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Great topic man!


It's so weird for me to even start to define this, just because I'm really aware of my influences so I always really struggle to say my style is uniquely mine with a straight face 😂


I guess there are 3 main pillars of influence in my playing that make it what it is:

1.Rick Beato - For wide interval jumps, playing over changes, chord subs, general choices on the neck etc

2. Syn - where my heavy use of Economy picking/sweeping comes from, combining arpeggios etc

3. Tomo Fujita - where I get my phrasing and blues style ideas from and where I get my heavy use of Triads from.


I feel like the harmonic choices I make come from learning from Rick's stuff and the style of playing I try to accomplish comes largely from Syn & Tomo.


I guess that's why you could pass it off as 'unique' in a way, because Syn and Tomo and Rick have drastically different styles and ways of viewing the Guitar👌


I'm basically always chasing the mix of Rock/Metal (Syn) /Jazz (Rick B)/Blues (Tomo F) in my playing, 😊