If you're not aware of 5 Watt World, you should check them out. Keith has some amazing content on his channel. It's about minimizing. Getting the most tone from the least gear.

This is actually the best advice on here. You don't need toys. You don't need lots of guitars, in fact you look like you're just trying to hard when you can barely work your way through smoke on the water yet you have a $10,000.00 guitar collection and a room filled with full cab amps 🙄 (bit of an exaggeration, but i can count on both hands the number of times I've met dudes with over $5,000.00 worth of gear who have been playing for a year and are still working through their basic chord shapes. This is ridiculous. Choose a beautiful guitar with a color that just makes you NEED to pick it up when you walk past it. Then you're 1. Not wasting money on sh** you'll never use, and 2. You're practicing a lot more because you're attracted to the instrument in your hands. For me, I had to have a seafoam strat when I was 9 years old and I saw one for the first time. Guess what: back then, those were only offered in the American models, and i couldn't even afford a Mexi. So; bought a used navy blue Squier strat from a friend thst came with a little frontman practice amp for $100.00. Got good enough on it to convince my dad by the time I was 17 to upgrade me (without my asking him; it was a total surprise) to a sunburst Mexi strat. That REALLY amped up my courage, and motivation, and confidence, and I remember practicing SO much more because I was SO much more attracted to the look, feel, and sound (the look alone was enough though, hence my earlier point) that I was practicing more than ever before. Once I started playing gigs, I told myself it was time to bring my dream to life. I promised myself I would only use money I earned from playing gigs, and if I was good enough, I'd earn enough for my dream; the seafoam American. Sure enough, I did. To this day that is the only electric I own, the only one I've ever wanted or needed, and have less than 0 plans to ever replace, sell it, or even add another guitar to my collection. People, one last point. Your guitar is like... almost as important as the person you choose to spend your life with. It says so much about you as a player. If you're bouncing in between 8 different guitars constantly, it can be really difficult to nail down "your," style, and if you play with only one or two guitars, people will start to recognize you for that specific color (I have seafoam everything; even my amp is wrapped in seafoam vinyl, lol), and it will actually improve your recognition in your local music scene, which is always a huge, huge help. Now, as soon as I walk into a gig people start asking about my seafoam because at this point I'm famous for it; its a part of who I am and I am as a musician, forever bonded to it.

@@alexcarter2542 trying too hard? 🤣🤣🤣 So you can't be a guitar collector that plays a little guitar? How is that 'trying to hard'? I don't get where people come up with this 'I'm not good enough for a decent guitar" crap, either. You don't have to play like a professional to be able to go buy an American made Strat. There's no reason whatsoever for anyone to think...im not good enough to have a $2000 guitar, yet. If you're just starting, day 1, and you want a $2000 strat. Buy it. I'd rTher be motivated to play from day 1 than give up on month 3 because I got a shitty guitar that doesn't inspire me to play and that I don't even like. You people come up with some of the most ignorant, illogical shit I've ever heard. Just like the people that say "start on an acoustic guitar and when you're good enough and deserve one, then buy an electric.". Bullshit. By that American strat if that's what you want. There's no reason not to. None. Oh, you're new to guitars? So? Is a $200 guitar going to inspire you to play more? Be easier to play? Likely not. So there's really no reason to not consider any guitar instead of thinking you need to wait until so many years before you "deserve" something decent. That's just pure bs, IMO. Crap. Nonsense.

JC agree. If you can afford it and you want it...buy it. It’s no one else’s business how you spend your money. I was talking to a friend of mine once about Martins. I basically said “I don’t deserve a Martin.” His reply...”we all deserve a Martin.” Never truer words were never spoken.

@@JC-11111 no, you can. That wasn't the point of the original post, though. "Beware the man with one gun," remember? You're bringing up another point entirely. If you're a collector, who's more interested in collecting guitars than playing them, far be it from me to criticize you for that choice. Anybody who is into guitars in whatever way they're into them is a friend in my book. Im trying to offer a piece of advice to the 13 year old kid that walks through a guitar center and thinks he needs every guitar hanging on the wall in order to ever be a musician worth anything. I remember being that kid, and I wish that back then there had been more experienced players trying to give me the advice I'm trying to give now.

Really cool story thanks for sharing

Although I agree with you I don’t think it is necessary to wait 10 years as you did

I appreciate your comment man. We're all nobodies :)

Robert Baker I think you’re both somebodies! 👍🏻

I believe ya'll were trying to say we're all buddies :)

Thank you dude

Thanks dude :)

Thank you, Austin Thankfully my wife is amazing with the cameras I'm just a bum and edit it lol

hahahaha YES!!!!

As a beginner, I believe pedals/effects are a must. How can you be motivated to play when you can't even emulate the songs you're trying to learn/play? Nobody wants to play Smoke on the Water clean Lmfao. You don't even know if you're playing it right. So what's the point?

@@JC-11111 But most effects you ever need as a beginner are build in cheap but decent practice amp, for example i got my cube 20gx amp for like 100$ and i can't imagine a beginner that needs more from an amp/effects.

@@dsddsdd7566 I know. That's exactly why I own a Fender Mustang II amp with 1-12" speaker as a beginner. It has everything I need and it's inexpensive used. I've got reverb, multiple delay types, tremolo, flanger & chorus stuff, phaser, octaver, and step-filter effects. Everything and anything I need for someone just 3 months in. And I paid a whopping $45 for this thing. Score! I really got a deal on that Fender considering I paid $40 for a Line 6 Spider IV with 8" speaker and less effects. Also doesn't sound as good as the Fender. I was really kicking myself for even buying it lol. I found the Mustang just 3 days after I bought the Line 6 Spider IV. I guess I could put the Line 6 up on Facebook marketplace, etc...or get a splitter and run in 'stereo' mode, with one cable to the Fender and one to the Line 6. Hmmmm🤔 that might actually be something to look into.

Thank you!!

Funny as a sackful of demented marmosets mate! I havent laughed so much since I ran my mother-in-law's foot over with my Rover ride-on lawnmower! bwaaaahahahaaaa! You win the INTERNET ! ! !

tq

Thank you Phillip

Juicy it is

That poor Tele! =)

Thanx, I'm convinced now!

I agree, but if your guitar is really stopping you from playing well, like my guitar's input jack is kind of broken, then better gear might be a good idea

Right, I can also see how bad gear can make you form bad habits/form. If you have a solid foundation, you will have a solid house. But it's up to you to decorate it.

Nyosh Yeah for sure if there something really jacked up with it you should get something new. But minor issues, like relatively high action, a dead fret, etc I don’t think is an issue for a beginner

Seriously? Never heard about guitar injurys, except guitarists falling off the stage...

@@colonidor88 Repetitive stress injury is common and it renders you unable to play in rhythm.

The most brilliant surgeon in Switzerland untangled those fingers.

I got a Strat a month ago, & two weeks after that, played Pipeline & Walk Don't Run through a Fender Reverb Tank & Bandmaster. Now it's on layaway. [As Austin Powers] That's motivation, baby!

I find gear heads are like golfers who think they can buy a better game. The biggest tone changes come from your hands.