Top 5 Things Guitar Players Suffer From

Are you a guitar player? Do you suffer from any of these things?

[@JEKFROOT]

Civilians will never understand why i need 20+ overdrive pedals

[@JFrit67]

I feel your pain, brother.

[@azbluesdog]

Going through those boxes of miscellaneous parts and mumbling to myself that “it’s got to be in here somewhere” after seeing how much it would cost to buy a new one of whatever that part might be.

[@jerrysgotapewpew]

That's correct Aaron, there are two types of people. Guitar players and the civilians.

[@frankiechan9651]

Oh wow - the t-shirt bit at the end (LOL)

[@DeadEyeFoxx]

The shirt lean to the left 🤣🤣🤣 Yes! 🤘

[@valentinogilardi5890]

😂😂 very true and funny! …there's also the huge amount of picks that end up in the washing machine filter! 😆

[@Heavenreck]

Loved this 😅. Also to add we end less time playing and more time tinkering with our various lovely possessions. Always wanting more

[@halfbackmutt]

Loved this, you have hit the nail on the head, having played and coached amateur sport I can identify with the hour and a half tidying up, good on you for doing this vid when you are not feeling well.

[@Eric_S]

Truth! I'm your age and my hands have been changing lately. 100% 💯 Empty cases under beds, in closets and narrow spaces. My great triumph was reusing my oldest knobs from my first guitar I ko longer have on my latest Warmoth Tele build. 35 years sitting in my parts box.

[@nellayema2455]

Good ones! Get well soon! I have the case problem. I also have the box of stuff, too. I stupidly threw away an early '70's Strat bridge pup years ago. I don't want to make that mistake again, so now I'm a parts hoarder.

[@jmcgregor316]

I need that support group, especially for the boxes of stuff. This is a great video.

[@joeschlicht]

Yes, I definitely have a box problem. So much so that I'm paying storage just to keep them. Storage is for other things, too, but it's 75% empty boxes that I might need one day 🤦‍♂️

[@ranman58635]

Bros, I build guitar's. Send them here.

[@root961]

The "Bag of Random Knobs" made me laugh and laugh!

[@Robstafarian]

Spare parts make me dream up Warmoth projects, possibly the REAL reason behind Warmoth's minimum order policy. 😏

[@elnawdydawg]

This was great! 🤟

[@RudeRecording]

You don't get paid to play, you get paid to haul the gear.

[@angrytroll27]

Could totally relate to this! I've had compressed muscles up the right side of my neck from sitting with a guitar under my right arm from teach guitar for almost 20 years now

[@xamislimelight8965]

The hours of practice that happens behind closed doors between playing a show or on video. Every second of successful playing, there's hours and hours of drills and practice. It can sometimes get in the way of your social life, and that can get kind of depressing. I feel like no one talks about it much. Maybe I took the assignment too seriously lol

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@robphillips8351]

Excellent insight. I have a drawer full of bridge saddles and plates for teles. Collection of aluminum anodized knob's, few extra pickups, bunch of pull back wiring, and a few other oddities.

[@dj_tmc]

Number 2: I feel so seen. Running low on guitar picks? Check the dryer!

[@skillzmcgavern]

Losing all your picks but finding them randomly all over the house

[@warmoth]

Gah! How could I have forgotten to include this?

[@luislanga]

I am now self aware of my crooked hands. Thanks, Aaron.

[@warmoth]

You are not alone.

[@theguitarprofessionals8584]

LOVE IT MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@blueocean702]

Feel better soon Aaron!!!

[@davepatterson4774]

#1 is spot on! The vast majority of my tshirts fit like that. I feel your pain.😂

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

This ever happen to you Aaron? "Hey, I got a spare pick up laying around... TIME TO MAKE A GUITAR!" Story of my life lolz.

[@warmoth]

So. Many. Times.

