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Originally Posted by justinthyme
...Is it something that will improve with, say, increased familiarity with the fretboard or the tune itself?...
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Well, not so much familiarity with the fretboard, but yes, more about familiarity with the tune itself.
For sure after a time you get to know how the changes are going down in just about any tune you hear--the progressions, too, as Kirk is saying. There's only so many ways chord progressions can be put together, and you'll soon start hearing how the progression from this or that tune sounds like...
But one aspect of learning to jam with backtracks is to study the track first: check out the progression and how many times they are playing through the certain progression. Once you jot down the progression sequence (okay, lesseee....they're playing progression A twice, then progression B once then progression C once, then back to A...), then you can break it down further and figure out what each progression is doing. It's a sort of divide and conquer scheme, and it's just like trying to figure out a song, only in this case you rarely have lyrics as a marker.
Then it's time to figure out how much you want to play over it. You might decide to play, say, more notes over progression C than any other, or do something that's 'repeatable' over progression A. There are options. And you're really gaining skills at being a songwriter!
I don't know if I'm hitting your point...let me know.
Steve