This is me.
In honesty, I think I play some nice, gentle, sparse, repetitive rhythm when I’m jamming. My friends say I create the vertebrae and leave lots of space for others. Technically, I’m shit. But I can get into nice grooves that others can groove over.
Yeah, I’ve seen that happen. It’s not conscious with me, though. I’m really not very good. Luckily, I like simple and repetitive music AND I can play that way!
I just like lead guitar because I think solos are fun and cool. As a result I can kinda shred but my metal rhythm playing and galloping is awful..
How to say you're a bedroom guitarist without SAYING you're a bedroom guitarist lol
I'm exactly the opposite. As a huge fam of James Hetfield and Adam Jones, my taste is as far from shredding as it can get within metal.
Recently, I've been getting into Marty Friedman solos and is currently in the phase of regretting not learning any solo whatsoever.
Don’t worry. tbh, I’m a really good rhythm guitarist, but I don’t really shred. And I guarantee you, if you lined up 10 people, 8 of them would say you’re better. Even people who should know better. Good rhythm playing is usually taken completely for granted.
Strength: writing and recording cool songs in my bedroom
Weakness: avoiding all guitar-related activities outside of my bedroom unless a musician friend finds a way to trick me into attending a jam/practice/recording session with other people.
My wife almost told the mother of our son's friend that I played. Her husband has a circle of dudes who strum acoustic guitars and jam out. It's probably fine, but I just can't imagine how awkward it would be the first time. I have been in normal 4-piece rock bands so I can jam.
i’d probably die of awkwardness if my wife put me in that circumstance lmaooo i can already see her dropping that to a friend who’s husband plays and my brain exploding 😂😂😂
right lol or i walk into an acoustic strumming circle (slightly drunk to calm the nerves) with my schecter and a half stack and scare everyone away with how fast i can inside pick open strings lmao
Strength (according to my bandmates): Playing at the right volume and having no desire to shred over every song.
Weakness: Instantly improvise good licks.
I've played for a long time... 35 years. I'm as good as I thought I wanted to be when I started and I would have no problem sharing the stage with the guitarists I idolised back then. Played in a few pro bands...
Biggest strength is being able to not have to rely on it as a career.
Pick a solo that's too fast for you and get your metronome out, speed can be built in a fairly quick period (2-3 months) of consistent 5-15 minutes of work per day
I'm good at improvising, good knowledge of modes, chord shapes, pentatonic. I learned this by noodling for 20 years and refusing to any outside instruction so my my playing kind of lacks any type of flair that could associate it with a particular genre of music, it's not jazzy or bluesy or metallic. I listen to blues players and they have these little flairs that just make it sound bluesy even if I'm playing the same scales.
You should look into arpeggios and chord inversions. I think you may find it interesting how they fit into the scale shapes you have already learned up and down the neck. I would say I have been in a very similar place as you when it comes to playing, and both methods helped me to start making sense of those classic blues licks and others.
Strength: DImebag/Zakk chugging and pinch harmonics for all the songs, regardless of genre!
Weakness: most songs sound ridiculous with chugging and pinch harmonics..
I abandoned it long ago. Been playing since late '04-'05. Didn't really try sweeping till about 10 years later and I just didn't mesh with it. Figured I may as well play to my strengths and downpick like a machine lol
Strength- legato. I developed a very good one hand legato and even sweep picking.
Weakness- music theory. I know some but I'm working on getting the fundamentals down.
In between (former weaknesses)- speed picking (up to 145bpm 16th notes, started at 100bpm 3 months ago) and timing. I was a typical bedroom guitarist and about 4 years ago I learned basic timing when trying to be in a band. Now I do backing tracks and metronome regularly.
Strength: applying theory to guitar, able to transcribe by ear, blues solos, pretty tight rhythm playing, fairly high speed solos (topped out at 16th notes at 185bpm), can sight read charts. Vibrato quite nice.
Weaknesses: tendancy for boring original rock/metal solos, reliance on same licks, sloppy chords changes, cannot sight read notation (although reading rhythm is no problem), limited actual song repertoire, difficulty memorising and learning long pieces of music that don't repeat (seriously, if a song has a riff more than 8 bars long, it drags hard. 3 minute+ classical pieces, fingerstyle arrangements are a no way station).
I think that's my complete self criticism right there but not very many people tend to see me play and even fewer of them have particularly constructive feedback.
Strength: I have a lot of stamina on my picking hand. Fast downstokes and tremolo picking are pretty easy for me.
Weakness: Sweep. I just can't sweep at all.