[@schmoemi3386]

I really miss the "Your amp is never loud enough" suffering... 😲

[@el_grecko_31]

I have a mini jumbo plug-in Alvarez and strumming that wide body very fast for 15 years did a real number on my right shoulder. It took about 2 years of not playing and stretching to get full range of motion back.

[@kestrelmerriweather392]

Bruh I just noticed my picking hand's index finger was skewed just like yours the other day. What are the odds lmao

[@jessehutchings]

Mine is that if I'm not playing guitar I'm probably THINKING about playing guitar

[@riverbard8287]

I can’t hear you Honey, my ears are ringing. 🔊🤪👂 🎵🎶

[@OscillationOverdrive]

I thought I was the only one with extra guitar parts around that I won't realistically be able to sell.

[@warmoth]

You are not alone.

[@darryllandry9904]

Just put my Warmoth hardtail Strat back together. Oh my!! What a War Club. JB and 59 with one volume knob and a three way switch. Alder body fat Les Paul type neck and wow. Off we go!!!

[@barnettg66]

After a similar 40 years of playing, I have some serious carpel tunnel in my left hand and can barely feel the strings anymore. Even some loss in dexterity, probably from numbness. I sometimes have to take a week or two off to get the stinging and numbness to subside. I have found that 1-5/8th width standard thin necks help quite a bit.

[@FYMASMD]

Surgery works.

[@geraldponce8336]

Thought Smokey bars and drunk people would be one of em

[@Tyrannocaster]

Huh, I thought I was the only one with the lopsided shoulder issue. Welcome aboard!

[@crappyfellow]

So true!

[@danswansonguitar]

Love it!😂

[@DtRockstar1]

One thing that annoys me is, I will be shredding away, tearing it up on the guitar. The civilians won’t think anything of it. Then I’ll start playing a Nirvana song and they’ll be totally impressed.

[@ExternalInputs]

Something in those boxes of parts you "know you'll never use" will be needed the moment you get rid of them. Although my hands are able to make "heavy metal devil's horns", my mind is the barrier, and I find knowing there are some that physically can't, quietly comforting. I can identify with the guitar player-civilian divide. Guitarists do seem to live in a world of their own, hardly acknowledging there's anything more than just the "guitar part".

[@MilanoGuyTexas]

Another excellent video from Shaggy, this time a more introspective contemplative side of Shaggy. It would be interesting to see a similar video from Scooby-Doo, what are the pluses and minus of being a dog ? Example you have a fur coat, so no bothering with clothes, the downside being it's hard to keep with fashion trends, since as I said you don't wear anything. Also being a talking dog you can communicate with other people and beings, downside they can communicate with you. Bye for now

[@GraniteSoundtrack]

The shirt one is so true!

[@donsimon63]

Civilians! That Made me chuckle. Thank You and get well soon! 😀👍

[@user-ot5tg6wy2e]

Wife says I can’t buy anymore guitars. So I started building them.

[@6StringPassion.]

#5 - check #4 - check #3 - finally decided to use thumb picks. #2 - check - mostly relegated to the attic #1 - my entire upper body now lists to the left from playing an EDS-1275, the heaviest guitar ever made.

[@mmypainting]

How is your hearing? High notes, low notes, I know I have a constant zing that started when I was 14, playing in my first band in England in 1959/60.

[@mykneeshurt8393]

Fun video.

[@zyxwfish]

One thing guitar players suffer from that civilians don’t is obsessing over tone woods, pickups, scale length, fretboard radius, nut width’s, string gauges, neck back profiles, fret sizes and the list goes on and on and on.

[@sTVG2]

Please learn the over under method of cable wrapping! Your future will be forever changed (in a good way) :)

[@brianbrazil4426]

More guitars than you can play in a week. Neck, shoulder and back stress pains from playing heavy guitars for too many years. More amplifiers to go with all the guitars. More guitar effects pedals to keep up with the different changes in music styles to stay working.

