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Guitarist Jam

#21
Hopefully the guy understands your situation and is willing to be patient if need be and help you out. I'm around your age and I met a guy who's also about 20 years older and can play multiple instruments guitar, bass and drums. He's happy to just link and play. He's also willing to throw in advice here and there.

Who knows, perhaps the guy isn't only interested in jamming to certain songs, but to just shred in general. If that's the case, there's a great learning opportunity for you as well. I'd ask him about it and see what he says.

If he's up for that, I highly recommend getting a "band in a box." I picked up a Digitech TRIO band creator new for about $50 last year on an overstock deal and that's one of the best investment I've made.

Strum a few chords and the machine's "technology" will create a random drum and bass part to accompany the chord. From there, you can switch between 7 different genres and 12 musical styles between each genre and get a different bass and drum part for each....and you can change the tempo for them all. You can turn down the bass part and voila, you and the guitarist will have drums to rock to. If you need a little nudge, just turn up the bass part and listen for a few seconds to get some ideas and off you go.
 
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#22
iRealB is a pretty sweet app. Based on the real books, now digital, you can access thousands of free charts through the forum. With any chart, you can change key, tempo, style, and have as much or as little backing track as you want. Thousands of tunes in many styles.

You can also create your own charts, say, a two chord vamp.

Only downside is the charts do not include the melodic head. And the midi backing parts can get a bit repetitive.

The cursor moves along, highlighting measures as they go by, so you get the hang of codas, repeated parts and endings. Repeat the progression as many times as you like.

You can also print the charts.
I think it was $20, last time I downloaded it, but I have it running on my phone, iPad, and a couple macs.
 
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#23
Met him last night along with about a dozen other musicians at a very casual open mic. Meeting again tomorrow at studio to play. Will fill in the details later this weekend. Thank you, everyone for all of the valuable insight. Ttyl
 
#24
This guitarist sound serious about forming a group and playing gigs, and may be seeking jam session talent to test out who is going to fit the band. Often gig players have practice sessions to go over material for a gig, and like to make the most out of each rehearsal and not hang out and jam. But, I could be wrong. If you were a grade school musician who learned music in class, consider yourself "Classic trained". Good luck.
 
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Badwater said:
This guitarist sound serious about forming a group and playing gigs, and may be seeking jam session talent to test out who is going to fit the band. Often gig players have practice sessions to go over material for a gig, and like to make the most out of each rehearsal and not hang out and jam. But, I could be wrong. If you were a grade school musician who learned music in class, consider yourself "Classic trained". Good luck.
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