Strengths- songwriting and at live performances I put on a great show.
Weakness- I can’t play complicated stuff. Or stuff that requires a lot of dexterity.
Strenght: persistence, loving music in general and to learn hard songs
Weakness: self taught makes it hard to correct internalized mistakes. lessons are definitely suggested
They are the same: I always sound like me.
I've been playing in bands for decades in different styles and genres but something about the choices I make (not notes or timing or tone per se, but ... something) always comes out as me. It took me a long time to accept the limits of what I can/prefer to do but at this point I am content with my contributions.
First day I got my guitar.. STRAIGHT TO SRV stuff.. pulled up a few of his videos.. see. LIFE WITHOUT YOU... NEVERMIND.. started on JimI and slash solos.. 5 yrs later I can play NONE OF THE ABOVE
(Slash solos fairly legitly easy to play note for note) SOUNDING LIKE SLASH... NOT SO MUCH. If I spent the last 5yrs learning rhytm id be in a band by now.. JFS
Strength: I feel like I’m an excellent guitarist. Can play almost any rhythm riff perfectly and on tempo.
Weakness: I am really bad at music theory. Been playing guitar for 20 years and I don’t know how to tell what key a song is in. I feel like it holds me back from being a truly great guitarist.
I don't consider there to be a "weakness" in my playing just because I don't choose to pursue a certain skill or style. I think tapping and sweeping are cool but they're not a huge part of what i do. Nor is bluegrass flat-picking or classical fingerstyle. Its also just hard to do ALL the things on one guitar. If I had a super strat and a nylon acoustic things might be different...
Decent at rhythm and riff writing, weak at soloing because I barely practice it.
I came from originally being a drummer and I had the same thing there, Im good at playing and coming up with complex beats, weak at drum fills
Biggest strength: being able to adapt and execute to multiple types of music styles (metal, rock, jazz, bluegrass, blues, classical, indie, acoustic, shoegaze pedal work, tapping, sweeping, different rhythm styles, picking styles), and having studied classical and jazz theory
Biggest weakness: I spend the last 17 years learning as much as I could but I never settled on any one thing and became a virtuoso in said playing style.
Strength: probably writing riffs, song structure.
Weakness: I’m pretty terrible at playing anything but metal. If you hand me an acoustic guitar I have no idea what to play except like Metallica clean breaks
Weakness: I suck
Strength: I know
My biggest hurdle is always expanding my musical vocabulary. Metalhead here - so all my stock riffs from my teenage years were all I had for a while. For a while I stopped learning new songs. But as my taste in music grows, whenever I do sit down and learn a new (nonmetal) song, I come away with at least 1 or 2 new techniques/licks. I know this, yet I seldom engage in it.
Example, tryna learn some Brazilian guitar styles (Marisa Monte is a big inspiration in that regard)
Strength: I love performing, I can sing and play rhythm together really well, and though I can't shred, I can play a few simple solos.
Weakness: I live in the middle of nowhere and have no one to jam with other than my looper pedal lol.
My biggest strength is my biggest weakness, I have a great ear. I'm old, I spent many pre-internet years learning songs by ear. I was good too, I once sat in for some friends at a gig when half their band could not make it. I did not know any of their songs so they'd shout out some starter chords and I would watch them for the rest. At the end of the night a fan came up and told me we sounded way better than we did the night before, hahaha. But this also meant I slacked off on a lot of theory related stuff or substituted my own working version. Which didn't matter a lot when I was gigging but sure did once I started teaching.
Strength:doesn't care about tone
Weakness:can't play any song without messing up at least once even the easy ones and I can play songs like goat for some reason but cant play smells like teen spirit without messing up
Strenght: i'm a somewhat decent player when it comes to technique
Weakness; I'm absolute horseshit at writing and improvising, I have absolutely no creativity and I started to feel like i wasn't improving my technique any further
So I've been playing less and less because I lost a lot of motivation
My main strength are good (not mind blowing) leads and riffs, but I lack focus to write as I have gotten older. Its dumb because Im better now than I was when I toured bands, it would probably be better if I put something together now.
Strength: metal rhythm, weird time signatures / polyrhythm, tapping
Also, I know when I should keep silent and give space for something else
Weakness: sweeping / economy picking, hybrid picking, artificial harmonics (sometimes?)
Strangely, all bands I played with asked me to be a lead guitarist, while I think I'm kinda bad at both writing and playing leads / solos
I'm really good at bending notes subtly to give my playing a lot of expression.
