I've been in your situation a few times; where I just want to get rid of the guitar and forget about playing music. A buddy of mine that also plays told me to keep playing music. Even just for yourself or in your room or just like an acoustic guitar and fuckin around with Beatles songs. It was good advice although simple and sort of "duh." Just keep a guitar laying around if nothing else. They look cool and you ight decide to one day hack around on it. People keep pianos in their house , so you might as well keep a guitar.
Yeah, as i said il _NEVER_ get rid of that Aria(Pro II RS Knight Warrior.).. i have some weird f-ed up "spiritual connection" to it, seriously, every time i play it i get this weird feeling that its a real living thing with a soul. o,0
.. and i HATE that new-age bullshit!
Im taking that guitar home this week, maybe it will help me "rehabilitate".
Yeah man, to me there's definitely a difference in mindset between just playing for the fun of it and actually focusing on trying to write, record, or do something else serious, which is a bit more like work, though I don't resent it because the ends definitely justify the means
But yeah, I often just like to shred the riffs for the hell of it, and it's fun, the most important thing!
So maybe you do need some time away from it, and hopefully you'll come back the way I did and love it all the more!
Yeah, same here, i used to find it fun to play at home, write and record stuff, but not in a band(or at least THIS band.).
But thats the reason im so "depressed" about guitars now, because i dont get that joy when i pick up a guitar.. i dont feel anything, it just feels pointless to play for some reason.
Yeah, thats what im hoping.. and i cant give up music, because when i havent had that "output" for a while, i seriously start to hear music in my head, and eventually il hear like 10 songs at the same time playing OVER and OVER in my head until i let them out.. so im probably a little bit insane, but that alright!
Your original instrument was keys, then? That's cool and all, I love keyboard stuff, and I know you say this lack of desire to play guitar feels like it's more than the usual ups and downs, but then again, your grandpa dying is pretty out of the ordinary to, so I still wouldn't be surprised if you're just generally down so you don't really find pleasure in many things, and the guitar unfortunately happens to be one of them. Either way, I think you've got the right idea not planning on totally selling everything, especially that axe! (is that a Kahler Floyd? Doesn't look quite like others I've seen...)
But thats the thing, when ever ive been sad, angry or whatever, i always expressed it through music.. so it feels like i should play guitar all the time right now, and i really want to, but i just cant.. but i hope its just a depression(Damn that sounds sick.
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Yup, i learned to play "havanna gilla" on piano when i was 4 or 5 years old, but i never started to really play keys until my fathers best friend died(when i was 14 i think.), and we inherited that Kurzweil i was talking about.. oh man did i think it was cool to play that thing, i spent _ALL_ my free time playing that thing.. some days i wouldnt even eat and stay up all night.
Then i started to play keys in what was supposed to be a "black" band(Ala. Dimmu Borgir.), but they needed a rythm guitarist so i switched for our first show, ever since then ive been playing guitar.
Its a Kahler Flyer!
I love that tremolo when its cleaned, oiled and has a brand new setup(Its almost as sensitive as a Floyd.).. it acts kind of the opposite of a Floyd, because you can dive like crazy without the guitar loosing tension at all, but when you bend the strings, the tremolo will "store" some of the bend so to speak, so you need to hit the whammy again to get it back in tune(It takes quite a large amount of bending though.).
Its a "hybrid" tremolo.
http://www.kahlerusa.com/pictures/FAB Web Page.jpg
I feel sorry for your grandpa
when mine died, a piece of me "went away!!!". That man survived WWII and being a veteran always remembered me how shitty those years were, so I think I'm fortunate to live this moment.
Keep on playing guitar/keys whatever you like the most. now you're really sad for the grandpa but I bet there will be better moments very soon
Thanks man!
Sadly, i didnt meet my grandpa to often.. but it still was a dagger through the heart hearing that he had passed away.
What worries me is that someone else close to me will probably die.. it seems to work that way in our family.
Just before my grandpa, my grandma's sister passed away.. so it hit "double" here, and at 2001 my Fathers 2 best friends died(Separate occasions.), and my dads cousin(Who was like a uncle to me.).. before that we had another period like that where 3 close friends/family died, but i hadnt been born yet.
