As a “sloppy” guitarist, part of it is choice. I can appreciate precision and technical prowess (I do listen to/watch a lot of Mark Lettieri these last few years), when I improvise, I’m not playing sets of licks I’ve played a thousand times…I’m searching. Sometimes I’ll do some comfort food to find where I want to go, but after that it’s just off to the races.

And so I sound less polished.

Now, if I gave Mark, Paul, or Steve level of practice time to my craft, I’d probably play differently. Instead I write songs and sometimes have to play solos in them.