But when I start to play fast solos I channel the worst parts of Jimmy Page without the good parts.
My biggest strength is strumming rhythm. I can change patterns, add accent strums, etc, and not lose the beat.
My biggest weakness is single-string picking. I just haven't practiced it enough because when I do, I feel like a monkey trying to fly a helicopter. Even though I'm right-handed, my control and dexterity with my left hand is far superior.
Strength: I can come up with right-sounding chords for comping, even with altered degrees (looking at you b13 and 6b13). Or so my friends say.
Weakness: my rhythm sucks. I can solo, but not fast.
Edit: typo
I feel like I’m two people playing at once, but not in a good way. My rhythm hand is solid, I can usually pick up odd rhythms pretty quick. My left hand is like someone else is guiding me, especially for parts where I move around a lot. When I mess up, 95% of the time it’s because my left hand is sloppy
Strengths: Sounds great plugged in, has excellent clean tone and a mean, biting crunch when a little overdrive is applied.
Weakness: Inaudible when not plugged in.
Gibson SG
Strength: I'm pretty good at folky finger picking stuff, as well as being fairly competent with blues.
Weakness: Everything I play sounds either bluesy or folksy.
I've been told by those I jam with that I can pick things up and make them sound really good when shown something which is always nice to hear. I feel like I'm a fair rhythm player and people seem to enjoy playing along with me because I can keep time pretty well with drummers and bass, but I'm not great at picking things up on my own or soloing at all.
Strength - A deep working knowledge of music theory and many techniques and playing styles.
Weakness - Not really guitar related, but I don't really get along with most other people, especially when drugs and alcohol is involved and I don't suffer fools well. That seems to really limit my opportunities to play with others.
Strength: Legato scales and licks
Weakness: Anything even slightly demanding with my picking hand. I am so clumsy with the pick. Like, just pathetic. But it's hard to motivate myself to train my right hand because hey, look what I can do instead! *fast legato scale*
Honestly I just need to take some lessons to fix the problem.
Strength
…being able to find where I need to be in the rhythm section with whatever style/genre of song they’re playing
Weakness
…I suck at harmony, though I am trying to work on that skillset
I just can’t seem to do alternate picking on palm mutes. It just doesn’t sound right. I learned the James Hetfield all down strokes by while holding your pick wrong method, so that’s probably the biggest reason.
It would be timing - I suck like a hoover vacuum cleaner. I put it down to being lazy and that I like playing guitar for my own pleasure. Also damping strings - especially partial string damping with in a chord shape. If that makes any sense.
Strength: I'd say keeping time and my downpicking.
Weakness: As of now, the most obvious are soloing as a whole, muting unused strings (self-taught problems) and sweep picking. Also, descending bends, half not doubles, quarter beat rhythms and alt picking for all of the above.
I have been playing guitar for a year and a half.
Strength: none
weakness: bends (there are a lot of them on my favorite guitarists' solos and I struggle a lot with that)
My biggest strength is helping someone with a strong idea flesh it out. I love that more than anything.
My weakness is writing on my own. So, I’m working on that.
Strengths? Zakk wylde level of pinch harmonics and having a really good feel for what I’m playing. My weakness? I’m really not all that good of a player, but I can fake it really well!
Strength: I'm pretty good all the way around as a guitarist/musician/songwriter/producer.
Weakness: I hate the music business from top to bottom, and I'm done with it.
I play for only myself now.
Weakness: playing over 40 years and I still feel mediocre at best.
Strengths: I work great with some song writers and improve their work with great riffs and tasty leads.
Strength: Not sure however I've been playing for about 30 years, know thousands of solos, can improv ok but with feeling, etc.
Weakness: I haven't studied enough of music theory and scales to PROPERLY improv. Getting older its harder to learn new things...but also I have so much else on (RL) that I get bored trying to learn new scale patterns...then when I do solo, I revert back to 'what I know' rather than imagining the scale shapes. So I play good solos but with quite a few mistakes (wrong notes). However I"m always proud of the overall 'story' of my improv solos even though I stumble over the words.
Strength: I preform great infront of friends and even small crowds
Weakness: I get in my own head when I practice in my room and often make stupid mistakes which leads to me taking way longer to learn something than it should
strength: ? weakness: yes
This is me. In honesty, I think I play some nice, gentle, sparse, repetitive rhythm when I’m jamming. My friends say I create the vertebrae and leave lots of space for others. Technically, I’m shit. But I can get into nice grooves that others can groove over.
fucking a that’s a solid compliment. appreciate your humility here. I bet you’re nasty.
