Why ask my opinion if you don't want it?

[Shreddy Mercury]

Surely something like this has happened to everyone here.

I've been playing guitar for close to 30 years now. I've learned a lot of songs, licks, etc. I've done a lot of string changes and truss rod adjustments, a bunch of action adjustments, etc. I've learned how to do my own fret jobs and a lot of other setup procedures, as well as spent some time learning to build guitars with a luthier buddy. So why would you bother asking my opinion on something guitar related if you aren't going to listen?

I have a friend, she's 30, and has a total boner for midwestern emo that's popular'ish now. She found a video of a guy mashing up 2 songs she likes, and even though I couldn't watch the TikTok (cuz I don't have a gay ass TikTok account), I looked up the music to the 2 songs she likes, because she wants me to teach her how to play it. Super simple stuff, basically just arpeggiated power chords where the most difficult technique is dropping the root a half step, or skipping the A string. Anyways, I told her they're simple and that I could learn the songs front to back and be ready to play them live in an hour each, that's how simple they are, and depending on her finger dexterity, and how much practice time she put in, she could learn them pretty easily too. However, not with her fancy nails. She has press on nails all dolled up that are probably 3/4" longer than the tip of her finger. While they look great on her, it ain't gonna fly. I told her those would get in her way and make playing the songs very difficult because it's going to be nearly impossible to get good, clean note separation. It doesn't help her guitar is a cheaper, more affordable Ibanez acoustic that God only knows the condition of the frets, nut, bridge, and truss rod.

Then she tells me, and I quote, "I can definitely do it with my nails it's the fingers I'm worried about". Oh, ok you can? Well then, how about I just start taking lessons from you because obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about

 

[rsm]

raptor claws.

I'm in the dating market, on and off. lots of these women out there, that do all this fake-up stuff: raptor claw nails, hair, make-up, injections, etc., while they're 50+ pounds overweight or more to obese AF.

They're usually in a small herd of 3 to 8. Then they get an attitude when you don't talk to them, hit on them or offer to buy them drinks. Well, I'm not interested in a woman that weighs as much as I do, or more. Fat shaming is what I grew up with, long overdue bringing it back to the current dating scene, but I'm doing my part.

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

raptor claws.

I'm in the dating market, on and off. lots of these women out there, that do all this fake-up stuff: raptor claw nails, hair, make-up, injections, etc., while they're 50+ pounds overweight or more to obese AF.

They're usually in a small herd of 3 to 8. Then they get an attitude when you don't talk to them, hit on them or offer to buy them drinks. Well, I'm not interested in a woman that weighs as much as I do, or more. Fat shaming is what I grew up with, long overdue bringing it back to the current dating scene, but I'm doing my part.

Well, while this is all true and fat shaming (or really all types of shaming) needs to come back en vogue, you went in a totally different direction than I did lol

 

[rsm]

Well, while this is all true and fat shaming (or really all types of shaming) needs to come back en vogue, you went in a totally different direction than I did lol

the raptor claws tell me she's probably part of the obese herd of single women in their '30s; which is my target demographic minus the obese part, so I know it well from experience in the wild. I still get lucky with women in their late 20s from time to time, but since my hair turned grey and now white it's been more difficult.

 

[japetus]

Lmao

 

[rsm]

Lmao

 

[Findthetone1]

the raptor claws tell me she's probably part of the obese herd of single women in their '30s; which is my target demographic minus the obese part, so I know it well from experience in the wild. I still get lucky with women in their late 20s from time to time, but since my hair turned grey and now white it's been more difficult.

I couldn't imagine even trying to feign enough interest to try and seal the deal with some tart in their 20s anymore.

 

[BABMusic]

Oh come on man, every man knows that it's Women 101 for them to complain about something but not actually want a solution.

 

[DanTravis62]

Oh come on man, every man knows that it's Women 101 for them to complain about something but not actually want a solution.

This.

Plus she doesn't actually want to play the guitar if she has press on nails.

 

[Findthetone1]

This.

Plus she doesn't actually want to play the guitar if she has press on nails.

Maybe she's looking more play the.....um....flute?

 

[VonBonfire]

Surely something like this has happened to everyone here.

I've been playing guitar for close to 30 years now. I've learned a lot of songs, licks, etc. I've done a lot of string changes and truss rod adjustments, a bunch of action adjustments, etc. I've learned how to do my own fret jobs and a lot of other setup procedures, as well as spent some time learning to build guitars with a luthier buddy. So why would you bother asking my opinion on something guitar related if you aren't going to listen?

