{"id":6805,"date":"2016-01-05T22:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T06:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2019-01-01T19:45:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T03:45:44","slug":"ignoring-the-important-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/ignoring-the-important-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring The Important Stuff…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve read my ramblings for any amount of time you might remember what I call your Guitar DNA<\/a>…<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, your Guitar DNA is the stuff that you’re naturally good at. All of us are naturally predisposed to be better at certain elements of playing guitar or making music in general.<\/p>\n

And your job is to figure out which things you are strong with and work with those things.<\/p>\n

This is SO important that on many levels I consider it the<\/em> most important factor in my success as a guitar player. I’ve been able to develop technique at a level far above what most people achieve simply by noticing what works well for me and improving upon that – as opposed to spending endless hours attempting to bring things I’m not so good at up to a moderate level.<\/p>\n

But it’s also one of the things that tends to fly right in the face of good old “conventional wisdom” (and I have a lot of those…) so it’s always great to hear someone else echo my ideas.<\/p>\n

Now if you’ve never heard of Steve Vai I might not be surprised – after all he’s about as un-blues as it gets. However, he is arguably one of the greatest living guitar players with dizzying skill and technical ability, as well as a vast wealth of musical knowledge that has led him to recent projects composing massive projects for symphony orchestra along with his guitar career.<\/p>\n

And I stumbled upon this great video compilation of Steve recounting 10 of his own ideas and rules for musical success… and guess what his #1 rule is?<\/p>\n