No, mc9mm is right to an extent- There are many "right" ways to play the guitar, and many "wrong" ways to play the guitar. If you play the "wrong" way well enough though, you can make it a "right" way, if that makes sense. For example, tapping used to be "the wrong way", now its a legitimate style.

I've always been an advocate for having good technique, because there are times when you have a lapse of creativity, and I feel that the mind should never get bored with the guitar; The answer to such times is to improve your technique, or to study some theory, or if you are an electronics schematic nut like me, you'll draw up custom guitar wiring diagrams for six hours a day at school (I filled up two 300-page notebooks!) everyday. Basically, keep busy. Before I had a job, I used to read voraciously, eating up (not literally.... :eek: ) books like Finnegan's Wake and War & Peace. There was actually a really long thread on that, about a year ago, can't remember what it was called...

But anyways, this has developed into quite a thread!

~Incidents