[Jakedog]

It depends on what you want to do in the long run IMO.

If you want to be in bands, and gig and make money, branch out. If I had only ever stuck with one thing, I'd have missed out on a lot of work over the years. If it were me, and at one time it was, I would focus on playing lots of styles convincingly, rather than one perfectly. It makes you much more employable. On the other hand, if you just want to stay a hobbyist, and play for your own enjoyment, then yo umight derive a great deal of satisfaction from going through the list artist by artist, over a period of many years, and learning every note and nuance they ever played. An in depth study like that can be very rewarding as well.

Personally, I can relate to the ADD reference. I have never been able to stick to anything for very long except my own stuff. I have been in country bands, metal bands, rock bands, blues bands, a reggae band, you name it. I have even found that I can have tons of fun playing music I don't even like. Playing it, and listening to it for entertainment, are two vastly different things. That's how I first started playing country. Now I love it to death.

I am by no means a master of any one style at all. but through years of gigging and recording all of these different styles, I have developed a working knowledge of just about every genre except for classical and jazz, and that augmenting my original writing and recording keeps me from having to have a day job.