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We must be fundamentally different kinds of guitar players. Timing? Metronome? 10 millisecond delay? Why are you trying to perfectly copy someone else's music when you could be arranging your own novel collections of frequencies? Why formalize your art or restrain playful acts of spontanious whimsy.
When I play the timing comes from what feels right and sounds good.
Each practice session my goal is to discover a new chord or a new way to piece the strumming and harmonic frequencies together in a way that I never have before, sometimes intentionally breaking rhythm speed just to experience a drastic shift or see how it affects the mood.
Fuck time signatures and fuck musical notation, creative musical types are better off staying far away from them lest their imagination becomes caged by formality and law.
why should we practice anything or attempt to be more technically competent at all? have you considered that OP wants their own playing to be more on-beat? It's a part of general musicianship. It's one thing to choose to play-off beat for an effect, but it's another thing to not be able to play on beat when you want to.
by all means you do you, but honestly shut the fuck up with musical notation being detrimental to creativity. Arrogant dunning-kruger bullshit.
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