Yes, styles can be repetitive, but they don’t have to be. There is so much you can do with a style while it’s playing.

The first thing I notice is many players just “leave it running.” They forget the meaning of “fills” or are too lazy to hit the “fill” pedal.

A favorite of mine is to put it on “synch start/synch stop. Jab away at the left hand for the first two choruses of a song and bring the style back in on the chorus (or anywhere). Or turn the style off altogether and start it somewhere in the middle of a song (Example: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love…..come in with the steady style on the “release“).

Then you can leave a “fill” running for 8 or 16 measures and end it by going into a different “variation” from the one you left.

You can use the “break” button for as many measures as you want to break up the continuity of the style.

You can stop a style anywhere and fill in a measure with a “pad:…..maybe 4 cymbal or drum hits, etc……and back to the style again

With a little creativity, and a lot of effort, styles don’t have to be boring!

Mark