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You know you're a guitard when...

-Almost all the songs you try to learn are from Guitar Hero.
-You can't play without staring at the fretboard with your mouth wide open.
-You criticize everyone else's gear, because NO GEAR IN THE WORLD is better than yours.
-You can't watch another guitarist without saying: "He's not better than me" or "I can play that so much better".
-Instead of joining the band in discussing a new song, you sit alone, playing Iron Man, Smoke on the Water, Stairway to Heaven, Fade to Black, or The Trooper.
-Who needs a bassist? I'll just turn up the bass on my amp.
 
When you're at a region chorus festival and somehow manage to swallow a guitar pick on the way to your all-state audition (or maybe because he was a tenor II...) Yes it really happened last week.
 
When you finally go into the studio to record, and as you listen back to the parts on each song, you tell the bass player, "wow, I didn't know you played that on this song!" , or "have you always played that?" on every song! I know every note to every solo he plays, let alone all his riffs and rhythms!
 
"-You're telling someone how to play something (especially drums) and you try to imitate the noise but you end up making yourself look really stupid. (I.E. a guitard at my school trying to show the drummer how the intro to Zep's Rock N' Roll goes...)"


Ha, ha, ha.....my guitard does this ALL the time. "Hey man, can you go do-do-pat-do right there? [making wild arm motions]"

Never fails to make me laugh my a** off.
 
hahaha! My guitard always does the air drum thing too! My drummer and I just look at each other and crack up!
...Wow. Seems to be a common theme amongst guitards then...

Mine looks even more ridiculous 'cause he's really tall and thin as a stick so he looks like Jack the Pumpkin King trying to imitate a spider or something. It doesn't help he actually IS a drummer (to some extent)...