What’s making me laugh is he’s looking around to see who is like astonished by his “shredding” and literally there’s not one person around no one cares so funny
This video immediately took up residence in my ‘Cringe’ playlist. Just the hand gestures and expressions in the very beginning alone were enough to make me feel 2nd hand embarrassment… 🫣
There's so many of these vids now. Think it would be funny if someone made one and finished it by saying/showing..... no I really can't play har har. Maybe this is the first😅
LOL 😂 , just another kid with illusions of grandeur that's a million miles away from actually being able to play. Not even school band standard ,as for gigging in pubs give it 3-4 years and try again 😂🤔😉
The staff I have dealt with in a music store are beyond patient and helpful. I'm not a beginner, but me and accomplished guitarist should not be used in the same sentence. Hats off to you guys and gals at the store!
So dope, bro, like you totally blew the minds of all those actual guitar players, and those dudes who work in a guitar shop were like, wow we've never heard anything like this.. sick, bruh, you like totally crushed it. You must have had to sign a lot of autographs that day. So dope.
OMG! Dude! you totally tricked those sales guys! They though you were a beginner, then you totally shredded and blew their minds! They are going to be talking about this and telling customers in this store for a long time! Those guys must have called their friends and girlfriends and told them what just happened in the store. Man I wish I was there for this, that was truly epic! Nicely done! You gotta go into other music stores and do the same thing and record it and put it on TH-cam! P.S. when you played RR I got chills!
Think I saw this on the news ?? Wasn't the place FULL of A&R Reps within 20 mins??!? 🤔😂😉😠, or maybe the Cops dealing with a noise complaint can't remember which, didn't Steve Vai try to get his number ??!! 🤔🤔🙄
Yes, just a bro making a video indeed. If he lost that lil arrogant smirk and high and mighty way he carries himself, people would say he plays well. Humility isn’t young peoples strong suits, Me included. But this guy, geez idk
$2 wardrobe…. Flea market neck chain….. Yer Mom’s Yer Hairdresser ….. $439 Epiphone nevertuned….. Yer playing < Beginner and The comments ⬇️…… absolutely priceless !!!
"Shred?" I kept waiting for you to start playing. You are young with a bit of talent. Keep working hard and playing with the best you can find. Find some humility son.
@@hilariorosette8440 I would say it is both. I had zero natural talent and my friends did. One was gifted. It was brutal. I got kicked down to being the roadie. At 13, I thought I was going to die.
@@the_wexie "Talent is God gifted ability, whereas Skill is an ability in which you put your time and efforts to develop." A talent implies that if your not good at it you should stop trying. Where as skill is about learning no matter how many tries it takes you to accomplish your desired outcome. An atheist would probably explain a talent being a physical mutation that allows you to do something BETTER than others, like bodybuilding, Chris bumstead, to able to build that type of physique mostly depends on genetics... Or god gifted ability-Talent. Never in my life did ever think I was going to be a guitarist. I always thought guitarist we're always people that strum and sing (which is an over simplification of what music is TRULY about). I later discovered classical guitar and it's amazing soloist pieces... And other songs like Desperado SPECIFICALLY played only by lucas imbiriba. I started playing when my dad bought me a $10 first act guitar from goodwill, and wow I've made decent progress being able to play the first half of Desperado in 10 months and Sección A of recuerdos del Alhambra too. I don't see how anyone can achieve that if you don't put TIME and EFFORT into it.
And there I was thinking you were another Tina S and at any moment you were going to let rip. Compliments to the shop staff who were so accomodating in your fantasy and must have seen and heard such performances so many times before.
I was about to say that I can't remember the last time I pulled a guitar off of a GC rack that was in tune. Then you started playing and sure enough; out of tune. Here's a hint; when playing Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," don't just do down strokes. Use up strokes as well and it will sound way better while taking half as much effort. Use your wrist more and elbow less or it won't be long before you'll be needing a cortisone shot in the elbow. Don't hit the strings so hard. When you hit the strings hard, you won't get more volume, you'll just make the strings fret-out so you lose sustain plus you'll pick scratch the crap out of the guitar. Let the amplifier do the amplifying for you. You'll be able to play longer without getting tired plus your strings will last a lot longer. Also, you need to learn more than just the hooks. Keep practicing. You show promise and are on the verge of graduating to intermediate. Keep taking lessons. I'm guessing someone is teaching you because you played a lot of old guy rock like from fifty years ago. Salesmen will typically compliment your playing because they want to sell you a guitar. And finally, thank you for not playing, "Smoke on the Water."
