Originally Posted by: bushido1So my friends, I have been strumming for about 18mths now. If I keep banging away at chords, arpegios, majors and relative natural minors, triads, pentatonic, blues pent, harmonic minor, chromatic scale runs, the 8 modes, songs and improvising in and around short riffs...will this lead me in the right direction??

Since you already know more than most that consider themselves guitar players, I'd say so. :D

In addition to what Neal said, my personal opinion is that guitar players can find themselves stuck on the knowledge part and not apply what they know. Creating music! There's lots of satisfaction in using what you know to make a nice, well done bit of music. You know, flex your muscles a little bit from what it is that you've learned. Just learning guitar is great and the journey is enjoyable but I've always felt the knowing what I know allows me to better apply what I've learned.

I started writing something yesterday. I'm still creating around a core idea. Thing is, I'm writing something 'just because'. I'm never going to be a rock stat, but I want the idea fleshed out because it feels satisfying to me. I'll record it some time just to hear the breadth of my idea.

I think the point is that not to just limit yourself to learning but o take what you know and do something with it, even if for yourself.