Learning to jam

Hi, I'm having trouble learning to jam and more specifically sounding good while doing it.

I would call myself an intermediate guitarist and me and my bandmates are starting to think about making our own metal music. In the meantime I'm trying to improve my creative skills, but I'm having trouble with it. I know it won't happen overnight but it feels like I'm not making meaningful progress.

I've tried jamming to backing tracks like from Wikiloops but when I do I just end up defaulting to some dumb and dull sounding guitar playing. Any tips?

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If you call your own playing dumb and dull (which I'm sure it's not) it means that you're benchmarking it against something that's not dumb and dull. So why don't you start with experimenting a bit?

Also, listen to some of the adds from fellow wikiloopers and try to understand what it is they are doing. I've found that to be extremely helpful when I'm bored by my own stuff.

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Yea, I've tried analysing some songs that I like, but I feel like i didn't take anything away from doing that. Maybe that's what I'm missing.

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