I was a professional guitarist. About 25 years ago I was at my local guitar store in Waterford, Michigan. There was a guy sitting there just like you actually shredding. I didn’t recognize him at first. My 7 year old son grabbed a flyer on the way out. He said “dad that’s the guy who’s there”. It was Andy Timmons there to do a guitar clinic. He didn’t phase anyone. I’m sure people expect to hear unbelievable guitar playing when they go into a guitar store. One of the greatest guitar players of the 80’s was right there. He didn’t really impress me. You hear someone awesome guitar players at guitar stores. Keep at it, I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
I saw Andy Timmons and The Pawn Kings at the Bedford Blues Festival (Bedford, Texas) in 1997. Him and the band kicked ass, and played a great cover of Santana's "Europa".
Beginners usually only play a bunch of parts to lots of songs - they don't start playing songs in their entirety until they join a band. PHX, you seem to be impressing yourself more than the guys you thought would freak out because they hear that you can play.
They probably get 2 people a week coming into the store to show off, the store attendant kept his cool and didn't do what he normally dose and show this kid how to really play the guitar. I love it though a regular kid with poor guitar skills showing off, but he at least thinks he is the beeneez.
No worries lad your bound to get better keep going no matter what people say practice practice practice it's the best way to learn . 47 years in and I learn more every day . Don't look for approval prove it to yourself.😎👍
@@Nova-Airsoft no worries Lad . Try learning some black Sabbath always impresses the girls and it's not very difficult. Message me later and I will give ya some pointer's never hurts to learn new tunes .
In the words of my ancestors, BLESS YOUR LITTLE HEART. Last time I ignore the instinct to close a video at the sight of beer shotgunning in the opening credits ..
Or advance to " A Forest" by the Cure that's only the top two bass strings, jeez even though a years not long I'm sure genius could master this. Anyway wasted enough of my life replying to a few posts on this BS click bait 🤔😂, hell I'm as bad as everyone else except I don't think I'm Steve Vai 🤔😉
I would use this video as a motivation to broaden your skills, start with 3 notes per string major scale because those are pretty versatile in terms of riffing or shredding. And as for gimmicks, learn some legato phrases, they sound almost as impressive as sweeping with half the difficulty.
@@michaelmarron8441 Maybe. Today, people are used to hearing 13 year olds playing Van Halen, or better. When I was a teenager, I used to impress people imitating Page, Hendrix and Clapton. Today, you'll have to imitate Rusty Cooley, Paul Gilbert, Michael Batio, Yngwie Malmsteen, or Guthrie Govan to impress people at Guitar Center.
Come on guys! The dude can actually play. I’ve played guitar for a lot of years but He’s not bad…. Got pretty good timing, Can do the hammers pull offs, blued bends etc. I give him props He’s actually pretty good
What’s making me laugh is he’s looking around to see who is like astonished by his “shredding” and literally there’s not one person around no one cares so funny
What A Dork
I'm still waiting for the "shredding" to start.
Yeah it's been a year and I'm still waiting to find the part where he shreds
This video immediately took up residence in my ‘Cringe’ playlist. Just the hand gestures and expressions in the very beginning alone were enough to make me feel 2nd hand embarrassment… 🫣
There's so many of these vids now. Think it would be funny if someone made one and finished it by saying/showing..... no I really can't play har har. Maybe this is the first😅
You Don't need to pretend to be a beginner you know. You're a beginner.
This is clickbait because he has no idea how to play.
This is true, and this comment just gave me a goosebump for being honest.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He's not even a beginner. In fact with an attitude like that, he will ALWAYS stay at a beginner level
I was constantly pushing the video further more to see "when" he would start playing like a pro...
Yeah right.. he's like 2 weeks ahead of me and I AM a re-beginner
Thats exactly what I did. I was waiting for something good.
Maybe there is a part II coming, he returns in a week and plays solo Rachmaninoff or something. Let me know if any thing happens, ha ha.
@@bzbzob I seriously doubt it...
@@bzbzob Not sure Rachmaninov wrote more for electric guitar, solo or otherwise 😂
With all respect dude, everything you played was what I would expect a beginner to play. Great job!
yeah, couldnt agree more.
😂😂
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
@@spicydramarama852 yeh but would even god risk playing the intro to "sweet child o mine" in a guitar shop? Nothing can save your soul if you do that.
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
I see what you did there , you fooled us into thinking you could play.
Lol
🤣
@@Nova-Airsoft No offence bro, you are still better than me. ☺
L O L
@@limitedmark Try flute.
4:26
The best part is that "now I'm going to blow their minds" face, and then looking around desperate for attention. Hilarious!
