To fellow guitarists stuck on the plateau: ironically blues scale saved me from it

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Many years ago, I learned that infamous scale like all of us did. And shortly after, I thought I pretty much mastered it. I mean it was incredibly simple so it was no big hassle I felt like a blues god playing it on backing tracks. That’s where most of the people get stuck as I can observe. Tons of small youtubers doing gear reviews while sounding really really uninspiring. I however thought my playing still sounded shit when I listened to my recordings, even if performing made me feel great. I thought the problem was not me, instead it was the extremely simple and limiting pentatonic scale. So I started learning theory (the only thing on this journey that helped me btw). I started learning all the modes, scales etc. But they didn’t solve the problem either. I didn’t know why. They should have provided me the complexity that makes a solo listenable As Guthrie said expecting solution from a scale is like writing the alphabet over and over again, expecting it to turn out into a book. It was not going to happen. I thought I was so original that I didn’t need to learn too many songs from various artists. If I learned my theory and scales very well, I would create my own voice and