How to fake being a better guitarist in five simple steps PART 1 of 2
You spend five hours a day playing your guitar. You run your scales, master your legato, your two hand tapping would make EVH blush. So why is it that every time you see a band playing at a bar with a guitarist with only a smidgen of your technical ability he is the centre of attention, garnering the praise of all the punters in the crowd?
Wait a minute. Isnt that the band that you tried out for the other week? The same band that said dont call us, well call you? The same band that was witness to your smoking 32nd note Lydian masterpiece solo?
Yeah it is, and you got smoked because the guitarist on stage knows how to fake being better than they actually are.
Its not a hard thing to do. I should know, Ive done it for years. Im the first to admit to being an average guitarist (actually, Ive been practicing a lot lately and now would call myself an above average player, but that is another column in the works). Despite being average, I would get a lot of people, drunken punters, other musicians, women, all approach me after shows proclaiming how good I am. Like most of my...