I didn't deliberately set out to play anyone elses stuff, I would hear something I like and then pick it up by ear.
The only way you can improve is to push yourself and learn new ideas and techniques. Where do you learn them from? I mostly picked them up by ear and then applied my own personality to them. After all your own personality should come out in your playing.
I wasn't interested in playing a song the whole way through at all, it would always be bits and peices from here and there, pick the things that I like and don't like.
I'd like to think thats how I developed my own style of play.
[Edited by Graz on 01-31-2003 at 05:02 AM]