Youre strengths and weaknesses as a player?

[ToneMonkey]

Strengths - Knowing how they work and what's science and what's voodoo

Weakness - Not being able to play the bloody things.  It's not very often I come across something which I can't get my head round, but the guitar has just stopped me in my tracks and the smegging things aren't going to win.  It's a love hate relationship.

[Will]

Definately a +1 on TomJ :lol:

In English speak though...

Passable:

Improvising
Picking
Vibrato
Bends
Generic leads

shite@:

Legato
Timing (not so much of an issue, but I would rather put it here so I work on it more etc)
Ear - feck knows, but I can sometimes have a song down with the intervals but can't wedge it in the right key :?

[bucketshred]

Strengths:
Rhythm playing
Groove
'Tightness'
Heavy Picking
Riffage
And I'll play any style too, not well but I'll give it a crack

Weaknesses:
Theory
Technique (I just hit it)
Lead Breaks
Tone :(

[bucketshred]

I'm not really sure what my strengths are! I can usually make most things sound good if that counts. I may not be able to shred note for note or anything but I'll be able to do a simplified version and make it sound allright (see my Beat It solo as an example :P).
I guess my rhythm playing is good and apparently I have "good feel" if that means anything? :lol: Oh and I think I can write pretty good rock/stoner rock riffs :)

I definitely know my weaknesses - lead playing is very dull and needs work but I dont know how to improve it. I play the same licks over and over, just in a different key. Ideas?

Vibrato is ok but not amazing. It has improved a lot in the last year. My bends still arent perfect either!

Shut it you, are a great player! Great tone too!!!

[dave_mc]

strengths: tired blues rock licks

weaknesses: everything else

:lol:

[_tom_]

Shut it you, are a great player! Great tone too!!!

haha cheers. I know my tones good :)

btw I noticed your bands allready got a load of gigs lined up, came across the myspace the other day somehow :D I guess I just wasnt rock enough for you guys haha. Might come to see that new years one!

[sgmypod]

Strengths
Being able to caryy a 4x12

Weaknesses
Plugging said 4x12 into the amp, plugging guitar in and playing

[38thBeatle]

Strengths: too few to mention

Weaknesses: too many to mention-I'd be here all night

[bucketshred]

Shut it you, are a great player! Great tone too!!!

haha cheers. I know my tones good :)

btw I noticed your bands allready got a load of gigs lined up, came across the myspace the other day somehow :D I guess I just wasnt rock enough for you guys haha. Might come to see that new years one!

Just decided to keep it as a four piece. Homer, Jake and I have all played in previous bands together and it just seemed easier to jam/write and get our ideas across that way. Don't worry about not being RAWK enough dude, we're just a bunch of $%&# heads.

Paddy

[il˙ti]

This thread is making me feel better about my playing. Thanks guys!
 
Strengths:
-Theory. It just came natural to me and I was always fascinated with how music works.
-Improvisation
-Vibrato
-Classical/finger style (relative to other rythmical players)

Weaknesses:
-Ear. I got my first guitar when I was 11. I didn't know how often you needed to tune the thing, so I didn't. I have no musicians in my familly so there were no one to correct me and tell me I was out of tune until I started taking lessons. 9 month of messing around with an out-of-tune guitar is probably what messed up my ear. So it's very difficult for me to learn anything by ear, even if it'd be easy for me to play.
-Technique. I can play pretty fast, but it was and still is a struggle to get there.
-Lack of a desire to learn new songs.
-Lack of confidence

[Elliot]

Strengths

Belief that I could one day play the guitar if I keep trying
Surf - not exactly hard!
Modding things - incessantly.

Weaknesses
Everything else - no talent, no ear, no speed, no timing, no memory, stuck in cr@ppy pentatonic 'licks' but worst of all, when I get something finally in the bedroom (guitar wise that is) it all goes to pot when I play it in front of other people.  Really infuriating.

Guess you can't have everything...

[Mr. Air]

Strenghts
Focusing on the whole band, not just myself and my tone, licks, solo, riffs etc.

Weaknesses
Lousy ear (has gotten way better since I started playing though)
Lack of theoretical knowledge
Lack of talent

All in all I'm just an no good/average guitar player with no exeptional skills. People, like my girlfriend, who doesn't understand anything about music tells me I'm good, but I know that's just because they don't know better  :D

[JDC]

I think I'm just typical generic shredder, can play widdle a million notes perfect one day, next day it's sloppy, especially sweeping, trying to be more consistent at the moment, I think it's mostly a warm up properly/hand sync thing

my ear certainly needs some work, and I need to practice moving between big chords more often, trying to fully learn my way round the neck so I can fly around it anywhere, also really suck at unison bends!!!! I hate those!

MDV: how much finger picking you done? I played around with it a bit a few months ago, doing simple right hand patterns I was surprised how fast I got the speed up, if only my left hand could keep up

been playing around with pentatonics recently and I think that's helped my lead because it forces you to think more about phrasing to stop it sounding like generic pentatonics

[MDV]

Not a lot at all. I did a lot more in my first few years. I rediscovered an old fingerpicked thing I used to do, now bare in mind that me now at the metalz and in general average technical skill would destroy me then, I couldnt play the bloody thing! I wrote that piece about 10 years ago, 1 into playing.

[Ian Price]

This is fairly easy for me:

Weaknesses
Underrating my playing and being generally self depreciating
Lacking confidence when playing in front of others that I see as better than me
Never learning a song all the way through
Sticking to what I know

Strengths
Chords - I'm pretty good at keeping time as well
I've got a nice reach with my fingers so can play some wide stretchy chords
Playing to fit a song - I don't show off because I can't so use my strengths to come up with chordal parts and melodies for songs (not so much nowadays as I have left my band!)