6. Knowing More About Guitars Than The Guy In The Guitar Shop
This is arguably one of the most wonderful and most frustrating feelings in the world. On the one hand, youve learnt enough to be able to best those you used to look up to. The nice people in the guitar shop probably guided you through buying your first strings, even if they didnt help you restring it (that was most likely done using Youtube in your bedroom as you hunched over the tuning pegs giving yourself RSI). So you get to the point in your guitaring adventure where you want to try new and cool things. Looking for some advice on, for example, slide guitar, you go in and start talking about open G tuning and get met with blank looks and maybe even an admission of Ive never heard of that. Sure, theyve got a couple of slides that they can sell you, but thats about the extent of the conversation and you go away feeling disappointed and rejected, in a guitar wasteland with just the latest copy of Total Guitar (and the vastness of the internet) as your guide.
