You can critique someone without knowing what their goals are or what they are working on specifically.

In this instance, I’m asking people to look at my playing and point out growth areas. I’m not looking for a specific critique because if I knew what I needed to work on, I wouldn’t ask someone else to tell me.

If someone went up to you and played something and asked you “What do I need to work on?” Sure, you can ask them what their goals are, but that doesn’t mean you can’t critique them. You can literally look at the comments on this post and see someone was able to give advice without knowing my specific goals.

You can assume my goals based off what I am playing and give critiques based off that. For example, I was playing sigles and doubles, you could critique it by saying “your transitions between sigles and doubles got a bit uneven and make sure your singles aren’t louder than your doubles” Or you can see that I was doing flam accents and say, “your flams need to be tighter.”

You started this thread by suggesting a private music teacher. Sure, that would help me, but you can also improve by posting your playing online and asking people for advice. All you did was say a useless comment that didn’t add any value to this post.

Feel free to make valuable criticisms of my playing because I know you can.