Originally Posted by: mirandahidera9696

hey chaps...been playing for about 4 years..lots of rock stuff i guess...tried to cool things down of late and moved on to bluesy/rockabilly type style.but i suck big time...now i find myself in a position where the rock stuff i used to play sounds bad and the blues/rockabilly sounds worse...i need some help and some motivation...i used to feel that every time i picked up my guitar i was getting better but now it feels like i'm going backwards and that i was playing songs better 2 years ago..i know that the stuff i am playing now is harder but i'm just struggling...but i do love playing and i want the good times to roll...someone help me before my eyes start to bleed:) Any little licks or sites to check may just save my life....thanx all......stuy

Do play songs at all?

Thing is; when you learn new stuff, it's always good to just play songs. Like the songs you were playing when you were only focusing on the rock stuff. It's just an observation, and something I'm guilty of as well; we learn new techniques but don't apply them to just playing music. The rut is trying to just play the technique. However, the fun of playing music is to actually play music. Not just learn.