Even with this site, which is a wealth of information, plotting the personal direction toward understanding and getting better is, at least what I think, essential to getting better.
Picking up a song or tab and learning it is fine to just sit there to play, but after I learn it I look back at it and ask myself things like, how is this song structured, what makes these notes sound good with those. I really don't have the answer and I know its in front of my nose. :p
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