Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: playing the guitar or playing MUSIC?

Many fingerstyle acoustic guitar instrumentalists seem to gravitate to displaying their technical talent rather than writing great songs. Don is an awesome instrumentalist, but the compositions seem to fall short. It seems that in most cases a catchy guitar riff generated the songs, not the heartfelt desire to write a piece of music. The result is a technical tour de force, not a piece of emotion. Not a bad record, but it is (unfortunately) a bit forgetable after a few listens. Check out Laurence Juber or Michael Hedges if a you seek a more wholistic blend of chops and emotion-pulling composition.