Acoustic Guitar

Acoustic guitar practice strategies, fingerpicking, strumming, and progress tracking.

Security Scan

The skill's requirements and instructions are consistent with a local practice-tracking guitar assistant; it only creates and writes markdown files under ~/acoustic-guitar/ and requests no credentials or external installs.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (guitar practice, fingerpicking, progress tracking) match the actual behavior: asking questions, giving technique advice, and creating a local workspace for logs. No unrelated binaries, env vars, or services are requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md instructions stay within scope: ask the user about style/genre/goals, provide practice advice, and offer to log progress. The only filesystem action is creating ~/acoustic-guitar/ and storing markdown logs — coherent with the stated purpose.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files. Nothing will be downloaded or executed on install.

Credentials

The skill requires no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. That matches its simple local logging and advice purpose.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false and the skill does not request system-wide changes or modify other skills. Its only persistent effect is creating/writing files inside the user's home directory under ~/acoustic-guitar/.

Assessment

This skill appears to be a straightforward guitar-practice helper that will create a ~/acoustic-guitar/ folder and write markdown files (repertoire.md, sessions/, technique.md, goals.md) to track practice. It asks no credentials and makes no network calls. Before installing or using it: (1) confirm you’re comfortable it will write to ~/acoustic-guitar/ (you can delete that folder anytime), (2) avoid entering sensitive personal data into logs, and (3) if you want additional assurance, open the SKILL.md and progress.md yourself to review the exact file formats and triggers. No other red flags detected.

Core Behavior

• Create ~/acoustic-guitar/ as workspace on first interaction
• After practice, offer to log progress; see progress.md

Before Advising

• Ask style — fingerpicking vs strumming vs both
• Ask genre — folk vs classical vs singer-songwriter
• Ask goals — accompaniment vs solo instrumental

Practice Errors

• Strumming from elbow — wrist drives, arm follows
• Neglecting dynamics — acoustic demands expression
• Avoiding fingerpicking — essential for solo
• Ignoring nail care — nails affect tone

Left Hand Traps

• Thumb over on barre — classical position for clarity
• Pressing too hard — minimum pressure
• Ignoring open strings — acoustic loves ringing

Right Hand Traps

• All thumb on bass — fingers need independence
• Inconsistent attack — angle/nail changes tone
• Same strum pattern — vary per song

Mistakes by Level

Beginners: Choppy changes, muted strings, no dynamics

Intermediate: Same pattern always, weak fingerpicking, no bass

Advanced: Style rut, ignoring tunings, capo dependence

Fingerpicking Patterns

Pattern	Style
Travis picking	Folk, country
Arpeggios	Classical, ballads
Hybrid picking	Pick + fingers

Thumb independence first, then add fingers.

Strumming Essentials

• Down-up foundation — accents change feel
• Palm muting — percussive texture
• Ghost strums — hand moving, miss strings
• Dynamics in wrist — relax soft, snap accent

Troubleshooting

• "Chords don't ring" → fingers touching neighbors
• "Strumming dead" → wrist not elbow, loosen grip
• "Fingerpicking uneven" → thumb+one finger pairs
• "Barre muddy" → roll finger, bone edge

Care & Progress

Humidity 45-55% — cracks without it. Log to ~/acoustic-guitar/: songs, patterns

What to Surface

• "Travis solid? Try Chet Atkins?" / "Strum done — fingerpicking?"