You can’t have that haircut and demand people cut the ends off their strings 🤣

1. The guy in the guitar store that plays at full volume. 2. The guy in the guitar store that plays the riff you just played but plays it correctly.

My pet peeve: Misspelling "tuning" as "tuneing." Also, "To much" should be "Too Much."

One of my bad habits is commenting before watching the video.

Speaking of noodling, a few months ago I was on a boring Zoom meeting so I picked up a nearby guitar and started noodling. My mic wasn't muted so my boss asked if I was playing guitar. Oops! But, I guess there are worse things that happen in Zoom meetings these days.

Not learning your parts before rehearsal. there's a difference between practice & rehearsal!! Practice at home, rehearse when you get together!

When the guitarist has 40 pedals with bad cables and decides to trouble shoot on stage.

Hearing a song playing with your friends, and somehow working into the conversation, “I know how to play this.” Yup, had to work hard to cure myself of this one.

Crazy fast shredding that is not musical.

Spending months and months watching KZfaq videos comparing single coil, humbuckers or P90 pickups to help you decide which new guitar you want to buy instead of playing one of the five guitars you already own. (Actual quote from my wife)

1-The guitarist who plays at Royal Albert Hall volume level when it’s a strip mall pub. 2-The every song gets the same “Crazy Train type distortion whether it’s needs it or not” guitarist. 3-The “I’ve played this riff the same wrong way for 15 years so everybody else who plays it correctly is wrong” guitarist.

I have a friend that when we are just playing is a stop and restart guy. "Oh, I played a wrong note." Hey man, We're just playing for fun in your garage.

I go with Eddie Van Halen’s string change rule: if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

I like the hate on the uncut strings when your hair is essentially the human analogue version of this.

I was in a big guitar shop in London a long time ago and a young beginner was trying bout a guitar and 2 of the sales guys from the shop was making fun of him behind his back, I never went back to that shop again.

When you mentioned noodling, I immediately thought of Bonamassa during every visit to Norm’s.

Bottom line, We guitar players are annoying people. That’s why we hang out with other because we understand.

Excellent topic. I've got 40 yrs, as part-time stage musician and audio engineer. You hit on most all of my annoyances; as it relates to guitarists. I'll add - Guitarists who play light, during sound check, and then come out wailing 1st song of the show.

One that annoys me is, and I've been guilty of in in hand too, is too much dead space between songs on a gig. Gotta rehearse that set list!

In my teen years I played a show at the Black Cat in DC... me and the other guitarists had two half stacks because we thought it was cool. We could hardly fit no the stage which is up stairs above a bar. They came up and said you have to take things off the stage, the ceiling is dropping things on the bar from the weight. We also got a set cut short because we were too loud. Moral of the story if you want to not be invited back to play somewhere, bring too much gear lol.

Yes clean under the strings. Just dont use your polish cloth or you'll scratch up your finish with all the crap under the strings...use a little brush, like a makeup brush or a small paintbrush. Bonus is that its easier to get into all the small places with a brush.

Thanks guys...this is one of your best yet. I agree with all ten. I also see you could spin off three new videos - guitar etiquette at the jam/practice session; guitar etiquette at the guitar store; and guitar etiquette at the performance/gig. I was lucky to be in school band at junior and high school. You learn the basis -- no unnecessary noise, start together, stop together, know the whole song (i.e. practice before play with the group), stay in tune, play the right volume (ppp means really soft and fff means crank it to eleven), don't be late, don't noddle and chat in between songs, don't pass notes, and don't react when one the drummers hits you with a spitball...you'll only look like a bigger dork than you already do holding that clarinet.

One item that should be in every guitar player's arsenal. A paintbrush to clean under the strings. Takes two seconds.

You must be able to carry your gear in one trip with no help cause help and gear can disappear

I play fingerstyle, and I never use any gear-- but this channel is still fun to listen to. Keep doing what you're doing.

Yes Jonathon, "too much" IS relative. It's usually the relatives that tell you that you have too much equipment. Great video, guys!

When you go to your buddy’s house for an acoustic only jam session and there is that one guy there who has to plug in his acoustic, and drowns everyone out.

