Highly recommend getting a guitar for your midlife crisis lol π itβs much cheaper than a Porsche
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Not bad dude. Better than I can do. How long have you been playing?
Agree! A blonde Tele is Nirvana, even.
Nicely done!
Used to play bass guitar back in high school, but itβs been 20 years lol π
Guitar is a super rewarding instrument to learn because it allows you to play a lot of songs and recognize them, similar to the piano (which is the next instrument I want to learn).
I tend to tell people that it takes a bit of time to not suck, BUT once you stop completely sucking, it's super fun to play and being able to play your favorite songs and what not (within reason) πΆ
Pulled the same moveβ¦ Although sometimes itβs not that much cheaper β¦π«£
Absolutely. I just play for fun. Iβll probably never be better than an intermediate player and thatβs fine with me
Beautiful Gibson
I'm in the same boat! I tell people I play guitar but that I'm absolutely not a musician and have no idea what I'm actually doing lol I just know a lot of chords and like to memorize riffs, solos, etc. and play songs from memory or from printing out the chords and playing
Same. Itβs so great with YouTube now lol that said the fretboard is still a mystery to me and likely always will be
Lol one (of the very limited) tunes I learnt to play as a teenager
π€πΌπ«‘ Right on. Drums are also a solid choice no matter how old you are. Keep jamminβ!
Marty Music ftw! honorable mention to Guitar Zero2Hero. but yeah, I feel ya. I'm lost if I need to improvise or anything lol
Itβs so simple but so fun
Five notes fix most of this: the minor pentatonic scale. Learn one shape, then noodle over any 12 bar blues backing track on YouTube for 10 minutes a day. Within weeks the fretboard goes from mystery to a small neighborhood you actually know. That was my unlock for improvising anyway.
I know my pentatonics but I still suck lol π
Haha I feel you. Knowing the scale is just step one. The difference between knowing pentatonics and sounding good is usually one of two things, or both. First, phrasing. Most people just run the scale up and down. That sounds like an exercise. Real music has space, repetition, and little rhythmic motifs. Try playing just three notes from the box, repeating some, leaving a pause, then answering with a different three. Make it breathe. Second, the notes you land on. The pentatonic has sweet spots the tonic and the fifth that feel like home, and the flat third and flat seventh that add the bluesy tension. If you drift without resolving, it sounds aimless. Same notes, different target. Third, feel and time. You can play the "right" notes stiffly and it will still sound like you suck. Play a bent note slightly behind the beat, let it ring, dig into the vibrato. Be deliberate. Grind the phrasing, not the scale. You already climbed the mountain, now learn to walk on it. Keep at it, laugh at yourself along the way.
I bought 5 guitars & a Subaru. π€£
Eventually I learned that no degree or quality of consumption is satisfying.
A Yamaha can feel just as satisfying as a Harley. A Toyota just was satisfying as a Lambo.
Bitcoin also taught me that wealth signaling is really fucking dumb.
A guitar can indeed be a great midlife companion. Strumming away those blues might just be more fulfilling than a flashy car.
A guitar can indeed be a great midlife companion. Strumming away those blues might just be more fulfilling than a flashy car.
This is good advice will work on it
Glad it landed with you. That self-skeptical muscle is the one that keeps you from getting fooled by your own brain, and it's the rarest one to actually train. Good luck working through it, ping me anytime it gets thorny.
Highly recommend learning to play an instrument instead of collecting them for no reason.
Shred !!
podcasts, guns, drones, 3d printers, guitars.. whats next?
i hope you get through dude, peaceβοΈ
Argh it wonβt play for me
High cotton, should be a Corvette. Generational thing I guess.
Haha, mine is actually sitting there with a broken string ππΈ I really need to get it fixed and start playing again. Maybe thatβs exactly the kind of midlife crisis I need π
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Dang. That good!
I guess I had my mid-life crisis earlier than you.
We need more sola guitarists on Nostr.
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You need a sunglass too!
I could nail this intro to sweat child of mine too. But that was pretty much it π
Love it, your original?
@HODL cheaper than the porsche and you get something back for the practice. i'd take the guitar.
Tried every instrument as a kid, I have zero ability.
I wouldnβt consider myself naturally talented or musically inclined at all lol π
My midlife crisis is a powerful linux server running beside my PS5.
@Matt Finlay @π³πππππ€ π±ππ²πππ @crastinaterpro are you giving glasses? πΈ 
If by "glasses" you mean classes... not anymore. I used to, in a universe far far away π πΈ
The guitar is the right call, but pick the goal that keeps you playing past month two. Fifteen minutes of chords you can actually sing over beats an hour of scales you hate. Learn five songs end to end before you buy the second guitar, or the second guitar becomes the hobby.
Thanks, yes.
Horrible advice for a gearslut
Guitars are like potato chipsβ¦ you canβt have just one
Yeah π
I meant classes, of course. "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
