Red Flags for Guitar Players 🚩🚩🚩

[@MusicisWin]

What are some more red flags for guitar players? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@alias.no.commentary.07]

overrated intro riffs and solos

[@Gingers951]

Going to guitar center at very unnecessary times lol I mean I do that everyday litterly looking for my dream guitar a prs silver sky In red sparkle or blue or a fender Stratocaster lol

[@guitargravy4946]

Tuning the guitar to drop D

[@isaacb.462]

Plays all love songs

[@JimmyFeelsIt]

I love how the guy is basically just a quote book of things that beginners, noobs and snobs think sound cool or are impressive. "I dont need to practice! Ive become pretty good without it!" **massacres some solo**

[@umadafbruv4589]

You forgot the most dangerous red flag- glancing at the guitars section when you only planned to buy some strings

[@imagine9616]

fr how did he forget this one

[@MusicisWin]

I believe I have an entire video related to this particular red flag: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6XSinykhtyfgsk

[@darkomtobia]

That's how I ended up with my first Alvarez (a Masterworks parlor). 6 months later I had an Artist Elite dreadnought. I went in for nylon strings for a $100 pawn shop Yamaha. (Which while it has a ding or 2, is a nice little guitar in its own right)

[@imagine9616]

@@umadafbruv4589 that would be very fun

[@Jake-hy5il]

Never know when a guitar might impress you. Went in for strings and ended up finding the guitar I'll be buried with. (only expensive guitar I've bought in 15 years of playing btw, not a gear head)

[@FiveStarGuitars]

Thanks again for stopping by and having some fun in our shop! It was really hard keeping a straight face! 🤣

[@kenwagman4674]

Looks like you have a pretty neat store there.

[@txc123]

Your shop is amazing man!

[@JeredCuenco]

That’s my local shop. Been going there for 20+ years. They’re the best!

[@SkillTimO]

Surely every 'musician' without a Grammy is a red flag.

[@snow15243]

@@kenwagman4674 can confirm

[@ronnibjerregaard5194]

I once had a friend who bought a Gibson Les Paul Standard (we were both 14yo, so it was insane). I was jealous for a while, but one day when I visited him and tried the guitar, I said to him that he needed new strings. He looked at me dead in the eye and said "they are original Gibson strings"... Over the years they got rusty. Still haunts me.

[@steevelapointe1152]

its insnity to chaneg original gibson string, without breaking it, your friend was right, he could have lost hs legs by changing them

[@QuantumLeap89]

@@steevelapointe1152 Yeah cause you change the strings by tightening them.

[@topbreak38]

Did he not know he could buy new original Gibson strings?

[@sebastianwei7721]

😂

[@N3gativeR3FLUX]

I... Just... No.

[@andrewmize823]

I tried to start a band with a friend of mine, but he refused to tune his bass. Owning a bass was his only qualification, and he had no practical knowledge about playing, so I tried to explain why tuning up is important in a band setting--but he just wasn't having it. He kept saying he wanted to do it "his way." I think he had it in his head that he was going to defy any and all musical convention, and I just couldn't convince him that uniform tuning is generally necessary for playing in harmony with another instrument.

[@staszekborowski6982]

this is one of the funniest comments i have ever read

[@splinter8353]

I sang in a band and the bass player was the very same, the lead guitarist or myself would have to show him what to play, even the drummer who didn't play anything other than drums played the bass better than him. But he was a great guy to bee around because he was so funny so we let it slide 😆

[@TheCrimsonIdol987]

Where is Glenn Fricker when you need him?

[@cheftekard7165]

Just when I thought my bass players were weird …

[@davedecker1725]

To defy the the laws of tradition.....

[@BrodyAnimates]

nah this can’t be me, my mustang is blue

[@maximiteYT]

my mustang is transparent idk about you

[@anonymous-uf4hg]

Bro i didn't know you play guitar! and i also have a blue mustang.

[@lonewolf-re2fg]

I can't tell if this is actually a guitar store or still just Tyler's home studio

[@davep.7099]

Tyler has more gear. Local Guitar employees show up there and sell him his own guitars over and over. Even he can't tell the difference.

[@Carguyeight]

His house has way more PRS's

[@Pannemat]

That's not Tyler. That's *Blaze*

[@Michael_VG]

ikr

[@jessiehobbs219]

That store is actually really cool. Really laid back and helpful!

[@mark-dietz]

Playing like you really suck, and doing it convincingly, is a talent in itself.

[@aresman1234]

oh so I guess I'm actually super talented!

[@musicman3351]

Damn i got all the talent in the world

[@cockroach5717]

Then I must be more talented than Jimi Hendrix!!

[@eleazarw.449]

So true. Lol

[@SlyHikari03]

Pretty sure Tyler actually plays like that…

[@vincentmena99]

Tuning by ear is totally valid, no point trying to find a tuner when you can quickly do it yourself. Just don’t be that guy who “can tune by ear” but does so while the guitars plugged in and cranked tf up

[@nickchivers9029]

14 year old me *terrifying flashback*

[@MaddesG1]

Tuning by relative pitch is justified especially when a tuner isn't handy or not for borrowed use by the store. Most amps however have built in tuner features though so if you find a modern amp that has that feature you can easily tune with no hassle.

[@mattpassos5689]

Tuning by ear is valid if you can actually tune by ear. I’m just starting but I can tune from e to drop d and that’s about it Rn, tuning by tuner is totally valid as well

[@DivineLightPaladin]

@@nickchivers9029 elaborate?

[@pavichapin]

I have a friend who is 70 and can tune by ear faster and more accurate than I can with a tuner. Of course, he can also play any song he hears but cannot tell you in music theory language what he is doing.

[@Iceman2kuk]

This guitar still has the strings it came with, 5 years on and going strong!

