Your main weakness in general musicianship ?

[StephenO]

No problems with tempo or rhythm but I have an unfortunate, and rather odd, tendency to swap over the left and right hand parts so I end up playing the left hand part several octaves higher with my right hand and vice versa. Must be something wrong with my excuse for a brain!

With the clarinet, it's forgetting to breathe and suddenly realising I'm in the middle of a long phrase with not enough breath left to finish it. Pant! Gasp!

[mercia]

...tendency to swap over the left and right hand parts so I end up playing the left hand part several octaves higher with my right hand and vice versa

wow! - clever trick - I'm jealous!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

With the clarinet, it's forgetting to breathe and suddenly realising I'm in the middle of a long phrase with not enough breath left to finish it. Pant! Gasp!

Oh, I think we've all done that. But I've found, when practising the bagpipes, that all my years playing the oboe mean that I try to breath with the music, rather than keeping the bag fully inflated. So the sound stops.

[vinteuil]

But I've found, when practising the bagpipes, that all my years playing the oboe mean that I try to breath with the music, rather than keeping the bag fully inflated. So the sound stops.

surely that should be, "So the sound stops "

[mikerotheatrenestr0y]

If, when singing, I hit a wrong note, I will mostly pitch the next interval correctly from that wrong note. So, not just incompetent, but deeply incompetent. I must listen harder to Django Bates' Interval Song. I date my respiratory problems to not breathing during recorder practice in primary school. Since I understood neither the written music nor the fingerings, I knew I was bound to be playing the wrong note if I let any air at all escape. This state of affairs has never improved, and is unlikely to do so.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

surely that should be, "So the sound stops "

The people around would agree with you.

[Tapiola]

Sometimes when I'm singing to myself as I'm tidying house, I'll throw in a key change between verses for no reason at all.

Eudaimonia,

I wouldn't call that a weakness in musicianship. I'd just call the Taste Police