Does anyone feel they can't play with oth

I'm really fortunate to live in a town with a lot of really really talented musicians my age. I haven't had a bad jam in a long time. A lot of them listen to prog too, so we can appreciate each other's often eccentric playing.

I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties though. Just look around for other guys to jam with, or be patient. My friend Colin sucked at drumming a year ago, but I made it a point to jam with him as often as possible and push his limits, and now he sounds ten times better than when we started jamming.

Wow triple post Cygmund.

Ya thats one of the reasons I play classical guitar almost exclusively now. Besides the fact that Im older now and I have a wife and kids, to me its not as fun as it used to be just to get together with buddies and jam on old Sabbath or Zeppelin. I no longer really want to be in a rock band even though music is still my first love. Im not putting myself above anyone, its just my tastes have changed and its a hell of a lot easier just to pick up and classical guitar and go.

Edited by dralan - July 17 2006 at 21:44

I see what you mean. I'm fairly new playing guitar and I wanted to make a very simple  yet beautiful song by Explosions in the sky. I only needed at least another guitarist to make the song, but a friend of mine who plays guitar said that the song is too slow and he doesn't like it because there isn't too much happening . That bummed me out. I guess he'll never play a single ballad just because it's "too slow" or "there isn't much to play in it"

...Sad......

When I played we had to comp´romise, they accepted to play some popular prog tracks like Point of Know Return, Crime of the Century and I had to accept playing Follow You Follow Me plus some Asia stuff  

I have had luck, and I have two insane friends to share my music tastes and improvisational ambitions! Here's one of our jam: http://www.mikseri.net/music/play.php?id=112855&type=dl  

Edited by Eetu Pellonpää - July 18 2006 at 02:06

jamming can be difficult, even when you're all very good (perhaps especially if you're all very good). i joined a quote "Swedish-influenced metal band" and it seems to work out okay. we don't jam so much as just write stuff. the one practice we've had so far was great; the drummer gave a 7/4 beat at random, and we just wrote an intro and all. things just went together, even though I don't like metal all that much. granted, we have different tastes - but as musicians, we seem to be on the same page.

As a bassist, I've always played by ear and I've been able to pick up and play with just about anyone.  I've jammed with several metal bands, punk, blues, and even a prog-type creation recently.  It depends on the people, but you really need a place to start.  Get a basic idea down first and expand it later.  You cant try to create a masterpiece all in one go unless you're really really good.

Write it yourself if you're so good. MIDI sequencing software is readily available for free.

Learn to play bass and drums. If you feel it's so easy than just go ahead and do it.
You sound like one of those guys that whenever someone plucks a note or hits a drum you start yelling "NO NO NO... NOT THAT WAY!!... THIS WAY! DADA DODO DA DA DEE DUM DA DOO"

heirophant, i CAN play guitar, flute, piano, drums, bass and pretty much ANYTHING you throw at me....because im FIENDISH for music so its not that hard.

BUT SOMETIMES YOU NEED A BAND TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC!!!!  I need the rhythm, i need it all going at once, i cant record myself and play over it i just dont feel it, yuou would know if you were quite nearly as fiendish.