Get ready, my string-pickin’ comrades. You’re about to step into a parallel universe where up is down, left is right and Lil Wayne is a guitar god.
You might become disoriented at the sheer lunacy of this place, but I urge you to take solace in the fact that this is only temporary.
The guitar players in this alternate reality prefer Squiers over Custom Shop Strats, use Pepsi to clean their fretboards and have never heard of Jimi Hendrix.
While the sights and sounds of this strange world are horrifying to us, its inhabitants are generally harmless. Just don’t let any of them work on your guitar, or it might end up being strung with six G strings and tuned to the key of H.
Tyler Larson is the founder of the guitar-centric brand Music is Win. His insightful, uncomplicated guitar lessons and gear demonstrations along with entertaining, satirical content about life as a musician receive tens of millions of video views per month across social media. Tyler is also the creator of the extremely popular online guitar learning platform, Guitar Super System. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Tyler has been teaching guitar for over a decade and operates a production studio in Nashville, TN.
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