Re: BG jam: folks get annoyed if you're not playing standard lick
For me it’s a bit different from what I read in the replies. I’m in the “hold my guitar and finger some chords and watch and listen to what the real guitar players are doing” category. I won’t go into the long boring story of how I took a twenty-five year hiatus from bluegrass music, but I did, and when I decided to get back into it, lo and behold I was an old guy that was trying to teach himself how to play the guitar, an instrument that he has never played. Back in the day I played banjo and mandolin. Now two years after that fateful decision I have made some progress and I want to learn to play with other people. My problem is that I have never played guitar with other people. I can play a reasonable lead or break on somewhere between 14 and 20 songs, but I don’ t have a clue as to how to back up someone else on any song. For now, I have decided to listen to some backing tracks and try to learn from them. So far progress on that front has been disappointing.
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