Typically, I can't be bothered with 'jamming' type events. Always winds up being long drawn-out versions of simple, boring songs while each person takes a lead.
With no open mics around last week that I could make it to - options were all late starting/late running (like 9-midnight) - which don't work me as I'm up at 6am for work every weekday, so I went to a Saturday night open mic which looked like it might be more jamming than I prefer. It was, but at least it was all acoustic. There was a guy with an acoustic double bass who was good on some songs.
I actually jammed along, from my seat, with the host's songs, playing some leads, which could only be heard by those close to me. He was actually someone I could easily support in a duo role, but I quickly figured out that he plays solo gigs regularly and invites people to come up and play with him/jam at the gigs - do he gets to keep all the pay.
So the end of the night ended up being about 40 minutes of everyone jamming together - there was no one left in the place but us players. Nope, not what I want to do regularly.
With no open mics around last week that I could make it to - options were all late starting/late running (like 9-midnight) - which don't work me as I'm up at 6am for work every weekday, so I went to a Saturday night open mic which looked like it might be more jamming than I prefer. It was, but at least it was all acoustic. There was a guy with an acoustic double bass who was good on some songs.
I actually jammed along, from my seat, with the host's songs, playing some leads, which could only be heard by those close to me. He was actually someone I could easily support in a duo role, but I quickly figured out that he plays solo gigs regularly and invites people to come up and play with him/jam at the gigs - do he gets to keep all the pay.
So the end of the night ended up being about 40 minutes of everyone jamming together - there was no one left in the place but us players. Nope, not what I want to do regularly.
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