I think the important aspect of a style is how much, I like to say, "punctuation" it can give to my instrument's musical grammar.

Great styles break up a tune just like commas, semi-colons, quotation marks, question marks, and a good old exclamation point every so often in a written sentence does....wonders!

Much the same with my music. Tunes that have a sameness about them throughout tend to be boring, and I must be very careful with where to put fills (commas), Main Variation changes (semi-colons), and, that good old stop/fill (exclamation point!)

Using the right introduction is just as important in my music as in my social life...remember the old saying, "You never have a second chance to make a first impression."

I generally program my styles to have phrases that actually phrase, and introductions that allow me to play over the top, so I can use a well programmed, interesting style, for more than one tune in a set.

We all know what its like to read a post
with no punctuation capitals or other grammatical
necessities as it gets pretty boring and tedious
to read sentence after sentence word after word
with no space between sentences...see what I mean?

So I generally try to make my styles give my music some space and breathing room...a certain...um...style.

Thank you...thank you very much!

Ian