In this free online guitar lessons post, we aren’t going to talk about chords or scales or whatever. I want to talk about jamming with friends. My favorite memories from the last 21 years of guitar playing all involve my friends. From garage band practice, to memorable gigs and studio sessions, to hotels to endless drives between everything, my best friends were always there. But one of my favorite memories was sitting down at my friend’s parents’ dining room table playing acoustic guitars. We used to do this quite often. We still have jams but now it’s in a different setting.
These dining room jams is where I learned so much about just having fun and playing guitar. There was no traveling, sound checks, loading in PA’s, drunk dudes telling us they used to drive for Hendrix or any of that. (All of which were amazing fun though). It was just me and my buddy having a hang and playing guitar. We used to play Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Blues Jams or make up our own tunes. It didn’t matter what we played it was just fun.
Man, I could go on for hours but I won’t. (Your welcome). My point is, playing music is an amazing thing. None of us are ever as good as we want to be and we are always going to be trying to get better. That’s what we do. But sometimes we need to just kind of let go of that and just have fun playing with some friends.
So think about having the gang over for a jam. Summer is gone, I am not sure where you live but here in New England it is going to start getting cold pretty soon so outdoor jams are coming to an end. But if you still can, have a back porch jam with your buddies. If nothing else it will be nice to visit with some good friends again.
