If you could improve one thing about your playing/sound...

Actually making the notes in my head match the ones my fingers decide to foist upon an unwitting public. Sadly, no luck yet.

 

Great question. I suppose I would like to improve my double thumb technique a bit.

 

Sounds like you suffer from "Hands of Orlac" syndrome

 

I'd love to have better skills at improvisation. I never took lessons and learned by listening to songs from many artists over the years, so I think I have some variety to how I play. Just being able to sit in with strangers and play something that sounds good.

 

Have the interest to learn to play fingerstyle faster then 80bpm!

 

I tend to recycle the same 20 fills over and over. Could use some more 'above the 12th. fret flash'.

 

Generally speaking, I have a lot of issues with my plucking hand that I'd like to resolve. I learned on my own in a hurry and after not liking the pick (differnt spacing form guitar threw me and I'm not crazy about the tone), the thumb or the two fingers, I got a one finger process to work and have pretty much stuck with that. I get around pretty good, but do find it limiting on licks that bounce between strings a lot.

Finally, figuring out to play lighter on a hotter bass, I'm starting to be able to use a pick and may be able to bring that into a real situation in the near future.

My two finger aproach is very slowly coming along (very difficult to change habits while needing to sty prepped on gig lists), but it opften trips me up more than helps (too many moving parts!). I'm also finally starting to get a little bit of slap sound working, but that's still a very long time off from being functional.

Sure, I have other issues, but this is the thing that bugs me the most.

 

Empathy with the vocalists, being able to just work with their strengths and weaknesses and play the classic supportive role a bit more of the time.

 

Goals:
1) use a pick with ease
2) be able to play faster when necessary

 

I would like to be more technically proficient but autoimmune disease limits the range of motion in my hands, so I will never be a fast player.

 

I can't narrow it down to one thing. Just too many deficiencies...

I need to learn more tunes, improve my sight reading, and my ears (to really be able immediately identify root movement and chord qualities when playing songs I don't know).

Secondarily, I'd like to have a larger vocabulary established for use in improvising, and I'd like to be able to solo more fluidly on fast tempos and difficult changes.

 

Playing by ear, singing and playing, and walking jazz.

 

I'd like to be able to sight read notation as if I were reading a book.

 

The only thing I want to improve upon in my playing is knowledge. Then the sky would be the limit. Right now, the limit is the sky.

 

The pay.

 

I guess it would be slap, I am a born left handed person who switched to become a right handed player. For whatever the reason, I have never been able to achieve a level of this technique that I would personally consider worth displaying. Can I slap? Sure am I comfortable enough to lay it down live or on a recording? Nope, there a young children that can do it 10x better than me. " No thy weakness and never bring it to the light of day"

 

i've been playing by ear for 45 years, so learning how to read music should probably top my list.... but it doesn't.
instead, i'm figuring out how to play fiddle, by ear.. it's more challenging than any other instrument i've worked with over the years, and i'm enjoying the experience.

 

Definitely my slap technique and groove.

 

Everything.