I rarely play a bum note....

[mixtapelove]

... I'm usually playing in the key of "F" when it happens.

 

[QweziRider]

... but when I do I look at the drummer like he did it.

 

[BucketOfFish]

I played a bum note once...just for the experience It was delightful. I felt naughty!

 

[southpaw723]

You can't mess up improv

 

[SheaNC]

I usually yell "aaaauuugh!", like Charlie Brown does when Lucy pulls the football away.

Yup.

 

[twinjet]

but when I do, it's because all I had available was this s****y Squier.

 

[interp]

...but when I do I blame it on a fret slipping out of position.

 

[Woolber]

...but when I do, the composer feels compelled to re-write the song to incorporate my improvement.

 

[shadowtippy]

...but when I do, I give my guitarist the "what the heck are you doing" look.

 

[baileyboy]

I rarely play a "clam", but when I do it's usually because the drummer got thrown off and I've followed suit. I have difficulty staying with a tune when the drummer isn't there too.

 

[marko57]

I frown at my amp, and turn a knob, like that's the problem.

My usual response as well!

 

[tmdazed]

I own it and move on and dont make a big deal of it becuse I found that if a song is vaguely familiar anyway, the audience does not notice

 

[AltGrendel]

..but when I do, I tell the rest of the band that it was on purpose and I'm checking to see if they're paying attention.

They never buy it.

 

[Mosfed]

But when I do, I see that no one is really listening to me anyway...

 

[TedH]

but when I do I call it jazz.

I prefer "some Jamerson-esque, non-diatonic tension".

 

[TedH]

I turn red when I do it in church . . . It's particularly frustrating when rehearsal is perfect and then.

If eternal damnation were awaiting for my sin, I'd get a little flush too! (14yrs of Catholic school will do that to a guy)

 

[scowboy]

haha... neither do i.

 

[Mantis Tobaggan]

I prefer "some Jamerson-esque, non-diatonic tension".

If i was in a band with you and you hit a bad note and then said that, one of us would have to find a new band

 

[corinpills]

When I hit a clunker, I just imagine that I'm Ron Wood in the Jeff Beck Group and think about how bright my future is.

 

[DrThumpenstein]

But when I do, it's because I've had too many Dos Equis