You might not know it yet Zane but, you don't have to pretend to be a beginner; you are a beginner!
LOL 😂 , just another kid with illusions of grandeur that's a million miles away from actually being able to play.
Not even school band standard ,as for gigging in pubs give it 3-4 years and try again 😂🤔😉
Totally agree not even a beginner.more like a horrible noise from a ten year olds bedroom.
You guys are brutal 😂😂😂
@@tomsingleton8277no he’s still pretty good he’s definitely not shredding though
Truth. Kid is clueless and wasted my time with no surprise shred 😢. What? Beginner!!!
You convinced me that you are a beginner!! Ive been listening to them for 20 years, I own a music store, good job.
🤣 My thoughts exactly, worked in a music store for 15 yrs.
The staff I have dealt with in a music store are beyond patient and helpful. I'm not a beginner, but me and accomplished guitarist should not be used in the same sentence. Hats off to you guys and gals at the store!
He was a beginner the whole time!? What a rollercoaster!
I guess his version of shredding is different than most….he might as well have asked them at the counter about lessons
Old guy advice you didn't ask for but I'm giving it anyway: humility is a musician's best tool. That said, at which point does said 'shredding' start?
Im still waiting for him to stop with the beginner stuff and do some shredding, and I've watched the whole video.
He's in a band called the Gooberistics.
Pretending?
Sounds like a beginner to me....
Professional playing starts at 10:17
😂
I actually tried to ff! What joke.
Yet another lie related to this video lol
lmfaoo... I cracked up!
😂😂😂
You were honest , you're a beginner , good luck in the future.
So dope, bro, like you totally blew the minds of all those actual guitar players, and those dudes who work in a guitar shop were like, wow we've never heard anything like this.. sick, bruh, you like totally crushed it. You must have had to sign a lot of autographs that day. So dope.
Give the lad some credit, he had me fooled, sounded just like a beginner to me!
This is such a unique idea for a video! I don’t think anyone has EVER thought about this before.
Lol
Actually John Dretto has been do this for over a year now....th-cam.com/video/BdFcryjspO4/w-d-xo.html
not really pretending bro... keep practicin my friend!
Definitely is a beginner at best, only has a Big Head. Too many of them out there LOL
I've just wasted 5 minutes of my life....yeh you were right when you said you were a beginner!
And he wasted the time of the store employees.
Is there a part 2 to this video? The part where you shred...
No, that was it ! Poser !
Lol
@@Nova-Airsoft Hahaha, feel Bad?
just missing a tumble weed to roll past at end
🤣
OMG! Dude! you totally tricked those sales guys! They though you were a beginner, then you totally shredded and blew their minds! They are going to be talking about this and telling customers in this store for a long time! Those guys must have called their friends and girlfriends and told them what just happened in the store. Man I wish I was there for this, that was truly epic! Nicely done! You gotta go into other music stores and do the same thing and record it and put it on TH-cam! P.S. when you played RR I got chills!
Think I saw this on the news ?? Wasn't the place FULL of A&R Reps within 20 mins??!? 🤔😂😉😠, or maybe the Cops dealing with a noise complaint can't remember which, didn't Steve Vai try to get his number ??!! 🤔🤔🙄
Can’t believe I got sucked into this video. I have two-year students that could school this boy. This guy is just a bro making a video.
Yes, just a bro making a video indeed. If he lost that lil arrogant smirk and high and mighty way he carries himself, people would say he plays well. Humility isn’t young peoples strong suits, Me included. But this guy, geez idk
To make these pranks you MUST be a REAL pro.
Do you have a second video when you start to play....?
It worked, I am totally convinced that you are a beginner!
$2 wardrobe….
Flea market neck chain…..
Yer Mom’s Yer Hairdresser …..
$439 Epiphone nevertuned…..
Yer playing < Beginner
and The comments ⬇️…… absolutely priceless !!!
Lol
i watched this video until the end waiting for something null 😄
Dude, I'm embarrassed for you that you put this on TH-cam. You have to start somewhere but you're at about the 6 week lesson stage.
Everything I Heard Was How A Beginner Plays !
"Shred?" I kept waiting for you to start playing. You are young with a bit of talent. Keep working hard and playing with the best you can find. Find some humility son.
Ok
This is clickbait because he has no idea how to play.
As a guitarist myself i always remind myself that PLAYING GUITAR IS NOT A TALENT it's a skill. The more you play the better you get at it.
@@hilariorosette8440 I would say it is both. I had zero natural talent and my friends did. One was gifted. It was brutal. I got kicked down to being the roadie. At 13, I thought I was going to die.
