Review of my guitar playing as of late.

Whenever I have played guitar in the past, no matter what skill level I reach I always feel as If i'm not that good and so the lack of confidence would show through my playing. I would focus on the fact that because there are others who can play at a level higher than myself, my skills are made obsolete in a sense.

I would say my main weakness has never been a technical issue, such as fluidity in my playing, but it has been the lack of confidence would affect my strengths. This is the main thing I believe is holding me back from being a much better player. Through playing with others and getting that experience would be the thing I need to really feel as if i can feel validated with myself about my playing.

While it's good to always constantly look towards the next step in trying to improve, I would gloss over what I can already do myself and ignore it almost. But recently I've become confident with my playing. I used to not be able to play in front of people i didn't know, and if i did, the lack of of confidence in myself would cause me to mess up playing simple songs that I would never do, had I been playing by myself. Since I started college I feel very comfortable and confident with playing. While I haven't played on a stage and performed with a band yet, I have jammed around with a few people and we've musically clicked very quickly. We could read the other in terms of what to play, when to play, and how to play, which is a great thing to be able to do. Especially since I didn't know these people at all, yet we were able to play together as If we've known eachother for a while.

Being at college with so many others who have the same interest as myself, really makes me feel comfortable with playing. The confidence I have at the moment playing is the first time I have felt like this about my playing, and i'm looking forward to build on that even more.