Greatness is rare. For most of us, half-assed is plenty good enough.
Let's say you want to be able to do a half-assed solo on guitar.
Take a simple sequence and learn it. Move it around the fretboard. Play it ascending, descending, vertically, horizontally, hammer a note, pull a note, slide a note, vibrato a note, add a chromatic note or two. Vary your pace, bend one of the notes, accent on of the notes, etc.
Wring everything you can think of out of that puny sequence. And then, as Jon Finn said, do it ten times over again.
Expanding on Jasco's idea, don't learn 100 licks just a little bit, learn that puny sequence like crazy.
Here's one to get you started. A little pentatonic sequence. What can you do with that? You can do a lot with it but you have think outside the box. (Someone wrote a very famous jazz standard that starts with those notes. Can you name it?)
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If it's chords, take a E chord and play the heck out of it. Hammer & pull off some notes, Vary your rhythm, mute strings, play inversions, etc.
(This forum is half-assed. You can't post .pdf files, attachments?. It sucks. Plus they put the Lesson Loft somewhere no one will find it.)
"Molon labe!" -- King Leonidas I
Originally Posted by GW348
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