[@thrashmetalmaniac9918]

I had some cheap strat that my friend gave me and it had the same strings on it that it came with- He got it 8 years ago

[@andrewdeac5577]

How often are you supposed to change the strings?

[@mahdamnblueberry6571]

@@andrewdeac5577 depends on how often you play. I try to change mine every 6 months or so but I play everyday. I have a buddy who does several gigs a week and he changes his strings every other week.

[@lidormizrhai1176]

On eletric it dosen't break? My D string on the classical guitar always breaks in 3-4 months. And overall the string are really worned out.

[@MrCamille9999]

@@lidormizrhai1176 The strings on electric are metalic (like a solid wire), so they are much harder to break. They will break eventually, especialy the higher E string, if you don't take care of them but it will probably take years unkless you're playing like a maniac. Depending on how much you play on the classical guitar and how serious you are about it you should probably change your strings every month.

[@facepalmdaily4404]

I was 15 years old. A high school sophomore. My dad had JUST bought me my first guitar. It had been in my hands all of a week. I was a band nerd, so I had some music theory knowledge, but zero experience on guitar. That didn't matter to my bass player buddy (who could actually play) he insisted I form a band with him. I kept telling him "dude, I don't know how to play yet." "don't worry bro. It's easy. You'll get it." At our first practice, before hitting a single note, the band tells me "Oh dude, you should sing!" "What? I know even less about vocals than I do guitar. no way man. You guys, I need a lot more practice before I'm in a band, much less fronting the damn thing." But they insisted. They absolutely ignored my pleas. We had one practice and they set up a gig, despite my constant protests. We did the gig and the band was like, "dude you are awful. What the hell are you even doing here! You're out of the band!" They were PISSED at me. I'm like, "You idiots dragged me into this! I literally told you all when we got here that it was going to be awful and I shouldn't be in this." I'd be another 5 years before I was in a band again...... happy ending: that band that set me up just to berate me opened for my new band. I lost count of the red flags in that story, but there's a bunch.

[@pabloplaysguitar]

this is an underappreciated comment. good on you haha

[@Idk-hg8jr]

Mine was almost the same except that I was the one who wanted to form a band. My dad had the Eric Clapton signature Blackie and I started playing for like 3 weeks. Then a band contest at my school opened so I asked my friend who was a drummer. We recruited a lot of other musicians in our school just to tell them that they're bad while me and my drummer couldn't finish a whole song lmao. That was like 5 years ago or more.

[@michaelhamilton6553]

I had a slightly similar experience. I was about 18 and just bought my first guitar, I had no idea how to play and hadn't even had a single lesson when I was talking with a guy at work and happened to mention I'd just got a guitar. He insisted that I should audition for his band as a rhythm guitarist even though I kept telling him I couldn't play but he said it didn't matter, and I'd "pick it up as I went". In the end I did it just to shut him up and obviously it didn't go well. I had to stand up in front of the rest of the band and of course I couldn't play so they just laughed at me. That destroyed my confidence and I didn't pick up a guitar again for nearly 10 years. As an adult, I've come to realise they only did it to be cruel and probably trying to fuel their own egos. Their band never got anywhere and as far as I know never played a single gig. At least I can say I went on to play in a band and actually did play gigs.

[@charlesfranks1902]

Greatest story I have heard.

[@Starving_Guitarist]

"Clean tones are for dweebs." *cranks gain to cover up their mistakes* *open chords with fuzz pushed to 10*

[@ileutur6863]

Gain isn't magic. There's no covering up mistakes

[@Mephilis78]

Not how gain works. Also, gain and fuzz are completely different.

[@coleeckert6182]

@@ileutur6863 but for someone with a completely untrained ear, clean is easier to hear mistakes than something heavily distorted

[@TSwif7y]

This is actually the most ironic comment because you are projecting so hard😂

[@Starving_Guitarist]

@@Zagura90 always, and we're all guilty of doing it at some point. What it was to be young.

[@grease3873]

Trying to remove the cable without turning the amp off first

[@omgvague]

Plugging into an amp without lowering the volume pot first

[@Moto4Christ]

Lol i did that last week after buying a new tube amp turned at 12, it literally blew my socks off, it sent ripples down my spine..haha total rookie mistake..

[@sourceaudioeffects]

I totally agree, but I still do it all the time.

[@nickmiller3319]

@@Moto4Christ When your friend's kid has been playing with the knobs on your home amp and you don't think about it before hitting a chord... Goodbye windows!

[@Avalonians_]

Shutting down a tube amp right away 🚩

[@colbybennett]

Why does Tyler manage to look like every snobby dbag that walks into guitar center?

[@MusicisWin]

I am that dbag

[@spaceghost5026]

@@MusicisWin you're a national treasure.

[@imagine9616]

@@spaceghost5026 *world treasure

[@jessehutchings]

Bc he is every snobby dbag that walks into guitar center

[@rinnimalfy3453]

@@jessehutchings He has dissociative identity disorder and the characters are all real

[@scottsetzke7967]

i've played guitar for 18 years going from basic "horse with no name" all the way up to Lamb of God on a fender strat that was more that worth it's 250$ price tag at guitar center (yes guitar center has great deals, you just have to look for them). Well, into my 4th year recording and producing home studio tracks I had a guitarist come in and utterly rip me for not being "able" (rather never wanting) to tune a guitar by ear. Knowing the inconsistencies ones own ears are plagued with after hours of audio playback. Dude proceeded to not let me forget it for even a second, to which each time I would happily remind him that his ears were either sharp or flat depending on the cloud serpents location that day. Fortunately, he eventually understood part of proper recording was a proper tuning which no matter your "harmonic testing" could never be as consistant of a tuner or spectrum reading. He eventually realized tik toc harmonics and acoustic body drumming didn't make for an instant hit album. He now works for state farm.

