I was talking with a guy at work (also a fellow strummer) about what kind of music we play. We both mentioned different songs from different bands and both ended up saying that the style we like the best (to listen to and enjoy) was the style we played the poorest.

Anyone else out there in the same situation? Are you proficient in the style you enjoy the most or are you better at a mix of things.

I wish I was a better blues player. I like rock and pop rock as you might know from my other posts (Huey Lewis and the News and Gin Blossoms, etc) but I think it's time I dig into getting better at the blues.

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I play mostly blues, and it's my favorite style. But I'm probably better at rock, both modern and classic. I tried playing rock for so long (long for me in this case was three years), than pretty much stopped over the last year and a half and when I went back to rock for this recent project I was a part of I was shocked by how much better I got at it by playing something else (blues). Maybe I should go play nothing but jazz for a year and a half so that when I return to blues I'll suddenly be better at it.

Another thing is that we tend to listen to our favorite style more than anything else and we end up being able to tell what's good and bad better than the casual listener. So to the person who hasn't really listened to blues, I might be considered good. But to the person who knows everyone from Blind Willie Johnson to Duke Robillard like the back of their hand, not so much. I know my Dad can't tell good hardcore and screamo from crap.

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i should hope you got better at it. rock came from blues.
rock, slow it down and clean it up, ya got blues basics.

Hey goose,
This is a very interesting subject!

Interesting that we may actually play a different style better than the
style we enjoy the most.

I never thought an artist would actually play another genre/style better than the one he or she enjoys listening to.

I've got to share this concept with a friend of mine.

I've noticed that while I've enjoyed country music, I tend to do rock or other a bit better.
Stuff I never thought I'd play seems quite easy for me to grasp.
Perhaps we have a built-in mechanism that favors individual creativity.
Perhaps this is why a lot of big name musicians will enjoy listening to a genre that doesn't seem to fit the style they can actually play.
Very interesting, indeed.
Definitely a topic worth investigating.
thanks for posting this topic!

maybe this isnt the case at all. maybe you guys are just more critical
of your playing when your playing the music that you like best.

I just play badly.

Seriously, I like rock, blues, slow, fast songs...pretty much anything except death metal (ugh--despise that style of music, but to each their own).

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Nevin1985 a nursery rhyme over thrash metal / country music could work as the nursery rhyme over thrash metal has been included in some songs over thrash history. Including country to that mix may attract more fans.

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I play Blues and Rock almost exclusively. Wish I was better at Jazz, especially those Wes Montgomery-style octaves.

I play lead mostly and have been since I started gigging in the late 60s but I've always loved finger picking.I also used to play solo in coffee houses back then and did mostly Donovan covers but I could never get the hang of finger picking.I've tried and tried but can't get my right hand to work right.Donovan's fingerpicking is brilliant such as in The House of Jansch and Tangerine Puppet and he's the one who taught The Beatles to fingerpick while in India studying with the Maharishi.I would also like to play classical and the Piedmont style picking but to no avail.

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My best style is called suck even though some of my friends think I'm a fairly decent rhythm guitarist but personally I think they're blowin' smoke lol

As far as my favorite styles go I like classic rock, punk, indie/garage rock, pop-punk/power-pop, Americana/country rock, blues, funk, alternative, grunge, hardcore/metalcore, some country and psychadelic/experimental

I play a lot of rock music, but I also like playing metal and country as well as a bit of Spanish flamenco. A lot of the rock stuff I play is based around the blues, so I would like to learn more about that, as well as learn country more in depth and just general technique.

A lot of good points. I was hoping this subject would bring that up. My guitar teacher told me today in fact that I don't give myself enough credit and pointed out that I learn things now in a third of the time it took me 2 years ago.

Scotty Morris of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy used to be in a hard core punk band for years and years and when he switched to swing and was asked about it said "I always wanted to play swing, I just never had the b@lls". ha ha.

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Im a Bass player and i started on quck Jazz and i love playing it and im moderately good at it. i played in a High School Jazz band

grunge and punk... 3 chord, minute and a half songs

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Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

ha ha. Nice one. It worked for the Ramones.

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