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[glp]

MYTH: Smashing your guitar on the stage floor a la Pete Townshend is bad for tuning

[Johnulux]

Watching with the volume off. Why is he destroying that tube with his bare hands at 1:30

[ddiablolll]

Myth #2: need a better guitar.
Truth #2: Need more PRACTICE

[cIzanagi]

Guitar myth: learning to play guitar will get you a girlfriend.
I'm so lonely guys

[weets]

Myth #23. Buying a 4K Les Paul makes you an awesome guitar player. Damn! I should of purchased an Epiphone. 😂

[cybrunel]

Myth #1: Having a guitar makes you a guitar player/musician.

[arcanics]

"If you learn music theory it'll sap your creativity and you'll just obey the rules and play mechanically."
I don't know if I actually believed that as such, but I certainly used it as an excuse for why I didn't know any theory.
In the last couple of years I have started to get to grips with music theory and it has definitely had the opposite effect: I am much more creative in my composition, having a greater knowledge base on which to draw. And I still break the rules without any issues. I just know that I'm doing it now.

[musicformysanity]

One of my favorite debates is the idea of always tuning UP. I have heard people swear that it doesn't make a difference whether you tune down to a note or up to a note in regards to stability and staying in tune. I can shoot this down with simple physics. You should always tune up to a note because of the static friction encountered at the nut, especially if it is not self lubricating graphite. Time and time again I have watched guys tune down to drop D and instead of tuning below and then beck up they tune straight to it. Then after 30 seconds of playing they are flat. Yet they insist it has nothing to do with bad tuning technique. This really only applies to non-locking systems.

[chakathewolf]

If you take your guitar to the crossroads at midnight, Ole Scratch'll show up and tune it for you.

[modernstring]

Thank you for this. I am a luthier and I agree with everything you say. I always tune my guitars before shipping and I have repaired a lot of guitars as a result of dry fretboards. There was one myth I did not know about and it was the first myth about the tubes. I have always used gloves with tubes, I will continue to do that but now only to avoid fingerprints. So Thank you for this great video

[skategreaser]

Having a primadonna attitude is actually very endearing to bassists, drummers, and sound guys.

[lionlocVanDwellington]

Guitar myth #1. Everyone at the party will love it if I bring my acoustic an play some wonderwall.

[waitinwinter]

Guitarist myth: “I can tune the guitar perfectly by ear”

[SpeedBoost]

The biggest Guitar Myth that I believed for 15+ years, and in retrospect it's quite embarrassing as I told people this for years,

... it was that I was actually good at playing the guitar!

[AnthonySforza]

Yea... it's not the pressure changes that bother me when considering putting a guitar below in a plane. What concerns me is the "Care" the handlers assign to it. I've seen more than a couple go pretty awry, due to that.

[BigMuff]

"You need to learn "acoustic guitar" - aka nylon - before you can pick up the electic. Otherwise you will miss out on basic techniques and conditioning, you will never EVAARR able to adopt / regain later on."

[shanemarcotte]

"A good guitarist will make a cheap guitar sound grand. A bad guitarist cant make an expensive guitar sound even mediocre".

[Papaw]

Not only do people ship guitars in tune, but think of all the guitar techs out there who pack up multiple guitars and shove them onto a truck to go to the next gig, day after day.
Now ask that tech if he wants to detune and retune those guitars every day...

[skruffy]

When you were pressing on the neck of that Gibson on the floor my toes curled lol

[jasonmcmillan]

Myth: Everyone in the guitar store wants to hear you nail 'Smoke On The Water' before you