Contact Quote by Tommy Bolin

“You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.”

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For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.

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I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple…

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I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go…

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I'd rather work than not.

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Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

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If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

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Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing…

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