Wow, great information here guys! Your explainations and suggestions truly make a things a lot clearer.
Strat: A metronome and playing with music seems the way to go. A band is not a reality right now but I would love to get involved one someday!
LC: Yes, GL is some kind of superman listening to his music. His timing is impeccable and something we can only wish for. I just pluck along on some of his tunes and without the tempo and timing it will never sound anything like the orignals. Thanks for explaining the two.
SW: Hey Steve! Everything's fine thanks much for asking.
Your post says quite a bit and I appreciate your explanations, some very good tips there. I look forward to your lessons, very informative.
tomg123: Thanks, I was looking at the backing tracks on this site, there are quite a few to keep my busy.
What comes into focus now for me is when I watch symphony orchestras play, maybe 100 musicians at a time, there really is no drummer just a percussion section that intermittantly keeps a beat. The beat can come from any section especially the string sections. They all follow the conduction's lead and all your responses about how if your are out of time with the band it can sound horrible and can ruin a set makes sense now. The symphonies can't afford to have a section out of time. I'm sure they do now and then but they know how to recover very quickly.
I guess also that my next insight would be chord progressions. Once I can get my timing and of course ear training down chord progressions would be a next step to playing smoothy.
Thanks much,
John
PS. It suggestions like these that make this site so worth while.