[@scherzo0o]

well, for no 1, is it just the t-shirt, or maybe the shoulder as such turns asymmetrical (together with the spine), due to the guitar?

[@Mark70609]

I get pain in my left thumb at the base of my hand that’s very annoying. I would like to play more but I have to work with that limitation.

[@lyricbread]

This entire video is 100% accurate. 😂

[@edwardcarter1804]

I’ll take those extra parts boxes lol

[@aaronflynt]

LMAO. I share 100% of those with you along with a first name.

[@Obscurity202]

Does anyone have a single left side tuner for a 70s/80s sigma acoustic guitar?

[@AprioriMarcos]

Can we just talk about option paralysis when it comes to choosing which guitars to bring to a given gig? Which then leads to "maybe I should switch up my pedalboard..."

[@warmoth]

Mojo sent! ;)

[@mistreated]

The shirt! Yep, that’s hilarious

[@ExpatZ266]

Nailed it.

[@bradmuromoto9580]

Also not being able to find a flamed roasted strat neck with a dark rosewood fb under $500:( in the showcase

[@handle433]

My no. 1 is hearing fatigue. I refuse to listen to things that are too loud or constant, or too high pitched. This includes sirens, other people’s music, AirPods, my wife, and gunshots.

[@davethehermit8482]

You can't throw any of that stuff away. What if you need it in the future!!!!!!!!

[@CusterFlux]

Bag 'o Random Knobs … FEAR IT! 😱

[@warmoth]

Please do not taunt Bag 'o Random Knobs.

[@davidrees1840]

Yes, but so worth it 😊

[@petertimp5416]

I suffer from tennis elbow and golf elbow my fingers on one hand lineup differently to the fingers On the other hand. One of my fingernails splits in two after years years of playing guitar and the nail rubbing up against the string. I can tilt my head further to the right and I came to the left, I can turn my head further to the right then the left. I suffered from shortened nerve syndrome giving my middle finger the ability not to work for over two years. My neck is stuffed….Totally wrecked not to mention how bad my back is and how I tilt to one side more than the other. Thanks for listening 😊

[@T0neXIII]

I call them the "Straight Armed".

[@michaeltrojanek9392]

Now that we're through with this, let's talk about building guitars and why I have a workshop full of tools where each one costs a fortune and can kill you in a small moment of inattention 😄

[@warmoth]

LOL.

[@brianmorton4127]

Dude, you stole the box out of my garage!

[@warmoth]

Please, please come steal it back! ;)

[@mightyhammerhead]

😂 listing shirts! 🤣

[@julianp3846]

No wall space for my fine artist wife's pictures. Six Warmoths, Velocity, VIP, Mooncaster and strats, and a few other brands hanging on wall mounts. Even worse, no room for more guitars.

[@icefenix3187]

Ran out of room for more....CHECK.😂

[@artg2767]

I can no longer cross my fingers on my left (fretting) hand.

[@v.k.7463]

I have 3 boxes of spare parts around my home ar the moment.

[@howarddavis6802]

If your not in the Military, or a veteran your a civilian....

[@barnettg66]

You missed the point -- humor.

[@howarddavis6802]

@@barnettg66 No I didn't.

[@kurtbader9711]

You forgot GAS, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. I'm down to five Marshall cabs, 2 jmp heads, four preamps, two analog reverb units, two quadraverbs, two power amps, two pl-plus's a dbx 2215, a pile of pedals and seven guitars. And after 45 years of playing my hands are losing functionality. Heartbreaking, but that's life. Anyone want to buy some epic stuff? Boxes of parts too.

[@joemitchell9981]

Can't just buy or rent a house with enough rooms for the people. Gotta have a room for the studio.

[@6StringPassion.]

And lastly, the wife acceptance factor for purchasing more guitars faded like a '60 burst.

[@user-vu4zk3rp1w]

I’ve got flat feet from playing guitar.

