When I learned to tune my guitar, I would try to keep it tune all the time and before jamming to records. But there were songs that no matter how much I kept my guitar in tune, and even though I knew the proper chords used on those songs, my guitar would always sound slightly out of tune. For the first 3 years or so that I was learning music, the guitar, etc. in the early 90s, I thought that I just simply didn’t know how to tune my guitar properly. It never dawned on me that some songs may not be tuned at 440 at all, either deliberately or arbitrarily, haha.
Thinking that banks are safe. Got in a little tax trouble once and the government froze my account and took all my money at once. Wasn’t even really my fault, all came down to a misunderstanding, but in the end didn’t mean shit. The money was gone and I never got it back.
Guitar pedals and distortion. I literally thought there was one type of distortion and it was an on or off type of deal. I had no idea there were literally thousands of flavors of it, which is pretty hysterical now looking back on it.
Yeah, I didn’t post it for the hearts, more as fair warning (mostly to myself) that it ain’t all sunshine and roses in the land of milk and honey. Thanks for the sympathy my dude.
i played the piano as a kid, then started playing bass in my first punk band when i was 16. i think it was about the time i was 28 that i finally realized that 1 fret = 1 semitone just like on the piano
One of the funniest misconceptions I’ve ever heard was that some beginner drummer had told this other dude that he finally thinks he understands 7/8 time signature and had started counting the basic Iron Maiden type of beat like Ooone, two, three, four, five, six, sev, Ooone, two, three… simply tying the last and first beat together.
I used to think that everything must be very complex in order to be good.
