A question or two. · Intermediate Guitar

A question or two.

Hello guitar peeps! I've been playing for decades and tend to love all kinds of guitar playing and guitar music. I've noticed that there are different types of guitarists and guitar playing and I'm curious to hear what other people have to say on this subject. I also noticed as with life itself that even when I've practised consistently, played well, become more skilled and fluent, someone comes along and blows me out of the water!? I realised that no matter how well I practise I'm unlikely to be anywhere near the greats. But that's ok.

But that aside, I'm more of an instinctive guitarist, I took to jamming and improv quite readily when I noticed many other guitarists couldn't. Yet when it came to actually sitting and learning by rote, I found this difficult, preferring to 'do my own thing'. I think both approaches have strengths and weaknesses as a guitarist and musician. I tend to be creative and write many songs and bits of music too, but how good any of these are I really can't say. I veer between thinking they're great to thinking they're crap. Sound familiar?!

What I now feel is that regardless of any ability or lack thereof, I just want to enjoy playing the guitar and not seeing it as endless progression or seeing that something is always out of reach. I hope that ramble makes sense?!

Party on dudes!!!

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A question or two.