Eli5: How does a group of musicians “jam”?

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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 short, experience. Veteran and naturally gifted musicians have gained, mostly via trial and error, an understanding of musical structure and composition that the casual listener lacks.

Basically, after enough practice, you know that in a given format, the next logical step for “Musician A” will likely be “X”; thus allowing you to plan what you will play next in order to compliment it.

There’s probably a much simpler way to describe all of this but hope this helps

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