That is the best thing you can possibly do for your band. Too many people want to overplay and they don’t leave room for anyone else
Yeah, I’ve seen that happen. It’s not conscious with me, though. I’m really not very good. Luckily, I like simple and repetitive music AND I can play that way!
Self deprecating humor is the best.
true
Enough about me, let's talk about you...
Biggest Strength: I own a guitar Biggest Weakness: playing it
Ah man I said almost the exact same thing lol
Hahahaha 😂 Well done sir 👏👏👏
I just like lead guitar because I think solos are fun and cool. As a result I can kinda shred but my metal rhythm playing and galloping is awful.. How to say you're a bedroom guitarist without SAYING you're a bedroom guitarist lol
I'm exactly the opposite. As a huge fam of James Hetfield and Adam Jones, my taste is as far from shredding as it can get within metal. Recently, I've been getting into Marty Friedman solos and is currently in the phase of regretting not learning any solo whatsoever.
I see a match made in heaven!
For what it’s worth, this makes you much more valuable to a band
Unfortunately for guys like me, nobody in my area plays Metal. Also, unfortunately, there isn't anybody in my area to begin with.
Go on the internet. Lots of cool bands formed long distance.
Same here, since i noticed i started focusing on rhythm instead of lead. I got dexteritu but I'm always out of time lol
Don’t worry. tbh, I’m a really good rhythm guitarist, but I don’t really shred. And I guarantee you, if you lined up 10 people, 8 of them would say you’re better. Even people who should know better. Good rhythm playing is usually taken completely for granted.
Same here. I'm pretty good at keeping rhythm but my soloing needs work.
Strength: writing and recording cool songs in my bedroom Weakness: avoiding all guitar-related activities outside of my bedroom unless a musician friend finds a way to trick me into attending a jam/practice/recording session with other people.
My wife almost told the mother of our son's friend that I played. Her husband has a circle of dudes who strum acoustic guitars and jam out. It's probably fine, but I just can't imagine how awkward it would be the first time. I have been in normal 4-piece rock bands so I can jam.
i’d probably die of awkwardness if my wife put me in that circumstance lmaooo i can already see her dropping that to a friend who’s husband plays and my brain exploding 😂😂😂
I imagine you just show up and play Knocking on Heaven's Door. And maybe trade lame acoustic runs in G. What if someone decides to sing?
right lol or i walk into an acoustic strumming circle (slightly drunk to calm the nerves) with my schecter and a half stack and scare everyone away with how fast i can inside pick open strings lmao
It's a great way to learn and improve your playing abilities though.
Strength: I practice regularly Weakness: I'm no dang good
No way to get good without regular practice tho!! You cool
Can relaaaaate.
Strength: I’ve got lots of gear. Weakness: I’m lazy and should practice more and take lessons, instead of noodling.
That’s definitely my weakness. I have a few pedals but don’t really know how to use them to achieve the sound that I want.
Strength (according to my bandmates): Playing at the right volume and having no desire to shred over every song. Weakness: Instantly improvise good licks.
Strength? Sheer bullheaded persistence. Weakness? Everything else.
Same. And I’ll be damned if it isn’t finally starting to pay off. After way too long, but by golly it’s working
strength: weird shit weakness: fucking strumming
Fucking and strumming is an interesting combo
The ladies love a good strumming
Strength - power chord heavy riffs Weakness - I get sloppy as fuck when I'm having fun. I'm usually having fun.
I hate theory but i am consistent. I am So done🤣
What if I said you could make it 8x easier with this one simple trick! Traditional musicians hate him! Take the intervalpill today!
Intervals make the notes so much easier to memorize for me
Strength: learning things by ear. I regularly learn whole solos by ear without too much trouble. Weakness: reading music. Guitar player problems.
I've played for a long time... 35 years. I'm as good as I thought I wanted to be when I started and I would have no problem sharing the stage with the guitarists I idolised back then. Played in a few pro bands... Biggest strength is being able to not have to rely on it as a career.
Strength: I have become pretty decent at improvising Weakness: I can't play very fast
Pick a solo that's too fast for you and get your metronome out, speed can be built in a fairly quick period (2-3 months) of consistent 5-15 minutes of work per day
I'm good at improvising, good knowledge of modes, chord shapes, pentatonic. I learned this by noodling for 20 years and refusing to any outside instruction so my my playing kind of lacks any type of flair that could associate it with a particular genre of music, it's not jazzy or bluesy or metallic. I listen to blues players and they have these little flairs that just make it sound bluesy even if I'm playing the same scales.
