What's the most ridiculous comment you've gotten on your channel?

Some of your statements about why we started playing in the first place hit pretty hard. I appreciate your take and learning from your experiences.

This is very healthy. Thank you for making this video. I remember quitting guitar for 2 years because of the culture. But I guess my passion in guitars and pedals and my faith brought me back. I have 199 subs in YT but I know it doesn't make me less of a person. Thanks to people like you Justin.

I like that i have something i can forever get better at for the rest of my life having one song working on it since i began playing shoving every part i think of into and letting it rewrite itself constantly like a unfinished project. Moments of clarity i find being an artist creating music is just wonderful. I hope everyone enjoys music as much as i do. I got beat up in elementary school.

I guess "real amps" mean tube amps? I'm 50 y/o and I've never even seen a "real amp", much less hear one in person. Ever. It is what it is ¯\_(°°)_/¯ Keep it up man!

I'm an old boomer guitarist. I'm proud to be. I have been playing for 53 yrs. I'm skilled. And yes I play at church. I'm proud of that too! I started because I wanted to be a rock star. I think that's very common for those of us who started playing when rock was still new. I've never regretted for a second my choice to be a guitarist. When I watch other guitarists play, I'm very complementary. The guy that was the best guitarist I knew, instead of being jealous or saying "oh I could play better than him". I asked him to teach me. I learned a lot. I loved your video though. You had some great points.

Love the honest talk. Certainly we could all do better for each other but again it’s a phase I guess that most of us go through. I’m guilty of it, however the more you mature in music the more you appreciate it as well as other people’s hard work. I truly believe we should encourage each other when we have the chance, positive criticism is the best way to go. We all have weaknesses and strengths, therefore we won’t be experts in every area or genre. Love this videos, keep it up!

Thanks, such a nice video. I'm 30 and started to play guitar seven months ago and also started a YT channel(in Russian though). Completely self taught, without investing huge time in it, learning and doing videos when I have the desire to, not forcing anything. Tried to make my first covers with my guitar + rest of the parts written in FL studio. Last one a cover of Seven Nation Army, can be found on my channel. And I'm regularly facing hate comments or comments from people who think they can better. People have much hate in them and don't understand that in the internet there are the same real people who will read your comment and not like it. When I comment I'm always thinking "what if this comment would be addressed to me, would I like it?". Hope people become more mentally adult some day. Also people try to force me to play 8 hours guitar a day, as if the world would end if I don't. Sometimes I'm so busy I can only spend an hour in a week, but at least I'm spending it with pleasure.

Brotha you are loved! Really appreciate your channel, talents and you as a genuine person from what you portray on your channel. Sorry for your past experiences of being bullied. This is a great topic and is going to spark some conversations with my friends.

Thank you for this. I'm so so glad I started to learn and enjoy guitar pre internet, pre KZfaq. I guarantee I wouldn't have continued. I didn't give a s*** about other unknown guitarist on the other side of the world. It was just me ,.the guitar, amp, tapes , cd, and Satriani, Vai, Sambora, Prince and the kid a year above that I wanted to better.

Love your perspective- bullying and negativity are definitely not needed. Thank you for being an encourager ❤❤❤

Great video! I wrestle with those insecurities too but have learned to let them pass for the most part. I think that no matter how good you are, there's always somebody better. I play in church too and have played with much better musicians than I am. I try to use it as motivation to get better and learn what I can from them. They're usually great people and not anything. that I need to feel threatened by. Your comment about not having our identity wrapped up in the instrument is right on. Our identity is from our relationship to Christ and everything else we just do the best we can at. Keep on keepin' on!

I am a busker, usually with my admittedly cheap acoustic. Or my cheap electrics. I keep breaking strings. I get comments that people cannot hear me (i do not have an amp yet). If i try playing louder i break strings more easily. Folks also sometimes make fun of me while filming me. Busking feels vulnerable. I am ashamed i still am afraid to change my own strings.