[@jubnx2781]

I mean like tuning by ear IMO is just something you can do after a while, like if you give me a E, I’ll be able to tune my guitar within 5 cents, just cause after playing all my life I remember how each string sounds and I know how a perfect 4th sounds, also using harmonics and feeling the “tremolo” when they are slightly out of tune is great and easy as well. In a recording setting, you absolutely always want to be tuning with a tuner. But I think tuning by ear is nice if you don’t have a tuner handy and you want all your strings to be related to each other properly. Also if you can bend properly, you can tune (cause usually you try ti bend to a certain pitch)

[@calyxl43]

ive been playing guitar for 3 months and learned redneck by lamb of god, is that decent progress?

[@Stewiecookie]

Jake doesn’t seem like that type of guy

[@josephveltre7657]

Omg. Thank you so much. Tuners are super important! I was in a studio and a man who worked with Peabo Bryson, Lionel Ritchie, etc.(The pictures were all on the studio walls), said some producers are so picky, they even want the notes fretted a certain way! And all of them recommend tuners. Usually a specific kind as well. Some people tune by "ear" because they can't hear the imperfections that other people can

[@josephveltre7657]

@@jubnx2781 Good answer. I tune by ear when I need something quick, like when I'm writing a song and I don't want to lose what's in my head. Also when I'm messing around sometimes. But when you tune by ear, even if you can get within 2 cents, the next string can be even More off because you're tuning it with the string that may be sharp or flat 2 cents, and it can compound. I have a good ear, and I am so picky that I make slight adjustments even after tuning by ear. So I use a tuner whenever possible.

[@colbytaylor9805]

"If it's not a Fender, GIbson, Epiphone, Squier, PRS, or Ibanez, it's a ripoff" -my educated guitar friend

[@SlyHikari03]

Based

[@MaxMason-nn7gv]

*Cries hugging favorite Hagstrom* don’t listen to that bad man.

[@colbytaylor9805]

@@MaxMason-nn7gv Hey my friend said it not me and I think Hagstroms are truly unique

[@callum4960]

That man has never played a Godin and it shows

[@tobiasboh3370]

Oh dear god, imagine buying Gibsons This post was made by the "I have a Gibson and it can't stay in tune for shit"-gang

[@DW-xt7vz]

At what point does making a video mocking playing Stairway to Heaven, Wonderwall, Smoke on the Water, and Sweet Child O’ Mine in a guitar store become as self-unaware about being cliche as actually playing those songs in the guitar store?

[@guitarplayer2032]

thats a good point

[@tonybates7870]

The anti-cliche becomes a cliche after a while.

[@lgv3051]

Anti-anti-cliche gets old too. I think we are stuck in a loop now

[@gehennaspariahs]

Right around the time you stop being so pretentious.

[@GAFloppa]

Very true and the fact is that even seasoned players can feel pretty intimidated by guitar store staff when trying kit out. Maybe it's time to let this one go

[@russellhayden82]

Here's one. "Hendrix is over rated, he can't remember his solos that's why he always plays them different every time" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@beacurnearecurvata188]

Damn lol 😂

[@nordfald3740]

he is overrated as a guitarist though... as a songwriter though, legend.

[@bojangles6444]

@@nordfald3740 have you learned any of his songs? You won’t always realize how good the guitar playing is until you know exactly how he played things.

[@SlyHikari03]

He really is…

[@bojangles6444]

@@SlyHikari03 dude, think about what was out at his time in the late 60’s. The Beatles, Eric Clapton, hardly anyone had played like that except blues guys but they didn’t have distortion. All the other “guitar hero’s” came after he didn’t even live into the 70’s. Nobody played lead like that besides him and Clapton imagine that’s all there was for a minute. Basically fusion was invented bc of Jazz guitar players that wanted to play more like Hendrix, that’s where you get Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, etc. They led to shred, without Hendrix there would be no shred. We would have nothing but boomer bends!

[@joshua5483]

“I Don’t know why people waste their money on strings, I haven’t changed mine in 2 years “

[@Moto4Christ]

lol aint no body got time for changing strings...

[@liamgauthier8332]

2 years? That’s impressive. I mean do strings even affect tone? I have never changed mine.

[@saikizuckerberg5004]

lol I'm an amateur guitarist so ngl one of my taylor acoustics has strings 10+ years old, but hey it still works 🤷 taylors are just incorruptible

[@Stonemeister]

@@saikizuckerberg5004 I have a Taylor too, and seriously... Change them. Strings degrade slowly, so sometimes you don't really notice how bad they have gotten until you play a guitar with new strings.

[@saikizuckerberg5004]

@@Stonemeister lol yup I can totally believe that. But I'm just an amateur, and it sounds perfectly fine even compared to the other guitars in the band I'm part of. But yeah my strings have probably deteriorated a ton.

[@CertifiedFella]

I thought everyone already knew tone wood doesn’t effect the sound of solid bodies years ago. Weird to see someone defending it, especially in 2021.

[@davidfaustino4476]

You know how some people see better than others? Same thing with hearing. Extrapolate from that a bit.

[@CertifiedFella]

@@davidfaustino4476 what do you mean? Like at no point do the vibrations from the strings interact with the wood of an electric guitar. Even if you had the best ears the world you wouldn’t be able to distinguish the sound of different woods. The best audio recording equipment in the world can’t even find a difference, all the variables lie within the interactions of the strings, pick ups, and amps.

[@grahambell4310]

Just seen a guy has made a guitar out of McDonald's chips. Take that tone wood! How does it sound? It needs more salt.

[@WhooshWh0sh]

Leave the special wood shit for acoustic guitars, goddammit.

