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Big Question: Balfa Camp/Jam Strategy

So here's my thinking this year: I've learned how to play a lot of the right notes to songs, more or less - but I still don't sound "right". So I'm thinking to go to every possible big jam that I can and sit in the 2nd row, so to speak, or back in the corner, and just merrily play along with every song that I can; if I don't know it, I can usually fake it, or just chord along. I'm thinking that as long as I don't get too loud with it, I won't bother anyone, and then maybe it will help me get the right "feel". What do y'all think? Do people do that normally?

Of course, I still want to play in smaller jams with my friends, too, in a more conspicuous way.



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