Your weakest technique?

[Francis978]

Probably my guitar playing. My best techniques being promoting Circle K strings and talking about string tension.

Mine is definitely alternate picking and down picking..pretty much just playing metal in general I can't play anything with constant alt or downpicking for shit.

Well, You are very good at the latter! (even though the AAL covers I have seen you do are AMAZING )

Them feels, I suck at sweeps and alternate picking really quickly

 

[Maniacal]

A technique I wish I was fluent at is 4 nps playing and wide 3 nps playing. I practice that approach but when it comes to improvising I go back to my old ways.

Very frustrating.

My picking also needs to be better.

 

[lurgar]

Fingerstyle. I decided to do a solo arrangement of "O Holy Night" for a ceremony that my wife is putting on. I am in over my head with even a simple arrangement and I have a ton of work ahead of me in the next couple of weeks.

 

[MartinMTL]

^ I don't write with an instrument in my hand, makes this pretty easy to do.

aww, same here. Since I started using guitar pro this year, I will often write without an actual guitar in my hands. In the end I come up with stuff I can't play at all. By the way, do people consider this as "cheating"? I just feel it helps me visualize what I am writing more, and makes it easier to create harmonies.

And to OP... just about everything. Alt picking and fingerstyle are the worst.

 

[lurgar]

aww, same here. Since I started using guitar pro this year, I will often write without an actual guitar in my hands. In the end I come up with stuff I can't play at all. By the way, do people consider this as "cheating"? I just feel it helps me visualize what I am writing more, and makes it easier to create harmonies.

If you create music that you like, then there is no such thing as cheating. It's not a competition, just expression and whatever method you come up with to get that expression out is good.

 

[troyguitar]

A technique I wish I was fluent at is 4 nps playing and wide 3 nps playing. I practice that approach but when it comes to improvising I go back to my old ways.

Very frustrating.

My picking also needs to be better.

I do the same thing. Will practice some exercises and stuff but as soon as I relax I go back to normal dense 3 nps stuff.

 

[Pooluke41]

My picking technique is just weird.

When I ascend I use economy picking and when I descend I use alternate picking.

Even after trying to ascend with alt picking to a metronome for about 5 hours, I still revert back to economy picking it.

 

[starslight]

My picking technique is just weird.

When I ascend I use economy picking and when I descend I use alternate picking.

Not that weird. Yngwie Malmsteen does the same thing, as summarized here by transcription wizard Jordan Bakerman:

 

[kaaka]

It really depends on. Certain alternate picking patternas that someone else has come up with...
Slapping i don't really know so I can't count it. The same goes for flamenco style fingerpicking, advanced country chicken picking and 8-finger tapping which i seldom/never practice.

 

[Ginsu]

My economy picking is crap, but still better than my alt picking...Can barely sweep above 100bpm, never learned the "normal" chord shapes, since I never had a teacher...I play a lot of my chords as huge bars in drop tunings. And I rely way too much on drop tunings.

 

[signalgrey]

"widdly widdly"

 

[MontaraMike]

Sweep picking. I totally SUCK at it

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

Picking fast. Never found any use for it, so i never practice it.

 

[GizmoJunior]

For me alternate picking has never been a problem but I'm terrible at improvising a solo or any lead work. As well when I get tired of tremolo picking I probably put too much elbow into it.

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

Tremelo picking and super fast alternate/directional picking.

 

[DamianX_JVL]

My legato sucks man xDDDD

 

[ghostred7]

Everything...I'm more rusty than an iron nail that's been sitting in the open for a decade.

 

[PettyThief]

Fingerstyle. I really like classical stuff and can't play any of it I am working on it and making improvements though!