This has been bugging me for a while, and I’m curious everyone else’s progression. I remember first starting out when I was a kid and just dying to play. I think I had a guitar on my Christmas list for years. One year my dreams were realized as I opened up the tele/Les Paul hybrid first act single humbucker POS. I didn’t care because I could finally start playing. Granted all I could play was smoke on the water and ariels, but damn it I was playing. As my tastes for metal grew I set my sights on the explorer type body to mimic James Hetfield. I was poor AF and decided the epiphone route over Gibson, ESP, LTD and the other big names. After driving 3 hours to my nearest guitar center, I picked one up and fell in love. After dropping $400, I had almost immediate regret, discovering my ill taste for set necks with a body matching finish. But damnit I looked cool, and to this day I think it landed me a date with my first girlfriend. I just didn’t like playing it, super uncomfortable, heavy, awkward to hold, needed a special case, it honestly felt like I was playing the coach bus of guitars. I eventually ended up selling it for beer money, and found a washburn at a garage sale in the single digits. I also was stupid enough to buy a 150w half stack with little intention of gigging as I was honestly a poser wannabe. Settling for the line 6 spider 2, insane mode with mids cut and the gain cranked. I played a bunch until I had a jam session and found out I couldn’t harmonize worth a damn and outside the realm of playing covers, my skills were near worthless. So I quit for years until I stumbled on a schecter on Craigslist and fell in love with the instrument again. I swore to learn the entire chord library, scales, fretboard logic, everything. Which lasted for a month as my roommates would complain about me playing the same thing over and over, and my family complaining I didn’t play anything popular or an entire song all the way through. I lost interest and ended up selling my schecter for beer money. Fast forward five years and I meet this guy who is insanely good, who started out with classical and spent most of his childhood practicing as he was homeschooled. He eventually talked me into picking up a low level Ibanez s series. I was so interested in learning again I forgot about all the things the explorer had that I didn’t care for which the Ibanez boasted. After playing with him for a while I lost interest because I wasn’t progressing along like I thought I would. It sat in my closet for years, until just recently. I put it on Craigslist with the hopes of at least getting my money back. And then out of the blue a guy contacts me wondering if I’d be interested in an trade plus cash for a s series prestige. This particular model has been my fantasy guitar since I can ever remember, after playing ones at a friends house when I was still in high school. And I’m again hooked, but very lost with the style I wish to play, but I am hoping having a world class professional tool will help me through my journey.
If you feel lost in the world, and don’t have clear direction, it’s ok to wait. But don’t give up completely. This will be over a decade of practicing, and the years I took off from playing have been lost, and have even taken a good chunk out of what skill I did have. I no longer feed off the negative feedback of others and I am doing this for me. I wish I didn’t waste money trying to look cool or loud. I should have done my homework and played around. I am still a little lost, but this group is always posting things to keep my interest peaked. For that I thank you. Yes, you.
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