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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
https://www.guitarmusictheory.com/podcast/
My current favourite is the alarmingly titled "Guitarwank". As usual, I'm years late to the party but I really enjoy the open discussion format between two very talented and funny players; Scott Henderson (fusion-ish) and Bruce Forman (more of a straight-ahead jazzer who also does western swing and a few other things).
I've learned more from the first few episodes of that than I have wasting my money on books, lessons etc.
For example: It really is as being prepared to put a lot of work in! We all know the basics that we could be working on (chords, arpeggios, scales etc.) but people seem to underestimate how much effort it takes to use these proficiently enough to even START making music.
Also, you need to spend an awful lot of time listening to good music. Scott Henderson talks about students turning up at the Musicians Institute wanting to be blues players who have never heard Albert King. Likewise there are jazz guitar students with scant knowledge of the horn or piano players who are giants in that genre. I think it's Scott who tells a story of listening to the sax legend Wayne Shorter, who has a distinctive, idiosyncratic style, effortlessly improvising perfect impersonations of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane etc.
Occasionally I get overwhelmed but it's a handy reality check. I sometimes toy with the idea of taking some 1-1 lessons to get into jazz but then I realise that I have neither the ambition or the talent to be an even half-decent player. Oddly enough, although this is a harsh realisation, it reminds me that I play guitar as a hobby because I enjoy it!
Sorry for the digression. My problem with podcasts is that there are so many out there of variable quality. Nearly all could do with considerable editing but it's amazing what we now have access to for free.
Learning an instrument is working on small number of things at a time, over a long period of time.
Audiobooks impart large amounts of information in a fairly fleeting way, you hear it and it has gone.
Going back to it is harder than turning to a bookmarked page.
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