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Originally Posted by 89911
I have played drums for years, little bit of piano and the guitar on and off for 20 years. You will find out that most songs 1: Are mostly variations of about 5-6 chords. 2: Any new song is a variation of maybe 3-4 chords. 3. Its actually disappointing to find out that this is all there is too many of songs from guitar drivin bands (Greenday, Offspring, ETC). 4. That to actually play the other small percentage of songs that aren't easy will take you a few years developing your abilities. Which leads you back to 2 and why you will find endless youtube videos of others playing these songs.  |
Brilliant!
That's actually exactly what happens to me. For ex., saw offspring this summer, that got me motivated. I'd listen to some of the songs, think "Wow, that rocks pretty good, if I could just crank up the stereo, guitar amp and distortion and play along with that, that would be so awesome!"
These are of course basic songs that someone like nostatic, gogar, or any of the other guitar gods here could literally learn in 5 minutes, but even the basic ones take me several hours a day for several days to get down start to finish. Which I usually enjoy doing, when I'm motivated.
But after all that, when I have it down, it is somewhat disappointing, because then it seems so simple. And, by that time, I've heard the song so many times, gone over it so many times, and deconstructed it, it kind of ruins the song for me.
I'll learn 5 or 6 songs over the course of a few months, get bored, start to think "Why am I doing this??" then put the guitar away for a year, two or more.