[rudarb]

Ive been playing electric for about a year now and I love playing the blues, its amazing how well I just connected to it all. However there are times where I got really down about my playing ability. I know very little BASIC music theory (aka nothing), and I dont understand any of that stuff either, so its a mutual relationship. I know a good deal of pentatonic scale positions, im catching up with more chords, and I love playing along to Eric Clapton, SRV, and Albert King, just whenever I read a book about playing blues and I see all this talk about 7ths and 9ths, and 5ths, I just get really confused and depressed about my playing ability. I think its really important to develop my own style of playing and buying stupid self-help books wont help me with my own style. I just think of how people like Clapton and SRV did it, they didnt have fancy books or websites, they just listend to old records and played along, that is what im doing as well, I just get angry when I cant get stuff to sound right. Has anyone been in my position? Does anyone have any advice??