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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MrColtux 0
You should be happy you weren't a little higher. Then it could have cut your jugular and you would have died.
1emma1997 0
that's totaly something that would happen to me
tehslack 5
#1, why are you looking like you're sucking your stomach in?
JMF22 0
That really sucks. I've had my bass guitar for about 2 years & that's never happened to me. Just don't put too much tension on the strings.
Intoxicunt 6
First femmaggot on this thread, bitches. RIP Paul.
yousirareamoron 0
This is fake. Steel strings do not retain their tension in a way similar to a bungie cord. It is just like a rod of metal, only very thin. If you are able to pull a rod of metal from both ends, and break it, it won't snap back like a cord either. This is a common myth involving guitars. I've tested it on many occasions. Strings will pop back, but there is no whip-like force behind it. They just break and fall down against the neck.
karl_t 3
#61: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10VWJqwcBs Because the few times you've tested it is exactly what happens to every single person, everywhere, whenever the millions of snapped guitar/bass strings over the course of the instrument's existence occur.
karl_t 3
And yes, that was sarcasm. And why am I so vehement about this? My D string snapped into my left hand so hard it drew blood. Yep, I'm a bassist. And this does happen once in a blue moon. I'll admit it's about as common as a lightning strike, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
aubreypako 0
exactly! that's what happened to me too. and my teacher made me play right through the pain.
GreenSpirit_fml 0
ouch that must have hurt!
jonthebassist 0
4 or 5 string?
dyschordia 0
Don't mention 5strings ={ I'm still mourning the theft of my gorgeous, naked wood, stinking of the patchouli oil I rubbed into it, tuned down to G# and as heavy as **** 5 string and my amp and boxes... 7 years later. Even though I know it's long gone and probably trashed, I still remember the serial number and if I ever see it, I will break all of the fingers that have touched it since it was stolen >=/ I have to question the OP's use of the term "biggest" instead of "E" to name the string - obviously they haven't been playing long. But I am a pedant and like to get it right, so... And what was with the thinking of "Hmmm... There's a strange noise. I must put my face near it."? Obviously not much thinking lol. I have to say though - I've been playing basses for over 20 years and cello before that, along with varied other instruments and never had an experience like that. I've broken strings but generally the thicker the string, the less spectacular the snap. A top string on an electric guitar or violin will fling off in any direction but I've only ever experienced pretty low-drama breakages of bass strings. Obviously that's anecdotal, not empirical evidence, but it's all I have right now =} And to anyone who steals peoples' personal instruments - you'd better hope you don't steal from someone like me and they catch you... Scum.
Primus_fml 0
Lol... " gorgeous naked wood"
dyschordia 0
yup - and you shoulda seen it in lingerie.... =P lol
Alpha_Bits 0
#42 and 20# ******* rights haha I play G-tar and bass is for the weak. #57 who gives **** and why does it look like you're an Alien? you ugly bitch.