I'm lucky to have started playing in the 90's. I had a DOD distortion pedal and a BOSS EQ. When it came to starting to want other effects, I just started going with multi effects units. I have 5 guitars with floating trems so they are all setup with different tunings so I can swap them out as needed or wanted. My others are stop tail and strat style so they stay mostly at standard, but they can be tuned on the fly fairly easily if needed. I still don't usually swap much. When playing alone, if I pick up a guitar with a certain tuning, I just play that guitar for a while. Sometimes just playing in a tuning that is not the tuning you typically play in can really open up the creative flood gates. I've been playing for 30 years and have only ever sold 1 guitar, I've given about 4 away over the decades, and I've lost a couple to damage during moving/traveling. I currently have 10 electrics, 2 acoustics, an electric bass, and a digital drum kit, and a few Marshal and Fender amps. That way if people are over and we want to spontaneously jam, I have everything we need. Pick a weapon off the wall, wonder down to the dungeon where the drums are set up, 5-10 minutes of setup and tune up, and it's jam time. I've got a few other musical related items laying around like keyboards and an Otamatone, but I don't use them much. We all were already musicians to one degree or another and played Rock Band together all the time, I already had about 6 guitars, so I acquired the "controllers" I didn't have so we could play Real Band instead. I've been very fortunate to have the disposable income, accompanied with a couple of unforeseen win-falls, to do something like that for my friends and I. Sure I technically own all the stuff, but I did buy a lot of it to have around for my friends. I only wish everyone who wanted to could be as lucky as I've been.

Noodling on stage! Hell yes that drives me crazy. Nothing's worse than the guy that never stops noodling between songs. Especially if he's playing little partial riffs from the next song. It honestly makes me want to walk off stage.

I haven't changed my strings in MONTHS! And yet I am able to tune my guitar first thing and I'm good for, at least, the next hour-and-a-half.

Moving the neck back and forth in an effort to sustain a note. When did that become a thing? Never saw Chet do it.

Guilty! Bought a PRS SE, used, about 3 years ago.. Never changed the strings or did a setup.. It didn't stay in tune that well. The original owner had not played it much and never changed the strings either. Changed the strings after 4 years or so.. wow & it stays in tune too!! Also, did a complete setup of my guitar for the first time and lowered the action / neck had so much of relief!

Not sharing your drugs with the rest of the band. I always cut enough lines on my amp for everyone, including roadies.

“Tuneing,” “noodeling,” “swaping”- my eyes are burning!!!! Good list though.

Obviously someone never won a spelling bee...😂😂😂

I’m ok with leaving the ends of the strings uncut... as long as they’re coiled into a little circlet. If they’re just flopping in the wind, nah man.

My band had a regular gig, as a favor I let a friend's band open for us one night. They were a two piece, so what's the harm? No, they had all sorts of gear including pedal boards, a big organ... who brings a glockenspiel?!! Their sound check was longer than the set. The owner floated by me during their ridiculous sound check and said "really?" It was embarrassing. At one point, during their squeeze box solo, the very professional and very skilled sound woman we were lucky enough to have began to laugh uncontrollably.

Good list guys! How about the dudes who have to put the string lube on? Great graphic on sliding the cloth under the strings to clean! Oh and leaving the clip on tuner on the headstock after tuning bugs me, this is not the 90's and it's not a Kyser capo!

I change my guitar strings two days before I plan to play or record. Fresh strings sound great, but they go way out of tune just by looking at them.

Excessive tuning publicly, Monty Python: “I’ve suffered for my art, now it’s your turn”

As a guitarist I find the ability of the drummer to hit something every time I need to talk to somebody quite unnerving !!!

I’ve been working the wiring of a parts caster so I haven’t cut the strings so I can take em off and on for trial and error. Now it’s done and sounds great, but it’s been a few days and I haven’t cut the strings on the headstock... not because I like it, but because I got lazy.

Tuning with your back to the crowd, the singer/rhythm guitar in my band had a rack tuner and would turn his back on the crowd in between songs. Finally bought him a tuner pedal for his board. Total crowd killer.

When dudes with lots of pedals also feel the need to be constantly adjusting pedals. I run a wah, clean boost, and a tuner. It was a breath of fresh air for one drummer that we spent more time playing then stopping every other second to twist this or that knob.

6:40 I can totally relate to the 30 minute sets and 15 minute change. Thankfully, the venues Ive played let you prestage your gear along side the stage.

KZfaq guitar reviewers whose "clean" tone still involves an overdrive pedal.

That was pretty funny and it got funnier towards the end. I think you were referring to the PRS/Rick Beato interview from a couple years back?

Every band I've been in, I push for looking professional at shows. We'd usually have an hour for our set, including setup and teardown. We could clear our gear from the stage in about 5 minutes. I think we got setup at around 10 minutes, thanks to prepping and the drummer having a rack setup.

when i ran a small venue, i was up there as soon as the last song to help the drummer get his stuff down before he tried to take his cymbals off. So they usually get the hint. thats how long i give the guitar players to wrap their cables. Then Im gonna start doing it if their cabs arent ready to roll. And when playing drums, as soon as my last shot is done. i grab my bass pedal and stool and take em right off, and then have the rest off stage in prob 3-4 min. muy importante

Got me at over the hill and far away. 🎸😌

When a player continues playing after every song has ended.

