The Confessions Thread

[MEC]

Speaking of that, I am intimidated by my friend's guitar skill.
"What kinda stuff do you want to play?"
"Uhhhh..."
I don't know, I never make songs or anything although maybe I should if only as an exercise. I tend to just make super fuzzy drony things...but nothing that is much of a technical challenge.

You just have to find the right people to play with.
Just because it's technical doesn't mean it's good.

[snipelfritz]

Speaking of that, I am intimidated by my friend's guitar skill.
"What kinda stuff do you want to play?"
"Uhhhh..."
I don't know, I never make songs or anything although maybe I should if only as an exercise. I tend to just make super fuzzy drony things...but nothing that is much of a technical challenge.

You just have to find the right people to play with.
Just because it's technical doesn't mean it's good.

Yeah, a friend of mine is great technically, but he couldn't tell me what key his songs are in. And he only plays things he's already written. I'm the exact opposite. Give me a key and I'll just improvise from there.

[MEC]

Speaking of that, I am intimidated by my friend's guitar skill.
"What kinda stuff do you want to play?"
"Uhhhh..."
I don't know, I never make songs or anything although maybe I should if only as an exercise. I tend to just make super fuzzy drony things...but nothing that is much of a technical challenge.

You just have to find the right people to play with.
Just because it's technical doesn't mean it's good.

Yeah, a friend of mine is great technically, but he couldn't tell me what key his songs are in. And he only plays things he's already written. I'm the exact opposite. Give me a key and I'll just improvise from there.

I'm not technical, don't know what key anything is in and I can't improvise......I'm fucked.

[Achtane]

Speaking of that, I am intimidated by my friend's guitar skill.
"What kinda stuff do you want to play?"
"Uhhhh..."
I don't know, I never make songs or anything although maybe I should if only as an exercise. I tend to just make super fuzzy drony things...but nothing that is much of a technical challenge.

You just have to find the right people to play with.
Just because it's technical doesn't mean it's good.

Yeah, a friend of mine is great technically, but he couldn't tell me what key his songs are in. And he only plays things he's already written. I'm the exact opposite. Give me a key and I'll just improvise from there.

I'm not technical, don't know what key anything is in and I can't improvise......I'm fucked.

Oh yeah, definitely. He isn't about making everything he plays academic or anything like that. He doesn't purposely make it as technical as possible. I don't feel forced to play intricate shit.
The problem is mine, I never play as much as I should (I post a hundred times as often as I play) and am severely lacking in the theory department. I feel handicapped by it. You tell me what key something's in and I don't give a shit, it means nothing to me. But I believe that's a shortcoming; I don't know what to do with that information you just gave me.

Not saying that you even need a drop of theory to play what you want or make something meaningful. I definitely agree that it doesn't need to be technical to be good. I dig the fuck out of this song(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8HOJ2mSIcg) and it's very simple. I can play along to High Rise forever.
I would just like to be able to play things, you know, and actually know where I'm going beyond the hint of "that's not it" and feeling around in the dark for a fitting note. I want to be able to play things and have it flow together.

I hate insincere wankery in music more than anything but I'd like to have the ability to play stuff other than FUZZDROANS and crazy noises. I can't make myself practice. The motivation is there and also not there. I feel really like more of an owner than a player. BUT -- like exercising, maybe if I just "practice for real" for a few days in a row it'll become a sort of habit.

[Mudfuzz]

I confess that I truly dislike the sound and playing styles of the modern american banjo [nothing personal to banjoist other then tung and cheek poking though, can accept that some one can like what I don't and not say they are wrong for it], or... maybe I just really hate bluegrass.. I mean I can dig mideastern, asian, african "banjo" music, even really like most of it. But the modern fretted banjo... I just don't like it for some reason.. and no no amount of playing "good" banjo music at me will.....


[had to add this]

[snipelfritz]

I feel like everyone has at least one instrument that they absolutely hate. For me, it's the harpsichord.

but yeah, I'm not too interested in bluegrass neither.

[Grrface]

I feel like everyone has at least one instrument that they absolutely hate. For me, it's the harpsichord.

but yeah, I'm not too interested in bluegrass neither.

I decided the other day that acoustic guitars are only good for texture while accompanying a better instrument. This has made me unpopular with some of my acoustic playing buddies. It's not a bad instrument, I just don't like the sound of one on its own.

[Achtane]

I feel like everyone has at least one instrument that they absolutely hate. For me, it's the harpsichord.

but yeah, I'm not too interested in bluegrass neither.

I decided the other day that acoustic guitars are only good for texture while accompanying a better instrument. This has made me unpopular with some of my acoustic playing buddies. It's not a bad instrument, I just don't like the sound of one on its own.

While not an instrument itself, I'm always annoyed by whistling. Anything whistled can be done better on anything else, even a vuvuzela.

[snipelfritz]

I can do you better with a vuvzela

but yeah, on acoustic guitar, I couldn't agree with you more. I think some of The Who's studio recordings are perfect examples of that.

[theavondon]

I can do you better with a vuvzela

but yeah, on acoustic guitar, I couldn't agree with you more. I think some of The Who's studio recordings are perfect examples of that.

OH MY GOD I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT


also, ziggy stardust era Bowie.

[futuresailors]

also, ziggy stardust era Bowie.

Get out.

[coldbrightsunlight]

also, ziggy stardust era Bowie.

Yessss. Personally I hate the ukulele. SO MUCH. It just sounds like a joke, I can't take anyone who plays one seriously because any song they play just sounds like clown music/tiny tim and i HATE tiny tim.

[snipelfritz]

What's not serious about this(seriously, this has got to be catchiest song I've ever hear):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c71RCAyLS1M[/youtube]

Yeah, uke is hard to take seriously except that guy who does that cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps and rips it up.

[coldbrightsunlight]

That guy who plays while my guitar gently weeps is pretty cool, and amazingly talented, but I'm always watching it going "you could be playing a REAL instrument!", someone playing real things on a uke is just a novelty.

[kbit]

Making out with my girl friday night, I couldn't stop thinking about flangers. Like, visualizing lines that represented the sound difference between different flangers. I don't even like flangers that much.


I blame bigchiefbc.