![]() I eventually arrived at respectable speeds. I just thought I needed to work on it more since “practice makes perfect” as the flawed proverb says. Anything that ever seemed difficult for me to play, I never thought of changing my approach or analyzing why it might be difficult. And even though work ethic is typically a good thing, it was the opposite for me in this situation. I am a horribly non-intuitive individual. So all of my electric guitar playing, picking in particular, is self taught. While I was formally trained as a classical guitarist in college, I never had any lessons before that. Now contrast that with my technique…that is another story. After all, people tend to get good at what they do an awful lot of, and for several decades I was training my ears for hours most days. I’m proud to say I developed really good ears. I could learn by ear and play their solos note for note ( …just not up to speed). That all included songs by Petrucci, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Joe Pass, Yngwie, Al Di Meola, Brad Paisley and the list goes on. In my formative years, nearly any piece of music I wanted to play that had no sheet music available (this was pre-internet) I had to transcribe myself. Nearly my whole life (from age ~5 to now, 38) I’ve played a lot by ear and done formal ear training (solfege) at college. I’ve had plenty of people (college music professors included) comment that they thought I had great ears. TL DR: This would only be true if you play what you’re learning by ear with correct technique and not all of us are that intuitive.
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