@@the_wexie "Talent is God gifted ability, whereas Skill is an ability in which you put your time and efforts to develop."
A talent implies that if your not good at it you should stop trying. Where as skill is about learning no matter how many tries it takes you to accomplish your desired outcome.
An atheist would probably explain a talent being a physical mutation that allows you to do something BETTER than others, like bodybuilding, Chris bumstead, to able to build that type of physique mostly depends on genetics... Or god gifted ability-Talent.
Never in my life did ever think I was going to be a guitarist. I always thought guitarist we're always people that strum and sing (which is an over simplification of what music is TRULY about). I later discovered classical guitar and it's amazing soloist pieces... And other songs like Desperado SPECIFICALLY played only by lucas imbiriba. I started playing when my dad bought me a $10 first act guitar from goodwill, and wow I've made decent progress being able to play the first half of Desperado in 10 months and Sección A of recuerdos del Alhambra too. I don't see how anyone can achieve that if you don't put TIME and EFFORT into it.
Highly disappointed dude you’re a beginner.
And there I was thinking you were another Tina S and at any moment you were going to let rip. Compliments to the shop staff who were so accomodating in your fantasy and must have seen and heard such performances so many times before.
I was about to say that I can't remember the last time I pulled a guitar off of a GC rack that was in tune. Then you started playing and sure enough; out of tune. Here's a hint; when playing Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," don't just do down strokes. Use up strokes as well and it will sound way better while taking half as much effort. Use your wrist more and elbow less or it won't be long before you'll be needing a cortisone shot in the elbow. Don't hit the strings so hard. When you hit the strings hard, you won't get more volume, you'll just make the strings fret-out so you lose sustain plus you'll pick scratch the crap out of the guitar. Let the amplifier do the amplifying for you. You'll be able to play longer without getting tired plus your strings will last a lot longer. Also, you need to learn more than just the hooks. Keep practicing. You show promise and are on the verge of graduating to intermediate. Keep taking lessons. I'm guessing someone is teaching you because you played a lot of old guy rock like from fifty years ago. Salesmen will typically compliment your playing because they want to sell you a guitar. And finally, thank you for not playing, "Smoke on the Water."
Over inflated sense of self importance? Dude.. you are a beginner.
put the guitar down and ask the nice man behind the counter if he will ring for your Mommy to come pick you up
Pretending to be a beginner when in fact you are a beginner LOL
I thought I was bad.
Lol
*Being a Beginner at Guitar Center
So you really are starting out. Keep practicing.
When does the shredding start???
I was a professional guitarist. About 25 years ago I was at my local guitar store in Waterford, Michigan. There was a guy sitting there just like you actually shredding. I didn’t recognize him at first. My 7 year old son grabbed a flyer on the way out. He said “dad that’s the guy who’s there”. It was Andy Timmons there to do a guitar clinic. He didn’t phase anyone. I’m sure people expect to hear unbelievable guitar playing when they go into a guitar store. One of the greatest guitar players of the 80’s was right there. He didn’t really impress me. You hear someone awesome guitar players at guitar stores. Keep at it, I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
Lol
I saw Andy Timmons and The Pawn Kings at the Bedford Blues Festival (Bedford, Texas) in 1997. Him and the band kicked ass, and played a great cover of Santana's "Europa".
Beginners usually only play a bunch of parts to lots of songs - they don't start playing songs in their entirety until they join a band. PHX, you seem to be impressing yourself more than the guys you thought would freak out because they hear that you can play.
They probably get 2 people a week coming into the store to show off, the store attendant kept his cool and didn't do what he normally dose and show this kid how to really play the guitar. I love it though a regular kid with poor guitar skills showing off, but he at least thinks he is the beeneez.
Lol
bro thought he was shredding
No worries lad your bound to get better keep going no matter what people say practice practice practice it's the best way to learn . 47 years in and I learn more every day . Don't look for approval prove it to yourself.😎👍
Thank you bro
@@Nova-Airsoft no worries Lad . Try learning some black Sabbath always impresses the girls and it's not very difficult. Message me later and I will give ya some pointer's never hurts to learn new tunes .
In the words of my ancestors, BLESS YOUR LITTLE HEART.
Last time I ignore the instinct to close a video at the sight of beer shotgunning in the opening credits ..
I play guitar for 15 yrs but i dont have any video on my fb youtube bcause until now i feel im not that good enough to show to people what ive got..
Lol
What part do you shred ??
With your talent, you probably should have done this at Walmart -
So a guy goes into a guitar shop and plays mediocre guitar. I laughed so much I think I might have ruptured by spleen.
