Question about guitar talent?!


Question: Even if I'm not a great guitarist (been playing 2.5 months), do I still have potential to be a great guitarist.

p.s. I taught myself to play in November and I started getting lessons in January.


Answers: Even if I'm not a great guitarist (been playing 2.5 months), do I still have potential to be a great guitarist.

p.s. I taught myself to play in November and I started getting lessons in January.

Like guitar has anything to do with talent. Believe me none of your favoritem musicians have any talent as a guitarist but that's what makes it so good Eric Clapton locked him self up in his room for a year to learn to play guitar. Do you think he had talent? Hendrix learned to play on a cigar box with a string when he was five. By the time he was famous he had been playing nearly twenty years. Cobain was a horrible guitarist I don't know what they guy was talking about up there. Zakk Wylde (dunno if your into metal or not I'm not I just have heard this story a million times) stayed up all night every day for years playing guitar and he would sleep through high school. Almost all great guitarists have some story about how they got to be that good and it's always insane amounts of practice, no talent involved at all! My favorite story is Steve Vais. He sent Frank Zappa his transcription of the scores to some of Frank Zappa's music and Zappa was impressed and took him aboard. On Stage Zappa made fun of him all the time and would force him to sight read experimental symphonic rock on stage (Zappa did this too alot of musicians). That's how he got good.

P.S. every musician wishes they had started scales and complex chords early on but no one does. You should develope a love of practing everyday before you start playing scales up and down. Otherwise you will get discouraged.

You can't just pick up a guitar and expect to sound like Kurt Cobain or Jimmy Page, you gotta keep working towards your goal. Everyone has potential,but few people know how to turn that potential into true talent.

It depends on what your defenition of great is. To be a great guitarist usually requires some natural born talent. You can fake it well enough but to be truly great I think that you not only have to know what you're doing. It will be like being fluent in another language you don't even have to think about it.

Yes. You can still suck at guitar and as long as you use effects you will sound great.....Anyways , just keep working at it and you will get better. I have played for 4 years and I'm still pretty horrible.

Work hard, practice hard, don't quit, no matter how much you want to. Learn the chords and how to read music, too. It makes life much easier. It's the same for any instrument.

Of course. Nobody is an expert right away. The only suggestion I can give you (being self taught as well), is to start learning the scales and some music theory as soon as you can. You don't want to be able to play a bunch of songs, and not understand what they are doing. That just makes you a jukebox, not a guitarist.
Learn the scales! Then, writing songs becomes a lot easier.

***Thanks Prof. I'll tell ya, writing bass lines before knowing scales.....thats an epic journey to complete a song.

Depends on your work ethic honestly. The guy I know who is a really great guitarist, best I've ever seen in person and I've been to a lot of shows and seen a lot of guitarists in my day, is the type of guy who is playing guitar in almost all of his down time. He's young too and it's pretty amazing what this kid can do. If you practice and learn and jam with people obsessively you can get there. You can't expect too much after three months, give it time.

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couldn't agree more Master. Great tip.

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Yeah man, tell me about it. I was in that situation when I played bass in a band. It was no good, a lot of "well if I need to go somewhere I guess the fifth is always safe"

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I see what you mean Exo and I agree, but it is something good to think about. You could just mix in a scale here and there to get familiar, tinker with one every couple days or so. There is something to be said about so many people feeling that way if he's serious about being really good. I do agree though, I probably would have probably gotten frustrated if I'd started with them too early.

If you work really hard and keep practicing you will keep getting better and better.

If you're init for money, you don't need much talent.

Myself, I don't care if it's hard to play or easy, if it sounds good, I love it.



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