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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It varies completely from player to player. Some people go into it with a pretense of “we must learn this and learn it perfectly” and some just want to play. Experience levels are gonna be different, and I guess the clincher is just communicating where you’re at. I’m a rhythm guitarist and a lot of the folks I play with play lead, and know scales well enough to hear what I’m playing and be able to improvise a lead over it. Or we might pull up tabs for a song we both like or want to learn and make it our own somehow. Some people go in with sheet music.
Having a dynamic that plays to people’s strengths is good so you can compliment each other or compensate where someone else falls short or vice versa. Have a conversation and find out if you’re on the same page or how to get there if you want to.
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