Is it just me, or are today's guitarists lazy?

No, it's not wrong to dislike that its been alot easier for us today and not help, or the fact that maybe the younger generation doesn't appreciate playing by ear.

Myself, i try to figure out what chords are being played, but usually its with no luck, and that's when i turn to chords or tabs on the web. But really, the fact that so many people want to play an instrument is a good thing in my opinion, and the serious ones when they get better and better will eventually be making **** up on their own.

So please, don't hate us, just....strongly dislike us. Ha ha.

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Gee, Officer Krupke.... But, it is not only on this particular Board. I frequent thie History forum. There we have 'who killed more, Stalin or Hitler' or, variations on a theme, 'did Hitler really kill the Jews'. Then under Arts we have Photography. Day after day 'how do a make a photograph so as only one part is in colour and the rest is black an white?' Go back and look at the 10,000 answers already given and save your time and ours is becoming my standard response. Under Transportation there is Ralways where the feeble minded constantly post asking 'what are those stones on the train (railway) tracks'. There is a very serious point here, however. Today's youth have a world of knowledge in any and every field of human endeavour available to them at the click of a mouse. The way they are educated is designed (I assume) to broaden their minds and give them the opportunity to work creatively. How different from my days, nearly half a century ago now, when it was all learning by rote. Pocket calculators were still two decades away. Yet these kids cannot get their brains into gear and rely on others to do their work for them.

haha you're so right! and I'm definitely one of those extra lazy guitarists of today :P

I need my tuner to tune my guitar, if I try to tune it without it, I'll probably make it worse. I don't think I would know the difference in sound between an A and Em lol

i could never figure out a song... I tried to figure out the first 2 chords of "half the world away" and I got it wrong... its was an F but I thought it was Am (and the worst thing is, I was sure I had it right!)

But tbh, I don't really have the time to sit around hours on end every day with my guitar. lol

I'm 20. I started playing about 4 years ago, almost everything I know I worked out by ear. Nearly all tabs seem to be wrong, lots of them drastically so, and even though I'm fine with sheet music on the piano I suck at reading it for guitar (to be fair I've never really tried much so..).

edit: I've never had guitar lessons, saying that you can't teach yourself and that doing it is 'equal to suck' is just plain ******* stupid.

Also the comment about there not being any good guitarists today is pretty damn silly. With guitars, and other instruments, being so much more widely available than they were 20/30 years ago of course there will be more players and, as with 20/30 years ago, most of them won't be amazing. Just because you refuse to look past chart bands and so miss out on most of the good music out there doesn't mean that everyone today sucks.

Yeah. It amazes me how many of these kid guitarists refuse to take lessons and want to self-teach (oxymoron). I try to tell them that self-teach equals "suck", but they all thumb me down, man. Guitar lessons are cheaper in todays dollars than they were when we were kids, so their only reason is that they are lazy and dont want the discipline of lessons. I think it's the main reason that Rock music today is formulaic and poorly played. Its because todays youth are bad players. When I was a young kid growing up, there were LOTS of really good players who were my age... on all intruments. We could play EVERYTHING. Now, these kids play a few scales, turn up the gain, and call it shredding. Big deal. I could do that when I was 11. woopdeedoo.

Perfect example: Look at how many AWESOME guitarists came out of the generations that were born in the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's. Nowadays, there are really only a few great guitarists under the age of 40. The future of rock guitar is grim. There are no more Blackmores, Santanas, or Claptons out there, because these kids arent learning how to play music... their little ADHD assses are sitting around jacking off their guitar instead of making love to it.

EDIT: All that being said... Ricky is right. We're the ones who made our kids into effing spoiled brats, so it's no one's fault but our own.

The best guitar players I know are self taugh and most started with an accoustical guitar.

It is what the kids are taught in school. This is one of the problems with the economy today. Even though I had it better than my parents, I still did not get a license until I could buy a car and my own insurance. I started off with a rented room. Today when some one gets out of school they want a new house, new furniture, 2 new cars and a 50" digital TV. My first furniture and TV were good but used I bought for Goodwill.

I am not rich but everything I have I worked for.

Mike

Well I belong to this "spoon fed" generation. The problem lies with the system and the kids are least to blame. Be it education, music or whatever, everything is spoon fed and they expect quick results.

The basic thing is " If you don't have something, you can't use it. If you got something, you ought to use it".

When everything is available, I don't have a problem using it.

It is not that I haven't given a second thought to your question, but that is how this world is!

I know, my dad told me that story like million times. How he played vinyl and try to figure it out. It makes you much better guitarist. Everytime I have some free time I try that instead of ultimate-guitar.com. and sometimes it actually sounds good.

but that way is much slower. My dad started playing my age (by ear). Few weeks ago I played Stairway to him (by tabs of course) and he said he couldn't play that when he was 13.

Yeah, but, that's just the way it is.

Edit: I am myself a "today's guitarist" but I always tab down songs using my own ears.