Chords for Guitars I Hate

Hate is a strong word, a word that I reserve for specific [D] hockey teams and for guitars
that I passionately dislike.
Today, I'm going to tell you about [F] 9 [Bm] guitars that I can't stand.
And you know what?
If you [B] like any of these guitars or even own any [Am] of them, this is [Bm] only my opinion, you
can [E] feel free to go off on me in the comment section.
[A] To start things off, the Stratacoustic and Telecoustic series by Fender.
And as far as [D] I can tell, they've been discontinued, so I [G] guess I'm beating the
dead axe here, [D] but back when I worked at a music store, we usually had tons of these in stock.
Their Tele and [A] Strat shaped guitars meant to give you an acoustic sound with an electric feel.
However, they sounded horrible.
You'd have been better off [B] attaching a guitar neck [D] to a cardboard box.
They felt cheap, the body was made of this rough, horrible plastic, and in my opinion,
they looked terrible [E] too.
On top of that, they retailed for like [Ab] $500, which you could easily use [Bb] to buy yourself
a decent, [D] real acoustic.
I hope I never see one again.
Next is the guitar I borrowed from my neighbor when I started guitar about 18 years ago.
It was made by a company called Nevada.
It was a cheap, and let me [A] emphasize, cheap Strat [E] knockoff.
It hadn't had [A] a string changer setup in its existence, and when you're a beginner
guitarist, the last [D] thing you want is a guitar that fights against you.
That's [A] exactly what this thing did.
The action was way too high, and the neck was bowed like nuts.
[N] It made playing Ode to Joy way harder than it needed to be for my wimpy 13 year old fingers.
I didn't know any better though, I just figured guitar was really hard.
I [E] eventually upgraded to a blue [D] Squire Strat, and my life improved greatly.
Moving on is a guitar I once saw in a shop in Nashville.
But before I tell [E] you about it, let's talk about two things that are not [G] enjoyable.
Number one, tuning a guitar [D] with a finicky trem system.
You tune one string, [Gm] which pulls on the springs, putting the [Gb] strings you already tuned [A] out of tune.
Fairly [Gbm] annoying.
Number [G] two, tuning a 12 string, which is twice as annoying as tuning [E] a 6 string.
Ain't no one got time for that, even though they do sound great.
Well this guitar, you guessed it, was [A] a 12 string with [Ab] a trem.
Some people just want to see the world [F] burn.
I picked it up out of morbid [E] curiosity, and of course the thing wasn't in tune.
I spent many a minute fiddling with it, until I eventually noped the heck out of that store
in a frustrated state and went for [D] Southern Barbecue.
[Bb] Which was [Am] quite enjoyable.
Next is a [Dm] guitar I never saw but heard about through a friend named Phil.
He's an older guy, and he spent a lifetime in music, owning a number of amazing instruments
through the years.
One of these guitars was a 1957 Black [A] Beauty Les Paul, the kind that go for $100,000 plus
on Reverb [C].com.
Well he fell [E] on some hard times, and had to sell this sweet sweet baby girl to [Gb] another
guitarist he knew.
A few days later, the guitarist he sold it to calls him up and [E] told Phil to come over
and check out a mod he did.
If [F] you're a gearhead, or have [A] any love for vintage instruments, you might want [E] to skip
over the next bit of this video.
[Am] So Phil went over to [A] this character's house, and found out that he had installed [E] a Floyd
Rose in his former guitar.
To do this, he routed [Bb] out a sizable cavity in the [Em] body, and shaved [Am] off some of the neck.
Phil says [D] he still has nightmares about this, and [E] I too have second hand [B] horrors that haunt me.
[Am] Ok, now let me tell you about another [Ab] Les Paul that bothered me deeply.
I was working in the music store, and one of the best things [Bb] about this gig was when
someone came in with an old beat up Gibson [Am] or Fender case, you never knew what kind of
goodie was inside.
But one [E] faithful day, a fellow [A] walked in with a tattered old case that said Gibson on the
side, [C] and my heart started beating.
