https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:45:59 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50239 Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:00:25 +0000
For every person telling you they LIKE your music there are 99 others who like it as well but couldn't be bothered to tell you that. People who tell you they DON'T like it stand alone. People who are indifferent stand alone too. It costs much more energy to praise than to break down or say nothing.

So what you have to do is to make that one comment of praise and encouragement resound and vibrate through your brains and veins as if a 100 people were shouting it at you. The noise of enthusiasm and joy will quickly overpower the humming of the indifferent or the lone voices of the negative.

Of course, if someone offers you well thought criticism you have to carefully listen to it: if hard work is the womb of improvement, comments are the semen.

Also, it helps to know what you are good at. If someone tells me that I should find someone else to play the guitar instead of me, I say "of course, sure." If they tell me a cute girl would brush up the stage, I'll happily agree. If they tell me another singer could do the trick and someone else should write the lyrics I am likely to ignore that comment.

Dieter]]> Guitar Players Discussion Knotwilg https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50239 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50238 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:04:49 +0000
At this point, there are lots of people who know I have a band, and infact most of them like our music.

I have no problem with the fact that some people may not like our music, because I understand that everyone has different tastes...but what does get on my nerves is how people express the fact that they may not like our music.

Like for instances, how the same person constantly approaches me, simply to tell me how he thinks my band sucks (Though, I have the last laugh because just about everyone who knows this kid hates him.)

When people act like first graders in regards to disliking our music, that's when it upsets me, and infact gets to me.

Just about everyday, that same kid says the same thing, and it doesn't get to me as much anymore because everytime I start jamming with my band, and write new songs, I realize that we don't suck.

As long as you enjoy what you're playing/singing that should completely overule the fact that people don't like your stuff.



:)
]]> Guitar Players Discussion LethalDosage https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50238 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50237 Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:41:36 +0000
You're too soft. I figure if you stopped feeding them they'd completely stop complaining.

A :-)
]]> Guitar Players Discussion Alan Green https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50237 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50236 Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:15:06 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Nick Torres https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50236 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50235 Sat, 04 Oct 2003 07:59:29 +0000
Sing what comes naturally to you; if John Denver had tried to sing with the group "Kiss" he would never have had a career.  

Denver was a very shy guy as well and he learned to overcome it.

I hope to hear your song voice sometime, hang in there!]]> Guitar Players Discussion StoryMwString https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50235 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50234 Sat, 04 Oct 2003 07:44:13 +0000 all I know is it live's in its own world....LOL

E|---|---|--4|---|---|---
B|---|---|--3|---|---|---
G|0--|---|---|---|---|---
D|0--|---|---|---|---|---
A|---|--2|---|---|---|---
E|---|---|--1|---|---|---
................9th

Joe]]> Guitar Players Discussion forrok_star https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50234 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50233 Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:38:05 +0000

string 1: ---10---   D
string 2: ---10---   A
string 3: ---0---     G
string 4: ---0---     D
string 5: ---9---    F#
string 6: ---10---   D

The only dissonant note is the open G because it's a half step from the F#.  We could call it a Dsus4, eh?

Or did you mean:

string 1: ---9---   C#
string 2: ---9---   G#
string 3: ---0---   G
string 4: ---0---   D
string 5: ---8---    F
string 6: ---9---    C#

This seems like it would sound like ----.  Normal C# would have the notes C# F and G#.  Yet we have the open G fighting with the G# and the open D fighting with the root note C#.  This will be fun guessing at this chord.  How about C# augmented major 7th.  And if not, at least it has lots of notes.  Wish I had my guitar here at work to hear the dissonance.

Oh yea, play one of those AND sing out of key?  The singing out of key  I can do all the time without much effort.  I like the idea of putting out some bad stuff so the audience will never hear anything that bad so everything from there will be gravy.


]]> Guitar Players Discussion corbind https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/paged/2/#post-50233 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/how-do-you-deal-with-people-not-liking-your-stuff/#post-50232 Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:44:33 +0000 Ziggy

Here's something I use to do just see the look on everyones face's..lol

Play this G chord make it sound as pretty and sweet as you can.
Get a nice strumming rhythm going. let it ride for a bit.
let them think their getting the song of their life. because they will be.
E|---|---|--4|---|---|---
B|---|---|--3|---|---|---
G|---|---|---|---|---|---
D|---|---|---|---|---|---
A|---|--2|---|---|---|---
E|---|---|--1|---|---|---

Then keeping the same fingering and slide it up to the 9th fret and Strum real simple 1,2,3,4 and start singing out of key. that chord on the 9th makes the most god offal sound doing that. Now before they start throwing bottles, start playing your best song with everything you got, put your heart and soul into to.

I bet they never say another negative thing again. If fact I'll bet they'll give you a standing ovation. And other guitar players will be asking how'd you do that how you do this, wanting to know what you were playing.

Don't say a thing, Just sweetly smile and walk away.

Joe


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