[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1407411204' post='2520184']
No, because I have a shape of what the song is doing so all I need to do is think where I am going
and I can do that in an instant, so everything I play is geared to what is happening 'now' and I react to it
as I hear it. I might know the drummer is winding up to a big '4' and no matter he does, I'll likely get it.
This is why you can be tight in a band in an instant ...
I don't play parts as such, but we may well have determined the direction of the song so there is likely a
precedent, so I am listening to what is happening, not so much what I expect to happen.
Of course, they will be tried and tested paths but I don't enjoy an oblivious path ..and therefore a part,
if I don't think it is working. It helps to have default, of course, but if no one else is playing it...or CAN play it,
then it has little use...
I tend to 'get' a song in the 1st bar and that determines the 'groove' for that particular version...
If it works really well, I expect we will copy it next time..
Dep work works like this, IMO... you can't say I WILL play it like this when you don't know what the others guys references
are, so you just know the notes and their place and you work to make it fit.
If the song is busked... I'll just ask what key we play this in... check on the bridge or changes, and we are off...
Less than 10 seconds and we should be sorted...if everyone knows what they are doing.
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