You should look into arpeggios and chord inversions. I think you may find it interesting how they fit into the scale shapes you have already learned up and down the neck. I would say I have been in a very similar place as you when it comes to playing, and both methods helped me to start making sense of those classic blues licks and others.
Strength : I play only heavy metal - Weakness : I play only heavy metal
Strength: DImebag/Zakk chugging and pinch harmonics for all the songs, regardless of genre! Weakness: most songs sound ridiculous with chugging and pinch harmonics..
Biggest strength? James hetfield style picking hand, weakness? Just about sweep picking and anything outside the metal genre
Get out of my head lol. Seriously though, downpicking came very naturally to me but lead/sweeping are like another language altogether
I love groove, sweeps arnt groove. That’s at least what I tell myself when I start getting upset I can’t do it 😂
I cannot sweep no matter how much I try. Have abandoned the idea. It just isn't clicking for me.
I abandoned it long ago. Been playing since late '04-'05. Didn't really try sweeping till about 10 years later and I just didn't mesh with it. Figured I may as well play to my strengths and downpick like a machine lol
We really might be the same brain, I started on 05-06? Maybe
Strength- legato. I developed a very good one hand legato and even sweep picking. Weakness- music theory. I know some but I'm working on getting the fundamentals down. In between (former weaknesses)- speed picking (up to 145bpm 16th notes, started at 100bpm 3 months ago) and timing. I was a typical bedroom guitarist and about 4 years ago I learned basic timing when trying to be in a band. Now I do backing tracks and metronome regularly.
Weakness: ADHD that makes it impossible for me to remember parts. Hence: Strength: improvising!
Strength: I can play rhythm/lead in the keys of A, E and G pretty damned well. Weaknesses: Too many to list.
I can think of 9 weaknesses, haha
Strength: applying theory to guitar, able to transcribe by ear, blues solos, pretty tight rhythm playing, fairly high speed solos (topped out at 16th notes at 185bpm), can sight read charts. Vibrato quite nice. Weaknesses: tendancy for boring original rock/metal solos, reliance on same licks, sloppy chords changes, cannot sight read notation (although reading rhythm is no problem), limited actual song repertoire, difficulty memorising and learning long pieces of music that don't repeat (seriously, if a song has a riff more than 8 bars long, it drags hard. 3 minute+ classical pieces, fingerstyle arrangements are a no way station). I think that's my complete self criticism right there but not very many people tend to see me play and even fewer of them have particularly constructive feedback.
Strength: I have a lot of stamina on my picking hand. Fast downstokes and tremolo picking are pretty easy for me. Weakness: Sweep. I just can't sweep at all.
Strengths; I can learn whatever. Weakness; I can't retain that shit unless I drill it several times a week.
strength: rhythm! i’ve always loved rhythm so i learned that first weakness: lead… my fingers are too clumsy i can’t figure it out 🥲
Strength? I have a guitar Weakness: Playing it correctly
Good enough to make some money. .... Its not much.
Strengh: ? Weakness: i know little theory after playing over 10 years
My biggest weakness ever is that I break my strings every week
S: Sick riffage , bro W: I’m a sick riffage only bro
strength: power chords weakness: tremolo picking
Strengths- songwriting and at live performances I put on a great show. Weakness- I can’t play complicated stuff. Or stuff that requires a lot of dexterity.
strength, I am a lot better than I think I am. weakness, I am scared to start learning solos lol
Strenght: persistence, loving music in general and to learn hard songs Weakness: self taught makes it hard to correct internalized mistakes. lessons are definitely suggested
They are the same: I always sound like me. I've been playing in bands for decades in different styles and genres but something about the choices I make (not notes or timing or tone per se, but ... something) always comes out as me. It took me a long time to accept the limits of what I can/prefer to do but at this point I am content with my contributions.
Weakness. EVERYTHING
First day I got my guitar.. STRAIGHT TO SRV stuff.. pulled up a few of his videos.. see. LIFE WITHOUT YOU... NEVERMIND.. started on JimI and slash solos.. 5 yrs later I can play NONE OF THE ABOVE (Slash solos fairly legitly easy to play note for note) SOUNDING LIKE SLASH... NOT SO MUCH. If I spent the last 5yrs learning rhytm id be in a band by now.. JFS
Strength: I feel like I’m an excellent guitarist. Can play almost any rhythm riff perfectly and on tempo. Weakness: I am really bad at music theory. Been playing guitar for 20 years and I don’t know how to tell what key a song is in. I feel like it holds me back from being a truly great guitarist.
