Tips And Tricks For Jamming With Other Guitarists And Musicians
By Antony Reynaert
I will describe what you really need to be aware of when you are at a jam session with other musicians. Once you have the knowledge, you can start training and preparing yourself to make the step to participate in a blues jam. The number one most important part to learn first is to learn to express yourself through the guitar. This is connected to playing what you feel in order to get your emotions across with your instrument. The link here consists of the fact that once you start expressing yourself, your solos will automatically sound more emotional and a lot more nuanced. As a result, you will be playing solos that captivate the people who hear you play. However, there is some essential knowledge you need to have before you are able to play like this.
Don’t Let Other People Prevent You From Emotional Guitar Playing
A lot of people are quite shy and therefore don’t dare to express themselves. They have no trouble with playing really expressively when they are on their own, but when there are others around they don’t sound the same. The reason is that our inner self is blocking us to play at a good level. Sometimes we warn ourselves to get better first before we will be able to play guitar with great feeling. If you want to make your audience feel a certain way while listening to your solos, you should feel that particular feeling yourself when you play. You may prevent yourself from showing the way you really feel because you are playing while others listen to you.
A lot of guitarists are convinced that they should have a decent technical proficiency before they can play a piece of music emotionally. Don’t admit to that way of thinking! You will always want to be better, as even your guitar heroes keep trying to improve their playing. There is absolutely no reason to start expressing the way you feel from now on when you play the guitar. The denial of the emotions you feel inside of you cause the nervousness when an audience is listening. I can assure you will be more nervous if an audience is listening to you and you can’t even let your real emotions come out. It’s essential to lose your nerves and it’s important not to be scared when you play the guitar. How do you reach that? Express yourself and show people how you really feel while you are playing.
About the author
Antony Reynaert is a guitar teacher that is teaching online lessons on blues guitar as well as in his guitar schools in Belgium.
A lot of guitarists are convinced that they should have a decent technical proficiency before they can play a piece of music emotionally. Don’t admit to that way of thinking! You will always want to be better, as even your guitar heroes keep trying to improve their playing. There is absolutely no reason to start expressing the way you feel from now on when you play the guitar. The denial of the emotions you feel inside of you cause the nervousness when an audience is listening. I can assure you will be more nervous if an audience is listening to you and you can’t even let your real emotions come out. It’s essential to lose your nerves and it’s important not to be scared when you play the guitar. How do you reach that? Express yourself and show people how you really feel while you are playing.
About the author
Antony Reynaert is a guitar teacher that is teaching online lessons on blues guitar as well as in his guitar schools in Belgium.