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Thread #166648   Message #4008907
Posted By: Nick
15-Sep-19 - 06:25 AM
Thread Name: Guitarists Anyone else use/like Truefire
Subject: RE: Guitarists Anyone else use/like Truefire
Perhaps you can't see it outside of the site

>>I would only want to play like me though, not like anyone else, however much better they are

That's a very interesting comment. My experience of learning is more about assimilating what I learn rather than being the other person. Aside from own stuff, I play other people's songs but I don't do exact note for note imitations because they have been done already. So I'll watch Tommy Emmanuel (in awe) playing Moon River. But he plays in C and I play it in G and our versions are very different - he is much more competent and able than I am. But I may assimilate some of his bits.

Everyone I have ever watched and everyone I have played with has influenced my playing. And there are elements of lots of things.

For me it was going back to basics to be a better player. Not to be someone else