Thanks, Billy. Maybe the bass player was staying out of the way!
Yeah, my final step after having everything else laid, tuned, and timed, involves the process of playing along with the backing track on the recorder and an eraser on the music stand. That's when the simplification occurs, with notes that sounded right at the time get the ol' boot.
One thing I have realized over time is to nail that #1 note on the changes. People have this idea that C scale contains all the notes we would ever need for songs in the key of C. While that may be true, when the change shifts to G strum, I'm here to bang a G. Some of that goes back to playing with howling vocalists, you know, they who prioritize feeling over wave frequency. Today's P&W performers get away with a lot, in the interest of singing their hearts out smile
Incidentally, isn't the "feeling" of a chord something we associate with classical composers, that and classical jazz?

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