I have a friend, she's 30, and has a total boner for midwestern emo that's popular'ish now. She found a video of a guy mashing up 2 songs she likes, and even though I couldn't watch the TikTok (cuz I don't have a gay ass TikTok account), I looked up the music to the 2 songs she likes, because she wants me to teach her how to play it. Super simple stuff, basically just arpeggiated power chords where the most difficult technique is dropping the root a half step, or skipping the A string. Anyways, I told her they're simple and that I could learn the songs front to back and be ready to play them live in an hour each, that's how simple they are, and depending on her finger dexterity, and how much practice time she put in, she could learn them pretty easily too. However, not with her fancy nails. She has press on nails all dolled up that are probably 3/4" longer than the tip of her finger. While they look great on her, it ain't gonna fly. I told her those would get in her way and make playing the songs very difficult because it's going to be nearly impossible to get good, clean note separation. It doesn't help her guitar is a cheaper, more affordable Ibanez acoustic that God only knows the condition of the frets, nut, bridge, and truss rod.

Then she tells me, and I quote, "I can definitely do it with my nails it's the fingers I'm worried about". Oh, ok you can? Well then, how about I just start taking lessons from you because obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about

You could've saved yourself the headache with a simple "I only teach neo-soul guitar".

 

[shredi knight]

Maybe she's looking more play the.....um....flute?

Just be on guard if she gets overzealous and attempts to finger the "A".

 

[Chris6870]

I also see a lot of really overweight younger girls (under 30) they squeeze into way to tight yoga/ stretch pants /Lularu tights with their big fat ass on display and even wear half shirts with their gut hanging out. This seems to be really acceptable now. I'm not saying make fun of overweight people but when you put it on display and flaunt it like your hot shit, something should be said. But that is not acceptable in todays society. I miss the thin, hot metal chicks we grew up with. I'll go back to my little bubble now and stick my head back in the sand, where I live very happily.

 

[Anonymouse]

Oh come on man, every man knows that it's Women 101 for them to complain about something but not actually want a solution.

This is true, they mostly want to vent. The solution is only secondary, the best resolution is to plug the vent ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

Maybe she's looking more play the.....um....flute?

Nah, I've had more than my fair share of her, but she doesn't want to learn the songs bad enough to actually not have dolled up nails and stuff. Her makeup and tattoos don't affect her ability to play, but those nails sure as hell would lol

She tries going to the gym after work, but keeps making excuses to not go. I'd love to see how she plans on doing kettlebell exercises or squats with those things lol

 

[cobrahead1030]

I accepted a long time ago, that most people who ask my opinion on anything guitar-related have no intention of putting said knowledge to use.

Sounds like she needs to find a teacher who has long nails & can show her how to play with them.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

WTF is midwestern emo?
It sounds lame as hell.

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

WTF is midwestern emo?
It sounds lame as hell.

It's typical emo, just new. I guess it's from the depressing midwest. Anyways, the names of the songs are fucking hilarious though...too bad the music kinda sucks.

 

[DanTravis62]

WTF is midwestern emo?
It sounds lame as hell.

It's typical emo, just new. I guess it's from the depressing midwest. Anyways, the names of the songs are fucking hilarious though...too bad the music kinda sucks.

Midwestern emo is all the zoomers who took the wrong lessons after hearing real emo bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, the Get up Kids, The Promise Ring, The Juliana Theory, and shit like that

They take all the spicy chords, jangly tones, and off time signatures, and use none of the emotion, hooks, or any of the good shit those bands excel at

Generally people mean American Football, TRSH, The Brave Little Abacus, Kittyhawk, Heart Attack Man, etc etc





They all fucking play Jazzmasters and high chord inversions with ringing dissonant open notes in them over and over again without any of the groove, songcraft, or dynamics of Sunny Day Real Estate or Get Up Kids or any of the legit pioneers of the genre. Notice how they take the basic sound and idea without any of the heartfelt emotion or hooks of the original bands;








It's an entire genre of zoomers pretending to understand a music movement when they don't understand it, and larping as it, and wearing the genre as a skinsuit

 

[DanTravis62]

source: I literally played and toured in an emo band in the late 90s and 2000s and am very, very familiar with all of this shit