[@marek.p]

@@davidfaustino4476 there's a video where a guy makes a "guitar" without a body. Just strings suspended in the air and a pickup. It sounds pretty much the same as any solid body electric guitar. The biggest differences in sound are technique, pickups and speakers. Tonewood might affect it a little bit, but the difference is practically negligible.

[@phantasmagora6542]

Reverb into delay can absolutely be done, and can create a more ambient sound. Putting the tuner at the end of the signal path can be beneficial if the tuner is a buffered pedal at the end of a long signal chain.

[@disco4535]

This is a hill I will die on: All songs should be acceptable when someone is trying out a guitar. Idc if its stairway or wonderwall. That might that persons fav song! They deserve to be able to try it on that guitar!

[@johnnybgoode2540]

its a joke chill, nobody cares what you play

[@disco4535]

@@johnnybgoode2540 Uh yeah obviously, my comment was just a dumb joke too nobody cares lmao

[@atonofspiders]

Fully agree how can anyone be “too good” for songs that inspire so many people to pick up a guitar in the first place?

[@JohnShalamskas]

Imagine being the poor employee getting paid minimum wage to listen to off key horrible renditions of the same song all day every day...

[@ghost1189]

@@JohnShalamskas they chose to work there, suck it up

[@guybayo2002]

Here's a red flag: "I'm also a bass player" *Proceeds to play a famous guitar solo on the bass)

[@arvincharles]

I'd like to hear that actually.

[@guybayo2002]

@@arvincharles Trust me, it sounds horrible.

[@freedustin]

@@guybayo2002 depends on the player...there are literally at least 2 YT bass players that get millions of subscribers doing exactly what you describe and they sound badass.

[@guybayo2002]

@@freedustin they're bass players, not guitarists.

[@TheVideoButcher]

Les Claypool Cliff Burton just to name a couple and their solos are amazing.

[@Grindermetalhead]

Glenn Fricker made a video recently that kinda puts that whole tonewood debate to rest. He used two custom made guitars with completely identical hardware, but different neck and body materials, and he offered to give one of those guitars to the first person that correctly identifies timestamps at which he switched between them in the mix. Of course, absolutely no one got it right because the wood doesn't affect the tone in any way when it comes to solid body guitars. Especially when they're distorted.

[@welp...]

Came here to write this, thank you.

[@QwertiusMaximus]

Dylan Talks Tone built a Tele right on a fence post in his backyard, and it sounded like... a Tele.

[@atonofspiders]

He did disclaim that his research and findings are more under the context of metal music and recording with that type of playing and tone. Still a great video and experiment nonetheless.

[@JohnShalamskas]

If you are not playing through a clean amp, then the distortion masks the differences between a $5000 guitar and a $200 guitar. Metal players do not need $5000 guitars, at least not for tone. Played clean, many people would be receiving free guitars from Mr. Fricker.

[@ileutur6863]

@@JohnShalamskas that's not how distortion works. Quality guitars will feel better to play and pickups voiced specially for high gain will also sound much clearer

[@mayravixx25]

I actually used to do that with the tone knob. I wasn't sure what it did, so I kept it at 10 for the longest time. I changed it to 5 and now when I play it, it actually sounds way better to me.

[@patrikkis3584]

„Today is payday, so I'm gonna buy a pack of strings and maybe a pick” *comes home with three pack of strings, nine picks, two slides and a third capo to the collection* *and a mandolin*

[@stereoroid]

Last time I was in a guitar store, someone started playing King Crimson’s “Fracture”. That took some stones, I’ll say. People have written whole books about trying to play that.

[@thomask9577]

I think the first red flag would be walking into a guitar store where the “Open” sign is turned off.

[@khristopherkomodoensis4734]

As much as I'd want to believe in tone woods, Spectre Media Group did a test and found the stupid plywood box and speaker (Speaker Cabinet) has the greatest effect on guitar tone.

[@bruhspahgehtti8544]

You know when you upgrade to a new guitar and your scared about breaking it and then you turn around and hit your headstock on something and think it’s broken but it turns out it’s fine.

[@hippiegeraldo3042]

Omg, your sneakers are always on point, we've seen the guitars, we really need to see that sneaker collection tho

[@spaceghost5026]

I'd watch that

[@davidlelkington]

I can relate to the big amp situation I desperately want a stack but combos are easier and less expensive in some cases

[@Cautionary_Tale_Harris]

And a Peavey head on a Marshall cabinet lol

[@jamesbenoit5252]

I have my own "wall of Marshalls" for no discernable reason other than I always wanted a wall of Marshalls. Not even daisey chained, just there, where I can see them.

[@mattlau]

Used to want a stack until I played through a tube amp and had the chance to actually turn it up to get the tubes cooking. Yeah sounded way better!

[@seanoh7677]

@@jamesbenoit5252 "Just there, where I can see them." A man of taste

[@jiffey_faux]

@@mattlau thats why I want an attenuator.

[@Sean_Plays_Guitar]

A: I live there. I was just in there last weekend. B: I just played that EVH. C: We are like guitar eskimo bros now. That is a wonderful shop. My favorite.

[@JosephNine]

EVERY TIME A FLAG CAME UP ON SCREEN, MY CAT WENT CRAZY !

[@ashleyjohansson230]

My favorite: "Tone comes from your fingers, so all gear is the same thing!"

[@BeamRider100]

It does mainly and how you pick

[@ashleyjohansson230]

@@BeamRider100 Simply picking differently won't make any big difference at all when you have amp and pedal settings and pickup types. This isn't about acoustic guitar otherwise picking would be a huge difference. On electric guitar someone playing the same exact gear, but picking differently will still have the same tone. And before you bring up the ted nugent van halen nonsense, the reason why ted nugent still sounded like himself with van halen's gear is because he plays different music than van halen. Play style and tone are 2 different things.

