That sums it up nicely, and it's THE challenge to me, really.
Guitar is pretty interesting... I've always considered myself a drummer first, a guitarist a very distant second insofar as what comes naturally to me... I really have to work at even the remotest of proficiency at it. I think that I'm a better rhythm player than lead (which isn't saying much at all), and also think I"m a better acoustic / fingerpick sort of player than electric.
Frankly, I'd give quite a bit to be a better piano player than guitarist at this point... to me its simply a stronger music-writing instrument in a lot of ways (you sort of stop thinking in 'riffs' and start thinking in 'how does this move or evolve' sorta). Obviously, you're dealing with a linearity that guitar does not have, especially when you start messing with alternate tunings.
My Ibanez has been pretty quiet lately.... every time I reach for it, I wind up playing a lot of the same old shit, and putting it back down. Maybe that will change in the near future.
