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

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net
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    1 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 @lemmy.world
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    1 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.

  • BringMeTheDiscoKing
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    1 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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    1 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
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    1 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.