...in fact he might like 4.8 which says "One my pet infuriations is a local player who is in fact very much better than almost everybody else in the session but who most of the time noodles away well-nigh inaudibly. The result of which is that anyone else with any taste will (a) not want to play over the top of him and (b) not be able to follow him either. The session disintegrates into mumbling incoherence until some accordiosaurus feels it's time to bellow out a mating call." and/or 4.5 "a session *is* practise. Learning to play an instrument on your own is one thing, learning to play with other people is something else again. People have to learn to listen to what others are doing while also playing themselves (and listening to that). It's difficult, at first; needs practise."