how do you feel about your guitar playing

People tell me I'm great, but I am nowhere close to where I want to be, so I put good.

i didn't "get" Nightmares comment ... *?*
and i thought i had added nicely to this post .. i mean hell, i tabbed Giants Steps fer someone fer chrissake *sheesh*

Phip says:

No one is going to accuse you of being a bore. here! Phipster

hell Phip , I thought i was being VERY restrained and respectful, and patient and all that happy horse****, and lol i still dunno what i did to get anyone all riled up .. thats it then. the opinionated one will take the filter and gloves off.
*sheeeeit*

Yay go Carl =]
Sometimes people take other peoples opinions too far and now were goig to have a broken keyobard I think..
If you are please new topic..we gone offtrack here..

Hanx Nutter!!
(i was gonna Karma-tize ya anyways 'cause you've always been a nice Nutter to this Cranky olde Frac ... now i dunno HOW , lol, I'll try man, I'll try)
and i agree
and yes .. back to the topic
(the damn topic i ungratefully posed a tab and link to fer gods sake)

topic = hows yer playing ;
i should'ah said 'damn-good!' instead of 'great', as someone, some evil someone who shall remain (Alfred Fossil) nameless and vocation-less (my manager) booked me somewhere twice in he same week .. offered to pay union scale+ *ergh!* ..before he/i remembered i had 3 or 4 young/young kids to teach.... damn you ethics! LOL ..give a man a break.
break ... don't pit values against money ...*argh!*
(and YES .....I opted for teaching the kids .. am i a sucker or what!? lol)
got to teach that new Gilbert & Nelson tune 'The Last Rock 'n' Roll Star' to a star pupil ... fun.

and seriously.

I've heard some braggin' here (Not you Nutter)'bout skills and shredding and assorted 'i'm crazy-good' kinda stuff

so kids; time to quit talkin' and start chalkin' ... lets HEAR the 'greatness'

*tick tick tick*

(all in good fun .. dont take the old crazy mofo TOO seriously)


RAWK!
Cs

Cheers Carl =] Yeah noticed the tab didn't really get it though (too many posts to read) may try it out.

May all get to hear me around Jan. next year, been asked to play on my mates EP as a guest guitarist on atleast 3 songs, two originals and a cover of time. Dunno why but he seems to think I'm an epic player...I'm crapping myself cause of how bad I think I am really haha xD

I just realised how bad my spelling has gotten recently, sorry everybody.

'carlsnow No, don't get me wrong carl I was just kiddin' about the keyboard thing. Sure go ahead type as much as you want you're the man with 30 years experience, so sure you got a lot of things to teach us and share with us, I mean u probably floss your teeth with a guitar string. keep it up, shred the keyboard.

hahaha



Well I can imagine that.

wellll ...LOL! once it DID, in either Cleveland or Johnson City about 20 years ago. i kid you not
=)

its difficult to say but people don't leave the room when i start to play anymore, which can only be a good sign

one of the best responses EVER!!

RAWK!
Cs

I'm alright with my playing. Actually, ALMOST alright 'cause I could have been better, but at least I don't suck the way I used to. Getting to an electric for the Spanish guitar shirley boosted my skills up. Sometimes I'm kinda jealous (in a good way of it) about my best friend who started playing a long time after I did and he Rocks Gary Moore and George Benson solos while I'm still keeping rythm for him, though. I don't think that's a very thing, anyway, cause I've still got plenty of time and I'm not into shreddin or speed and I can play some (not very) slow solos.

i think im great only when i get a shower in the morn, a nice hot breakfast, its a beutiful day out, and the parents are out of the house. other times i think i suck or just "ehhhh whatever about my self....

I suck but I am a singer. Only strum to sing and write lol

Hmm. This is tough. Godly or sucky? I depends if im playing Lead, or Rhythm. And if i sing lead or backup.

I Put godly, because i usually play rhythm, and dont usually sing or i sing backup.

My lead is sucky because my right hand is clumsy. (only in solos)
My Rhythm is perfect though. No flaws, perfect chord switching.

I would say good at rhythm and poor at lead, but I've only been trying lead for a few months and i've played rhythm for 10 stinkin years.

Great. Geez, you ever listen to some of the "great guitarists"? Heh, they're not so amazing when you listen to them.

@domigan_lefty.
lol. I imagine Napolean Dynamite saying your entire post.