[@stevejarred6484]

Hey Erin - I might have a lot of people beat. I have two electric basses, a bunch of electric guitars (In various stages of completion), three amp and a ton of parts - * And I still can't play! * (LOL!) GuitarFetish is not only the best description of my jones, they're my main supplier. Sorry, cheep parts from China are still cheep and affordable!

[@nuthinbutlove]

I feel so seen right now 🤣🤣🤣

[@3cardmonty602]

Boxes of old crappy pickups

[@OgamiItto70]

Hm. I would've though the list would include singers (for obvious reasons), keyboardists (with their supercilious smirks about our lack of music theory), bass players (the smell), drummers (making us go deaf with those cymbals right in our ears) and sound men (wanting us to turn down all the time). Honorable mention: other guitarists: who needs 'em trying to steal our thunder? I guess it all depends on what you consider "suffering."

[@warmoth]

Haha!

[@arborinfelix]

I suffer from the Nr:2 on your list. Just throw everything away that you don't use. Clean space = relaxed mind. I can't throw anything away since the stuff that is so cheap that it is not worht selling but lays around for decades, belongs to my wife. If I ever touch them or throw them away I will solve the problem Nr 2 but create a whole new list of problems at the same time.

[@meninatym435]

G.A.S. guitar acquisition syndrome

[@Yupppi]

If not having money is not one of these things, I'm gonna be upset.

[@warmoth]

LOL.

[@DapperHesher]

Depression, substance abuse, insomnia, imposter syndrome, back & neck pain? Did I guess right?

[@jamesonpace726]

Yup, that old number 1 is a fashion disaster. Also, the arthritis in various body parts which ya modestly didn't reveal....

[@WillMoon]

Can I add one? This also has to do with me being a knifemaker, but it started when I began playing guitar: my fingers have such thick calluses that touch screens don't work for me anymore on some of my fingers.

[@warmoth]

Yes! Callouses are big deal for me too! BTW, my cousin is a master knife maker as well. In fact, he won one of the Forged in Fire competitions.

[@BlackpitfatherLech]

just pure truth but not all the truth hahahahahaa there is so much more of common problems we have all :) let them rest in confidence

[@Techead78]

Why I require 18 guitars.

[@ganaorganador]

This is so much fun, cause it's true!!! jajajaja

[@ExploreAmerica]

#1 delusions of grandeur

[@ranman58635]

Lol, send me your extra parts! I creat new guitar's. I hqve multiple injuries i suffer from. Meningitis for one, it makes it to where i can't practice or ill be injured. So, 35 year's later and I'm finally getting it but i have too many injuries and may have to stop.

[@robphillips8351]

P.s. get well soon..

[@gregweilersbacher8883]

Musicians suffer from an inability to simply listen to a song without nit picking the hell out of the guitar player’s style, chops, slight over or under bending notes etc. It takes the fun out of listening to new music from your favorite band.

[@blackdotpatrick]

Slow news week.

[@mgclark46]

I am a civilian who has been induced by Covid to be a "pile-of-parts-wanna-be-guitar-builder"

[@richardmorgan1588]

There are so many advantages to being a bedroom guitarist!

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Yes lol. Like having better guitars than actual giging musicians because we probably have better paying jobs lololol.

[@FYMASMD]

Deafness?? How do you get a guitarist to turn down? Put a chart in front of them. TAB is for wimps. Maybe learn how to read rhythms.

[@SuicideVan]

Maybe all those spare pups can be used as refrigerator magnets?

[@ExpatZ266]

I have two racks of gear and several pedals that not only don't I use I probably will just never use. My wife has constant stink eye about em. I am sooooo sorry. Oh yeah, and a 7 drawer rack full of nothing but cables. That I will never use most likely. They go nicely with the two Marshall 1938 cabinets that currently are used as a monitor stand and cat scratch station behind my desk. That I will never use. That isn't the stuff that I do use...