How to Know If You’re a Good Guitarist and Why It Doesn’t Matter
If you’ve ever noticed, being rich is a sliding scale. When we first start out in life, most of us are working crap jobs for no money. The idea of affording anything beyond the basic necessities in life (and often, even those) seems too far off to obtain. And people who own a house and a couple of cars? Those people are rich!
But eventually life progresses, and one day we wake up to discover we’re now that person who has a house and two cars. Except we certainly don’t feel rich! Those people with giant houses and big-screen TVs in every who take vacations to Europe — they’re really the rich ones.
Except the people who reach that level of income will tell you they don’t necessarily feel rich either. It’s the multimillionaires who own five homes and a yacht — they’re rich.
And on and on it goes. “Rich,” for most people, actually means “richer than I am.”
On Being a Good Guitarist
For most of us, being a “good” guitarist is a bit like being “rich.”
When you first start out, you figure out the basic cowboy chords pretty quickly, but it seems like you’ll never be able to play barre chords — players who can do that are amazing! And then once you’ve figured out barring, it’s the people who can play…
