Develop Your Own Uniqueness:The guitar world has always been obsessed with who is faster or better. The reality is that all good players are fast and knowledgeable about chords, improvisation and harmony.
What makes one different than another is not the external factors of technique but the unique projection of personality that comes through the music. Just as you meet one person that you like and another person that you don't like, the audience is only affected by their own individual response to a player.
Does the player move them or not? After all, the audience is not in a position to judge a player on the basis of his or her technique or knowledge. The audience can only react. This is ultimately a good thing.
Bill Evans said something that I always admired . He said you must please yourself. Play what pleases you. You can't chase players or styles or trends. In essence, he was saying find your own voice.
From a marketing point of view, you have to find an audience that likes your style, your sound, your personality.
If you become your own unique self, you'll never be disappointed with the results!
(Via ChuckAndersonGuitar.)
Curt Sheller - This is so true. I often get questions from students like "Who is better, this guitarist or that guitarist." I tell them that they are all different. You can give any to great guitarists, even not so great guitarists the same gear, pick and level of ability. If the play the same some through the same gear and even the same notes. They will sound different. Take the Wolf Marshall, the author and great mimic of other players. He still sounds like Wolf Marshall.
