Hello community,
I was wondering how you guys deal with your own lines? More specifically the everpresent feel that your own lines are inferior to the ones you transcribe from the players you admire? I understand it is a great drive for constant self improvement but it discourages me from playing and developing those ideas and I often find myself thinking I should be looking for a phrase that is a bit more hip and hope to make it my own somehow.
Here s an example -![]()
I play Bireli s solo from the start all the way to the G major in B section and then E7, Emin, A7 is my own made up thing. Now ofcourse I quickly realized the E7 run is from django s tiger going to triplet feel and going back to match the time and then the Emin (more like Gmajor in this case) and A7 is something I dont realize I have ever transcribed from somewhere but chances are I heard that too. Still when I listen to it I know exactly when I start to play my ideas and already hate it and feel light years far from finding something like "my own" voice.
I have a feeling my perspective is somewhat wrong here.
How do you guys cope with this?
I was wondering how you guys deal with your own lines? More specifically the everpresent feel that your own lines are inferior to the ones you transcribe from the players you admire? I understand it is a great drive for constant self improvement but it discourages me from playing and developing those ideas and I often find myself thinking I should be looking for a phrase that is a bit more hip and hope to make it my own somehow.
Here s an example -

I play Bireli s solo from the start all the way to the G major in B section and then E7, Emin, A7 is my own made up thing. Now ofcourse I quickly realized the E7 run is from django s tiger going to triplet feel and going back to match the time and then the Emin (more like Gmajor in this case) and A7 is something I dont realize I have ever transcribed from somewhere but chances are I heard that too. Still when I listen to it I know exactly when I start to play my ideas and already hate it and feel light years far from finding something like "my own" voice.
I have a feeling my perspective is somewhat wrong here.
How do you guys cope with this?