Jamming with Joel

My good friend Joel Davis is one of those people I always seem to end up blogging about shortly after hanging out together, largely due to the unfortunate mixture of how much we have in common with how rarely we're able to cross paths. This past Tuesday morning was no different, as we got together shortly after the previous night's Suburban Tap outing to catch up a bit over some dual guitar jamming.

I hadn't really jammed with anyone on guitar in a LONG time, so I was actually kinda disappointed with how foreign it was to me. That plus the fact that I've been asked to jam with a local band to see if I can replace their departing guitarist, and now I'm feeling a lot less confident about it all. Joel and I have followed so similar of paths over the years we've known one another, a fact that only makes my comparatively unadvanced guitar skills all the more painful for me to accept. That said, I think the experience has also given me some inspiration to start applying the pedagogical techniques I used to get where I am on piano to my personal guitar studies so that I might obtain a significantly higher level of improvisational competency sooner than later.

Despite all this, it was still really fun hanging out with Joel. I hope to be able to jam with him as often as we can manage when he's in town for future (albeit too infrequent) visits. Maybe we'll even get to do some creative work together in the not-so-distant future, something we've been talking about since high school but have never gotten around to making a reality.