It wasn't a KZfaq comment on one of my videos, but it happened IRL over 3 years ago, I was at the guitar store I frequent a lot, playing an Ibanez RG that I was planning to buy (the very same Orange RG I use on my videos). At the time, it was only a little over a year after I decided to play the guitars again, after more than 5 years of not playing and had only played for 2 years, prior of quitting. Never had any formal lessons, nor did I had the capability to pay for one, so I knew nothing about chords, let alone music theory. I was chilling with the guy who was working there, and a customer entered the store and came up to me and called me by my name. I was surprised because I don't even know him, and he mentioned that he also studied in the same Secondary School (Our high school equivalent), so we had a casual chat. After that, the dude picked up a Jackson Soloist (iirc) and he proceeded to relentlessly shred scales up and down, without any context, for what felt like an eternity, the store clerk decided to put the headphones on and I was just sitting there, nonchalantly browsing on my phone. After he was done, I decided to pick up said RG again and play the song I was learning at the time, albeit unplugged. He walked up to me and said something like "Stop playing nonsense melody. Do you know the Major scales? Play me the Major scale", and I replied "No, I can't, because I don't know what that is". All of a sudden, he decided to berate me in front of the store clerk, sayings stuffs like "If you don't know the major scales, you might as well just stop playing the guitar!". I stayed quiet with an awkward smile on my face, the dude kept on trying to get the store clerk to agree with what he had said, but he also stayed quiet with an awkward smile on his face, albeit behind the counter. He was the storm that was approaching (sorry, had to squeeze a meme in there ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)) and it went just as quick as it came, the dude left after he was done with his business and the store clerk thanked me for not causing a scene. After awhile, I decided to go home, not with an angry feeling but with a perplexed one instead, and was wondering what could have made a person to become like that? How had he forgotten that he also started from zero? To this day, I still use that event as a motivation, and now I understand chords, and modes even. Thank you, random dude who claimed to have known me, I hope whatever you were going through or whatever was torturing you, had come and go, and you're in a better state of mind now. p.s. During the time the dude was chatting with the co-founder of the store, as the latter was soldering the jacks of the speaker cables for the former, the dude went on talking about how WW2 was a conspiracy and it never actually happened. The co-founder had to tell us about it after he left, because it was such a bizarre thing that he had to listen to, me and the clerk chuckled for a bit after hearing that. So, yeah, it was a bizarre day for me and the guys at the store.

i’m liking this channel more and more. keep up the content!

Hi im a guitarist and Also i was bullied when i was at school but now i love guitar and guitar its an amazing instrument i love your videos you are an amazing artist really i watch your videos every day my name is mahdi and im 22 years old the guitar its wonderful 🎸🌟🌟⭐⭐🌞🌞⭐🌟🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Way back in the 80's, I went to the local hardware store. There I found some older guys playing bluegrass. So they invited me..a long haired concert tee guy to sit in with them. It was great. These guys were way better than me.. but, I left that session feeling great.

Oh man, this is so good haha - love these perspectives and I'm with you 100%. Unfortunately, my cynicism about the world makes me feel that so many guitarists don't have the emotional intelligence or maturity to introspect on this level and change their behavior. The internet/social media keyboard warrior culture of being able to hide behind screens makes it all sooooo much worse - gives people the extra boldness to say things you know they absolutely would not in-person. If only they could put their insecurities aside and realize the joy that comes out of being encouraging and uplifting, and making online FRIENDS instead of enemies haha. That obviously goes for life in general outside of guitarists, too - the world is such a better place when we expend our energy lifting each other up, instead of tearing each other down in an effort to get ahead!

10 fins. I have a question for you Mr. Muncy- How long have you been a country music MD? And could you make a tutorial on some good MD tips for country music. A lot of country music MDs I've played with have been pretty intense. Would you be willing to show us how to be a good MD without being too intense? kid

It has been like this for decades, it just used to be in person and now it is all online

Ah, thanks for this one. Well said!

this kid was clearly not bullied enough

Very relatable Justin, you're making great content.

A lot of truth to these principles - I gravitated to music for similar reasons, along with a pure fascination with all the possibilities to be discovered and combined creatively that could elicit emotion. Grounding yourself by maintaining a focus on the pure simple reasons is the key to authenticity, shrugging off arbitrary criticism, and not making it a primary foundation for your self esteem. The only thing left is a bit of encouragement, so don't give up.

Enjoywd this on so many levels keep the faith beginner myself

This is awesome man! Good job as always.

Someone really needed to address this, SUBSCRIBED!

Well said bro! You need more sub! Production is great too!

Mate I'll be as honest as I can with you. your cool I love the little green tele that amp is awesome and you got a great style. I'm shore there is a place in heven for you. God bless.

Stay strong man, I love your content! Music was never meant to divide.

