Ten Commandments for Guitar Players
Ten Commandments as you would probaly know were handed from God to Moses on Mt Sinai. This post is in no way meant to be disrespectful so please understand this before you get too far.
Ok, well if God was a guitar player and he had to hand down the Tablets to Moses the budding guitar player, it might sound a bit like the following.
THE TEN GUITAR COMMANDMENTS
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ONE: ‘Thou shall concentrate on the music when you are playing and not let my thoughts wander off’
TWO: ‘Thou shall not create a false image about myself but will remember that it is the music that counts’.
THREE: ‘You shall not speak badly of other peoples music or guitar players’.
FOUR: ‘Remember to take a break from music regularly’.
FIVE: ‘Honor the forefathers of music by taking their knowledge and using it wisely ‘
SIX: ‘Thou shall not kill a song by filling it with nonsense and improvising over everything.
SEVEN: ‘Thou shall not focus on the pretty women when you are playing but shall be committed to what you are playing’.
EIGHT: ‘Thou shall not steal the ideas of other; instead you will find your own musicality.’
NINE: ‘Thou shall not bear false witness against other musicians saying ‘you stole my song, when really it was just a 12 bar blues that everyone else has been playing for years
‘TEN: ‘Thou shall not desire to be just like any other player, you will recognise what you have to offer is very valuable and unique’ If you have any great ideas to add to them please let me know
How about…Thou shall not practice while watching sport on TV…
I think though, IF I had applied that one there’s quite a lot of material I would never have worked on!
Another might be; Thou must never play near an electric fan in hot weather.
Reason being, if you have any music on the stand it may well blow underneath a table. Do you then crawl underneath the table to find it?
As you may observe Tony, mostly I tend to break any “guitar ten comandments”. What was number seven again..
Nice idea, I’d disagree a little with number eight, as Picasso said, “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.” You have a good point about making what you steal into your own, though.
Not a bad “ten commandments”. They all do make sense.