It's tough being a female guitarist

[Captain Hilts]

http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/being-a-female-guitarist-takes-balls/

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This has always been a male dominated industry and females are just now starting to break through and become more accepted as players/musicians. I myself being a female guitarist, have struggled my whole playing career with this issue. Getting to the point where people take me seriously as an actual guitarist, a real player instead of just a chick that can play or just being “good for a girl” has taken years.

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In my experience, often times people don’t take you seriously if you’re a female musician, let alone a guitarist. I walk into guitar center and the guys working there just flock to me asking if i need help and when I say “no thanks, I know what I’m looking for”…it’s like they don’t believe me or something. They think I have no idea what I’m talking about or what I’m looking for. They try and explain things that I already know to me and pick out things for me that they think I would like because I’m a girl. The fact is, if I was dude that walked in there, this would absolutely not happen. This also brings to mind the fact that there are “guitars for girls”, which really pisses me off! Those are the kinds of things that just add to this whole mess. All that does is project the idea that girls can’t play a real guitar. That what, we’re so fragile and naive that we need special instruments made for us? It’s really quite insulting if you ask me. Daisy Rock Guitars is one imparticular that drives me nuts. The woman who made the company claims that she wants everyone to know that girls can rock out. How is giving girls sparkly pink hearts, butterflies and flower guitars going to do that? They’re not even full scale necks, which is very insulting in and of itself. Daisy Rock comes with a CD of female guitarists featuring such artists as Courtney Love and Sheryl Crowe. Now no offense to these women, but I hardly consider them good enough guitarists to be putting them on a CD to inspire young girls to play guitar.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Liona Boyd - One of my favorite guitarists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ1YCKqBEN0

[Mister Ed]

2. You might be too hard on Daisy Rock guitars

They're made for pre-teens, really. Little girls might like those designs. And little hands might appreciate the 3/4 scale necks.

Then again, my own pre-teen daughter plays a black Mexican strat, and has since she was eight years old...

[Captain Hilts]

5. That's cool. nt

[BlueJazz]

3. Been a Musician all my life and have never felt Women were any different..

..players than Men.
My Main is Sax but I play Piano decent and Bass fairly well. Here's a Women who I dare any Man to put down.
She plays those nice chords without even thinking about it.. :)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-HxnPBNdys

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Some of these female rock guitarist are lucky!

[MorningGlow]

6. Amazing that some things never change

It was about 25 years ago that I walked into the "open-mic night interest meeting" at my college, and the guys--all guys--looked at me as if I had wandered into the wrong place. "Can I help you?" These were guys in my dorm! One of them was my roommate's ex-boyfriend! When I said I wanted to sign up, the acted like I had smacked them with a 30 lb. flounder.

Yes, I was the only girl who performed at open-mic night except for one chick who tried to harmonize with her boyfriend (and failed). I got a lot of respect for doing it, but I'll never, ever forget the looks on the guys' faces at first...

[Xipe Totec]

7. El Testamento D'amelia, El Noi de La Mare - Akiko Saito

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMwj7EasRno

[Xipe Totec]

8. Ana Vidovic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7vOb7GNBg

[Xipe Totec]

9. And the Master, Sabicas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2VROY01EAg

[kurtzapril4]

10. I've been playing bass for 30+ years

And believe me...it's waaaaaaaaaaay easier now than it was then. You wouldn't believe the crap I got. And, even better, I had to shut up and take it if I wanted to play. I once had some a**hole guy tell me that there was NO WAY a woman could play the bass-line to the Allman Brother's song, "Whipping Post." So I played it for him. On. The. Spot. Oh, you mean like that, A**hole? LOL!

Some women(and men)have small hands...I've no problem with a woman(or man) who has small hands getting a shorter scale guitar or bass. Women tend to have smaller hands than men. It's not an insult, it's a physiological reality for some people. A guitar should never be pink, though. Nothing should be. LOL! I have average sized hands. I play long scale basses. Eventually, your hands will stretch out.

My favourite bass is my '91 Guild Pilot. I did play Rickenbacher's for a long time. Had an EB-3, too...hated it. I also have a '67 Gibson SG.

I don't think there's anything wrong with giving a young girl(or boy) what used to be known as a "student" guitar, which is all these Daisy things are, just gussied up, girled up versions.

The women in Fanny, and the Cunning Stunts were awesome musicians, back in the day.

People just called me the bass player for So Scared.

[Captain Hilts]

11. This is good to read. What I don't 'get' is how women are supposed to be the 'artsy', 'sensitive'

ones, yet, they've been stiff-armed out of actually being part of the creative process just as female authors used - and still do - men's names. That's why J.K. Rowling did not use her full name. The publisher did not want kids to know a woman wrote it.

[Iggo]

12. ' A guitar should never be pink, though. '

Except for maybe an 80's vintage BC Rich.