Shout out to all those dudes out there working at walmart, playing at church, and living with your parents. Keep up the good work 👍

That’s a good reason for starting to play. I feel that I was seeking that out of music too, however I only ever found what I was looking for with God. Nice video!! I always let the haters drive me to melt faces. Like being heckled on stage just always lit a fire. Everyone has haters but I really appreciate your content on videos like this. It is more of a what is wrong with society type thing. It really surprised me when I started to see how development beyond a certain level drove a wedge between me and some people. It doesn’t matter how it goes. You can’t let what other people think or do dictate what you find a healthy or acceptable standard or use of your time. Only God and family should set those standards

I also think there are some rich guitar players that might hoard guitars or have lots of wealth, but barely play them or don't share their wealth. I'm talking about wealthy millionaires here though or something, who don't give back and help out. Random people on KZfaq are just that, random people. They don't have much responsibility, nor do they have the means to support random people who aren't as well off.

I feel weird because I started playing guitar at 12 years old because I LIKED the instrument!!?

You are my inspiration really

I started playing the guitar to show my sister, who was nine at the time, that her brother, who was three years older, could do everything better than her.

Bass players just over here chillin

Guitar attracts jerks the same way that the internet does.. its because theyre easily accessible.. its probably why people are turning to other instruments like banjo or mandolin..

Hey man that's not that bad ! It's a complicated world, as a musician I have almost no subs and no comments but the only few comments I got are very positive, so there you go, sometimes people say harsh things trying to be funny I guess? At least that's what I do. cheers! And remember, there is no god and no afterlife so live today 😂

You are an amazing artist really i hope one day play guitar with you its my dream i hope one day to see you to be your friend 🎸🎸🌟🌟🌟⭐⭐🌞🌞🌞⭐⭐🌟🎸🎸🎸🎸 Im a guitarist and i love Your videos

How many guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb? 100, one who changes the lightbulb and 99 who says that they could have done it better themselves

Its not guitar culture...its just human nature. This happens literally everywhere with anything. Smh.

I've never heard someone say that playing guitar made them feel "safe" ....untill today

Mean comments are better than no comments. People usually only ever do or say anything because they feel like they have something to gain from it, whether or not they actually do. It's a pretty big compliment when musicians go out lf their way to project their insecurity on to you, personally. It's good to think this way, in a pragmatic sense, especially since people are always going to do this anyway...and it's them with the problem. Not you.

My mother doesn't have a basement.

Subscribed, liked. Really don't care if you are a Christian or Satanist. Just dont push it on me. We all play guitar.

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There's another aspect of guitar culture that breeds bullying which is toxic masculinity. This has nothing to do with guitar per se - only that culturally, sonically and aesthetically the guitar has always been attached to masculinity, popular with men, and so it's no surprise that in its playerbase we can find some of the worst traits of men.

Guilty myself of, in particular, disparaging the church guitar community as somehow less-than. It’s entirely due to having spent the better part of 18 years playing in the church and growing increasingly frustrated with what I perceive as a greater focus and worship of gear, sight, and sound over the one supposedly being worshipped. But that’s unfair to let that result in a poor view of the art being produced by the people involved. If we’re all being honest, we’d kill for the tone that most of the people in that realm are getting.

Guitar culture. You don't need any gear to play any music. Just notes and an instrument. To record it you get a sound engineer. It seems a lot of people collect musical equipment these days. They're collectors.

But really? you think this is a guitar culture problem? Isn't it a human being problem. Most people are competitive ass holes and they are taught to be that way by their parents, the educations system and places of work. But the internet and social media had amplified it 1000%. Peoples egos are getting bigger and bigger. "Look at me look at me, see my selfies and hear me spout crap about how great I am and how great my life is. But the sad reality is, its probably not that great and they are riddled with anxiety about who likes them and how popular and followed they are. If you can take the attitude that you are who you are and you don't care what anyone else thinks it makes you less judgmental of others. However I suppose I am judging your content because I think its not a guitar related issue. But I respect you for taking the time to make your point. One last thing thought. Every youtube video you watch, including your own, ask yourself "Why did this person actually make this video".

Have you considered atheism? Sure we can be a pain too, like Christians and everyone else. But I can promise you way less judgement and it has the added benefit of being correct.

Guitar attracts jerks the same way that the internet does.. its because theyre easily accessible.. its probably why people are turning to other instruments like banjo or mandolin..