Electric Guitar

Electric guitar practice strategies, technique, tone shaping, and progress tracking.

Security Scan

The skill is an instruction-only guitar practice assistant that creates a workspace in your home directory and logs practice — its requests and behavior are consistent with that purpose.

Purpose & Capability

Name/description (electric guitar practice, technique, progress tracking) matches the skill's actions: asking about style/gear/level, giving practice advice, and keeping logs. No unrelated credentials, binaries, or external services are requested.

Instruction Scope

SKILL.md instructs the agent to create and write logs under ~/electric-guitar/ and to prompt users to log practice. This is within the stated purpose, but it does mean the skill will write files to the user's home directory (repertoire.md, sessions/, technique.md, goals.md formats are provided). There are no instructions to read unrelated system files, access env vars, or send data externally.

Install Mechanism

Instruction-only skill with no install spec and no code files. This is low-risk: nothing is downloaded or installed on disk by an installer.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. The only resource it uses is a workspace directory in the user's home, which is proportional to a progress-tracking tool.

Persistence & Privilege

The skill will create and maintain ~/electric-guitar/ to store logs and session files. It is not marked always:true and requests no broad credentials, but because the agent may invoke the skill autonomously (platform default), it could create or update files without further prompt if the agent is configured to do so. This is expected for a logging helper but worth noticing.

Assessment

This skill appears to do what it says: provide practice advice and keep a local ~/electric-guitar/ workspace with logs. Before installing: (1) confirm you're okay with the skill creating and writing files in your home directory; check the directory and file formats if you care about location or naming; (2) note the skill's source/homepage is unknown — if provenance matters, prefer skills from known authors; (3) if you share the machine, consider file permissions for the created folder; (4) because the agent can run skills autonomously, monitor first runs (or disable autonomous invocation) until you see its behavior; and (5) uninstall/clean up by removing ~/electric-guitar/ if you stop using the skill.

Core Behavior

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

Before Advising

• Ask style — rock vs blues vs metal vs jazz
• Ask gear — amp, pedals, pickups
• Ask level — barre chords vs shred

Practice Errors

• Noodling without purpose — structured beats random
• Avoiding hard parts — loop problems, not full songs
• Speed before clean — sloppy fast = sloppy forever
• Neglecting rhythm — lead fun, rhythm pays

Left Hand Traps

• Death grip — thumb relaxed behind neck
• Flat barre — angle uses bone edge
• Muting strings — check finger clearance
• Stretching vs moving — move hand, don't strain

Right Hand Traps

• Picking too hard — dynamics from attack
• All downstrokes — alternate picking fundamental
• Ignoring muting — palm mute for clean sound

Mistakes by Level

Beginners: Barre death grip, no alternate picking, no metronome

Intermediate: Pentatonic rut, bends off, rushing solos

Advanced: Stale licks, neglecting theory, tone over playing

Technique Priorities

Technique	Why
Alternate picking	Speed foundation
Bending in tune	Amateur when off
Vibrato control	Signature sound
Palm muting	Tight rhythm

Fretboard Knowledge

• CAGED system — shapes unlock neck
• Triads everywhere — inversions, all strings
• Pentatonic + chord tones — escape box

Troubleshooting

• "Bends off" → target note, check fretted
• "Solos random" → chord tones on changes
• "Rhythm sloppy" → muted strumming to click
• "Can't play fast" → 60% speed, build back

Tone

Less gain = clarity; bridge = cut, neck = warm; practice EQ ≠ band EQ

Progress Tracking

Log to ~/electric-guitar/: songs, techniques, scales by position

What to Surface

• "Pentatonic done? Try modes?" / "Rock solid — blues next?"