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I'm really just starting | 10 | 4.65% | |
I mostly play open chords and basic (maj/minor E/A shape) bar with 8th/16th strum patterns | 46 | 21.40% | |
As above + a good dose of music theroy, including understanding how chord progressions work | 68 | 31.63% | |
I know my scales, where they are and play triad chords/lead/fingerpick all over the neck | 68 | 31.63% | |
Ralph didn't add an option high enough because he doesn't even know about the things I can do | 23 | 10.70% | |
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I would think that playing finger style and strumming would be a good level 2.5, but it's tough to set up a poll because they're not subject to change...
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Hmmmm, don’t see a poll on the phone app
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Advanced enough to keep me in gigs. And inept enough to keep me humble.
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I’m coming up on 2 years in May. Once I got the basic open chords down, I skipped the basic strumming songs and jumped right into more advanced fingerstyle songs. I feel like I’ve came along pretty good with zero music background. The first song I learned was Dust in the Wind then Landslide. I just finished learning Canon in D.
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I am mostly a strummer and like to think that my strumming would fall somewhere in the mid-intermediate level. I can play most chords and bar chords without much difficulty and vary my strumming technique in line with the song. I like to sing and strum my guitar and play a bit every day. I also like to finger pick my classical guitar and would say I am not quite up to mid-beginner level with that.
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I voted the highest stake... for kidding.
I would actually sit between third and forth row. I have been working on my technical skill with a pro for the last year. Believe it or not, I do not strum, though.
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I'm good enough but far from great enough.
Playing doesn't come easy for me but I've been in several bands because I show up early, ready to play, have a good attitude, get along without drama, play what's asked and offer suggestions in a nonthreatening way and I am usually the last to leave with a smile on my face most of the time.
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Around 1980 I figured out the notes in a lead break on Let It Be at about
2 minutes into the song. I didn't figure out the lead, it was much more rudimentary than that, I figured out what the notes were and plucked them out on my guitar. Then I realized I could play the notes in numerous directions, in a chain that stretched up and down the fretboard. Turns out that was the pentatonic scale and then I realized I could move it around to account for key and that, though I was playing gibberish, it fit with most songs as long as I figured out where to move it to to be in the right key. The chain, of course, is made up of five shapes that repeat, and some time later I realized each shape was associated with one of the cowboy chord shapes A C D E and G... now that we have the Internet there's a million places to learn about the pentatonic scale and they call the cord association "the caged system". I still mostly play gibberish, so I guess I haven't figured out skill yet -Mike |
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I voted #3, but I'm actually between #3 & #4.
I haven't earned a full #4 on guitar yet. I'm still far more adept at keyboards. I'm OK on theory, but I still think better in ivory rather than steel or nylon. It hasn't all transferred yet. Because I've been a solo guitarist, I don't need to play leads much. That means I don't practice playing leads much. [I]That[I] means I shouldn't be anyone's lead guitarist. Guitar is my chosen "fun" instrument. I'm always trying to improve and I have improved, but I'm more likely to be inspired to get better at something because a piece I want to play demands it, rather than improving for it's own sake.
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1. I'm really just starting ? yup, in about 1966. (late to the party - typical!)
2. I mostly play open chords and basic (maj/minor E/A shape) bar with 8th/16th strum patterns ? mmm, If that means knowing the CAGED shapes, then yes - as necessary. Strum patterns ? What does that mean? I'm primarily a flat picker - years of bluegrass does that to ya! 3.As above + a good dose of music theroy, including understanding how chord progressions work? Dunno about theroy, but know a bit about theory - harmonising the scale and stuff. Don't do any of that tadpoles on telephone wires tho' 4.I know my scales, where they are and play triad chords/lead/fingerpick all over the neck? Well, not so good on myxolidian and all that, but the rest is probably OK. 5.Ralph didn't add an option high enough because he doesn't even know about the things I can do? Hey man, like, whose Ralph? Ralph's not here man. see : https://youtu.be/rtDAK7Umk7A
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None of the options really applied to me because almost all of them referred to having music theory.
I've been playing (mostly fingerstyle) for 30+ years and consider myself a fairly good player, but I know very little music theory (although I know it would probably help me a lot). I can play quite complicated fingerstyle (kottke, Bruce cockburn, etc) but other than knowing the names of the basic chords, and a little bit more, I really don't know much about music theory. I just enjoy learning new pieces and farting around on my own.
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Yep, that’s me.
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4 is like the pinnacle of playing so I'd suggest it be more like 10. The first three sound about right.
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