How does a group of musicians, who may never have played together before, start to play together and make cohesive music? I don’t mean over time, I mean in that first session, good musicians seem to have an intuition of what the others are about to play.
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In bluegrass, blues, etc, the tradition is a circle of musicians with various instruments will play a song and each person gets a turn at lead. Another kind of jam would be someone trying to write a song and others will join in and hopefully different styles/skills can spark something. Then you have those superjams where someone is getting honored and dozens of musicians join in playing the honoree’s signature tunes, or someone will sit in with another band, well you’re familiar with their work and you pass the lead and back them, sure sometimes you get great synergy and you can have two or more soloists chase each other or intuitively harmonize and that’s awesome.
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