Guitar Fail : The Funny Side of Guitar

Guitar culture, questionable science & assorted goofy ideas since 2011.

GUITAR FAIL STUDIES IN GUITAROLOGY

Department of Absurd Ideas & Guitar Mayhem

GUITARIST POSTURES & MOTIONS

Biomechanical Studies of Guitarist Specimens

Brace Your Neck: The Metal Guitarist Stance Explained

Headbanging is just the start. Discover the disciplined stance of the metal guitarist: Mayhem outside, control inside.

The Three-Point Anchoring System of Classical Guitar Immobility

Lesson 2 of Guitarist Postures & Motions: the Classical stance. Anchoring, tension, and the eternal battle between precision and panic.

How to Stand Like a Punk Rock Guitarist (Science Says So)

Master the art of punk rock guitar stances: downstrokes, headbanging, low-slung guitars, and a high risk of chaos (and injury). Class dismissed!

GUITAR FAIL MATH 101

Maths Meet Genres = Dubious Equations

$Metal Explained (Violently)$

Metal Explained (Violently)

Angst + distortion + double bass pedal = Metal. Add a pointy guitar and excessive velocity… the equation checks out.

$Jazz Explained (Approximately) by Guitar Fail Math 101$

Jazz Explained (Approximately) by Guitar Fail Math 101

Jazz = Improvisation / (Structure – Boundaries). A perfect equation that finally explains jazz… and why nobody knows where “one” is.

$Country Music Explained (Badly) by Guitar Fail Math 101$

Country Music Explained (Badly) by Guitar Fail Math 101

Lesson Two of Guitar Fail Math 101: the Country Equation. Trucks, heartbreak, Telecasters, steel guitars… and Ulysses discovering twang.

GUITAR FAIL LEXICON

Very Real Guitarist Problems Need Imaginary Definitions

Ghost-Noting (We’re Going in a Different Musical Direction.)

Ghost-Noting : A Proven Method for Harmonic Decluttering? A gentle way to tell a note “Thank you for your Interest in This chord”? Let’s find out !

PT-Shred-D (A Condition Not Covered by Your Tone Insurance.)

PT-Shred-D: when guitiredness meets reckless shredding. Symptoms, causes, and ways to stop your fingers from launching unsolicited sweep attacks.

Guitar Fail Lexicon: Guitired (And Proud of It?)

Guitired: when you scroll through guitar memes and tutorials instead of practicing. A real guitarist condition, now officially defined.

GUITAR FAIL SHENANIGANS

One-off Guitar Fail creations, visual jokes, fake products and assorted nonsense that haven’t accidentally become a series. Yet.

The Seven Guitar Fail Chord Shapes

From A-lien to G-ymnast: seven highly questionable ways to put your fingers on a guitar.

Warning: Beware of Finger Syncers

Not everyone holding a guitar is actually playing it. Learn to recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.

Some Guitars Are Just a Chapter

Not every guitar you fall for is meant to stay forever. Some become lifelong companions. Others become very expensive chapters titled “Oops.”

The Guitar-a-Day Happiness Plan

One guitar brings happiness for a day. One guitar every day? We may finally have cracked eternal bliss.

How to Choose a Guitar Pick?

Looks, grip, thickness, durability… and the overwhelming statistical certainty that you’ll lose it within a week.

One Guitar Is Never Enough

If one guitar brings happiness, more guitars should bring more happiness. The maths seem pretty solid.

When Life Gets Loud, Get Louder

When life gets too loud, you have two choices: turn it down or grab a guitar and become part of the problem.

Guitar = Happiness. That’s It.

Give a man a guitar, and he’ll be happy for a day. No wisdom, philosophy or further explanation required. More guitars, however, may be necessary.

Harm the Omelets™ : Tom Moreggo’s New Guitar Day

A Fender signature guitar, a misread slogan and some hippos mysteriously turning into fried eggs. Meet Harm the Omelets™.

