I want to start playing the guitar but I don't sing so should I pick it up anyway?

Question

I want to start playing the guitar but I don't sing so should I pick it up anyway?

Answer 1

Most guitarists don't sing.  So if you want to pick up an instrument - then the guitar is for you!

Answer 2

sure, most guitarists i know cant sing worth a dime, and i couldnt when i started out, but i learned how to sing eventually.  Now i sing in studios for other bands and they pay me!!

Answer 3

I probably know what gave him that idea: those guys who sit by a barbecue and play four chords all the time trying to sing. I know such. Buddy, these are not guitarists and this is not guitar playing. This is guitar playing and these are real masters:

Jimmy Page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayzhJKy8H...

Uli Jon Roth (the one that looks like a hybrid of 60s hippie and d'Artagnan)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8xFFrC8...

Yngwie Malmsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsMrpbN2...

Marty Friedman (Megadeth) with Steve Lukather (TOTO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGcJHmFA7...

Maybe you've seen guitar playing, I mean real playing for the first time now. So if you liked the way they play, go for it. It's a long journey but it's worth it. Firstly, it's much more uplifting than those four chords and secondly, as far as I've been able to notice, chicks like the real playing much more. You know it's like comparing your singing to Pavarotti.

About singing, I think you could do with singing just for yourself (it helps your ears) and if you get into good physical shape you're maybe about to reach even high C with little exercise.

Good luck.

Answer 4

Of course you can!......

Look, I started playing guitar at 15...then my guitar was stolen...then I went  straight to drums at 16 in 1986....

then I stayed with drums...until I went back to guitar after an slip & fall accident in 1998...I didn't actually sing my very first VOCAL song until 2005 until I started producing & composing all my own songs & Solo CDs. Up until that point...I was just a drummer with 19 years exp & only 7 years guitar exp.  

So to answer your question...Go for it!

You have nothing to lose!

Good luck

Answer 5

Yeah....what gave you the idea that if you played guitar you had to sing....? Most guitarists don't sing....in fact some of the greatest guitarists in the world probably can't sing either