[@SlyHikari03]

That’s actually true

[@staszekborowski6982]

@@ashleyjohansson230 its a great argument when somebodys playing a custom strat on a fender princeton and youre wondering whether you should upgrade from your shitbox practice amp lol

[@ashleyjohansson230]

@@staszekborowski6982 The "tone comes from your fingers" myth mostly comes from rich youtubers with fake personalities who are trying to get affiliate link sales on cheap gear they can sell that "is no different than professional gear" while they themselves use tens of thousands of dollars worth of gear for themselves.

[@courtcat339]

Well I’m glad you informed me of this because the first thing I want to do when I walk into a guitar store is play Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Child O’ Mine, Smoke on the Water, and Wonderwall all at the same time

[@dozerandgabby]

I'm a "Smoke on the stairway to freebird" guy myself...

[@JoriDiculous]

sweet child smoking on the stairway to heaven

[@lgv3051]

I don't know what wonderwall is but I'm going to find out just so i can play it everywhere i go

[@Vivi_9]

There's a lady that it seems came out to throw it back to MAYBEEE

[@coolnamepending7604]

@@dozerandgabby i prefer ‘smells like sweet iron stairway to wonderwall on the water’

[@sethyls7781]

The biggest red flag is closing your car door by the window 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@JohnShalamskas]

And missing the first try.

[@mordie31]

I feel like this is Tyler's real personality. It suits him, and he pulls the look off perfectly. It is now clear that his KZbin persona is fake and in this video we get a glimpse of who he really is. :)

[@lorikislack1504]

When someone starts to accompany your playing by playing the same thing

[@Thorgnor]

"...perfect for my coffee shop gig!" She was trying hard to not smile.

[@theeleventh805gamer7]

I laughed because my neighbor literally owns the same Marshall stack and it’s just standing there…menacingly when i see him

[@sergethepurge9425]

I would literally never put a delay after a reverb and any audio engineer knows that it’s super common to put a reverb into a delay especially when mixing. Not a red flag at all. Modulation before distortion on the other would be kind of bizarre but at the end of the day there’s really no rules to effects, if it sounds cool then it sounds cool.

[@MaggaraMarine]

The EVH sound comes from putting modulation before distortion. That is how you get the subtle phaser effect. If you put it after distortion, it gets overpowering pretty easily. For example listen to Runnin' with the Devil. The phaser effect is really subtle, and almost not even there. And that's because it's in front of a cranked amp. If it was added after distortion, it would sound way too "obvious".

[@Synthulhu]

@@MaggaraMarine Not everyone is trying to be EVH. Not everyone is trying to be subtle.

[@MaggaraMarine]

@@Synthulhu Sure. But I wasn't saying that you should put modulation before distortion. I was just saying that there is nothing bizarre about it - it actually has its benefits if you are after a bit more subtle sound. I would say that not everyone wants the effects to sound overpowering either. Some people want more subtle effects, which is why modulation before distortion is also valid. But sure, if you want the effect to sound as clean as possible, it makes sense to put it after distortion. That is the "standard" position for modulation effects.

[@interwebuser]

Funny enough has he was calling out the verb/delay/distortion thing I was looking at my pedalboard and realizing I've accidently put it in the "right" order.

[@williamturner9450]

@@MaggaraMarine I feel like modulation can go either way, depending on preference and style. Delay and reverb is the only thing I don't usually mess with lol

[@jettlethedragonpeeltheoran8915]

I would argue that players who obsess over the difference between different fingerboard woods are MORE of a red flag than those who discount them, when the difference is not only so subtle as to be almost imperceptible, but also what differences there are can be completely adjusted for by rotating the EQ knobs about 0.5 degrees. Also the moment you slap any sort of distortion or effects on the guitar, wood differences might as well not exist.

[@mipiaccionoifemboy]

For real

[@SJ-gc8mw]

Looking at only the most expensive guitars because they are obviously the best.

[@JohnShalamskas]

Sometimes that is true, and then you will find yourself drawn back to the expensive guitar until one day it is gone, when you then start kicking yourself for letting it get away.

[@tomakafrankconlon3207]

Another one is people that work at guitar stores know more than the customer.

[@powpowtrav]

“Dude I’m bad ass on guitar! Check it out” …….. red flag

[@kenwagman4674]

My favorite from years hosting an open mic "I don't tune a guitar because I am a professional player and us professionals just play what we hear."

[@fondfarewell2]

I'm sure so many have said that... 👍

[@fondfarewell2]

when I was in a band everyone would tune to me rather than worrying about tuning to an exact drop d or c with a tuner. As long as we were all in tune with each other, it didn't matter much if we were slightly sharp or flat, we had no backing tracks, or keyboard player to worry about. As long as we were all in tune with each other, and each was intune in relation to its own strings.

[@JohnShalamskas]

When playing along with recorded music, often the recording is noticeably out of tune with a440, it's like the recording engineer decided to make it sound a little different by detuning it.

[@ileutur6863]

That sounds like a poor way of doing things. Whenever you change tuning, you're also changing the feel of your songs. When my band went from E standard to E flat, some of our chord progressions felt completely off

[@fondfarewell2]

@@ileutur6863 well luckily 15 years later I no longer play in a band. If I remember correctly when we played bigger venues like the whiskey or key club we would tune correctly, but it was never a problem playing bar gigs. Probably didn't matter much anyway since sonically we probably sounded trash anyway.

[@jmabs5096]

1:45 "tonewood" is indeed a miniscule if at any difference in actual tone.... Go check out specter sound studios where he gets exact same guitar made out of different woods, you can't tell a difference. I think it's more of giant production having inconsistent winds on the pickups or how close the tolerances between parts like how the neck sits in the body or how high/low the pickups are set when you go play in a store. Also how dead the strings are.

[@Rockamps78]

Playing endless metal riffs and intently focusing on the fretboard, while not noticing the bored and dejected look on the face of the girlfriend sitting next to them.

