I’m not remotely surprised at your strategy, I just don’t quite have a discerning enough ear to know all that yet. Time and experience should change that. Still one of these sounds like it would be fun to play.
Oh, yes. They are surely wonderfully useful for people with different goals than my own.
It even has a 'guitar mode' which when it is operating without any of the electronic effects - like if the battery dies, you can still play it just like you would play a regular guitar. It just doesn't have all the effects and features.
And, in it's plain old guitar mode, it does pretty well. It sounds just fine and has the regular features you'd want to have with an up-market guitar. There are a variety of models, some with bridge, middle, and neck pickups. They use a push-pull pot so that you can get a neat variety of pickup selections.
They are not bad guitars - they just don't suit my very specific requirements. I don't want a sound that is somewhat similar to a Les Paul, I want a Les Paul sound. If I couldn't afford the Les Paul sound, I'd get an Epiphone Les Paul, similar to the model you yourself own.
By the way, I'd love it if you recorded something for me. I'd like to hear how far you've progressed. I'd like to see you also gaining some confidence. In this case, the confidence might be something like, "Yeah, I know I'm still pretty bad at it - but i have learned to do this ____ and I'm pretty proud of that because I now understand how fucking hard it is to play a guitar."
I also have a favor, if you're interested.
Way back when, I told you that it was gonna be very difficult. You responded with things like, "I pick things up quickly. I will learn this and it will be easier for me than it is for most people." You were pretty confident and I said things like, "You'll see."
Anyhow, now that you see it is actually really fucking hard, is there any way you think I can convey that better? I'd like to know if you can think of a way for me to describe how difficult it really is - so that people are even more aware of it as they are making the choice to learn?
I have been meaning to record something, I know it'll suck but I'll get around too it sooner or later. Life just won't stop getting in the way. I'm still playing not as much as I was as spending 60 hours a week working and then coming home and working on poal(new stuff is coming) and being a husband and father it turns out takes a lot of time.
I did think it would be easier than it is, it is fucking hard. You did tell me but I have a habit of picking things to do that are hard. I really should look into that I think I might be a masochist.
What I would tell people instead of telling them its hard(I mean include that somewhere in there) is that look its not about being smart or a fast learner, its about muscle memory and time. It doesn't matter how smart you are or how quickly you pick up most things. This is about making your fingers do things they were really not designed to do. So it will be hard no matter who you are.
LOL I did tell ya it was mostly muscle memory and that your fingers won't behave for quite some time! ;-)
Thanks, still.
I want to write a fairly formal piece of advice/stock answer for when people ask me about learning to play guitar. Then, I (and other people) can just point to it and say, "If you want to learn to play guitar, read this first."
It's damned difficult. It's not impossible. It's just so difficult that most people give up.
You? You're doing just fine - assuming you're being honest and still trying to put your hours in.
There's a 2 month mark. Most people quit by then. There's a 1 year mark, and others quit by then. There's the 2 year mark, and only a very small group of people make it past that.
You've made it past one. Two more to go and it will be an ingrained habit. You'll also be starting to get good at about the 2 year mark - assuming you're putting your hours in.
Even if it's only 15 minutes a day, put the hours in and try to get at least 2 hours on the weekends. It can even be 1 hour per weekend day. You'll make it.
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