The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65883 Message #1088869
Posted By: jimmyt
08-Jan-04 - 03:01 PM
Thread Name: Newcomer to a session, advice?
Subject: RE: Newcomer to a session, advice?
Good advice Treewind, typical gin soaked Deadhorse advice! But you have to admire him, being a closet Conservative, running for Mayor of Rochester.
The session I will attend on Sunday afternoon is in a pub that only has music once a month, so I will not have an oportunity to get a listen until the session is in effect. I will take it quite slowly, though.
Treewind, I pretty much play by ear, and 'til last Monday, I would have said I could grab the chord progression within a few bars and hang with it, but a guitar player friend came to my house and started playing The Girl from Ipanema in c# and I will have to admit, I don't think I got a single note right for 200 measures. Damn capos anyway! Once we got it to a civilized key it was fine!