Damn it.

Just this summer I was performing for a Pastry restaurant in Zamboanga city named "Tsokolate" the one near lantaka. I performed for 2 hours and the Tsokolate pipz gave me 500 pesos for it and a daily 3 slices of cake for the entire month (the owner happens to be a classical music fanatic). The 500 pesos was already enough. But knowing that I really dont eat sweet stuff (I dont even eat my birthday cake), he gave me that 3 slices of cake daily. And it comes handy when I have to "libre" my past schoolmates. So yes, I had dessert with one of them on a daily basis inside the exact same resto. What a way to save money.

Now during those 2 hours, I played V. Monti's Czardas, A part of Canon in D, Humorosque and my usual repertoire of Mozart's relatively easier tunes like Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

While I was playing Eine Kleine, I hit some crapped notes. Some goons laughed at me from afar. I remembered their faces. Those were the idiots from the banda2x competition.

I finished my playing at about 8pm, went back to Dad's flat. It got me into thinking: are Guitarists better at music than Violinists?

You see, they got a point to laugh at me. The reason is at its most basic: I sometimes play on the wrong note while those guys hit it right on tune.

But why is it that they just do minimal practice and they play the tune the way its supposed to be played?

While we Violinists, soloists to be specific, befriend our instruments since we were kids and we cant perfect our playing?

I just found the answer. When you pluck a note on a guitar string, there isn't very much that can go wrong. You may not play the right note at the right time, of course, but a single note will always come out at the expected pitch, and sounding reasonably musical. When a beginner tries to play a violin, things are much more difficult. When a bow is drawn across a string, the result might be a musical note but it wont be usually on the desired pitch.

Why?

Its because the Guitar has FRETS and these divisions help out the guitarist in playing the right pitch. Just press your finger between frets and poof, an exact pitch. While violinists have to deal with varying finger placements for every string. And even if you got them memorized,the fact is, the daily muscle pressure that we have to undergo during the day varies the pressure and extensions of our fingers. Which leads us to go loco on finger placements.

Other than that, violinists have to deal with the helmholtz motion and muscle memory variance with the bowing arm since our right arm is the most subject to varying pressure during the day.

So why shouldn't I play the guitar instead? easy answer: Fretless instruments are the most expressive instruments. Guitars are like stiff dancers.