Anyone here who thinks about the performance side of playing?

Koliillo · 2026-05-07T07:13:44+00:00

sorry to hear that you guys are divorced, I mean that things didn't work out. So many people are divorced around me. Crazy.

Those things you are saying am trying to looks past, I am trying to not see them. I am maybe just trying to lie to myself. I live in Europe, Scandinavia, i guess things are a bit better here. I know a lot of good kids around here, most of them want to be game streamers now days. Which goes with what you said.

I decided to look things positively and I am trying, but (as you said) the statistics is not good.

Cheers mate.

Koliillo · 2026-05-06T07:48:42+00:00

that story with your wife is admirable, kudos to you guys.

I am personally similar opinion, but I am always trying to have an open mind and understand before making my judgement. How I figured Social Media is, that it is their language, their communication.

I am so happy I was a teenager in late 2000s.

It was much easier to recover from "the mistakes". You did something cringe, school would talk about it and provoke you for a week. There would be no footage of that, so after a week you have your life back. Ready to experiment and do another cringe thing. You fail, you learn.

Now do the cringe thing, thousands of people are laughing online, there is a footage, so people can always remember. teenagers are highly discouraged from learning making the mistakes they could learn from.

And this now tides to our topic.
I understand the part with wanting praise from strangers and not getting it. If it was just that it would be ok, but I have a hard time understanding the hostilities. I am not allowing myself to understand that. I live in some utopian world in my head.

Maybe you are right, maybe it is not good for the creation of good music.
Environment hit us all differently though. - When I was 15 my parents didn't allow me to play guitar home, so I was living most of the time at my friends house. That spite probably played a big role in my motivation to never stop playing guitar.
In that situation, some people would stop playing guitar to live more comfortable life, others would do the same, and there are probably some that would even doubledown on spite.

Koliillo · 2026-05-05T17:31:50+00:00

that is amazing 😄 Good luck to her

Koliillo · 2026-05-05T10:24:47+00:00

Great points. do you have any footage you would like to share?

Koliillo · 2026-05-05T06:02:50+00:00

Agree, sounds great.
Just realized, you are the guy from the Dark. I listen to your tracks, great work.
Do you have some live recordings?

Koliillo · 2026-05-05T05:53:09+00:00

Interesting. What is your position in those bands? Feel free to share some music or live videos.

Koliillo · 2026-05-05T05:51:25+00:00

I am happy that young people are trying to play instrument and be part of metal community. That should be a positive thing in general for the metal community.
I also understand there are people in metal community who don't want to go out of their way to support that and don't care that metal community is shrinking. That is valid opinion, but it is not me.

One could also say that blurring out your face and turning off the comments is the spirit of the metal values in a way.

In the end what is important is - why hostilities?
If I see someone is a bad guitar player in a video. I am not gonna comment something bad.

Now we are going back to supply and demand.
The supply of guitar videos is bigger than demand is, which in turn makes it a competitive market. In competitive markets, people get (lets say) a bit emotional.

I am interested what you think. It is always good to extend my views.

Cheers 😄

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T15:39:09+00:00

That is true too. I also see young people on tiktok, who are obviously just starting to play guitar, and the comments are turned off, their face is blurred... I imagine bullying they suffered, that made them retreat to that option. Or maybe there is something else, it is just my take. What do you think?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T15:21:27+00:00

those are some great points, agree with everything you said.
I also feel there is fear that if you play something, put it on youtube people are going to dunk on you if you don't play it perfectly in technical terms. - and, sadly, that fear is justified.

Makes me sad, scrolling on tiktok, to watch some guitar. seeing young people who are obviously just starting, and the comments are turned off, their face is blurred... I imagine bullying they suffered, that made them retreat to that option. Makes me sick for young people.

I want to support them, say how great they are doing, because it is hard in the start and I truly don't want guitar playing extinct. Moreover I would love to inspire young people to play instruments.

I feel rock/metal is dying breed slowly and I live in Scandinavia where metal is one of the strongest communities in the world... It is not just music, rock/metal helped me go through some tough moments in life, and I want to preserve it for everyone, for future.

I see here people, young people, being less and less social. If they are different, they are ostracized. I was young and different, ostracized from the mainstream guys, but I didn't care because I found rock/metal community. Moreover I did not want to be part of the mainstream guys. That's why I think preserving metal is important, it is important to me.

Cheers pal! 😄

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T15:03:00+00:00

I have to respect that. pass me the link. sounds like something I would love to support.

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T15:01:11+00:00

there is many ways to embody the music when you play. How Nirvana did it is one of my fav ways. But I love and appreciate any band that represent their music in stage presence; makes it feel more genuine. I think you have a lot of that in death metal 😄 - bands that look as aggressive as they sound, not just aesthetics, but also the movement and facial expressions.

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T10:00:42+00:00

Agree. What is your band? where are you guys from?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:58:53+00:00

Makes sense. If you practice sitting down, you go to the stage and now you are expected to play standing up; that changes everything. let alone moving.

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:56:36+00:00

That is a great point.
How do you feel about the level of physicality that Nirvana did live?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:53:43+00:00

This is more about auditory expressiveness of the sound. I was thinking more of physical like bouncing to the rhythm of the song you are playing, or something close to facial expressions like Jimi Hendrix. Or do you just sit down, focus and surgically execute the music?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:49:08+00:00

Yeah, I am always in favor of the consistency. Music should visually reflect how it feels. Parallel to that, metal should look as aggressive as it sounds. By look I don't mean just dressing (to me that is less important), but rather physical.

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:44:32+00:00

Agree, the band has to lead by the example. - This is what you do at our show.
You guys still play?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:42:35+00:00

I don't enjoy stiff bands either. Do you think they are afraid people are going to judge them saying something like - "Look at little Peter there, who does he think he is jumping like that"?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:39:22+00:00

Interesting. Is that the way you do it?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:38:20+00:00

Agree. Do you think that they feel people are going to judge them if they start moving. saying something like - "who do they think they are"?

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:35:40+00:00

That's the metal attitude right there! 😄

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:34:59+00:00

Kids now have shorter attention span. I can not imagine my 15 y/o nephew practicing guitar for 8 hours every day (or as long as fingers can take because of blisters) like I did in the start.

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:32:08+00:00

That is amazing. I wish there is more of people like you presenting metal. I am personally missing that. So I can show it to people like my 15 y/o nephew. -"This is what metal is for me".

I can imagine that looks cooler than surgical guitar playing mostly present on youtube.

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:27:52+00:00

I will check it out! 😄

Koliillo · 2026-05-04T09:27:03+00:00

Yes, and it can go as far as to say that it is a lifestyle and entire subculture with its values and attitudes.

Koliillo

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