There’s history in that layer of dust and grime under them strings!!

Customers plugging in a Pro level acoustic to a nice Acoustic Amplifier and then boosting the mid-range on the EQ and complaining that the guitar doesn't sound good. When you go and help them adjust the EQ and they tell you "No, that's how I like to set it!" This my friends shakes my head.

I'm guilty of this: ridiculous pre-show rituals. Arriving at a certain time, not eating for x many hours before hand etc etc My whole day becomes preparation for a 2 hour cafe gig!

#1. That guy that plays nonstop during rehearsal at full volume. Between each song he plays and it's so loud no one else can communicate. #2. At a gig, playing the intro to the song before the song begins. I understand that you're making sure you got it right and everything, but now you've given away the surprise of what song is next. Hard to describe, but I'm sure you get it if you've played in gigging cover bands.

I have a buddy who can't stop noodling. 3 of us occasionally get together and he'll ask a question and noodle over your response. Then he gets frustrated that he can't follow the conversation. Absolutely non-stop noodling. Always cracks me up when he enthusiastically says "we should do this more often" or hints that he'd like to get in on some of the few jams / casual gigs I play. Um, no.

Not getting better at guitar by simply watching guitar videos...

A friend that bought a 63 strat back in 1972 at a garage sale. Then never learned to play it. So it sits in its case for decades unplayed with crusty old strings. Is annoying.

Changing & cleaning UNDER the strings??? I feell called out hey... LoL xD

Yes, strings, tuning, dust next to the bridge. Since Woodstock, only play acoustic. Sometimes I take 2 because of a tuning. Every guitar has a story (I'm mostly a singer with guitar and lead singalongs and such).

Lifer label promo man guitar lover, just found you two. LOVE THIS .

The noodling gets to me....especially when someone is talking to a guitarist and they obviously check out mid-sentence to noodle.

I know what you are saying regarding tuning annoyances.. the other huitar player in one of my bands was constantly doing this with his volume on.. I don't know why...

1. Being completely ignorant about maintenance of your gear. 2. Trusting 100% of what some guy on a forum says about what gear you should use and totally disregarding your own preferences and tastes. 3. The combo: Buying a bunch of stuff for a fortune because some dudes on the web said it’s the best and then refusing to learn how to play and maintain your junk. Thereafter getting sour about it when it doesn’t sound or preform as good as they hoped!

How was guitar plectrums being found anywhere and everywhere imaginable not on this list? Mainly for me, in the washing machine!

Great topic. Funny stuff. Here’s mine: leaving clip on tuners on your headstock when you’re performing. DON’T DO THIS !

Geez, the ol' pitchfork...I've still got mine from like, 50 years ago. Can't believe I used it for so long til I got hip to a Snark. And, I'm guilty of showboating during soundcheck, disguising it as, 'man this $70 Kremona popsicle stick pickup sure does sound good!'.

You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish

Someone below mentioned this but it's my pet peeve also on guitar/amp reviews on KZfaq. Reviewers who say "here is my clean tone to start" when it is not a clean tone. It's just a slightly less distorted tone. Also when a YT reviewer says they are reviewing a guitar then never lets you hear anything remotely clean and all you hear is a loud amp and pedals. I am watching the video to hear the guitar tone not the pedal board or amp.

Reason why I tend not to lean on clip-on tuners is no one stops playing long enough for the clip on tuner to catch my strings vibrations. More of a problem with acoustic and semi acoustic guitars but still annoying as all hell.

Leaving the tuner on the headstock during the gig. Irks me so much

When buying gear turns into a gear battle

I just bought a 2004 American Fender and 5 of the 6 strings were the original bullet strings. Apparently the high E had broke at some point.. so you're saying I should change them 😅

If I'm trying out absolutely any gear in a guitar shop, I only play my own stuff.

#11 Setting up to jam at a drummer‘s house and he’s playing drums while you’re trying to set up your gear. #12 Same drummer miking his drums through his PA system when it’s loud enough in a small basement already.

Thanks Casino, take this on the road. 😂 the new Martin & Lewis. ⚓️

I'm very guilty of not cleaning under the strings. but that seems to be so common that when you relic a pickguard the part under the strings is supposed to be untouched.