[@maya_the_bee9294]

When I first went to a guitar center there was this guy named Diego who was really pushy. I was looking around with my dad just to see what I want (I was planning on coming back next week to buy something, I just wanted to have an idea of what I’ll buy). He was so pushy that even my dad started to get annoyed. So i asked him if he worked on commission. He was hesitant but he nodded. He didn’t annoy us afterwards. I came in next week, and there he was. I picked out a guitar, gave it to him, and told him to sell it to me. I felt sorta bad for him since all he wanted was money. So he sold it to me. Thanks Diego from guitar center!

[@DjunkMusic]

biggest red flag was when my old band's (I was playing bass) rhythm guitarist thought the fretboard dots meant "minor scale". there was a bit when him and the lead had to harmonize. he was getting frustrated bc we were telling him he was wrong, so I started writing on the marker board some notes for understanding for harmony and fretboard markers. next day I was kicked out of the band🤪

[@BulldoggerJK]

When did tuning by ear become a red flag? I don’t think I’ve ever tuned an instrument in a store with a tuner. I guess the employees all think I’m a jackass. Then again, I don’t pick up things that I wouldn’t actually considering buying.

[@WittyName44]

Tuning by ear is what I learned in my first year 25 years ago. This is not a red flag, rather something I personally believe would help many musicians (in general).

[@Stevenewmansa]

People that learned playing along with pianos that are in tune to themselves but not to standard pitch know the importance of being able to tune by ear!

[@jamesbenoit5252]

I gigged alot in the "pre-tuner" era, 70s, early 80s. We got tuned up, wasn't "off," we could hear/feel 440 of an "A." I agree with you. Some ear training might be helpful for the younger players.

[@fondfarewell2]

Agreed, I can easily tune a guitar by ear, and if I'm playing on my own, not with a back track or other instruments, as long as the guitar is in tune in relation to its own strings, I dont care if its not perfect.

[@goblin3810]

Who tf doesn't tune by ear honestly.

[@Tavlas]

No matter how good you are tuning by ear,you will never surpass the accuracy of a tuner

[@tedclevenger1269]

I am 62 and retired from being a patrol Sgt on police department Started playing in 5/22 Love your videos and content Keep it going thanks

[@360sk8team23]

Closing the door to your mustang using the window is like picking your guitar up by the strings.

[@MrJekyllAndDrHyde]

I go to five star every Wednesday for lessons and at 1:32, that is the actual practice room I practice in!

[@MaxT-BC]

Okayyy, so I started playing jazz guitar this year for my music school, I'm going into music therapy. For my ensemble class we have to read sheet music, there is no other way around it. I know it's a joke and it's funny, I found it funny, but I think that sheet music can be extremely useful, just not in all contexts it's necessary. Love your videos!!!

[@grahambell4310]

Here's a thing. A bloke I knew spent YEARS learning tab... I asked if he could read sheet music. "No, who does that?" I mean, if he spent that time with notation he would be able to play anything.

[@MrBealvie]

That walk with overexaggerated swagger from the store's door to it's guitar section is awesome but a red flag

[@xliquidflames]

You got an audible chuckle from me with the right angle cord. Here's a red flag that you might hear it in a guitar shop, “Yeah, I've got a KZbin channel..."

[@nitronorge3369]

I remember a while ago, my friend who is most certaintly better than me at guitar, and had more knowledge than me, but there i was stopping him from playing stairway to heaven

[@dannypedraza50]

*pulls up in a mustang* well, that's the biggest red flag.

[@astafire6810]

Also the nicest red flag

[@Hurricane800]

Closed the door by touching the window

[@foxtrot889]

Biggest red flag is simply elitism and gate keeping. The kind of person who tells you not to do the tried and true "xyz," or "that brand sucks so you suck for playing it" etc. Also, I've never heard somebody scoff at wood choice just because it "makes no difference." I don't personally buy into tone, and I love the different aesthetics that different woods give off. Quilt maple, royal ebony, purple heart, wenge, burl... They all look good in different configurations. As far as functionality goes, paulownia and basswood are definitively lighter and likely very kind to bad backs. Never worth dunking on someone for their choice in wood. Now I'm wondering if there's a paulownia bodied headless that would be extra-kind to someone's back. lol

[@themusiqfreak]

Confession, when I bought my tele and tried it in one of the demo rooms I literally tried three amps scratching my head wondering what the hell was wrong to get no sound... completely forgot about the volume knob on the guitar. Felt. So. Stupid!

[@joshgreen4521]

Hahah, nice! 😂

[@deadeven7712]

I feel ya! On my second show ever I spent 5 minutes in front of a crowd double checking chords, power, pedals and everything because all my amp would do is buzz a bit no matter what I tried. Then I finally figured it out.... I'd forgotten to plug in my guitar. Chord was just laying on the floor.🤣😂

[@alexoftheway8169]

Ha ha, first red flag for me was to just pick up any guitar without asking, just a common courtesy! Ha ha, that coffee house gig was a classic!

[@joshgreen4521]

2:03 - he really felt it when waving the flag there when you 'accidentally' hit the other guitar when putting the guitar back in place. 😂

[@johnwhite3455]

First "keep shreddin'" came back, and now Blayze...the earth is healing

[@sylaswojciechowski6895]

1:45 is actually true. Tonewood affects the sound of the guitar the least, if at all.

[@deanbembridge8640]

His guitar playing reminded me of Les Dawson on the piano 🎹🎸

[@yonatanc25]

Omg i had a sales man in the store complain about metronomes and their lack of human element. 😂

[@Sluxslol]

I'll play whatever song I want how about that?

