How can musicians meet up and start “jamming” with little to no pre planning

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For example: we had some guests over while my dad was playing guitar, one of the guests just picked up a spare guitar and started playing with him.

Or [that one video of the two sax players.](https://youtu.be/1_9IMZcbKHQ)

They hadn’t spoke before and they just started making music with each other.

I’m sorry I’m not very good at describing it but how can a musician just start a duet without talking. It seems like magic.

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Music is a language. Like a conversation has sentence structure, cadence, a back and forth, and a purpose – music has those same scaffolds. Once you know a song’s key (like the topic of a conversation) you can work within that framework as a musician. Certain notes/chords work, where others don’t

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