Re: What is your style?
My style has a lot of variety in it. The last 4-5 years (except of the last year when my band started up) were spent playing almost exclusively bluegrass. I'd get the electric guitar out once in a while and rock out, but mostly just fast bluegrass stuff, traditional fiddle tunes and "newgrass" and "jamgrass." I've gotten really bored with bluegrass over the last year, but that many years of playing have influenced my picking style a lot. I'm a lot more precise with a lot more strict alternate picking and triplet runs than I was before I started listening to bluegrass. Lately I've been into country too, and while it's slow going, I'm trying to learn the Albert Lee, James Burton, Vince Gill, Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Brad Paisley style of pick and fingers hybrid stuff. On the other side of the spectrum, I grew up listening to blues, rock, jam and funk, so my first five years or so of playing was almost exclusively that. I've been told that I sound a lot like Warren Haynes. I can definitely hear his influence on my playing when I really dig into blues and rock, even though I can't really play slide very well. In my originals band, I blend a lot of them together and come up with a diverse style, which is great, because my band is fairly diverse.
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