[@oddthemute6172]

Let's be honest here. There was a while there where Page was out of his mind on smack for many of Zeppelins shows and it showed in his playing. Not saying he's not one of the GOATs but God damn was his playing a fucking mess sometimes.

[@thomasowen5289]

what song is he playing at 1:24?

[@miosranik]

mediterranean sundance - al di meola

[@thomasowen5289]

@@miosranik thank you so much man, even though its been 2 years!!

[@PaxtonTrench]

When you go to the “jam session”, and ask what key they’re playing in, and they look at you like you’re an alien.

[@gohjohan]

From my local guitar store employee "You can always come back here for free lessons"

[@splinter8353]

I remember about 20 years ago going into Waltons in Dublin and this guy standing like a statue wearing sunglasses and just shredding as fast as he could on a Flying V so loud that people where leaving the store including myself and my friend. The staff where just ignoring the fact that he was just playing the most irritating garbage at ear splitting decibels

[@Gingers951]

Somthing for me is going to guitar center every day and not getting what I need and keep buying a guitar that I really don’t need but also I’m a really big fan your channel got my into guitar and now I’m rocking it!! Thank you so much tyler

[@_Another_Idea_]

Love this channel, love every one of your red flags EXCEPTTT... ppl with perfect pitch can easily tune a guitar without a tuner.

[@darwinsaye]

People don’t even need perfect pitch to tune a guitar by ear, as long as you can get one string tuned to a keyboard or other instrument, or even a recorded song you know is in a certain key.

[@grischad20]

yeah, and out of 100 people trying to tune "by ear", maybe 1 has perfect pitch and 9 have good enough relative pitch to actually do it

[@josephveltre7657]

Omg. No one can get it right 100% of the time! Not even some tuners!!( Some are more precise) You obviously don't play in a band

[@chainsawkarate]

“Oh, you like Fender? I’m a Gibson guy. I’d literally never play a fender.” Or vice versa

[@ethanmoeckel753]

I have a red flag for someone out there. Play "Stand Out" and "I2I" by Tevin Campbell from the Disney movie "A Goofy Movie" (1995) until your whole body sweats down to your feet. From, Ethan Moeckel (age 23).

[@Balin_James]

My uncle’s friend works at five star guitars! It’s a cool shop

[@GuitarGuy4647]

Tone woods don’t matter in electric solid body guitars. ✅

[@edphaze6550]

Here we go… Again.

[@GuitarGuy4647]

@@edphaze6550 there’s zero logical reason that it would. This has been proven. Unamplified you may hear slight differences and in acoustics you definitely will but that’s it.

[@lukaskuipers7791]

@@GuitarGuy4647 then who proved it? I have an archtop that sounds very similar unplugged and plugged, you can 'hear the wood'. There might not be extremely large differences between the different types but it still has an effect. Solid body's, although much less resonant, pick up the strings the same way my archtop does, with a pickup mounted to the body. The strings vibrate, but the body does too only a little bit. There's a great warmoth comparison with like 3 unfinished bodys tried on one neck and pair if pickups, and even through youtube you can hear a difference, in person it'd be bigger. Tone wood is not a big deal and if your guitar is structurally sound your tone will be more determined by other things, but if you're an absolute tone freak and perfectionist it might be worth diving into.

[@JohnShalamskas]

@@lukaskuipers7791 Well done. It's a shame some people can't tell the difference, they are the ones tuning by ear as in the video :-).

[@maudiojunky]

@@lukaskuipers7791 The body panels being thicker makes all the difference in the world because the stiffness of panels is proportional to their thickness cubed. This means you'd expect the resonances in a strat to be a lot higher than in an archtop, as well as much lower in amplitude due to increased mass. Any effect from wood on the sound of a solid-body electric guitar with wax-potted pickups is drowned out by the smallest adjustment of the treble tone control, which is why it's just barely perceptible even when other factors are controlled like in the Warmoth demonstration. Pickups with shellac or no potting are a different beast, and you'll get a strong third-bridge effect from the strings ringing behind the nut with even mild overdrive. I have a tele set up like this which has huge clean and overdriven tone, but it squeals like a pig if you try playing with heavy distortion at stage volume. It's really kind of reminisicent of the archtop sound, but in a different way because it's more jangly.

[@podemous]

the bg music raping my ears

[@justaguy2365]

My grandfather could perfectly tune a guitar by ear. Dude had a great ear.

[@NORMIES_GET_OUT]

Alright, I'm guilty of at least one or two of these. The 90 degree Jack in the strat happens to me all the time because sometimes I just can't be bothered to dig in my bag for the right cable.

[@BudgeChem]

Next challenge: make an entertaining video on the GOOD guitar player flags.

[@stevenfrischling5908]

Eddie Van Halen tuned by ear, and what is interesting is he typically tuned his guitar to itself rather than standard tuning. But then again ... none of us are Eddie Van Halen, so we probably cannot pull that off the way he did.

[@user-dj9iu2et3r]

This is highly doubtful. How could him and the bassist be in tune if that were the case?

[@stevenfrischling5908]

@@user-dj9iu2et3r so when Eddie Van Halen said he'd tune his guitar to it self he wasn't being truthful? That seems unlikely. There are whole KZbin videos on it.

[@MaggaraMarine]

@@user-dj9iu2et3r Easy - the bassist tunes to the guitar. Since the band only has guitar and bass, they don't really need a tuner, because the guitarist and the bassist can tune to one another. Since the first album is in-between Eb and standard tuning, I think it's very likely that they didn't use tuners.

[@heraclitusblacking1293]

@@stevenfrischling5908 "tuned the guitar to itself" But that would still be in standard tuning with itself. it's. not like he used an open tuning or anything.

[@freedustin]

@@mulfss yeah that's standard still. Eddy used the fifth fret trick like every beginner. He just kept using it forever.

[@ghostsmoke11]

1:40 this one is actually true though.

