Yup. Wasn't it a banjo player that replied to the question:

"There ain't no chords. You just play it!"

It's hard to jam with people who don't have the same background and ear training. You end up having to follow them, cause they can't figure out what you're doing at all--even in standard, but especially in DADGAD etc.

Fact is, a lot of the time, I'm not playing a chord--I'm i between chords, and it's hard to have a split personality enough to shout out the chords that I'm not actually playing but that another guitarist _could_ be playing--especially when there are several possibilities, as well as various wrong ones. Of course, my personality has all kinds of defects, but that just doesn't happen to be one of them.

Bill