What is your minimal level that begginer guitar player has to cross to call themselves guitarist?

  • @blackstratA
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    191 year ago

    Have picked up a guitar, played a note and smiled.

  • @frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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    151 year ago

    I can’t remember who wrote it, but there’s a short essay by a Japanese noise rock artist (maybe Agata from Melt Banana?) on ‘How to be a guitarist’ and it basically says ‘Get a guitar. Tune it if you like but this isn’t necessary.’ So, yeah: that’s about where I’m at on the question.

  • backsideslappy
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    71 year ago

    Don’t really think there’s a minimum - sure maybe you ought to have picked up a guitar but there’s no minimum proficiency for creative arts.

  • @XTL@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Answer is probably different if you’re trying to hire a guitarist for something or if you’re trying to decide whether some random person is a guitarist.

  • Rayspekt
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    31 year ago

    Said person has a guitar and is playing it. That’s it.

  • BringMeTheDiscoKing
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    31 year ago

    Anyone can call themselves a guitarist but there are only half a dozen Certified Guitar Players.

  • @cottard@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    Trying to define this or answer this question is an exercise in futility.

    If you feel comfortable calling yourself a guitarist, poof-- you are one, regardless of what anyone else says. I wish I’d deeply bought into this decades sooner. Comparisons are odious. Rock on.

  • @Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    21 year ago

    I started playing when I was 10 years old in 1966. I have been a guitarist the entire time. I am slightly better now, though.