Music you play vs music you listen to

[Blackened Soul]

I don't really listen much to things that sound like things I'm doing ( in any given context) other than classic faves... Listening to things different than what you are doing gives you different ideas and can let you look at things in different ways.

[Dowi]

It's only enjoyable if you have no intent to replicate it exactly

I did once have to scrap a song I loved because I had recorded the guitar part years ago and while I could work out the chords I could just never play it quite right again.

Same. Last song of my current band first album. No idea of what I was doing, I used alternate tunings at the time, so it literally can be any possible position on the neck.

Listening to things different than what you are doing gives you different ideas and can let you look at things in different ways.

This for sure, otherwise you'll end up covering stuff without even knowing.

[coldbrightsunlight]

I don't really listen much to things that sound like things I'm doing ( in any given context) other than classic faves... Listening to things different than what you are doing gives you different ideas and can let you look at things in different ways.

I agree with this in a big way. Part of why I still listen to quite a bit of jazz despite never playing it. Plus the fact I enjoy listening to it

It's only enjoyable if you have no intent to replicate it exactly

I did once have to scrap a song I loved because I had recorded the guitar part years ago and while I could work out the chords I could just never play it quite right again.

Same. Last song of my current band first album. No idea of what I was doing, I used alternate tunings at the time, so it literally can be any possible position on the neck.

[Blackened Soul]

I'm not that way with the how I played something... But I have a lot of what the fuck tuning did I use? I have a bad habit of coming up with weird tuning a while recording that made sense at the time but didn't note it down