I'm bored of...

[Tenebrous]

So,

I'm bored of Rock,
I'm bored of Metal,
I'm bored of Jazz,
I'm bored of Pop,
I'm bored of Ambient,
I'm bored of R&B,
I'm bored of...

As a guitarist, anyway. I can still listen to em all...

You get the picture.

As a musician, primarily a Piano player but also a guitarist of 8 years, all I find myself wanting to play now is "Happy" classical music in weird ways. The electric guitar as an entity, as I know it, is horrific. An instrument that is always out of tune, an instrument that can never be mellow enough, an instrument which only has one saving grace - The ability to bend a note.

But, I still find myself playing daily, and enjoying it.

Does anyone else feel the same?

[Ampegasaur]

No. I am sick of all those except Metal and Jazz.

[mbargav]

Nope. I've been playing for 22 years now, and there's still so much I'd like to learn.

[Conisewer]

Maybe some flamenco/Spanish stuff? Ever checked out Paco De Lucia? Some of my favorite stuff that he did was with John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola.

[Tone_Terrific]

You are not alone and it's certainly nothing new.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgMI0BObEXI

[GarMan]

No. I don't feel the same way. I find new bands that blow me away all the time.

[Jangles]

I feel you man. I'm just bored of music in general (for the most part). Every once in a while (at least for me) a band or an artist comes out that inspires me, but nothing at the moment. I currently have been listening to worship music as it has more "feeling" than a lot of the pop/rock I was listening to. To each his own!

[alguit]

I CAN get tired of listening to "virtuoso" guitar music after a while, finding myself heading more and more to just wanting to hear great melodies, interesting rhythms, etc, regardless of genre.

Still, I can get very excited by new guitar music or revisiting the masters-I just don't do it all day, every day anymore.

I think one problem, at least for me, is that when listening to guitar-dominated music that it's hard for me to separate me the player from me the listener, not unlike how as an English professor I often find it hard to read for pleasure until at least a month after the semesters end (and imagine how tough it is for gynecologists!) If I listen to Miles Davis, though, or DeBussy or a great choir, I can still "lose myself" in the listening experience in a very wonderful way.

As for playing the guitar, I find that endlessly fascinating and challenging. As for being out of tune, I have guitars with the Buzz Feiten tuning system, and at least plugging into a tuner that works with tempered tuning makes most electrics sound much better. Plus, plugging into different amps and pedals can be inspirational.

I hope you can still find some thrilling musical experiences-there's so much music-good luck!

Alan

[oldtelefart]

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An instrument that is always out of tune................... an instrument which only has one saving grace - The ability to bend a note.

[/QUOTE]

The second one cancels the first one.

[epluribus]

Bieber's Adagio for Strings?

[Sandy Cheeks]

Originally Posted by epluribus

Bieber's Adagio for Strings?

Justin?

[Fatherflot]

Sometimes I get bored of the same old thing. Then I discover something like this, and it's like my passion for music is reborn:

http://iwcenglish1.typepad.com/the_j...y-no-good.html

[Griz]

Originally Posted by mbargav

Nope. I've been playing for 22 years now, and there's still so much I'd like to learn.

+1

Playing since 1970, haven't been bored yet. Too much to discover. I will say, though, that I think it's important to love discovering.

I have a musician buddy who periodically goes completely off his desire for music, maybe months or even a year at a time. It usually turns out that there's some other non-music issue that is robbing him of his zest for life in general, preventing him from enjoying not only music but art, film, friends, etc.

Here's to your musical renaissance, OP; may it arrive quickly.

[splatt]

i only get substantially bored w/my own stuff;
when i get bored w/that, i make every available effort to change it.

if you're repetitively & terminally bored w/everyone else's
(apparently, idiomatically & stylistically restricted) music,
go out & actively find something else.....
..... and/or stop listening to all of it, & go make more of your own:
your own music is something that you can change,
in any way that might suit your shifting moods.

¿no?

dt / spltrcl

[tiktok]

Everything's always out of tune, particularly the piano.