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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Music follows patterns, and if you know how those patterns work, it’s much like forming a sentence. Often times the drummer will start a rhythm pattern that repeats over and over again, and then the bass and guitar might decide based on the style of music what chord pattern they will use. Everything from that point is just fitting words into the sentence.
To use a sports analogy, it’s like baseball. If you know the rules, you can jump in with any team and each position has it’s job, so you know sort of what to expect.
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