The Weakest Link

[poppytater]

 Mine is the pinky on my fretting hand, still lets lets me down after 3 years. What's yours?

[garthman]

Creeping athritis - but I'm not giving in!

 

[ASoRelle]

frickin fingernails that wont stop growing. then I forget and clip them right before a show and split the skin under the nail and it stings like a bitch all night.

[FretFiend.]

Bad habits... developed at a young age, and never corrected.

 

The worst? I watch musicians, who don't appear to be watching what they are doing. I get the idea I can do the same. WRONG! I now have a hard time paying adequate attention to the details of what I'm doing, and it shows in my playing.

 

Back when I was a pup, I really needed a teacher who would rap my knuckles for such crap.

[jamesp]

I don't play whole songs.  The simplest blip will pull me out of a piece.  I'll run through the trouble spot, but rarely start the song over.  

[kwakatak]

A wife and kids who think I have more important things to than play guitar and get mad whenever I pick one up.

[guitarcapo]

Inability to play guitar and carry on a conversation with people at the same time. My brain just can't do that. I envy people who can. I also have trouble playing guitar and singing when the rhythm of the singing is really removed from the playing. The "singing bass player" syndrome. Apparently Glen Campbell had the same problem when playing bass with the Beach Boys and he's a way better player than me. Paul McCartney on the other hand is a master at it.