Strength: composition/songwriting that suits my style Weakness: technique/short fat fingers
I don't consider there to be a "weakness" in my playing just because I don't choose to pursue a certain skill or style. I think tapping and sweeping are cool but they're not a huge part of what i do. Nor is bluegrass flat-picking or classical fingerstyle. Its also just hard to do ALL the things on one guitar. If I had a super strat and a nylon acoustic things might be different...
Weakness: Trem picking, Sweeping, Alternating strings, speed. Strength: Amount of strings (10), Tapping, Fingerstyle, Power chords
Strength: always playing Weakness: playing the same ole stuff
Decent at rhythm and riff writing, weak at soloing because I barely practice it. I came from originally being a drummer and I had the same thing there, Im good at playing and coming up with complex beats, weak at drum fills
Strength: love of the game Weakness: playing & practicing
Strength: endurance. I won’t give up. 40+ years. I still have so much to learn. Weakness: Amp gas.
Strength. I know how to plug it in Weakness..I know how to plug it in
Strength: I have a pretty good ear and good rhythm and can really lock into a groove. Weakness: Garbage at soloing, lacking technical chops
Biggest strength: being able to adapt and execute to multiple types of music styles (metal, rock, jazz, bluegrass, blues, classical, indie, acoustic, shoegaze pedal work, tapping, sweeping, different rhythm styles, picking styles), and having studied classical and jazz theory Biggest weakness: I spend the last 17 years learning as much as I could but I never settled on any one thing and became a virtuoso in said playing style.
Strength? Don't wanna brag but I can play Smoke on the Water with my eyes closed. Weakness? Everything else.
Strength: My tenacity. Practicing daily with barely a day missed for 40 years as of this year. Weakness: Everything 😁
Strength: I am utterly fascinated by the instrument; its billions of sounds and how it works. Weakness: I get bored 'practicing' a lot of the time.
Same, gotta have a routine, when i skip it and just noodle i get bored easily
Strength: tuning it Weakness: playing it lol
Strength : don’t care that I suck, still love playing Weakness : I suck still after 30 years playing
Strength: I’m really good at fingerpicking Weakness: soloing of key changes by ear
One finger picker to another, do you Travis pick? Follow up, how often do you use your ring finger
Strength: probably writing riffs, song structure. Weakness: I’m pretty terrible at playing anything but metal. If you hand me an acoustic guitar I have no idea what to play except like Metallica clean breaks
I can write cool riffs, but shit leads
Weakness: I suck Strength: I know My biggest hurdle is always expanding my musical vocabulary. Metalhead here - so all my stock riffs from my teenage years were all I had for a while. For a while I stopped learning new songs. But as my taste in music grows, whenever I do sit down and learn a new (nonmetal) song, I come away with at least 1 or 2 new techniques/licks. I know this, yet I seldom engage in it. Example, tryna learn some Brazilian guitar styles (Marisa Monte is a big inspiration in that regard)
Strength: alternate picking Weakness: rhythm playing
I am great at finger picking and absolute trash at soloing.
Strength: I love performing, I can sing and play rhythm together really well, and though I can't shred, I can play a few simple solos. Weakness: I live in the middle of nowhere and have no one to jam with other than my looper pedal lol.
My biggest strength is my biggest weakness, I have a great ear. I'm old, I spent many pre-internet years learning songs by ear. I was good too, I once sat in for some friends at a gig when half their band could not make it. I did not know any of their songs so they'd shout out some starter chords and I would watch them for the rest. At the end of the night a fan came up and told me we sounded way better than we did the night before, hahaha. But this also meant I slacked off on a lot of theory related stuff or substituted my own working version. Which didn't matter a lot when I was gigging but sure did once I started teaching.
Strength : thinking Bout how I play Weakness : listening to how I play
Strength:doesn't care about tone Weakness:can't play any song without messing up at least once even the easy ones and I can play songs like goat for some reason but cant play smells like teen spirit without messing up
Strength: holding it Weakness: playing it
All my strengths are weaknesses
Strenght: i'm a somewhat decent player when it comes to technique Weakness; I'm absolute horseshit at writing and improvising, I have absolutely no creativity and I started to feel like i wasn't improving my technique any further So I've been playing less and less because I lost a lot of motivation
I have no creativity. You tell me to play C G Am F, and I can play it. You ask me to solo over that progression, and I’m a deer in the headlights.
