Weaknesses.
Well Ive always had a good vibrato, and bending . Thats the good part. Im decent at writing lyrics and some other stuff.
Now the Bad.
A problem Ive had for a looooooong time is Alternate Picking.
Its not so much a problem as it is an error in my technique. I orignally thought I was doing Alternate Picking when was really doing some odd form of Economy Picking, If not just Economy Picking. Standard Alternate Picking 3nps runs should be D-U-D, U-D-U
I was playing D-U-D , D-U-D
Its annoying to go to your weekly guitar lesson and the one mistake you consistantly make is a "Double -Down Stroke"
I have never been good at sweep picking, never invested the time it would take to learn it efficiently. I have the time. But my lack of progress stops me from doing it well. Id practice is for 3-hours one day, and be like " Well I Still suck at this, and go watch t.v "
Sometimes when Im practicing I wish I had a little robot to pick out all my mistakes. That way not only would I be knowing what Im doing wrong, but It would help me find ways of correcting it.
Any inventors interested ?
At first glance all my fast speedpicking with inproper technique and my not so smooth legato runs look flashy and appealing to my none guitar playing friends ( And they actually sound clean suprisingly ! ) Yet any real guitar player would suck the lies right out of me and be like " A HA , YOU CANT ALTERNATE PICK NOOBIE !
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And thats when I would go whine and cry in a corner, because after all thats the truth.
I cant play to a backingtrack to save my life .
At higher speeds I get lost with the metrnome, I can never find a reliable metronome and I really have never done well playing with the metrnome.
Time Signatures confuse me .
Im bad at Theory but I guess I am making steps to improve that.
I suck at memorizing scales. Anything but the pentatonics seems very foriegn to me .
Im semi-decent at improvising. However all of my Improv. vague resembles the last improv. I feel like Im trapped in the Pentatonic Sea and the boat sailed away a long time ago.
I dont have the patience to learn full songs. Either theres never a reliable tab or Im not trained well enough to learn it by ear.
I cant read music, It looks scary.
I think I covered everything
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