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> >Too much > >technique shifts the art away from expression. Insufficient technique > >prevents the art from being realized. > > right. I partially disagree. What shifts one's art away from expression is _not_ "too much technique". It is the over-reliance on habits. Playing the blues box is a habit for some players. Playing a favorite 3-octave harmonic minor scale pattern is a habit for others. Playing a favorite diminished arpeggio up and down the fretboard is a habit for yet others. And so on. A major component of self-expression is being in control over one's habits rather than being controlled by them. A possible analogy is a conversation. I notice that when I am genuinely interested in the conversation, I participate in a way that is, for lack of a better term, "non-rehearsed". When I am getting bored, I begin to act in a rehearsed manner, which is smiling and nodding. This is a habit I have. [Matthias's excellent comments on limited technique forming a language deleted] Paolo Valladolid --------------------------------------------------------------- |Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ |for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | \ finger pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu for more info \ | \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| -----------------------------------------------------------------