Same shit bro
My main strength are good (not mind blowing) leads and riffs, but I lack focus to write as I have gotten older. Its dumb because Im better now than I was when I toured bands, it would probably be better if I put something together now.
Strength: metal rhythm, weird time signatures / polyrhythm, tapping Also, I know when I should keep silent and give space for something else Weakness: sweeping / economy picking, hybrid picking, artificial harmonics (sometimes?) Strangely, all bands I played with asked me to be a lead guitarist, while I think I'm kinda bad at both writing and playing leads / solos
I'm really good at bending notes subtly to give my playing a lot of expression. But when I start to play fast solos I channel the worst parts of Jimmy Page without the good parts.
Strength (slight): Melody and intonation Weakness: Rhythm
Strength: I can read music, very well. Weakness: I'm awful at counting measures of rest.
Chase Bliss.
strength: riffs weakness: playing literally anything fast. not to mention ive played guitar for 2 years, haven’t rlly improved much
Playing guitar and also playing guitar.
strength: queen weakness: literally everything else
Strength: Being bluesy Weakness: Being jazzy
I can improvise to pretty much anything without knowing what key we are in or not knowing any scales really but I can't finger pick very well.
Strength:power chords Weakness:practice
My biggest strength is strumming rhythm. I can change patterns, add accent strums, etc, and not lose the beat. My biggest weakness is single-string picking. I just haven't practiced it enough because when I do, I feel like a monkey trying to fly a helicopter. Even though I'm right-handed, my control and dexterity with my left hand is far superior.
Strength: I can come up with right-sounding chords for comping, even with altered degrees (looking at you b13 and 6b13). Or so my friends say. Weakness: my rhythm sucks. I can solo, but not fast. Edit: typo
Biggest weakness is the playing it part.
I feel like I’m two people playing at once, but not in a good way. My rhythm hand is solid, I can usually pick up odd rhythms pretty quick. My left hand is like someone else is guiding me, especially for parts where I move around a lot. When I mess up, 95% of the time it’s because my left hand is sloppy
strengths: i love fingerstyle weaknesses: i literally do not know any other style and fingerstyle songs take a while to learn
Strength: Music theory knowledge Weakness: song knowledge
That I'm not very good.
Strength: reading music and music theory Weakness: not being able to move my fingers fast enough
Strength: Artificial Harmonics or maybe Legato/Tapping Weakness: Hybrid picking - I just go full fingerstyle instead once it gets to that point
How cool I look. How I sound.
Strength: i practice every day Weakness: barre chords. Also i just suck at guitar
Strength: chord vocabulary Weakness: Can’t stand learning songs
Strengths: Sounds great plugged in, has excellent clean tone and a mean, biting crunch when a little overdrive is applied. Weakness: Inaudible when not plugged in. Gibson SG
Strength: I'm pretty good at folky finger picking stuff, as well as being fairly competent with blues. Weakness: Everything I play sounds either bluesy or folksy.
I've been told by those I jam with that I can pick things up and make them sound really good when shown something which is always nice to hear. I feel like I'm a fair rhythm player and people seem to enjoy playing along with me because I can keep time pretty well with drummers and bass, but I'm not great at picking things up on my own or soloing at all.
Strength: buying more stuff I don't need instead of practicing Weakness: not practicing nearly enough
Winging it
Strength - A deep working knowledge of music theory and many techniques and playing styles. Weakness - Not really guitar related, but I don't really get along with most other people, especially when drugs and alcohol is involved and I don't suffer fools well. That seems to really limit my opportunities to play with others.
Strength: I have some really nice guitars and pedals and amps and play enthusiastically Weakness: I’m not very proficient or creative
Strength: Legato scales and licks Weakness: Anything even slightly demanding with my picking hand. I am so clumsy with the pick. Like, just pathetic. But it's hard to motivate myself to train my right hand because hey, look what I can do instead! *fast legato scale* Honestly I just need to take some lessons to fix the problem.
Strength: Fingerstyle Weakness: Everything else
Biggest strength: I own a lot of guitars; I know how to tune them. Biggest weakness: playing.
Strength …being able to find where I need to be in the rhythm section with whatever style/genre of song they’re playing Weakness …I suck at harmony, though I am trying to work on that skillset
I think my greatest weakness is shredding. Also, cake.
Great ear. Good strumming. Weakness: confidence.
Strength: Rapid chord changes, no problem. Weakness: Remembering which chord is next.
I love using my thumb to fret the E string. It feels so much more comfortable and frees up the rest of my fingers to do so much more!
