The 20 year beginner

bobbi Sue · #1 January 1st, 2008

Hi Kirk and all who read this. I have been playing guitar on and off for twenty five years. I play many songs very well as far as sitting around a camp fire with my acoustic and I do enjoy strumming those songs. But I have developed a need to advance myself. I am just now getting together with real musicians who really know what they are doing but the snag is I dont know the science of the neck or any scales to speak of. I do know scale patterns but I dont have the ability to play leads during jam sessions. You know the kind of sessions where everybody is playing a blues progression and all the guitar players take turns adding there own style and feel to the groove. I am basically as you call it a robot. I play leads fairly well when I can stair at them in tabs and listen to them and then practice them a thousand times note for note. My lack of knowledge on the neck is killing my ability plain and simple.