Ah, I see. You only use two fingers to play like Django. Jesus saves, but he doesn’t give guitar lessons.
At what point in the video does the shredding start?
I don’t lol
I am amazed by how amazing you think you are
You actually are a beginner
is there a second part to this video where he stops playing like a beginner?
Lol
@@Nova-Airsoft Hahaha, feel Bad?
Play some Lynard Skynard brother
Legend in your own mind
Lol
@@Nova-Airsoft Hahaha, feel Bad?
Nobody would believe you were a beginner. Just the way you sit dude, gives it away!
Sounds like every other no talent that is hacking away too loud at every GC I have ever been in.
I kept waiting for him to stop pretending to be a beginner, but alas, he click-baited us with 10 minutes of garbage.
🤔 must have edited out the part where he starts "shredding". My 6 year old shreds harder.
can't wait for the next vid when he is a pro swimmer who pretends he can't swim and drowns in the pool
I like to do Smoke on the Water, just using the top thick string, that always draws a crowd, u should try it.
stairway always brings a crowd
Or advance to " A Forest" by the Cure that's only the top two bass strings, jeez even though a years not long I'm sure genius could master this.
Anyway wasted enough of my life replying to a few posts on this BS click bait 🤔😂, hell I'm as bad as everyone else except I don't think I'm Steve Vai 🤔😉
Smoke on the water on the skinny string for his amazing solo. 😅
I just kept thinking, come on, buddy... What a joke.
Lol
You don't need to pretend at all!🤣🤣🤣
Lol
so do you have plans for after high school?
I would use this video as a motivation to broaden your skills, start with 3 notes per string major scale because those are pretty versatile in terms of riffing or shredding. And as for gimmicks, learn some legato phrases, they sound almost as impressive as sweeping with half the difficulty.
I was waiting for the shred and it never came.
I'd die of shame if I played that way in a music store, even if I had said that I couldn't play
I think this what they call in the vernacular, a "self own ".
I'm so embarrassed for you..
So man, is Part II when it all happens? I can not find it. Ha ha, just messing with you bro.
Lmao
When do you get to the part when you aren't pretending to be a beginner? Lol! 🤣🤣
Lol
This video really backfired compared to what he imagined it would be
My idea of hell is to sit and listen to you play guitar.
Dang ok🤣
Next to Little Nicky
LOOOOL
Pretending to be an advanced player in this video but actually being a beginner 😆
Beginner pretending to be a beginner. ;)
Lol
Hes full of himself
That would have impressed people in the 60's and 70's. Today, it's beginner level without "pretending"
I doubt many Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Vaughan and Eric Clapton fans would have been that impressed
@@michaelmarron8441 Maybe. Today, people are used to hearing 13 year olds playing Van Halen, or better. When I was a teenager, I used to impress people imitating Page, Hendrix and Clapton. Today, you'll have to imitate Rusty Cooley, Paul Gilbert, Michael Batio, Yngwie Malmsteen, or Guthrie Govan to impress people at Guitar Center.
@@josephblow5946 I don’t think anyone in Guitar Center really gives a fuck about the people sitting down to play guitar.
Where is the guy playing SRV in Walmart on the toy guitar?
Come on guys! The dude can actually play. I’ve played guitar for a lot of years but He’s not bad…. Got pretty good timing, Can do the hammers pull offs, blued bends etc.
I give him props He’s actually pretty good
Thanks man! I really appreciate that
Please no, that's just mean.....
Ok. He can play. He's still a dick.
What the hell was that? It brought me back to my first 4 months of learning guitar.
pretending? You got me.
Lol
When do you start shredding?
Lol
Why did YT recomend me this? Lol
Lol
Just when does the shredding actually begin? I’m still waiting? Did you forget to upload that part?
You're right, you are a beginner.
Lol
You title says “your pretending to be a beginner” yet you played nothing that was beyond beginner level, definitely a click bait video.
holy shit......you went from beginner to worse! lol
behave man
When does the shredding happen?
You didn't have to pretend.
Lol
It is funny that nobody cares what he’s playing. He sounds like a beginner and most of the people there can probably play better than him.
I suppose that Zane is a legend in his own mind.
A legend in his own lunchtime?
@@tnimbus Nah you ruined it there bro. But we’re nice here so we’ll pretend that it was okay
Where is the shredding part?
More confidence than talent.
When does the pretending stop ?
If you are at Guitar center, you are a beginner.
Not true. Some of us have no other options
Not necessarily
I kept waiting for some killer riffage. I was as disappointed as the guitar was.