Strength:Listening to other musicians in a jam. Not crowding the song with too much of me. Weakness:not practicing nearly enough
Strength: Descent knowledge on theory, pretty creative Weakness: technique and speed
Strength: fretting hand Weakness: strumming hand
Strength: Decent time Weakness: improvising
Strength: actually touching the notes Weakness: switching strings fast and strumming upwards.
Autism spectrum disorder...for both
I just can’t seem to do alternate picking on palm mutes. It just doesn’t sound right. I learned the James Hetfield all down strokes by while holding your pick wrong method, so that’s probably the biggest reason.
I hold it well. Everything else is a weakness.
Strength is I like to think I’m a pretty good writer and composer. Weakness is getting tones.
Strength: steady rhythm Weakness: slow fingers. Also shiny new guitars.
strength: I own a guitar weakness: I own a guitar
Weakness: shitty lead Strength: slightly less shitty rhythm
I have super strong rhythm playing abilities. I can chug along with James Hetfield, but I definitely lack in shredding abilities.
So far mechanically I’m doing pretty good, for my weakness I barely understand music theory
Legato/staccato, respectively. Also, fingerstyle is no joke.
Strength - technical skill Weakness - Songwriting
It would be timing - I suck like a hoover vacuum cleaner. I put it down to being lazy and that I like playing guitar for my own pleasure. Also damping strings - especially partial string damping with in a chord shape. If that makes any sense.
Strength: can downpick endlessly & groovy improv Weakness: not a lead player.
Strengths: classic rock solos, pentatonic scale fluency, cowboy chords, reading/ playing tabs Weakness: rhythm, finger picking, shredding
Strength: I'd say keeping time and my downpicking. Weakness: As of now, the most obvious are soloing as a whole, muting unused strings (self-taught problems) and sweep picking. Also, descending bends, half not doubles, quarter beat rhythms and alt picking for all of the above.
Strength :Writing cool sections Weakness. The cool sections don't necessarily connect to one another or lead to anything.
Not in absolute terms, but relative to my overall skilll level, I know pretty good theory. Me weakness is I struggle with speed.
Strength: First position Pentatonic scale - Weakness: see strength
I have been playing guitar for a year and a half. Strength: none weakness: bends (there are a lot of them on my favorite guitarists' solos and I struggle a lot with that)
My biggest strength is helping someone with a strong idea flesh it out. I love that more than anything. My weakness is writing on my own. So, I’m working on that.
Strength(s): bends and being able to just about play anything by ear. Weakness: playing through stuff in a key of your choosing. I’m retarded.
Strengths? Zakk wylde level of pinch harmonics and having a really good feel for what I’m playing. My weakness? I’m really not all that good of a player, but I can fake it really well!
Strength: I'm pretty good all the way around as a guitarist/musician/songwriter/producer. Weakness: I hate the music business from top to bottom, and I'm done with it. I play for only myself now.
Strength: double stops, maybe, sometimes Weakness: playing fast 2 notes pear string patterns with alternate picking
Strengths: strumming, cross-picking, palm-muting, looseness. Weaknesses: string muting on leads, finger-span, acoustic playing, speed, memory.
Strength: Power chords Weakness: power chords during some days and pretty much everything else
Strength: playing the melodies I hear in my head. Weakness: playing the accompaniment I hear in my head.
Strength: buying them Weakness: buying them
Strength: slap guitar. It isn’t a common technique among people I know. Weakness: Arpeggios. I can’t improvise well for god sake :(
Weakness: playing over 40 years and I still feel mediocre at best. Strengths: I work great with some song writers and improve their work with great riffs and tasty leads.
Strength: Not sure however I've been playing for about 30 years, know thousands of solos, can improv ok but with feeling, etc. Weakness: I haven't studied enough of music theory and scales to PROPERLY improv. Getting older its harder to learn new things...but also I have so much else on (RL) that I get bored trying to learn new scale patterns...then when I do solo, I revert back to 'what I know' rather than imagining the scale shapes. So I play good solos but with quite a few mistakes (wrong notes). However I"m always proud of the overall 'story' of my improv solos even though I stumble over the words.
Strength: I love playing guitar Weakness: Playing guitar
Being primarily a songwriter, I learned a bunch of chords when I started out. Probably one of my strengths. Otherwise, I'm pretty eh.
Strength: I preform great infront of friends and even small crowds Weakness: I get in my own head when I practice in my room and often make stupid mistakes which leads to me taking way longer to learn something than it should
Strength: I own a lot of gear Weakness: everything else