Re: Discouraging Jam Session
Originally Posted by
blongnl
... all of whom were incredibly nice and supportive. However, I was pretty intimidated, and hung back ...
Uhmm... You probably hung back just the right, and expected, amount!
Most of us were equally intimidated at your stage of the game, and that's about the way things work. Those folks are supportive because they remember their early experience.
Many sessions tend to repeat at least some of the tunes from the last time, so a big help (for me!) is to note the songs played (and their keys), and get into some of them before the next session; Youtube can be very useful here. If you get familiar with even just two or three of them, others will start to fall in line.
Heck, even after decades on guitar & occasional rock bands, my first jam session on mandolin felt a whole lot like yours!
- Ed
"Then one day we weren't as young as before
Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
I'm a better man for just the knowin' of you."
- Ian Tyson
Bookmarks