Re: I Hate Playing Chords
Originally Posted by
JeffD
... if I had to do it right before I did anything I would never have done anything.
Indeed, sir. This reminds me of something I deduced back in the old days, when I was urgently trying to get good enough to play with other people - not just for fun, but also to learn from them and improve my playing from this newly acquired knowledge. I devised a plan where, in order to get good, first I had to get good at "faking it." That is, find some riffs that were strong enough to impress better players, yet not be clichés, and enough of them so I could sit in the big guys' circle until it came my turn to play a lead, and acquit myself well for those few seconds. This did work well enough, and I was able to learn from listening to them and watching how they did it, and translate that into my own playing. Somewhere along the line, though, I began to wonder whether this "faking it" had instead evolved to be my own style, so to speak - if I had the gumption to call the way I was playing a style. I may never know the true answer to this conundrum. But at least I did overcome my self-doubt concerning perfecting my skill, which kept me from languishing in assumed imperfection.
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