Uncomfortable, unpopular, and for the most part… unspoken…
If you freeze up, overthink, or feel your hands betray you every time someone says "play me something"… this might be the most honest email you’ll ever read about guitar.
Because after 43 days on tour, playing everywhere from beautiful cities to the kind of towns you only stop in if your gas tank’s begging for mercy… I realised…
Every guitarist has thought about quitting.
Even the ones on stage.
Even me.
Even Jimi-Freakin’-Hendrix…
So if you haven’t admitted that to yourself yet, consider this your permission slip.
See, the part of tour no one talks about isn’t the big shows or the crowds or the adrenaline. It’s the in-between.
The nights where the venue is great, but the town around it looks like a post-apocalyptic film set. The mornings where you step off the bus and the first thing you see is a guy arguing with a dumpster. The days where you’re running on four hours of sleep and caffeine fumes. The nights where you’re so mentally cooked you forget what city you’re in.
Those stretches - the quiet, ugly, human parts - are where the mental warfare actually happens.
And that’s where I started noticing something important…
The reasons guitar players QUIT are always the same.
The reasons they COME BACK are always the same too.
So today, if you’ll allow me, I want to give you:
6 Rules for Quitting Guitar
(Read all 6 before you make any decisions.)
Rule #1: Only quit on a good day. Not a bad one.
Bad days lie to you. Your hands feel stiff, your timing’s off, everything sounds like mud, and you convince yourself you "lost it."
You didn’t lose anything…
Your nervous system is just having a Tuesday.
Quit on a good day, and you won’t quit at all.
Rule #2: If you pick it up again within 48 hours, you never quit… you were just mad.
Ask any guitarist further from their youth…
This is the single most universal rule in the entire culture.
Sometimes you’re not quitting…
You’re just taking your toys and going home because the guitar hurt your feelings.
It happens.
Move on.
Rule #3: If life derails you, that’s not quitting, that’s life.
Kids, even grandkids, work, health, stress, death, divorce, bills, chaos…
Nobody plays clean through all of that.
Pros don’t either.
You miss days.
You miss weeks.
Sometimes you miss months.
That’s not failure. That’s being human.
Rule #4: The guitar doesn’t care how old you are. Only your ego does.
Your 15-year-old self still lives somewhere inside you.
If you were like most who picked it up at an early age, then put it down you’ll know that kid had no problem fumbling notes or sounding bad for weeks at a time.
But now you’re older, smarter, and more self-conscious…so one sloppy riff feels like a referendum on your entire identity.
It’s not.
Your ego’s loud. Your guitar is patient.
Rule #5: If you still think about guitar… you’re not done.
I met guys on tour - real players - who hadn’t practiced properly in YEARS… yet they still lit up when a guitar was put in their hands.
You don’t accidentally care about something for four decades.
If it still bothers you that you "never quite got it," then you’re not done.
You’re unfinished.
Rule #6: You only really quit when you stop caring. And you… haven’t.
Be honest.
If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t be reading this. You wouldn’t open these emails. You wouldn’t feel frustrated. You wouldn’t be annoyed at yourself for stopping and starting all these years.
Frustration is proof you’re still in the fight.
People who don’t care don’t feel anything.
Now, here’s the punchline…
Most guitar players don’t suffer from lack of ability. They suffer from bad expectations and a nervous system that panics too easily.
That’s it.
Fix those, and you can make more progress in a week than you’ve seen in years.
And by the way this little book gives you 36 of the most powerful guitar hacks that’ll quickly and easily improve your playing… even if you’re rusty as hell.
Get your free copy here & officially join me (just cover shipping)
Talk tomorrow, and buckle up.
Tomorrow’s story is wild.
Eddie
Guitar Mastery Method
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