Do Guys play better guitar

Originally Posted by: rockonn91hmmm, thats probably true most the time.

however, my girlfriend is alot more competitive when it comes to organized sports than me, while when it comes to anything notsoorganized (i.e. pinball, board games, frizbee golf, etc) im a hell of alot more competitive than her.

IF its one thing girls are most competitive at, its against other chicks and especially at sports.

I don't think its really a fair comparison. There aren't enough female guitarists to compare to males. I say you should look at it by individual rather then by female or male.

Also the getting a guitar for Christmas example is bogus, because I know plenty (more guys then girls) that have done that.

I've heard this debated so many time, and I've come to the conclusion it just really doesn't matter.

Originally Posted by: iihollyI don't think its really a fair comparison. There aren't enough female guitarists to compare to males. I say you should look at it by individual rather then by female or male.

Also the getting a guitar for Christmas example is bogus, because I know plenty (more guys then girls) that have done that.

I've heard this debated so many time, and I've come to the conclusion it just really doesn't matter.

I agree, my brother wanted and got a guitar for Christmas a few yeras ago and he never really touched it, I wound up picking it up and here I am now. :D

Originally Posted by: iihollyYeah, like I know. I mean like I barely have time to practice between make up, clothes, boys (especially those hott ones playing gutiar), and Cosmo!

At least you will look good playing it. :D

Originally Posted by: iihollyI don't think its really a fair comparison. There aren't enough female guitarists to compare to males. I say you should look at it by individual rather then by female or male.

Well, I think that this alone is part of the original question...

why are there more guys playing guitar than girls?

I've heard some outstanding female guitarists, yes there are more guy players out there but I think girls can be just as good. I have a 13 daughter who has been playing for 3 years and she's almost as good as me (she has a good teacher)! I've been playing for 27 years and she rolemodeled her father.

Ok who plays better. Neither, and that's the bare bones of it. Micheal Jackson's Lead guitarist ( name escapes me but she was hot ) said in an interview once If you can play one note well you are a musician. How cool is that. I got that open e down man. Lita Ford Could rock my world in more ways that one, Girls holding guitars look better, they have a come get me look guys don't have. But as for playing. There is nmothing to compete with. We all play we all enjoy we can all shred or whatever it's down to taste.

So just don't go there on all this who's better gig.

Originally Posted by: BluegrasslimeyOk who plays better. Neither, and that's the bare bones of it. Micheal Jackson's Lead guitarist ( name escapes me but she was hot )

You're right!!!!! Her name is Jennifer Batten and she is considered one of the best in the world!!!!!!
Then there's that woman from Argentina, named Carina Alfie. She masters many styles, including shred. She's on Steve Vai's "Pro-Found Label" which pretty much say's it all. It's almost impossible to get in on that label.
You also might want to check out that Beauty who's endorsed by Dean Guitars, named Katrina Johansson. She's from the Mid-West and sounds incredible.
Sure there are more male players, but most can't play better than these girls.

pretty simple more guys play guitar therefore there are more good male guitarests. that simple.

maybe guys are more competitive so they practice more to be the best. as guys have bigger hands they probably have better reach.


but on the othere hand, guys fingers are 'fatter' so girls can probably be more articulate.

and at the end of the day these are only trends not rules. there are plenty of guys with small hand s and girls with larege ones.

and anyway what defines better. being able to play faster, or more complicated. you cant really say that as everyone views different things as more important. some like speed, some like catchy riffs, some like harmonically interestin ideas. watever floats your boat.

at the end of the day iot aint inportant, look at guitarests as muscisions and ingor their sex. generally a way to view things in life.


edit; above coment obviosly doesnt apply when it comes to relationships, sex etc

I think we're agreed that there is no reason that men and women can't play guitar to exactly the same standard. I think the question needs to move a bit...

Why, if women are as good at playing guitar as men, are there so few 'famous' guitar players? Jennifer Batten, Bonnie Raitt, The Great Kat - that's all I've got off the top of my head...

cos at the moment rock and metal are the most popular guitar music. which is generally shouty music. which personally i dont like when girls grunt vocal and stuff like that.

also girls dont tend to like that sort of music as much so less play it.

lastly the other type of guitar music which i call pop punk. is a genre that isnt very progressive, so they aint considered good. possible with genre the fans tend to be young girls who probably have crushes on the guitarests in the bands. i talk of busted and mc fly. that sort of stuff.

the main thing is few girls play guitar. maybe we should ask the question why do so few girls play the guitar, cos thats the crux of the matter.

Well, I had a rather long and descriptive post prepared, but now my computer decided to crash so I'm just going to have to try and remember the important parts. Pretty much I figure that if girl's thinking is like guy's in at least this way, which I have to assume since I have never been a girl, then they will do things based on what they're around most, and see people being rewarded for. For some reason it must be that less girls than guys are exposed to guitar playing, and in fact it may feed itself, because there are so few girl rockers that girls have less of a reason to become interested in the first place. Lots of guys start because of dreams of glory and fame (and ladies), and girls don't see as much of those rewards for female artists, simply because there aren't as many to see.

