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Originally Posted by Joe Beamish
If it’s a guitar player that I want to learn from specifically, I try to replicate the arrangement or the solo. Usually, I can’t quite do it, or if I do, over time I will start to play it a bit differently without meaning to. . . .
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In the early seventies I bought Stephan Grossman's how-to-play-ragtime book. I never made sense of it, but he said something in it that's always stuck with me:
Don't worry about sounding too much like the artist you're copying. You won't.