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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Only problem is does anyone know any good practice drills to really develop this and does practicing scales and arpeggios actually hamper this development?
See what notes change for example from a maj7 to a Dom 7...i think the idea is to take small ideas and develop them ....
I know that all sounds pretentious, and I'm certainly not one to talk - I'm like zero on the scale and I'm jolly glad the facepalm button has gone - but it's true!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
But the key here is 'in the long term'.
Imagine you learn a new word- on dictionary.com the word of the day is 'katzenjammer', so let's use that.
(It means distress or anguish).
Musicians who learn new musical phrases like to use them, often a lot more than is musically necessary.
So whilst you need to know the word, you also need to know when it is applicable in conversation, which admittedly is probably not going to be very often in the case of 'katzenjammer' unless you happen to be going to a 'Black Books' themed party.
It is normal and natural to go through a period where you are trying to jam all of your new found vocabulary into music all over the place.
It doesn't happen to everyone, but many people- and certainly it did with me.
Hopefully you calm down with it (I like to think that I did) and find a way to use it more skilfully.
But if you never learn it in the first place then you can't go through that stage, you'll stay a musician with a relatively limited vocabulary.
This might not be a problem, certainly there are loads of musicians who seem to make do with knowing a relatively small amount, but it greatly depends on genre.
If you want to be the next Bruce Springsteen/Kurt Cobain then perhaps you don't need to know it.
If you want to be the next Robben Ford/John Petrucci then you have to get your shit together and start taking it seriously.
If you want to play jazz/fusion and some styles of metal then you can't get away not knowing it- I've never seen anyone fake it convincingly.
It comes back to 'what sort of musician do you want to be'?
It does take years and years- but those years are going to pass anyway- I decided some time ago that I was going to spend it trying to really understand music.
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