At a jam last night I played a nuber of songs that were new to me. When I was lost, one of my guitar playing buddies would usually take pity on me and call out chords and I would thump roots and maybe find a transition note or two. On one song (my feeble mind can't remember which right now) I heard someone say it was in D, so I started there but it wasn't a simple 12 bar or rock variant that I was familiar with so I tried to find the other chords by going up and down the D major scale. It was really frustrating because I felt like I was a step behind, just finding the root of the current chord as it was about to change to the next. When it ended, I told a buddy who usually called chords that I wished he had called that one because I was completely lost. He said he thought I knew it because I was "doing that really cool bass line instead of just thumping roots".
