellwyck]

I love how the theme is "The British Invasion" and you play a song by an Australian band but made up of Welsh/Scotish/English members (as a loophole).

[@lovefan7694]

I can see you telling these stories to the other members of the Shop Dawgs and them just not reacting at all and saying “but why is it funny”

[@davidbrady1250]

The string idea is funny but absolutely reeks of mad science. I smiled but I also thought "oh man, what if that had worked?" Kudos on the creativity! (And yeah, also lol, but still.)

[@unlucky_charm29]

sammy, i think it would be cool if you did a bit of hockey content on your second channel or something. i think its so sick that theres another guitarist hockey player out there

[@mikahkilgore4972]

I grew up around guitar players, so I avoided many mistakes that a lot of beginners make. When I finally started actually learning guitar in 2015, I started with open chords and even learning a few barre chords like F major. I already knew some music theory and how the guitar is supposed to be tuned, so that definitely helped. I’m still not great at playing power chords though, and I’ve been playing for about 4.5 years. I only started practicing a little more consistently over the past year though, so I definitely have a lot of work to do. I have plenty of time to do it now.

[@bofa83]

3:25 who is it!?

[@fudgesauce]

Bobby Orr

[@cataclysmicdelta1828]

Philbeau Baggins Ryan Reeves, he confirmed it in another comment

[@rubrshrk]

Now, I wish I could hear some of those stories you held back. Thank you for sharing them.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

It's not so much hilarious as it probably is typical, but the first thing I figured out was Smoke on the Water. I actually got the intervals correct, but was playing it by memory using just single notes on one string... the low E string of course, witch is a step and a half out of key too. Everything seemed fine until I tried to play along with it the next time the song was on the radio. @_e

[@thembo]

Ornithology is still one of my favorite standards to practice with. That and freedom jazz dance which is strikingly difficult because of the motion of the 4th intervals

[@Aya_02571]

I read the title as “I made a guitar”.

[@unknownarchitect1]

huh rad

[@TheWhenTheWhenItheWhen]

My PP burn