i'm still fucking awful at guitar but there's no rule saying i can't just sample myself playing chords and notes one at a time and playing the samples back on my keyboard. that still counts as playing guitar imo
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making guitar sounds with your voice and playing air guitar counts as playing guitar. especially with how fancy pedals and effects can get, it's basically the same thing.
is this the same as when I make jazz using beepbox even tho I don't own a saxaphone
according to this pitchfork profile this is how jane remover did all the guitars on the best album of the 2020s so you're 100% in the clear
a lotta people dont realize that "making music" and "performing live" are two separate skills that dont necessarily have to overlap
sometimes i get all weird about not playing instruments proficiently and doubt whether im a """real musician""" because of that but um. that's silly
It gets especially maddening when people think that the only way that musicians ever make money is by going on tour, when 1) most music tours lose money and 2) there is so much music that is not meant to be performed live to begin with.
My live performances are totally different than my studio recordings, because I have to pare the live stuff back and adapt it to my live performance abilities (which are tied mostly to my physical disabilities at this point) and the slipshod way in which I get a lineup (or more often don't). I definitely prefer working in the studio.
that was literally how i produced my first song fight! song because I hadn't yet built up calluses and didn't have a guitar pick. I pieced the chords together in Impulse Tracker. It was godawful, but, hey. It worked.