What level player are you?

[GenoVox]

Just curious what categories most of us fall into here... hope I provided enough options

As for yours truly, I used to part-time gig for decades, but health reasons have prevented me from being in a working band situation for some time

Obviously, the responses are NOT taking COVID into account – otherwise I would think most of us would be in the same boat

 

[Scott SG]

if the choice had been

used to gig, will gig again some day

I would have picked it

 

[Pick53766]

if the choice had been

used to gig, will gig again some day

I would have picked it

^^^ this

 

[Man_on_the_Silva_Mountain]

Eh .. Im done gigging for sure .. Arthritis has done me in .. Am seeing a specialist and we are trying to avoid surgery .. Some people that i know had the surgery didnt fair well .. We shall see .. All things in time

 

[taez555]

I fit in 3 of those categories, 4 if you count the past year.

I used to gig 20 years ago. Have a degree in music. Don't gig or play with friends anymore(they all moved away). Focus on making music and on-line music related content at home, including paid commercial use. However that was always a secondary income until I got laid off from my day job a year ago. Which means my secondary income, inadvertently became my main source of income last year. So yeah... I'm professional, part time, at home hobbyist who used to gig.

 

[GenoVox]

OK, I changed the poll to multiple choices... LOL

 

[Frater B]

whatever level total suckage falls under. Maybe just above total suckage, maybe.

 

[PatrickE_FenderADV]

Well ... Covid certainly has changed my answer recently.

 

[GenoVox]

So yeah... I'm professional, part time, at home hobbyist who used to gig.

Hmm... I didn't think to add an "All the above" option

 

[JosephZdyrski]

I find these choices some what flawed. Are we measuring ability on ones instrument, or being able to run the mine field of being able to maintain a financial existence via playing that instrument.

I’d argue these are not the same thing, not really the criteria I use to judge a player especially today when most working musicians are out of the work unless they are incredibly lucky.

And these days there are multi million dollar recording artists who would get owned by little kids on the internet, so ability is not exactly an easy thing to quantify with or draw direct link with financial success imo.

 

[AuntieDiluvian]

I'm a former full-timer who is now a "weekend warrior", playing a few dozen shows per year.

 

[John Quinn]

I find these choices some what flawed.

Do you think @GenoVox was this serious? It's just a poll to pass the time on this 310th day of Covid lockdown.

 

[Sigmund Floyd]

Beginner, intermediate, advanced, professional...? That's how I would see "levels" at playing guitar. "Levels" at getting payed to play has a huge range, from busking to the occasional bar gig, to the touring pro, to Tim Pierce, to Jimmy Page. The word "professional" should be used somewhat loosely, and isn't in direct correlation with how well someone plays guitar or is a musician.

 

[GenoVox]

Do you think @GenoVox was this serious? It's just a poll to pass the time on this 310th day of Covid lockdown.

Exactly... Thanks

 

[killer blues]

if the choice had been

used to gig, will gig again some day

I would have picked it

me too. i havent gigged since my second was born in 04. Im getting ready for the break out when this filth is under control.

 

[twoheadedboy]

Bad. Is that a level?

 

[MickeyJi]

Typical weekend warrior hack here.

 

[Simto]

Painfully mediocre home only player with unrealistic dreams of greater things.

 

[GenoVox]

The word "professional" should be used somewhat loosely, and isn't in direct correlation with how well someone plays guitar or is a musician.

Exactly... "Professional" is meant in the literal sense... as in, you MAKE MONEY from playing

And yes, this poll is unrelated to anyone's actual playing ability – it's just for fun, and not meant to be analyzed to death

 

[smallbutmighty]

Beginner, intermediate, advanced, professional...? That's how I would see "levels" at playing guitar. "Levels" at getting payed to play has a huge range, from busking to the occasional bar gig, to the touring pro, to Tim Pierce, to Jimmy Page. The word "professional" should be used somewhat loosely, and isn't in direct correlation with how well someone plays guitar or is a musician.

This, exactly.

Getting paid to play and one's skill as a guitar player are not the same thing.