Some guitar jokes are overused, and some guitar jokes are just plain dumb. The great thing about making videos, however, is that you can put a new spin on the tired, clichéd thigh-slappers that pretty much every guitar player has heard before.
Sure, we all know pop stars play hardly any notes for massive audiences, while jazz cats are stuck in the dingy dive bars playing their hearts out for a handful of lowlifes drinking their beers with their backs turned.
Have you ever thought what those two scenarios actually look like side by side, though?
The power of video brings new life to these old jokes, so whether you’ve heard ‘em all or not, I’m sure you’ll get a chuckle out of at least a couple of these one-liners. If you don’t, you might not have a soul.
Tyler Larson is the founder of the guitar-centric brand Music is Win. His insightful, uncomplicated guitar lessons and gear demonstrations along with entertaining, satirical content about life as a musician receive tens of millions of video views per month across social media. Tyler is also the creator of the extremely popular online guitar learning platform, Guitar Super System. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Tyler has been teaching guitar for over a decade and operates a production studio in Nashville, TN.
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