[E] He traded in a Les Paul from the [B] 80's that we were going to sell for [D] $800.
[E] I watched another [A] employee process the transaction, and as soon as he was done, I took the guitar
[C] to the back room, [Bb] excited to try it out, [Dm] and it played horribly.
It wasn't set up poorly, or had dead strings or [Am] anything like that, it just felt like a
cheap [D] guitar, which was apparently the case for a [F] lot of the Gibsons in the 80's.
It had a [A] weird bevel on the neck behind the headstock that just felt wrong to me, and
[Am] it didn't get any better when I plugged it in.
It sounded flat, it [F] was just a hot mess of a guitar.
It sat on [A] display for a few weeks, I picked it [D] up a number of times and [Gm] tried to like
it because at that price, it seemed like a steal for a vintage Les Paul.
But every time I played it, it [A] just annoyed me.
Now I don't mean to rip on Gibson too hard, I love a lot of their instruments, and [E] I've
had nothing but positive experiences with the people who work there.
But sometimes [G] you gotta dish out the tough [Dm] love.
On that note, [E] I do not care for the Robot [Cm] Tuner guitars.
[G] Last year I shot a video at the Gibson showroom where I tried [E] out almost every guitar they had [Cm] there.
Really great experience, but it also meant I had to tune about 100 guitars, 600 [Am] strings.
[Cm] When they were slightly out of tune [Bm] and the Robot Tuners worked, it saved me about 10-15
seconds per instrument.
[Bb] But when they were way out, or there was something wrong with a mechanism, it turned into a [C] huge pain.
I remember [A] on one guitar, there was a tuning peg that was stuck spinning.
It started detuning and never stopped.
[Gm] Some say it's still detuning to this day.
After spending a lot of time with a lot of different Robot Tuners, I came to the conclusion
[G] that they're more of a nuisance than they are a benefit.
Glad Gibson ended that [Gm] experiment.
Next up is that Gretsch [E] acoustic guitar with a trem bar.
I like Gretsches, [G] I like trem bars, but something about this just rubs me the wrong way.
I don't know why, [A] and I don't care to say much more about it.
Moving on, we have some guitars that are decent instruments, I just have bad associations with [D] them.
The [G] Alvarez Beginner Model Acoustics.
There's one year in my life where I taught [C] guitar full time.
I had something [Cm] like 40 [Eb] students over the [G] course of the week, and a lot of it was just glorified [C] babysitting.
I had a lot of [E] beginner kids who had no interest in music [Em] whatsoever, and [Dm] when that's the
[D] case, there's only so much you can do.
I feel like their parents just wanted to get rid of them for half an hour, so they sent
them to guitar [E] lessons.
The music school [C] offered a 6 week trial program, [D] where for a certain rate, you got 6 [G] weeks
worth of lessons as well as [A] a loner guitar.
These guitars were the Alvarez Beginner Models.
They were never cleaned, never got new [G] strings, and were covered in the filth of a thousand
dirty child fingers.
I had to tune them every lesson.
[Gm] I don't like germs, I don't like dirty guitars.
This is the only association I have with these instruments, so they're forever ruined [E] for me.
Last on my list are [G] banjo guitars, which are [Bb] banjos that are strung in tune [Dm] like guitars.
They [G] remind me of Canadian pop country music, which besides a few cool [Dm] artists, is a [G] cheaper
version of American pop country music, which I don't really care for on the best of [Bb] days.
Up here in the great white north, there don't [C] seem to be nearly as many banjo [F] players, so
bands will hire guitar players to play [E] these [D] abominations instead.
Just make the effort to play a real banjo, it's not that hard to play those cliched
country [A] licks anyways.
[Bb] Okay, that about wraps it [G] up, and I gotta be honest, this video was rather cathartic.
If you like any of [A] these guitars or happen [G] to own any of them, [C] it's all good, this is
just my opinion, and lord knows I've had enough hate directed towards my sweet, precious
reverse [Gb] flying V.
But we don't care [Dm] about them, [G] do we?
If you have a guitar that you have an irrational hatred towards, let me know in the [C] comments.
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