I solve this myth mathematically...

You figure 1 out of every 10 guys have some experience level of gutiar playing... So you're looking at 10% of the male population that plays/played guitar...... For girls it's more like 1 out of every 100 girls actually get involved at some level with guitar... putting it at 1 percent... The odds that a male guitarist stays with it for a long period of time is a lot smaller as well... So it's just a matter of the amount of male guitarist to the amount of female guitarists... The female population doesn't have the shear numbers that the male popluation of guitar players have to support a whole bunch of talent. That doesn't mean that there aren't talented female guitarists out there.

Some good female players have already been mentioned - Kaki King, Maybelle Carter, Jennifer Batten. A few more:

#Gabriela, as in Rodrigo y Gabriela:A female Hetfield with an acoustic! I'd love to hear her plug into an electric through a Marshall and riff out.

#Emily J. Burton from Fireball Ministry: the band may just be Black Sabbath on steroids, but this girl can play.

#Adalita from Magic Dirt: Aussie band, I don't know whether you get their music overseas, but she can play quite well, and she's a great songwriter, too.

I agree with Aschleman and Earthman - guys win through sheer force of numbers. If playing the guitar wasn't socio-culturally such a "guy thing", I'm sure we would have just as many great female players as male ones.

I play guitar well because I'm a male... really. I'll think of a less sarcastic response when it's not the first day back at college (hence partying all day).

women have better finger dexterity.....but the soul of a woman was created beloooooowwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! dun! dun! dun! weir, weir, weir, weir

seriously i think it is a numbers thing as stated earlier.

Well, I think girls are every bit as capable and intelligent as guys in all things. I mean, look at history.
The first person to walk on the moon was a woma....um ok bad example.
Most symphonies were written by wome...um.....
The computer was invented by a wo..... hmmm...
The automobile was first invented by a woma..... uh........ gimme a second, I'll think of something....
Television was invented by women... no that's on right either...
Some of the best rock bands consisted of women..like Pink Flo... um... U2...no.... um.....
Ok.... some of the best paintings like the mona lisa was painted..by a ....
The Beatles were all wome.....no...... oh... airplanes were invented by .....

Penicilin was discovered by .... hmm.... The telephone was invented by Mrs.. no that's no right either.....
Most rock bands and some of the best songs were written by wome....

.... sorry, I forgot what my point was

Originally Posted by: schmangeWell, I think girls are every bit as capable and intelligent as guys in all things. I mean, look at history.
The first person to walk on the moon was a woma....um ok bad example.
Most symphonies were written by wome...um.....
The computer was invented by a wo..... hmmm...
The automobile was first invented by a woma..... uh........ gimme a second, I'll think of something....
Television was invented by women... no that's on right either...
Some of the best rock bands consisted of women..like Pink Flo... um... U2...no.... um.....
Ok.... some of the best paintings like the mona lisa was painted..by a ....
The Beatles were all wome.....no...... oh... airplanes were invented by .....

Penicilin was discovered by .... hmm.... The telephone was invented by Mrs.. no that's no right either.....
Most rock bands and some of the best songs were written by wome....

.... sorry, I forgot what my point was

Ooohhh dude, you might want to wear a helmet and duck. I think things are gonna start flying around any time now.... :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by: schmangeWell, I think girls are every bit as capable and intelligent as guys in all things. I mean, look at history.
The first person to walk on the moon was a woma....um ok bad example.
Most symphonies were written by wome...um.....
The computer was invented by a wo..... hmmm...
The automobile was first invented by a woma..... uh........ gimme a second, I'll think of something....
Television was invented by women... no that's on right either...
Some of the best rock bands consisted of women..like Pink Flo... um... U2...no.... um.....
Ok.... some of the best paintings like the mona lisa was painted..by a ....
The Beatles were all wome.....no...... oh... airplanes were invented by .....

Penicilin was discovered by .... hmm.... The telephone was invented by Mrs.. no that's no right either.....
Most rock bands and some of the best songs were written by wome....

.... sorry, I forgot what my point was

all the best groupies were women

So we've settled that women can play as well, but there just isn't enough of them to measure up, thus the deeper question of why aren't they drawn to it to the same degree? So I don't think that it has much to do with exposure or anything. I'm the youngest of 3 siblings. My Dad plays acoustically, our oldest brother is excellent, and obviously I (the youngest) play to some degree, but my sister "learned" 3 chord shapes and gave up. It's in her "blood" and she's been exposed from an early age, but never showed much interest. Ok, that example doesn't sweep the species, but yeah...I think it just stems from a biological gender difference. For example, the recent (fairly obvious, but now it's official) study that women talk more than men...like 3 times as much on any given day. Women just love to talk. It's a stretch perhaps, but maybe it contributes to why they don't have as much motivation to invest in dedicated subtle forms of expression, namely guitar, when they'll just tell you how they feel.

Oooh...and carrying that line of thought, it might reflect how there's certainly no lack of women singers.