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Assess Your Guitar Playing
This lesson will be the key to finding out where you are and where you need to go in terms of your progress as a guitar player. You will find out what a WOGI is, how to use it, and how to read it so that your path to guitar wizardry is as clear as the very glasses a wizard wears. This lesson will help you highlight your areas of success and also notice where you can most improve, a necessary step in achieving wizard status.
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Well, my wogi is actually better than I would have thought. This is really great, I appreciate Tony’s explanation of how we can rate ourselves realistically.
Does playing with backing or jam tracks count as playing with others?
If I understand correctly, I think it qualifies if you record and share those improvs with others, e.g. by posting the vids in the Solo zone of TAC. Just noodling to a backing track or album is an important aspect all by itself (and consequently it has its own category in the WOGI), but unless you hit that record button with intent to “put it out there” for other people, I don’t think it qualifies as “playing with others.”
Well, as someone else has said, everybody has to start somewhere. The finest players in the world started with all 1’s. The only thing I have going for me right now is relatively strong fingers and a good practice habit. So that’s where we start. 🙂
I’m naming my next dog Wogi! 🙂
Well it’s a small alien right now with a few bright points
My W.O.G.I. numbers are in the minus category, so they don’t even show up.
Only thing I can rate high on is consistent practice schedule. Don’t know how much good it’s doing considering everything else is 2-3 with a couple of ones in there.
My WOGI is depressing….I have nowhere to go but up.
My WOGI is in it’s infancy!
my WOGI makes me sad =( #lol
Gotta start somewhere, usually at the bottom. Got a 5 for Consistent Practice Schedule! Ha…
That’s a #smallwin right there! (And not all that small, BTW!)
My W.O.G.I. is modern art. You can stand and look at it for hours and not know what you’re looking at.
If my parents knew my WOGI was this small they would disown me.
My WOGI is very humble, but i am just starting, I will give myself a chance,
You have to start of some ware, but i am motivated that whats counts for now.
Ahhh the quality spider/radar graph. I’ve read a hair about it in quality training and never used it at work. This is a great example of using it.
I only have one wogi above 1…mostly sub full numbers..
like improve and song rep…both point .3
my finger strength is a 1.5…YAY
My WOGI is a 2 ounce snifter. Not nearly big enough. I’ll die of thirst if I don’t grow it to at least a 9 ouncer.
my WOGI is humbling, but it is an impressive self evaluation tool!
When I talk bout my WOGI, I feel like Yoda
I think the dog rolling around behind you has a better WOGI than me.
I saw the dog rolling around too. I agree! The dog has a better WOGI than I do.
Yes, more dog, less WOGI.
My first WOGI isn’t as small as I thought it might be…the biggest one for me to overcome will be playing with other people. I have no local musician friends (I did 20-25 years ago, but this is a much different time now), and I work about 55 hours a week while raising two sons. Thankfully I have the TAC community, andohope that teaching out to some people will reap benefits (for me and maybe even for other people, too, as I get better. Haha).
Thank you, Tony- this is a great tool.
Self evaluation is tough. I’m pretty sure I was too hard on myself, but i do know where i want to, and need to improve.
‘Tis a small sad W.O.G.I. … anemic and in need of feeding. My hope is that TAC will effectively feed my W.O.G.I. (spoken with echoes of Gracie Slick belting out “Feed my W.O.G.I.” in the background).
What a surprise, my Greenland has a lot of work to do. Tony, this is a great tool to map out a practice schedule and focus on the areas that need help.
Such a little WOGI…
Redid this after three months – improving.
Great to hear Paul!!! Keep up the great work!!!
Cheers,
Tony
Lots of room for improvement!
WOGI has changed shape over last few months. Looks like South America now
a lot more work needed in all areas
OH man my WOGI looks so bad…No it’s a guide post for improvement. I think I will complete this course now as well as continue with the daily practice. I have the feeling that this way will best serve me on my musical journey.
Toni My WOGI looks like your Beard If you would cut half off it and shave the other half of your face. consistent practice is where I got the highest ( and that’s not super high) but practice what, the same old boring things I always practice. I did this earlier but I must of been in a hurry during the TAC workshop cause now when I am calmed down and thinking I really did not rate myself as high as I had previously, that’s ok though that means I will get a lot out of your program. LOL
Jeff,
Great step in getting after the WOGI again 🙂 Now that you have those ratings you can dive into TAC for new techniques and things to work on and of course maintain your consistent practice schedule 🙂
Cheers,
Tony
Oh woe is my WOGI! The poor thing is a mangled little mess.
Smallest circle possible for me.
My WOGI reminds me of a unicorn.. a single horn on it. LOL
My WOGI look like a fly swatter. Hard to mark myself anything other than a 1 except on my consistent practice schedule. Oh well, still very early in the process. Lots of flies to knock out.
That’s not a bad place to be, per se. Over time, with consistent practice, your WOGI should put on some weight via development in other areas. Working up toward playing with others will be a great developmental toolif you can manage it. If you don’t have opportunities close to home, consider recording yourself and posting in the community. That has helped me grow as a player.
Did my first WOGI assessment during the webinar on 1/17/2017. Signed up and did my first week of daily practice. Re-did the WOGI now in this course, started 1/21/2017. Circle is quite a bit smaller, but is now more realistic and I know the areas I am going to focus on for improvement over the next weeks to come. 🙂
Just started !! I downloaded all and put the documents to Dropbox. I also took pictures of each spreadsheet for printing.
Can I download the files to the Sheets App, that way I can record my progress on my IPad Pro rather than printing. With the Sheets app one can access the document daily and record their progress
and then save it back to sheets.
Feel like I need tow different WOGI charts. A WOGuitarI and a WOBassI. Big surprise is the guitar WOGI (secondary instrument) isn’t that much lower overall compared to the bass WOGI (how I normally define myself), Yeah I ‘m musically/instrumentally schizophrenic. The surprise is based on your criteria, my guitar WOGI has a much better shape and numerical rating than how feel psychologically (lets call it the Tommy Emanuel syndrome because I keep comparing my guitarist self to the guitar players I’ve backed up whose guitar chops are on par with my bass chops). Oh well, onward with the discovery and guitar improvement (mentally and physically). 🙂
My WOGI is shaped like a monkey’s head. Frequency of playing with others and knowledge of the fret-board are both in need of much work.
If this was target practice I’d be s at the top of my game; however, I’d say I have a long way to go. This looks like a great practice to keep us on track. Thank you for putting this together Tony.
According to my W.O.G. I. I should sell all my guitars….
Thanks, Tony! This course looks excellent! 🙂