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I taught myself guitar and while I have some bad habits as a result of that and am probably not as good as I ought to be for how long I've been playing, I am pretty good nowadays. I can play most things that I want to play, it's only really the tougher end of prog metal stuff that I enjoy but which is beyond my reach.

I've learned a bit of bass guitar too, since most of the hand movements and shapes from guitar can be transferred across, you just have to cover a little more distance with each movement. Learning bass was much more an exercise in thinking about the instrument differently and understanding how to apply it in a musical context than it was a matter of learning new ways of moving my hands.

I'm attempting to learn piano at the moment, but it's coming along slowly. I had started learning violin beforehand, but I realised that I needed to be much better at reading sheet music than I was if I was to play much violin, and I figured piano would be an easier way to learn that. I can read sheet music, just not nearly well enough, and that becomes something of an obstacle on an unfamiliar instrument. With guitar, tabs got me through the early stages and after that I was able to do things by ear for the most part, so I never properly developed the sheet music skills.