Good on you, John: I just try to be as good as I can be: not as good as someone else is. In the area of music, so much depends on honesty and emotion that technical brilliance isn't alway enough. I've heard people do the most complex guitar transcriptions of ragtime piano without missing a note. They just missed the song. Completely.

When I was in college, I had a roommate who really wanted to learn how to play guitar. He loved to sing, and he could tree every cat in the neighborhood after the first couple of notes. He asked me if I thought it was stupid for him to learn to play guitar and I told him, "If you will enjoy it, then it's not stupid at all." And I started giving him lessons. For him, "pretty good" would have been a dream come true. But, he became "pretty good" for the gift that he had, which was limited.

Do the absolute best you can with the gifts that you have.

Jerry