[@malmordia]

Bethany almost cracking up every time will never not get me lol

[@MustachioThaGangsta]

This was fucking hilarious. The intense waving of the to my flag, it got me every time😂 with the fucking zoom and everything 😂

[@BordersJambo]

Tuning by ear is something of a lost art, which makes me sad. When you're just testing out a guitar, it just has to be in-tune with itself. Wait, that's a red flag isn't it...

[@JohnShalamskas]

That's a paddlin'.

[@BordersJambo]

@@JohnShalamskas Lol

[@WLxMusic]

I'm sorry, but no tonewood propaganda. A block of concrete with the right pickups will sound pretty good.

[@kjl3080]

Not with a clean tone

[@sambarker6141]

Tonewood has virtually no effect on electric guitars, but a massive effect on acoustics.

[@WLxMusic]

@@sambarker6141 the debate is clearly not about acoustics. Of course it matters on acoustics.

[@sambarker6141]

@@WLxMusic Believe it or not there's tons of people out there who think tonewoods make no difference on acoustics, it's nuts. The whole debate is so stupid, just play what sounds good to you and don't worry about what it's made of lol

[@JohnShalamskas]

@@sambarker6141 Those people are fortunate, they can just buy a Squier and never need another electric guitar.

[@iDannyism]

Red Flags for Everyone: Content creators who constantly criticize new guitar players and make fun of their, albeit, silly habits. We get it guys, you're all more experienced and it's an inside joke making newbies look silly. Well done.

[@contramachina354]

Pretty sad but many of these KZbin music guys can be snobs themselves, showoffs, and elitists. I feel nothing when I hear them play. The KZbin drummers are the worst. They all sound the same, they all chop it up the same way. Everyone is so focused on trying to tell others how and what to play. I don't often see these people offering anything new, interesting, or creative.

[@rockingroller9000]

He’s making fun of douchebags at guitar stores

[@iDannyism]

@@rockingroller9000 really? Please explain in great detail exactly what is in the video and how I feel about it.

[@iDannyism]

@@contramachina354 it's just elitist bs. I can't imagine being so far gone from reality where you start making fun of young guitarists that probably just have far less experience or role models than you have. I get it, sometimes some people can be over the top but calling them out on your KZbin channel that makes you tons of money... Eff that. I hope I never turn into this guy.

[@LoungeFly02]

As an amateur guitarist who only plays acoustic in his own house, I don't understand any of these XD

[@brettkriewaldt1657]

My son learnt smoke on the water on his cheapo classical guitar. For his 11th birthday I took him to buy his first electric. I told him that he should only play smoke on the water in the guitar shop, so that's what he did. Bless him.

[@davespringer777]

If someone stopped me from playing any riff, that would be a red flag on the store. They'd just lose a sale. I like stairway. I like sweet child o mine. You sick of hearing it? Not really my problem. I've worked retail, and had to put up with all sorts of crap. Some kid wanting to know if their favorite song sounds good on a prospective new guitar isn't that big of a deal. The joke was funny on Wayne's World 30 years ago. It's become a little outplayed since. I couldn't imagine someone actually being serious about it.

[@yeowzaa007]

Jimmy Page is a sloppy live player!

[@SolarWarden88]

Not gonna lie though... That flag coming up when he said "tonewood is for sheep".... RED FLAG to that red flag... He was right! Tonewood IS for sheep, you fools lol. It makes SUCH a small difference, it's virtually impossible HEAR, not feel, but HEAR. 100% impossible to hear in a mix, literally. Yes, you sheep, tonewood is a very, very, very, VERY small component to the ACTUAL sound emitted from your guitar speaker. Tonewood is a talking-point, us mentally ill guitarists, myself included, came up with, as we are all afflicted with GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) and we cannot be trusted to make honest, rational, & unbiased statements lmfao. Carry-on.... :p

[@thelordofcheese6011]

People listen with their eyes

[@JohnShalamskas]

So you should be happy with a Squier, or a Glarry.

[@Mephilis78]

Yep, no sweat. Buy a first act. I don't want to hear you complain about it either.

[@SolarWarden88]

@@JohnShalamskas Sure, given a good set-up/intonnation, great pick-ups, why not? While it doesn't have the "prestige" or "value" of those more precious unicorn guitars, don't you DARE tell me you're a better player or your tone is better because of tonewood... I'm just like you, more than likely. I want a nice, beauty $50k Gibson, or PRS, or whatever your brand is, but the REALITY is that the tonewood will never, ever effect your playing ability or true tone on any major scale... Let's be real man lol. I'm not hating, or some anit-snob, snob lol, I'm just smarter now after doing research on the true nature of tonewood with respect to tone and playability. Value/collectability is a whole other ballgame. But objectively, in a mix, it's impossible to tell. Even A/B is virtually identical with the same set-up, amp, pick-ups, with two different tonewoody guitars lol. Like I said, feel, there is some legitimacy there, but not with tone ;p

[@OfJaggedRisings]

Tonewood is real because resonance and density are real. Also how dry the wood is and how well it’s all put together. In the end it’s all personal so in a way none of it matters….but…all of it matters. 🤷‍♂️ There’s a reason teles won’t sound like les Paul’s no matter what pickups you put in them…and vice versa.

[@michaellavery4899]

Missing the car door is class. Glad you left it in.

[@stormengine3261]

I very much enjoyed the acoustic player video you did. Not exactly sure what it was titled but being an acoustic owner/player, it was spot on! Been a subscriber since 🤘

[@MusicTherapyLaz]

There's the... "Nah, I don't need to plug it in, I know if it's good playing it like this acoustically, thank you!" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

[@Mephilis78]

Go play a first act unplugged. Then play a Gibson or Fender unplugged.

[@freedustin]

stock pickups are crap anyways.