Well the problem with teaching yourself is that your student won't listen to you because your teacher doesn't know anything more than you do.
Try a different style. Try playing a song you know in a different style - maybe even changing the time signature. Take Crocodile Rock for instance. It's a piano rock song, but I worked it out to play in a bluegrass fingerpick style. If you normally play rock then switch up to folk, or if you normally play with a pick try finger picking, or if you normally interpret to a personal style from chord charts learn to read music and cover a song with precision. Learn something that has some jazz chords or chords you wouldn't normally know. And if you haven't already, practice scales, argeggios, and inversions until they make you sick. Start slow and build up speed, then listen to anything from Allman Brothers to Yngwie Malmsteen to Segovia and you'll be amazed at how much of their outrageous solos are applications of scales, arpeggios, and inversions.
I hope at least one of those helps. I need to work on the scales, arpeggios, and inversions myself. They are the keys to blues music, and I really want to learn to lay out some folksy blues riffs like Jim Croce.
- Zurf
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