"yeah. I'm pretty much the best I know of". I'm not trying to offend you. it just reminded me of it. Perfect rhythm, wow. I need to hear what that sounds like. do you have any clips?

i've only been playin a year but i'm not too bad. i don't have too practice rhythm guitar any more.

@Fender_bender
Sorry. I dont have a camera or anything to record. Closest is my phone, but a simple chord sounds horrible on it. Ill meet up with my other guitarist. See if he can record. maybe do a duel. Ive been working on my soloing.

And i didnt say that! ("im pretty much the best i know of") Thats what i say about Carl Snow!
But, yea, hopefully my distortion pedal comes soon! Then i will say that!

I suck

whaaa!?

rhythm is heartbeat of music, you NEVER stop learning it.
I still practice 'rhythm playing' and i'm a teacher with 34 years playing under my belt.
there is an old saying that should be remembered:
"remain teachable"

RAWK!
Cs

my friends say im pretty good and it helps when ur not a douche like most of the local guitarist around my area. i been playing 3-4 months and i think im "great" but i can get a lil over confident sometimes but thats not a bad thing in this situation ay? i can play 200bpm and i knowa bunch of scales...my goal is to just play hourSSSS a day

@Carlsnow. what i mean by that is that if you give me a chord chart i don't have too practice it. and i totally agree with you about being teachable. it's just that for what i am doing right now i am pretty much comfortable with my playing

i look down on myself because im not as good as the big greats, then i remember im only 16 and have only been playing a few years, im not a 40 year virtuoso who was a child prodigy, that makes me feel better about my playing

Actually, second thoughts. Everyone i personally know that play guitar suck. So i honestly can say that quote. Because i dont know anyone better than me. Although there are a million here, they dont count.

Darn, I did knew that here are many, many better players than me... but I didnt knew that we have so many GREAT and So many GODLY in here... Ive been heard 2. Carl and Alex (I keep it secret whichone is great and whichone is godly XD). Oh well I almost forgot guitarslinger, who...surprise surprise... do not brag in this kind of threads.. Cheers m8.

Seems that I posted poor last time... Ive made improvements, but still Im far from good... Darn.

"he's the guitar john, he knows all the chords..." dumdedum...

I never understood the rhythm/lead thing. Lots of "lead" guitarists play "rhythm". Keith Richards being first that comes to mind. That being said I'm better at playing chords than I am at soloing.

yup! the "lead or rhythm-guitar" is incredibly silly and was probubly stated by someone who felt they should have some 'cool new title' added beside "Guitar" to distinguish himself from "that other guy in he band who does doe as many acrobatics. it's silly as hell.
the punchline is: nowadays its harder to find anyone who knows more than 4 chords, but you have to swat the "shredders" (above chords, lol) away like gnats!

Whoa whoa whoa... Guitar? What?

Just cause someone said something about shredding on a keyboard... :)

@jeff I remember listening to him a bit ago but if that's shredding you diffidently haven't heard Art Tatum

for ****s and giggles here is him playing Fats Waller's(my favorite piano player behind Monk) "Ain't misbehaving"

>------http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ciyjQVydLc------<

In my opinion Art is the only musician who i think can be called the best at there selected instrument.

@RA - I really don't consider that shredding... but it sounds like 20000x better than any shredder out there. It's nice :)

I'll give that piano a listen when I get back from class... I know there are many pianists that play extremely fast... just that kind of music usually doesn't entice me.

I'm Comfortable with the way I play.

im an "amazing" player compared to a year ago lol

If i live to be a million. Just then mabey ill consider myself talented.,

I am alright but i can only play thrash metal like pantera, metallica, and anthrax or rock like ac/dc

Just to clarify...
My above posts were joking. I'm not a stuck up snob like that.
Honestly I see myself as "I suck" and I always work on improvement. Every time I grab my guitar, whenever I go to band practice, it's about working out as many flaws in my/our playing as possible.
When I work with other musicians I would put say I'm Good. Having other musicians play along for some reason makes anything I play sound infinately better.

Plus Im in a new band with no rhythm guitar, it's alot easier to me.
Just guitar and bass is enough for me.

Noone is ever perfect, noone will ever attain "godly" status, and if they honestly think they are I will slap them.
(with the exception of Carl Snow)

Guthrie Govan: I would describe his ability as godly.

I think everyone on this forum is modest about their playing. I would say I'm pretty good considering that I have only been playing for about 2.5 years. I could improve my improvising and break free from the same-old pentatonic stuff, but I'm better at sitting down and writing out a solo.
I said "good" because that's what everyone tells me and I won best instrumentalist at a battle of the bands.