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Cocky friends who cant back it up?

Unread post by Pickles » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:58 am

theres a friend of mine who plays guitar.. he started playing a few months before me... im better than him thanks to dave.... however he thinks hes this amazing guitarist.. he can play stuff (not as hard as stuff i can play) and he cant pull it off smoothly... anyone have similar experiences?
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Unread post by fatjack » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:00 am

similar experience:

there is this one guy who really sucks that i know and everyone thinks he awesome cuz he can play stupid rap songs and other various "novelty" songs.

but ask him to play a Ebm and he is totally lost....
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Re: Cocky friends who cant back it up?

Unread post by thejoe » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:02 am

shane wrote:theres a friend of mine who plays guitar.. he started playing a few months before me... im better than him thanks to dave.... however he thinks hes this amazing guitarist.. he can play stuff (not as hard as stuff i can play) and he cant pull it off smoothly... anyone have similar experiences?
yea... but they dont say theyre better than me.. theyre just like "uhhhh, youre too good"

like i have one friend who plays sweet child riff without using his pinky... sounds realy choppy
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Unread post by DMBFan63 » Sat Sep 20, 2003 12:59 pm

I know this one kid that always tells me my timing is off and tells me that I play songs wrong and stuff.. dave songs mind you.. and the fact is he has been playing less time then me, and practices not nearly as much and i'm like, 100% better then him at guitaring and he thinks he's a guitar god..
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Unread post by QuattroDore » Sat Sep 20, 2003 1:02 pm

This should all be moot, as you guys don't play for other people's opinion. Right?

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Unread post by NoNotThat » Sat Sep 20, 2003 8:27 pm

No, but there is Steve Kwiakowski who always plays ragtime on the piano and he's racist and he acts really gay.

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Unread post by ticohans » Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:53 pm

what do you have against rag music??? that stuff is great, and a hell of a lot of fun to play on the piano

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Unread post by NoNotThat » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:10 pm

I never said I have anything against it.

I was just listing all of his wonderful traits.

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Unread post by ticohans » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:16 pm

Hater.

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Unread post by NoNotThat » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:16 pm

If you knew him you'd hate him too!

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Unread post by ticohans » Sat Sep 20, 2003 10:18 pm

Maybe, but that's beside the point. This is the point:

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Unread post by fatjack » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:28 pm

okay... she only hates gcom and probably you now
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Unread post by gcom007 » Sat Sep 20, 2003 11:49 pm

everyone I play with...there's so many guys that have got their standard chords together and can play all the flavor of the month crap, but that's it...
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Unread post by firedancer86 » Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:06 am

fatjack wrote:similar experience:

there is this one guy who really sucks that i know and everyone thinks he awesome cuz he can play stupid rap songs and other various "novelty" songs.

but ask him to play a Ebm and he is totally lost....
Hayden?

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Unread post by fatjack » Sun Sep 21, 2003 2:07 am

firedancer86 wrote:
fatjack wrote:similar experience:

there is this one guy who really sucks that i know and everyone thinks he awesome cuz he can play stupid rap songs and other various "novelty" songs.

but ask him to play a Ebm and he is totally lost....
Hayden?

:P :lol: 8)

j/k
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