Originally Posted by: maggiorA metermone will help. The challenge of playing with others is that you have to focus some attention on what others are playing, not just your playing. You just gotta keep doing it. It will click - one day you will lock into the groove. It is one of the best feelings!!

I've jammed with friends, played in a high school garage band, and played in a church choir. Even playing the simplest thing is so enjoyable when you all get into the groove. [/QUOTE]
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

Originally Posted by: maggiorOne question - what's the drummer's experience level? If he is inexperienced playing in a group setting, he may be making adjustments too. You would just have to work on it together.

He's been playing for about three years, I don't know how much experience he has with playing in a group, though.

[QUOTE=maggior]One more...were you trying to play something that was technically challenging for both of you? If so, you might want to try playing something dead simple that you both know. The point of the exercise would be to find the groove and not have to focus so much on what you are playing. Not only will that help with your sense of timing, but it will boost your morale so you can feel better about what you are doing.

We started out simply, just to warm up the muscles, with "Smoke On The Water", but I somehow managed to play that out of time. It'll come with time, though, as you said. Afterwards, we tried a few slightly more mixed things, some fast, heavy rock-jamming, and some slower jamming too, as well as bits of various songs we could both agree on giving a shot, mostly just with some progressions/riffs (I'm not quite sure about the difference between those two...) I've come up with myself, although we did try playing some other stuff too (like the Rhythm-portion of "Chinese Democracy" by Guns N' Roses, for example. Awesome main-riff in that one). If there'd been a second guitarist, it could've been fun to try improvising over my own progressions/riffs too, but that'll have to be another time, then.

I'm hoping to get some more people together and try jamming with an actual band (and learn more from it), and start making some music that's just as awesome as some of GNR's, Aerosmith's and Deep Purple's best rock-hits, without having to resort to covers all the time.