What Are Some Noob or Bad Habits Y'all Have with Playing/Gear?

[Smash]

I hold my pick in a weird way which has probably held back my skill with certain techniques

Way too late for me to bother trying to re-learn "the proper way" now

I have slowly been working on this one as well.

 

[ewill52]

Effects send and return. I literally always hook them up reversed, first

It's like Schrodinger's Loop, there's a quantum superposition that is always incorrect

i put a piece of red tape on both ends of the return cable for this very reason - red\return

 

[ewill52]

when playing live i get too focused on my board to the point that i'm almost shoegazing. need to work harder on crowd focus. and playing. my playing sucks. but really the crowd thing.

 

[rsm]

when playing live i get too focused on my board to the point that i'm almost shoegazing. need to work harder on crowd focus. and playing. my playing sucks. but really the crowd thing.

I found the more difficult the music, the more I had to focus on playing vs the crowd.

One of the reasons I liked playing hair metal, rhythm guitar, and occasionally lead vocals back in the day...the music was easier than prog or death; having to sing helped me keep track of where I was in the song, and having to talk to the crowd forced me to work on it. It's not as easy as it looks, good frontmen just make it look easy...

One time I got in trouble, I thought I had heard the bass player had broken up with his girlfriend, so at the end of the first set, I announced something like, "We're going on break, get some more drinks and food, and be sure to stick around for our next set. Hey ladies, I have some good news that many of you have been waiting to hear; our bass player (first name) is newly single and looking to mingle.' I left the stage for our break. Turns out it wasn't true, and his longtime girlfriend was at the show with her friends...bass player was pissed, and wanted to kick my ass; it was the drummer who just got dumped by his girl...so I had to correct it in our second set, that it was our drummer not the bass player who was single. The bass player and his girlfriend never liked me after that. I may have some of the details wrong, but that was basically it. The drummer hooked up with a new girl after the show.

 

[jb44]

Sit on the edge of a seat/sofa/bed rather than having my badonkadonk comfortably firmly planted in.

 

[MetalThrasher]

I have left my amp on several times, in standby, after taking an intermission from Madison Square Bedroom. I get focused on something else, wake up the next day and realize I was burning tube heaters all night. Don't drink and jam kids.

Been there done that after drinking and jamming in the basement (arena) LOL! Only to notice a day or two later the amp was still on standby. Still get confused when using the amp's loop inputs as well.

 

[PDC]

+4/-10 db loop setting

Calculating ohm load

Double Whammy

 

[Eazy-ESP]

I didn't know that was a problem. I use my middle finger all the time. What other finger would I use?



Better than sharp I guess

But seriously, if you are going to use a 9v, at least get something decent like Energizer or maybe Duracell. Better tonez with Energizer for sure.

I have a collection of NOS batteries. I roll them in pedals for the best tone.

 

[SpiderWars]

OK here’s one: Turn on the amp (still on Standby), get all your cabling/etc set up, tune up the guitar…and then proceed to play acoustically for 30+ minutes before you decide to take a quick break to pee/beer/etc. I never even took it off fuckin Standby. Dumbass.

 

[romanianreaper]

Everytime I change my G-String, I walk out of the laundry room donning a "Tonez" G-String and forget my guitar needs the update, not me.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

OK here’s one: Turn on the amp (still on Standby), get all your cabling/etc set up, tune up the guitar…and then proceed to play acoustically for 30+ minutes before you decide to take a quick break to pee/beer/etc. I never even took it off fuckin Standby. Dumbass.

30 minutes?
I'm pretty much deaf and would have noticed way before that long