A Guitar Pro

I've been playing guitar for two years now, self taught, and am just starting to be able to have fun jamming along with other people. It sounds even better now I have an effects pedal aswell as the effects on the amp which make me sound better than I really am. But that's the point right?

One of the effects this particular pedel has is a whammy effect which, until I tried it, didn't think was a very good idea but the moment I understood what it meant I was blown away. It meant for the first time I was able to make Voodoo Child actually sound like the real deal.

Unfortunatly for you, my 3 fans, I even have something to grumble about on this topic. Namely what people think makes guitar sound good. It's not a long complicated tangeting reason here. It's just that far too many people just hear heavily distorted guitar with simple two note power chords that a baby could play and they say your amazing. 

Yes for some songs this may be indeed how they are meant to be played and you may do a really great cover like that. But to say someone is (Brian Cox) amazing at guitar for that would be like calling someone an amazing singer for being able to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star really well but that's all. 

Don't get me wrong I love the simplicity of some riffs, pick an AC/DC song at random and you'll get what I mean. But it's people that say only that is good at not look at the flowing beautiful complexity of Dire Straits for example or the Blues rhythm and swing. It really gets on my whammy.