Favourite compliments You've ever gotten on your playing

[idssdi]

Just figured doing some positivity stuff. I'm wondering what you're favourite compliment someone else gave you on your playing. It's not to brag just something someone told you you didn't expect and went like 'wow' that's actually really amazing.

I kinda have two ones I'll probably never forget. One was on a solo I wrote for the band I was in at the time. The rhythm guitarist of that band had a friend and he apparently told him that that solo sounded like a synyster Gates solo. I was kinda speechless for a while

The other one was at a friend's house. Basically there was a guitar and me being a guitar player I can't resist playing on it so While being drunk I jammed to some Django Reinhardt. At some point one of my friends literally asked me whether I could like record it and make a record of stuff similar to that because he really liked it. My reaction was something Ong the lines off 'what? I'm drunk and I'm playing like shit'

Do you guys have any

 

[Moonrunner]

best i got was: hey you playin in the correct key
jk, i hardly ever play in front of people, not my thing at all

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Mine was when Holly said "you're becoming the guitarist you always wanted to be and I'm so happy for you."

Her opinion is the number one opinion I value so that meant a lot to me. You've come so far as well dude!

 

[Gabriel Perez]

The best one I got was
"I could hear your voice in your guitar."

 

[Adin Shepherd]

Does 'turn that shit down!' count as a compliment?

 

[Mariler]

Mine is wordless, it’s when I play something for my son and he chills, that means he is liking it, otherwise he’ll try to kick my guitar, and I am saying it literally, he just hates when my playing is too crappy and full of mistakes

 

[Filip Tomiša]

Mine would probably be when I was playing a melody I wrote and my guitar teacher asked me what's the name of that song and then I told him that I wrote that and he was very surprised

 

[Matt Wildcat]

I think mine would have to be when my relatives told me I'd make my great uncle proud. He was an incredible musician and had a serious passion for music, but passed when I was very young. One of the things that keeps me going.

 

[Lindsey]

Does my dog not walking away from it count?
He always seemed very relaxed when I played Tears in heaven on acoustic.

 

[Ekrem Taha Ünlü]

The best I have from Syn himself : Theres so much progress being made everyday, im truly blown away!

 

[Christian Schulze]

I have two too:
A friend of mine said to something I recorded once: " Nice! That means you can make more right? Like an album?"
The other one @Jak Angelescu gave me not too long ago: "I'm kind of mad that this ended because I could have listened to this all day " That one blew me away XD.

 

[Ethan Keeling]

A friend at work heard me play and said "fuck your job play guitar!"

 

[Ed Seith]

Getting shout-outs from Syn, and honestly, having so many people ask me questions and show up when I do a livestream or something, is hugely gratifying.

But the ones that stick out...
As a small regional original band, getting a following and fans - I got some fan art (which I can post sometime if I can find it - someone painted me on a piece of slate) and gave some autographs. That was cool as hell.

But more recently, I was at my local Guitar Center. I picked something up to play it. I had the amp on but not loud. I wasn't showboating or being obnoxious or anything. Usually, when I'm in a guitar shop, I play like shit, like everyone. This particular evening, though, I was able to shut it all out. I just played and got into my zone and enjoyed myself. When I was done, I looked up, and everyone in the store had stopped what they were doing to look and listen. The guys that worked there were a little slack-jawed.

I sheepishly apologized and put the guitar down and left. I was embarrassed, for some reason, in the moment, but it made me feel on top of the world when I reflected on it later.

 

[Kat the metalhead]

This might sound crazy but I’ve never really gotten any compliments at all on my playing . I’ve gotten compliments from my parents but no one else. My friends could care less and same with the people around me.

I really gotta get into playing in-front of people more. I’m gonna post a video of me playing on here soon and when all this covid stuff is done I’m gonna play at a local bars metal jam night.

Oh but I have got a compliment on my bass playing. I performed at the metal jam I just mentioned and the sound guy who I’ve known for a while said it sounded clean and not sloppy like most the bands that play there

 

[Nocturne]

That was after playing some songs for a show of my music school, and in those songs there was one written by the bassist I was playing with, for which I wrote a guitar part because she was lacking the synthesizer she used to write it. That wasn't the first time I played it live but she came to me after and said me that I had something I could translate to a "musical sense", and told me that a lot of people could play a stuff as simple as that but much less could write something that fits the music and add something personnal to it. That's by far the best thing somebody said to me about my guitar playing.

 

[Ed Seith]

Oh, and I totally forgot to mention when @Edward John said he learned the riffs from one of my original tunes! That was killer!

 

[Ed Seith]