What Are Your Weaknesses
Daniel Robinson
May 5 2008, 07:48 AM
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From: Normal, Illinois
Everyone always wants to be the best they can be, but as humans we tend to play to our strengths and ignore our weaknesses.

The same holds true for guitar playing, do you know what your weaknesses are as a player? I would assume most of you know where you are weak in your playing.

I would ask you all.

What are your weak spots in your playing and what can we do to help you overcome them?

Some weaknesses are relatively simple to correct, some are very difficult but until we admit to what we have to work on we will continue to ignore them and our goal of mastering the instrument will become very difficult and frustrating.


I will go first and tell you all that my legato technique is not what it should be, i tend to use my picking skills as a crutch in alot of circumstances. Don't get me wrong i can play legato but its not as smooth as i would like it to be so i have set aside time in my practicing schedule to really get down and dirty to put this problem area to rest.

I have started working on just strengthening my fingers doing trills and hammer on drills, to facilitate this i have also put 12's on my second guitar so i have to work harder to acheive the legato sound in the end i think i will make my fingers alot stronger. Even the last few days i have done this i have seen remarkable increase in finger strength.

Daniel

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- Daniel Robinson   What Are Your Weaknesses   May 5 2008, 07:48 AM
- - chmilew   QUOTE (Canis @ Jul 6 2008, 02:53 PM) My n...   Jul 8 2008, 09:02 AM
- - Ian Bushell   Would have to be doughnuts!! haha Serious...   Jul 13 2008, 11:56 AM
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|- - FenderBeater   QUOTE (Daniel Robinson @ Jul 13 2008, 12...   Nov 6 2008, 09:42 PM
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- - chladely   Probably 16th notes can't get the timing or th...   Jul 13 2008, 09:34 PM
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- - Déjà vu   I have a lot of things I should work on. Probably ...   Jul 13 2008, 09:50 PM
- - IDontWantMyUsername   I'd say my weaknesses are 5-string sweeps (I a...   Jul 13 2008, 10:02 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (IDontWantMyUsername @ Jul 13 2008, 05...   Jul 14 2008, 01:48 PM
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- - Canis   I've definetly found my biggest weakness while...   Oct 25 2008, 11:15 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (Canis @ Oct 25 2008, 05:15 PM) I...   Oct 27 2008, 06:23 AM
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- - Canis   Well, more spesific; I'm doing the E Minor - M...   Oct 27 2008, 07:55 AM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (Canis @ Oct 27 2008, 01:55 AM) Wel...   Oct 30 2008, 01:30 AM
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- - CathShadow   Hey, well... My weeknesses: My pinky sort of ...   Nov 6 2008, 07:36 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (CathShadow @ Nov 6 2008, 01:36 PM)...   Nov 7 2008, 03:34 PM
|- - CathShadow   QUOTE (Daniel Robinson @ Nov 7 2008, 04:3...   Nov 8 2008, 12:44 PM
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- - superize   I belive i got a new weakness... Earlier i wrote ...   Nov 6 2008, 07:39 PM
|- - Canis   QUOTE (superize @ Nov 6 2008, 07:39 PM) I...   Nov 6 2008, 08:37 PM
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- - Disturbed21   My weakness now is playing fast. Mainly playing cl...   Nov 6 2008, 08:07 PM
- - opeth.db   Just found this topic. Great discussions. I thin...   Nov 6 2008, 09:02 PM
- - Chokehold   My Weekness really got to be 3-strings sweep picki...   Nov 6 2008, 09:10 PM
|- - Kuba Szafran   QUOTE (Chokehold @ Nov 6 2008, 09:10 PM) ...   Nov 6 2008, 09:34 PM
|- - Chokehold   QUOTE (Kuba Szafran @ Nov 6 2008, 09:34 P...   Nov 6 2008, 09:36 PM
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- - Ajmurrell   My main problem is probably my picking technique (...   Nov 6 2008, 09:36 PM
- - Paiva   Right Hand technique, I need to get faster ( well ...   Nov 6 2008, 10:02 PM
- - Pi38   I think my biggest weaknesses are: theory, staccat...   Nov 7 2008, 03:43 PM
- - CathShadow   hahah wicked I think I got the barre down   Nov 8 2008, 01:23 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (CathShadow @ Nov 8 2008, 07:23 AM)...   Dec 9 2008, 12:21 AM
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- - DaniHel   My weakness is my right hand (picking hand). My le...   Dec 9 2008, 04:12 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (DaniHel @ Dec 9 2008, 10:12 AM) My...   Dec 10 2008, 12:39 PM
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- - Fsgdjv   My biggest weakness is one thing I've noticed ...   Dec 9 2008, 11:32 PM
- - Rob Wilson   My weaknesses mainly are tapping, full bends and v...   Dec 10 2008, 12:17 PM
- - Fsgdjv   Wow Daniel, awesome reply, thank you! I will d...   Dec 10 2008, 12:43 PM
- - mhskeide   I`ve got TONS of weaknesses. I could mention s...   Dec 18 2008, 06:12 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (mhskeide @ Dec 18 2008, 12:12 PM) ...   Apr 17 2009, 11:35 AM
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- - Alexiaden93   Hey, I just registered and I am really satisfied. ...   Apr 16 2009, 07:13 PM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (Alexiaden93 @ Apr 16 2009, 01:13 P...   Apr 17 2009, 12:35 PM
|- - Alexiaden93   QUOTE (Daniel Robinson @ Apr 17 2009, 01...   Jul 13 2009, 04:09 AM
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- - Canis   My biggest weakness these days is muting the highe...   Apr 17 2009, 10:11 AM
- - enforcer   Clean sweep picking, tapping sweeps, and vibrato(I...   Apr 17 2009, 11:40 AM
- - Daniel Robinson   I thought it was time to kinda resurrect this thre...   Sep 10 2010, 11:42 PM
- - slash48   Cool! I'm glad it's started again...   Sep 11 2010, 03:10 AM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (slash48 @ Sep 10 2010, 09:10 PM) C...   Sep 11 2010, 09:13 AM
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- - thefireball   Sweeping, arpeggios, fast AP   Sep 11 2010, 03:33 AM
|- - Daniel Robinson   QUOTE (thefireball @ Sep 10 2010, 09:33 P...   Sep 11 2010, 10:41 PM
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- - Vaidya   My main weakness is muting.Whether its sweep picki...   Sep 11 2010, 09:39 AM
- - slash48   Thanks Daniel! That fix worked fantastic.   Sep 11 2010, 03:34 PM
- - stratman79   A lot of it is relative to what you want to be as ...   Sep 11 2010, 03:56 PM
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