Try creating your own SMF's NOT Commercially bought ones on your arranger so you can then customize the song & leave out parts you would play with it & your Vocals, you can also use markers to make your arrangements interesting....this will alleviate what your saying above...but you have to know how to be a musician & have very good chops to do this.IMO most Styles get very very boring and "repetitive" after all they are just smf loops to a point, although I use them 50/50 in my shows but I try to mix up all types of playing as much as I can. Then again as I always say "lets Hear What You Got"
That settles all discussions.

[This message has been edited by Dnj (edited 10-17-2008).]