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how can i better prepare to know that when i go to open jams


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how can i better prepare to know that when i go to open jams to play and sing that im best prepare as i can be. now i make sure i know the lyrics cold. spend a lot of time on the metronome, play along with original version. and most often everything goes fine. i know that the other mussians there are better or worse than me but i want to be sure im doing everything i can to become a better all around muscian so i go about 4 nights a week one night is great then another night is a bomb............:idea:

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Just keep doing it. Nothing will help you do something better than just doing it.

 

I hadn't gigged in a LONG time and picked up a gig where it's mostly requests all night as opposed to following a setlist. I took me about a good month or two to get my ear spot on, but after that things started to really click.

 

So just keep doing it. You'll get it either by repetition or skill.

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I agree with gennation. You just have to keep doing it.

 

I play a lot of improv stuff every month where we get together with no set list and just start in on some progression that is not prearranged. Sometimes a single progression will go for an hour with out a break. I've been doing this for several years. In nearly every one of those, there would be some point when I would lose my place on the neck and play out of key. We recorded all of it. There would be all this great music, and then there was that blemish that I would create. It got to the point that I believed that I simply could not go that long without screwing things up.

 

Last Friday night, we did one of these. An hour and 42 minutes worth of music. I had none of the glaring mistakes that I normally make. It may have something to do with spending more time considering my note choices rather than experimenting. What ever it was, I know it was a breakthrough based on doing it over and over. So even when you think you can't, you can.

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