Re: Too many people are quick to judge guitarists

On May 26, 4:43 pm, Peter Thomas
<peterdoub...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <k_GdndIBVbZmcUHQnZ2dnUVZ8mOdn...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
FatBoySlimFast <steveNOSPAMTAVERYM...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

....



Too many people are quick to judge guitarists ...

So true. Why, though? Perhaps because so many people have tried guitar
before moving on.

Been suggested that the number of chord sequences played for any given
tune more-or-less equals the number of guitars being played in a
session.

I do recall once playing a tune in D and hearing a guitarist accompany
it throughout in G. When we pointed this out, he said, "Well, we
always play it in G."


Also that guitarists tend not to understand the relative minor of any
major key.

Eh, what? After the three-chord-trick, the next thing most learn is I-
VI-IV-V. Maybe they don't know exactly how relative that second chord
is...
I once attended a session where a jazz-trained guitarist turned up -
and put everybody off by playing ninths and diminished chords all over
the place. They all fitted very well but none of the other guitarists
could play with him. I don't think the fiddlers and whistle players
minded one bit :-)

Certain guitarists spend more time re-tuning and chatting than playing.

I can never understand why some guitarists at singers' nights wait
'til it's their turn and *then* decide they want to play in DADGAD.

And a nylon-strung is too quiet to be heard but a steel strung will
upset the fiddlers.

I have known some pretty loud nylon-strung guitarists. Well, they were
loud enough to be heard but not good enough for anyone to want to hear
them...

Others?

--
Peter Thomas
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