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I’ve been a musician for over 40 years, starting with sax in grade school, and then as a guitarist from high school on. I have lived all over, played in all kinds of bands (including the US Army Band) over the year. I have not gotten particularly good though I have been at it for so long. This is mainly because I could never concentrate well enough to get licks off of records as well as most people. Every town had a better guitar player or two, and really, these folks were not particularly bright or creative people, they could just concentrate and learn. I’m best at improvising, and best at group improv, ala Jerry Garcia. Not much call for this kind of skill, I’m afraid, but it is very ADD: I’m able to navigate in chaos and spontaneously intuit and create. Playing standard parts in cover bands? Torture! I can do it, but it takes an aggravating amount of discipline and is definitely not my strong suit. Anybody else like this???
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