A common piece of advice given to guitarists is play less. Albert King once advised Gary Moore to “play every other note”, for example.
To be clear, this is not to say having great technique (and flaunting it) is a bad thing – there are few experiences more thrilling than hearing Gary Moore tearing around the fretboard at full speed – but even then it’s true to say the way he plays things is at least as important as what he plays.
