aright, so ive been having some troubles jamming with my friends. not that they suck, or i suck or anything. but hers whats going on:

i picked up a guitar an year ago. i taught myself how to play it, but majority of my practice happend either in my room, or infront of the computer. so just me soloing and fretting everything. some 8 months ago, i started making my own songs, and started making up the bass and the drum lines in my head. so basically i had the drums and everything set around my riffs. yet every time i go over to my friends place(they have a band) and jam with them, it just doesnt work. for a few seconds, the drummer can keep upwith me, and then he gets lost becuase i change my riff and start becoming all random on them(sort of like romeo from symphony x, just no where near that good!).

at first i thought that the reason why it doesnt work is becuase i tend to play more folk/classical/doom metal songs. they usually play progressive metal. in other words, they play much faster stuff. but then i played some song by Haggard(if you dont know, its a classical metal band) that had some relativly fast drums, and the drummer was sort of lost in that too.

then i thought that those guys know how to jam, and i dont. reason being that they picked up those instruments some 3 years ago. and at the time, both their guitarists, their bassist and their drummer were noob. so they always practiced together, and they can do random shit, and are always backed up by atleast two of the other members.

sure, i can keep up with them with power cords...for a few seconds. maybe im doing something wrong, or soemthing else is going on.

and i do wanna get into a band, just the thing is that if i cant jam, the band wont really be any good. becuase im sure that the drummer and the bassist wont really like me bossing them around and shaping them around me.....so yeah