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Originally Posted by blankall
Would you recommend this for someone with desent guitar skills, but little theory skills. I can play relatively complicated songs off tablature but looking to basically gain the ability to pick up my guitar and jam with other musicians.
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If you want something you can do at home on your own, learn you basics (Pentatonic or any scale you like) and download or search for backing tracks on Youtube (in various styles and keys) and try to improv along with them to make something that sounds decent. Easiest way to see if you have any knack for it at all because everything that you play that sounds wrong will sound VERY wrong.
Everyone else is saying you have to get out there and play with people and I agree with that, but I also get where you are coming from, where it is intimidating and you feel like you really got to prep and shore up your own knowledge first. I'm in the same boat.
I think of myself as a guitar player who mostly improvises (I never really learn songs or read tabs, I just go and play by myself to try to make interesting things that I like) but I also am not really comfortable enough with my own skills to jam with other people.