Guitar Techniques

FOOD FOR thought

Seems like everywhere I look now, there are incredible guitarists playing incredible things that I will never be able to play. They must have always been there but with the internet making everything so much closer, it’s getting more personal.

At NAMM this year I met up with loads of fellow YouTube instructors and also many top-shelf players that I really admire. It seems feelings of inadequacy are common; it’s a driving force for some, and a pressure for others. “I’ll never have such incredible note choice, or extended vocabulary, be fast enough, or have such a powerful tone, or be

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