Bad habits you've developed from being a musician

[Spaceman_Spiff]

I sing guitar parts out loud. Like "shunt tuhn tuhn sicka skadoo da doo".

It annoys everyone around me except for my buddy Dan who does the exact same thing.

EDIT: ^ I guess I'm not alone.

 

[mr_rainmaker]

FUNNY FACES NUFF SAID.

 

[MrPepperoniNipples]

I have a really big ego

 

[TasmanSam]

I make the guitar face at everything mildly exciting.

I also suffer from said finger tapping mentioned above

 

[Devyn Eclipse Nav]

Another weird one of mine - I'm a wannabe drummer, so I'll constantly be tapping out drum beats from different songs on whatever I have in my hands at the moment (Table, desk, computer, guitar, and yes, even girlfriend.)

I do it so much that my girlfriend just kinda laughs it off whenever I start doing it again.

Maybe we should change this thread to "Bad habits you've developed from being a musician" because I know some of mine aren't guitar related. Most people sing in the shower. I do death growls and screams, too. It's where I've worked on my different techniques probably the most. That, and mowing the lawn

And of course, I've done the whole "picking your pants and air-guitaring" thing. Sometimes I'll actually have a pick and use my belt buckle as a pseudo-string to play.

 

[iRaiseTheDead]

Using my pinky.

lol jokes

 

[Furtive Glance]

I get annoyed when people air guitar "incorrectly"... like, not doing a tapping motion when the solo is OBVS TAPPED OMG or strumming when it's totes alternate picking. Stupid shit like that.

 

[ras1988]

Mouthing off counts to songs I know well (especially odd time signatures). Indian counting cycles when listening to new music. Using my right hand to feel out the tempo and overall feel of music. Due to some frequency specific hearing loss I eq stereos a little different. Foot tapping, and the finger tapping. General preference for doing more dexterous activities with my fretting hand. Pant leg picking. Melodic humming to particular songs.

 

[theo]

I sing riffs, tap beats everywhere, air guitar, buy too much gear, neglect my woman for guitar... and I show off way too often. It's probably what inspired me to play guitar in the first place.

 

[Don Vito]

I pretend I'm using double kick pedals in public when I'm bored. People probably think I have some nerve disorder.

I also do the air guitar thing occasionally.

 

[poopyalligator]

I pretend I'm using double kick pedals in public when I'm bored. People probably think I have some nerve disorder.

Nice! Apparently I am not the only person who does that lol.

 

[iliketofish]

I started strumming the side of my desk randomly like an idiot when I'm in class.

 

[Winspear]

I get annoyed when people air guitar "incorrectly"... like, not doing a tapping motion when the solo is OBVS TAPPED OMG or strumming when it's totes alternate picking. Stupid shit like that.

So much this

I am almost constantly tapping a 5/4 kick rhythm with my thumb.

 

[Fiction]

Nice! Apparently I am not the only person who does that lol.

I get in trouble for double kicking along with a song all the time, as my bedroom is above the relaxing room downstairs.

 

[m3l-mrq3z]

I triple-pick with my mouth as in, I "sing" fear Factory or Sybreed riffs.

"brr brr brrrrrrrrrr brr brr chug chug brr brr brr 00000000000000000000"

 

[AliceLG]

I air guitar/bass/drums anything I might be listening to while I'm on the train to work Maybe some people have looked me funny but everyone seems to tired/sleepy/busy reading to notice, or care.

I'm also a table-top drummer, and from what I've heard, it's quite annoying

 

[wrongnote85]

i sometimes pay TOO much attention to my guitar, and not enough to my family.

there, i said it.

 

[vstealth]

I started strumming the side of my desk randomly like an idiot when I'm in class.

I used to do that at school too, used to bring guitar picks to play with or just pick the side of the desk when i wasnt writing.

 

[incinerated_guitar]

My social life has been totally ruined. I cant hang out with anyone who isnt a musician, because we can never seem to just get along. I have this habit where I HAVE to talk about gear all the time. I can talk about other stuff, too, but gear is always on my mind. And of course, me and my other guitarist are almost always growling when were hanging out together....or singing some of the stupidest songs together in a very satirical voice...especially when we break out the acoustics "you got a friend in me...you got a friend in me!"

 

[MrPepperoniNipples]

I started strumming the side of my desk randomly like an idiot when I'm in class.

everyday

always the painkiller intro