Grant Lee.."Bethlehem Steel"... great acoustic/ fuzz combo..(live in Paris)

I saw Bonnie in Pittsburgh. Band was amazing 👏. Venue was spectacular. Open pavilion, all grass seating...we had a picnic. Beautiful summer evening.

I freaking love these two guys

This kind of goes with your last one. It drives me crazy when someone is practicing with an unplugged electric guitar while you’re trying to watch television and they think because it’s not plugged in that it is not annoying. It is don’t do that. Especially if they are practicing scales or trying to learn a lick or part of a lead. The only time it’s OK to do that is if you are by yourself. I think you should’ve called this a PSA. Thanks

The tone snob that seems to think if you’re not using 10s or higher, your tone is bound to suck

Years ago I got to have dinner with Laurence Juber and then sit front row center at the Woodstock Fine Arts building. He had his guitar, a tuner and possible an EQ of some sort. Didn't need a lot of stuff, and the man is one amazing finger style player.

Paul Reed Smith on Andertons...I was so frustrated watching it haha!

The fuzz into an acoustic always reminds me of the sex b-bombs from Scott pilgrim

Them clyde wah pedals best ive used, takes up two seats on the train tho

I'm so guilty of #6 😂 my issue is I just don't necessarily find every part of a song interesting. I tend to just learn stuff that catches my ear and sounds cool

I use cuetips to clean in around the bridge, and the headstock. Sometimes, like my wraptail SG, I'll wrap the guitar cloth over the cuetip to get in all around in there. P.S. I remember that interview when Paul Reid was noodling over...was it the Captain? You know, Lee Anderton..? It was frikken hilarious/annoying! 😅

11:00 I just watched a video with Pete Thorn and Tim Pierce talking about always noodling and keeping a guitar in your hands so you stay in the right frame of mind to play...different strokes for different folks I suppose. I personally prefer to always be playing and I'm terrible...so it's a double dose of annoying. Cool video though, I liked it!

I was at a low key blues jam where the guitarists outnumbered the audience and we would take turns playing a song which quickly collapsed into one guy plugging in a bunch of tube screamers for ten-minutes and then he would take a 20-minute solo where he tortured a bunch of half-assed SRV licks...I stopped playing cause it was worse than an Elementary school recital...

I get a thrill out of showing up w a guitar a cable and an amp, it solves nearly all these problems ( plus, some @8ckers are never i tune, they keep me checking!)

I used to leave the ends of my strings in loops afgter the tuning peg... but somehow I outgrew the desire to leave them and started clipping them...

Don't play the first bar of a song before the band is actually going to start the song! If you need to just get your hands in the right place, at least roll the volume off so you don't blow whatever excitement factor you may have built into your set. You only get one shot at Sweet Home Alabama and Whole Lotta Love.

Telling someone else they are out of tune, when that person has a tuner and you don't... not as common anymore but yeah kick rocks dude The not clearing or setting up a stage in a damned hurry, pisses everyone off, the sound dude, the other bands, the crowd, your bandmates, your girl/boy friend, your mom. We get it you have 3 cords to plug in and a massive drum set that totally could of been prepped BACK STAGE. Things I'm still guilty of... not cleaning guitars... ever... trimming string ends, CONSTANT noodling (I'm 43) Taking 2 amps to every gig regardless of size (cause it sounds killer, and I rely on that clean amp+dirty amp thing) and changing guitars often (mostly cause I tend to knock them way out of tune, but I try to have someone there to tune em for me, and I only bring 2 anymore)

Saw a solo guitarist in the Florida Keys years ago - Brian something - that played an acoustic through a pedal rig. It sounded amazing but only because he is a stellar musician and performer. Usually that sort of thing sounds like mush.

Yeah, I have done a few of those things, but as Jimi Hendrix used to say "what the hell, only cowboys stay in tune."

I don't know about your complaint #2... first off older strings are WAY warmer sounding for recording. and I'm 57 right now and RARELY do I cut the ends off..... and Tuning is NOT spelled with an E in it ... !.... Since you guys have a shop I do understand wanting to sell more sets of strings but if you keep them clean you don't need to change that often. The biggest thing is getting your intonation set when you switch string gauges......

Excellent subject but ... now I want a olive green Wildwood Guitars Tshirt

Man we didn’t even have those back then ,,,we had to. Whip out the old tuning fork pitch A THEN TRY AND HARMONIC tune the rest for about an hour ,,,lol

I agree with ya on everything except changing strings...old strings on an electric can sound great...the tone is in your fingers, however, changing acoustic guitar strings is imperative...old ones sound terrible. Agreed, braces and guitar strings definitely do not match!🤣🤣🤣