Originally posted by Azrael

Of course your playing will sound always the same and you will be out of ideas if your guitartraining is centered 99.9% around how to gain speed.

Very well said Azrael. When I first started playing, that was exactly my philosophy. Get fast=Your great. But then I started to realize how wrong I was.

I'm kind of lucky. My mom is a professional pianist and she majored in music composition. She has sheet music from every era there is, from all the great composers and musicians. Whenever I'm in a rut, I just take out a book like, Bach's Clavier sonatas and put some stuff on guitar. But it doesn't end there.

I still practice technique and all that, but I try to think of more musically profound ideas.

About this playing - Ya I have the opinion of everybody else. Wowed by the technique, but boring. The only thing that ticks me off, is that I have this bassist friend, who showed me it. He keeps going "Oh its sooooo sick!" Like every day. I tried to explain the whole deal to him, but he just doesn't get it. He really doesn't understand why its boring. But I guess thats how people who aren't musicians feel about it. Like before I started guitar, I listened to punk rock. Once I started, and listened to an Ozzy album, I went and broke every Offspring CD I owned.