Guitar Myth Finally Exposed: Guitar Gear Syndrome
When you are playing the guitar, even if you are a professional, the most important aspect of playing, comes from the tone that you have on your guitar. You could become very obsessed by this fact and trying to find the right tone, is so important to having good playing skills. Understanding this about your playing, will encourage you to obtain the right tone with practice.
It might be something which will come in time, but so many guitar players think that all they have to do is plug into their system and they are on their way to playing just like the most popular guitar players. This of course is so far from the truth and anything that they may add to their equipment, will not bring the satisfaction that they want to achieve either. They can spend huge amounts of money on pickups and think that these changes will do the trick, when in fact, it won’t help the tone at all. There are some which will improve the sound in the drives, especially with the lows and the high sounds, but will not completely do everything.
Buying the most expensive amplifiers that you can find will not bring the satisfaction that you desire to have either, as yes they will improve the sound somewhat, but in the end you will be disappointed that the tone you are looking for, is not achieved as yet. The best equipment will help in fine tuning your sound and bring out your own individual creative skills, but ultimately, the quality of your playing, will not be that much improved, to warrant spending all that money on the bigger “better” equipment, unless you just want to have it anyway. It will not work the miracles that you are looking for. You still will not sound like you are a professional, who has practiced for many, many years to accomplish that rare sound.
Your abilities when it comes to playing good guitar, just depends on the fact that you will have to concentrate on your skills as a guitar player and this takes time and endurance on your part. When you are listening to the great guitar players, when they sound so good, that is because they are good. If you could talk to them personally, you would probably find that they have been playing and practicing for more years than you have been on this earth to begin with. You must be patient with yourself and give the time and energy that is needed to get anywhere with your guitar.
In time, you will be able to develop your own skills as you climb the ladder to successful guitar playing. No matter what expensive equipment you can buy for yourself, there is no short-cut to actually taking the time to just playing and do not forget, that while this is happening, you need to really like that practice time, or you will give up and not want to do anything about improving your skills any more.
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