GuitarFailCard : For Everything Your Bank Account Won’t Let You Buy

For everything your heart says yes to and your bank account very firmly doesn’t. Meet the GuitarFailCard™.

Self-Sustaining Angry Pedalboard

When your pedalboard has more anger issues than you do, feedback takes on a whole new meaning.

No Soloing Day

One day. No solos. No noodling. No excuses. Can your inner lead guitarist survive the challenge?

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BLUNDER-BUSTING GUIDES

How (Not) To Guides To Hack It ‘Til You Make It Or Break It!

String Theory : How to Choose Your Guitar Strings Gauge ? A Quick Guide for the Plucking Perplexed

A simple guide that will help you search inside the Pandora’s Box of string gauges, and strum your way to string success.

A Simple Few-Steps Guide on How to Clean Your Guitar’s Fretboard

A dirty fretboard can negatively impact the sound of your guitar and make it more difficult to play. Here are the few steps you need to clean your fretboard.

GUITAR GOOF CHRONICLES

Guitar Tales & Stories No One Asked For…

Blast from the Past: The Curious Case of the Stratosphere Guitar!

What if the Stratosphere took over the Fender Stratocaster? Maybe the guitar world would’ve been a different place… A look back at an almost-legendary guitar.

Jeff Beck’s Guitar That Almost Was: The Ibanez Strat-a-Paul Misfire

This is the story of Jeff Beck and Ibanez, and a guitar that almost was: a hybrid dream prototype that combined two guitars and has since faded into oblivion.

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THE SACRED GUITAR FAIL VAULT

Museum of Misfits & Permanent Collection of Wrong… Spin the Guitar Fail Disaster Wheel !

A Fishy Four-Stringed Wonder: Slappin’ the Bass or Flappin’ the Fins?

Let’s not ignore the elephant in the room. The neck of the bass sticks out of the fish’s butt… No biggie but I had to shed light on that disturbing fact!

What a weird guitar seen on ebay... That's a confusing one because I want to give props to the builder for building an original guitar but I also want to take a jigsaw and rectify the shape of the body and the headstock !!

Marie Osmond’s Bling Guitar

This guitar has over 2000 Swarovski crystals on the body & hematite On The "M" Logo! Way too bling... Find out a little bit more about the Marie Osmond bling guitar at Ed Roman's website (source)

Dreamland Guitar

Dreamland is the actual name of the guitar. Let's put the art aside - some may like it, some may not - but what's with the pickups placement !? Aesthetic choice, probably. But it only gets better when you look at the back of the guitar... The Dreamland guitar seems to...

Horn-y for Music: The Guitar that Stands Out… in More Ways Than One!

This guitar knows exactly what it’s doing, bringing both form and function into a design that’s a tad risqué, a lot cheeky, and 100% unforgettable.

No Muff Too Tuff

That's dirty... Check the comments section for a little background on this No Muff Too Tuff guitar ! I'm not surprised that the friends loved it but the girlfriend didn't. But hey, a G&L Legacy is a good catch too.

Guitar Shapes Gone Wild: How to Turn a Classic Flying V into a Reverse Flying WTF ?

The Black Rock Reverse Flying V should be perfect for any guitarist who wants to stand out from the flock.

Driving Slow and Strumming Hard : The Cadillac Guitar Experience ?

Playing this guitar is like driving a classic car. It’s slow, cumbersome, and hard to handle. The only difference is that, at least, the Caddy looks good.

They Say Guitar Has a Feminine Body Shape…

Kozm guitars took it way too literally !! This guitar not only has a feminine body shape but it also has nipples, and a clit !! This guitar by Jeff Kosmoski aka Kozm Guitars is the SB-3. This is the first design he came up with using 3D CAD solid-modeling programs....

Headless Monkey Grip Guitar : The Curious Case of the Stratocaster’s Funky Cousin

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the “Let’s Laugh at Guitars” show! This headless guitar takes the discomfort to a whole new level.

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