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I've got ti say that I wholeheartedly disagree with that as a learning / practice technique. It's far easier to learn something than un-learn it. By playing slowly and accurately you will learn far more efficiently than playing at break-neck speed with mistakes, because once you've made that mistake and repeated it, you've then developed a "memory" of it which you have to over-write with the correct version, which is more difficult than actually doing it right in the first place. I'm not doubting anybody's talent but I've got to question playing at 240bpm as a practice technique, it's like bands that go into a rehearsal room and crank every amp, PA, etc up to 11.

As above, I'm no guitar virtuoso so my main influences were those people that I could play along with and learn from. I've always loved the way Gary Numan mixed synths with guitars and I'd say I probably spent more time playing along with his stuff than anybody else when I was first trying to figure out how to play guitar. Once I became a little more competent, I also remember playing along with Andy Taylor's guitar and learning from him - again it's the way that Duran Duran mix punk / hard rock guitar with synths, and of course the way that Andy Taylor also mixes that with funky rhythm playing, which brings me onto my other major influence - Nile Rodgers. Once I'd got the basics of rhythm playing, the only place to go to begin to learn the intricacies of it was Nile Rodgers. So there you go, my 3 main inlfluences as a guitar player - Gary Numan, Andy Taylor and Nile Rodgers.

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