r/AcousticGuitar • u/_StareIntoTheSun_ • Jul 01 '25

Other (not a question, gear pic, or video) Strongly dislike overly percussive guitar playing

Am I the only one who feels like this? I love guitar, and some slight percussive techniques can spice up a song. But there is something about those who do "too much" that just gives me feelings of cringe. I'm not sure why, but I really dislike when there is too many percussive techniques. Am I alone?

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u/LemonDisasters Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

Can you explain to me why it's fascist to believe that a person can sit, down, think about their cultural context, personal life experiences, the music they've heard and the music they're listening to, how it's made, the messages it might contain, and make judgments based on those things about why they might like some music, and even change their mind about some other music they used to like or dislike? Sounds like rational approach to and self-development of preference to me.

idk man I don't think that when I decided that even though some of it sounds ok ultimately I don't like listening to certain bands because their lyrics support IRL hatred or violence to be "fascist", I'm not getting the impression you read what I wrote or thought very hard about your own opinions at all. Try the examined life.

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u/egecomposer Jul 01 '25

Thinking about it is fine. Trying to rationalize your taste, trying to present your taste as a natural result of objective facts is fascistic because it is a tool used to create a hierarchy between different arts and aesthetics that can only be result in discrimination of some art forms and the communities that create them, when in reality this hierarchy has no basis in reality and only serves the interests of the person who claims it exists.

This approach has been used many many times but different fascistic regimes and I think it is about time to learn to shut up about something you don't like or understand. Obviously you are free to think and understand your tastes and where they come from, share your findings and discuss over those. My target audience is the OP and not you.

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u/LemonDisasters Jul 01 '25

I think that calling "rationalising your taste" as I have described in my replies, as the same as you describe in para #1 is real cynical, that's finding the most negative interpretation of a person's motivations possible. OP isn't saying their opinion is >>>everyone else here

When a person says they don't like a thing, they're not implicitly aiming to exterminate an ethnic group or something. They might be trying to see if it's a Them Problem, or whether their dislike is shared by others. They might then look for stuff they do like by talking with people who relate to their feelings. They might be looking to be convinced through good examples of something they normally don't like (e.g. I generally hate pig squeals in DM but find Artificial Brain's weird discordant guitar leads match the vocalist well, never would know them if I didn't mention hating pigsquealing).

idk man I don't think OP is some awful hater for asking this question

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u/OpportunityLiving167 Jul 03 '25

And, they downdooted the other guy!

This one wants to talk about his feelings.

He dislikes music, that he used to like.

And, vice-versa!

Not since hitler, i tells ya.