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noticingthemistake
Crime Fighter
Joined: 08/04/02
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noticingthemistake
Crime Fighter
Joined: 08/04/02
Posts: 1,518
09/18/2003 6:55 am
I consider myself a well rounded player, I haven't mastered all the tricks of the trade (like sweeping like becker) but I can hold my own when it comes to playing a variety of things. Although I'm a bass player before a guitar player.

Strengths:
Rhythm - I'm very tight with rhythm and I have a very good sense of music.
Hearing - I do this this cool thing that kind of messes with people. I begin by randomly turning the strings out of tune, then strums down all the strings and let it ring out, next tune each string one by one and then go over to a tuner and show whoever is there I tuned every string perfectly.
Music Appreciation - I believe this plays a huge role in musical development, and a lot of people don't have it. I haven't heard many tunes where I didn't like something in there.
Improv - I've played several times and had people come up asking what I just played and are pretty astonished when I tell them I was just making it up.
Theory - I don't know it all, but I also know too much science and formula is not good for musical innovation. All the key's are in the basics.

Weaknesses:
Classical guitar and similars - My confidence killer!! :)
Easily distracted - Thanx to ADD. I do sometimes slip up if my mind wanders off or if something draws my attention away from playing.
Sweeping - Probably the technique I struggle with the most, and I don't find myself practicing it that much either.

Of course I like to think I'm perfect, so I don't have many weaknesses. :cool:

And oh yeah another weakness, writing and typing. If I was every a writer, I would have to spend every cent I made on editors.

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 09-18-2003 at 01:59 AM]
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