I may be mad.

[dunlustin]

And to pursue Jarvo's thought:
You could argue you don't need a D7 anywhere except in 1st position (guitar), but there's lots of cases where shifting a C7 up 2 frets is a "better" option.
It's all about choice.
Two French sayings:
Il faut souffrir pour etre belle = One must suffer to be beautiful -- No.
And
Qui peut le plus peut le moins = If you can do hard you can do easy.
On that basis you'd do the Tour de France before cycling to work.
I prefer Horses for courses.

 

[Anyanka]

Jarvo, too right: you shouldn't play it like X; you should play it like YOU.
I teach art (and graphics) in my spare time - oops, no in my WORK time - and I frequently meet people who want to learn to draw or paint just like [insert name of artist]. First lesson is to get them to understand that they need to learn to draw and paint just like themselves.

 

[jarvo]

I am a self taught/naturally ......able shall we say , cartoon drawer.........and art (big A or little a) like with music , it does not hurt to pinch a bit of style or material from here and there especially if you get stuck with something ,providing you assimilate it into the whole and your own style develops from it.

 

[donn]

It doesn't even hurt to pinch quite a boat-load of style or material from here and there. I play far too much like myself. One's own style doesn't exactly emerge from a vacuum as if it were stamped into our chromosomes, it comes from what you've stolen.

 

[george garside]

totally agree with both playing like you aand also with selectively pinching bits of style or whatever from others irrespective of whether they are near the top or bottom of the pile

george