Today, while tuning my bass guitar, I noticed a very strange screeching sound. I leaned over to look behind the neck. The biggest string snapped off and cut the side of my face. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I forgot to tune my guitar pre-performance. Surprising, because it was in tune when I frantically did it by ear backstage. Too bad two of the six strings snapped, smacking the drummer in the face. FML
Today, whilst tuning my guitar, one of the steel strings snapped and hit me in the face. Now I'm on my way to my first date with the girl of my dreams, and I'm wearing an eye patch and have a thick red line across my face. FML
Today, while video chatting with my girlfriend, who lives on the other side of the country, I thought I'd play a song for her on my guitar. The string broke and hit me in the face. I burst into tears and had to hang up. FML
Today, after practicing a song for my girlfriend on guitar all day, I called her over to my house to show it to her. After a long speech about how "this is for you," I played for about 3 seconds before I broke a string, which slapped her in her face. FML
Today, I was walking down the street with my acoustic guitar on my back. I saw a girl that I like coming down the opposite way, so I decided to play my guitar to try and impress her. I started to tune it quickly, but while I wasn't paying attention, I ran into a pole. Now my guitar is cracked. FML
Today, I went in my room to play my guitar. I found my Les Paul on the floor with all the strings missing. I later found out my grandma cut them off because I was playing "Devil's Music." FML
Today, a wasp knocked me out, broke my glasses, and left a gash over my eyebrow. It did so by flying under my glasses while I was playing my guitar, causing me to reflexively bat at it with the hand that was still grasping the guitar neck. FML
Today, I was in a music shop looking for a new guitar when someone called out someone else's name and jumped on my back. I lost balance and fell forward and broke 3 guitars and damaged another 6. The guy said "Sorry, thought you were someone else" and ran out. I now have to pay £2500. FML
Today, while playing on stage, the singer of my band swung his microphone around, straight into my face. I now have stitches above my right eye, and a job interview in three days. FML
Today, I finally had enough to buy my dream guitar, made in 1965. I buckled it into the passenger seat because it unfortunately didn't come with the original case. Once home, I tripped over my own feet before reaching my front door and scratched it on the concrete. It wasn't in mint condition when I bought it, but now it looks like it had a bad relic job. FML
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LegendLong 0
Now you'll have a badass scar. :)
BountyBass 13
lucky it didn't take your eye out
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ChiefNuggz 0
Mortanious 0
A bass string snapping?! You must be a newbie, those things are so thick, for them to snap you're doing it completely wrong. I am guessing you want to be all knowing and didn't want to use a tuner, and started to thighten and loose tr string many times over. Same thing happened with me when I started guitar 10 years ago lol but it was the high E so it was a shallow cut. Never look that closely at a guitar when tuning and you hear a schreech.
aubreypako 0
ouch. now I'm scared to tune my bass guitar. once when I was at orchestra pratice the band teacher had taken over and he decided to tune my stand up and he cranked the d string so hard he broke it and it hit my finger.
brycereid 0
33 you fail so does bass
thefull9yards 4
same thing happened to my gutair, except all of the strings snapped in quick succession. I later found out that my little brother had been seeing how far they "bend" and he tried cutting them to make them "bend" farther. fyl man, I know what you mean.
sallen0046 4
You need stitches? Not you "got stitches" or you "have stitches"? Your very first concern was telling the internet how your life is now ******, not gaping wound in your face? You're obviously an idiot, though it's impossible to tell if that's because you have absolutely no grasp of proper tense usage or simply because you're too stupid to immediately seek medical attention for facial trauma.
maxmaidment 11
He said nothing about stitches.
JoshTheMaggot 8
all this bass talk reminds me of Paul gray. rip Paul
JohnE3 0
#33: FLAME ON!
chitown98766 0
hey. at least it didnt hit your eye and you can still type this fml you whiny bitch
Acrominator 9
YDI for SUCKING at tuning, the E string which i suggest you refer to as such next time is the toughest to break, in fact, to have that string break it has to either be a 1$ string, or you have used it for more than 20 years, I have an old bass in my family of over 30 years old, the E and A string never broke. And if you were using a tuning tool to help yourself out and failed, that's an ultra fail. You totally deserved it, l2tune.