Acoustic guitarists are the winners in this new less-is-more thinking, since even a big jumbo can be strummed quietly. After all, there may be someone trying to sleep in the next room. And small, compact amplifiers are judged not by their rattle-the-windows headroom, but by their tone quality when the attenuator is dialed down close to zero. Sales of large amps, which have actually been slow for some time, have reached the “are you kidding?” stage. Some stores have been unable to keep audio-to-digital converters in stock. The most obvious and immediate indication of how homebound guitarists like Joe have been using their extra time and energy is the increased sales of home-recording gear. How will he keep the energy flowing? He is a guitar player, so bets are Joe won’t shove his dreadnought or Strat under the bed and switch to online chess.Īcoustic guitarists are the winners in this new less-is-more thinking, since even a big jumbo can be strummed quietly.
Joe has practiced hard, he was making real progress, but then the pandemic pulled the musical rug out from under him. Unfortunately, there has been no reversal to the good ol’ days yet, and we’re all instead settling into the new abnormal: rules and protocols that we’ll have to live with for some time.īut what does this mean for the typical guitarist? Even if Average Joe has adapted to Zoom lessons and workshops, he’s still looking at a rather bleak landscape when it comes to public performances or open-jam sessions, while in the past he could put recently honed licks and techniques to the test. When I wrote my previous column, which outlined how the COVID pandemic has dramatically altered music instruction, I wondered if the new limitations would be ancient history by the time the column was published.
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