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Old July 23rd, 2007
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Originally Posted by 9LC View Post
(The following is just my opinion.)

The hardest part about playing guitar is to improvise exactly what you hear in your head and transcend it onto the guitar.

When you can do that (and not many people can) you have absolutely 0 boundaries in any existing styles of music.
I totally agree with that! I've been struggling with that my entire guitar playing existence. It's easy to get frustrated and either just drop it all and play 'whatever'.


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