# Another Guitarist To make You Want To Trash Your Guitar...Or Weep In Impotence!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-guitarist-to-make-you-want-to-trash-your-guitar-or-weep-in-impotence/586084 "2011-06-20T00:39:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-guitarist-to-make-you-want-to-trash-your-guitar-or-weep-in-impotence/586084/41 "2011-06-23T01:51:53Z")

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> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#):
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> Go to her, take her in your arms and stroke her gently. Listen to her warm, ringing tones and appreciate the magic.
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> There’s a quotation I have in one of my hiking guides -
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> Or - “The forest would be a quiet place if only the best birds were to sing.” (rather glurgey, source unknown.)
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> Most guitarists would be deeply saddened to think that their excellence in any way discouraged another player. “The best you can be, and a little better than yesterday” is an entirely laudable aspiration…

I have no problem admitting that I am horribly stuck.

I can downstrum a few chords - I understand the concepts - I can run my fingers up the fret board ever so gently and pluck out an up and down scale (well, I assume its a scale, I go up on each string 4 spots, move down, repeat, then backwards) - but if I try to do a DuDu, the guitar liteerally leaps out of my hands and does a belly laugh, the dog cries and I am pretty sure that somehwere in the world a butterfly loses its wings. I would like to learn to play melodies sucn as these - even so simple a one as ‘greensleeves’, yet all I can find is a g - where is that darn “r” anway? I’ve had my Baby Taylor for 2 years now, a nice little B.C Rich solid body a 1.5 years, and I have yet to figure out hwo folks make these things sing.

Its ‘easy’ they say.

Worst part - I almost ordered a Gretsch Hollow body a while back - love the idea - love the sound (as long as its in someone elses hands) - I realize two things - I understand the mechanics, but I don’t got the music in me.

Atleast the crowd in rock band still claps along and doesn’t laugh me off the stage too often.

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