If you want to play freely, you've got to practise playing freely! Makes sense when you think about it, right? And how does one practise playing freely? I have 5 activities for you to start doing that will draw that 'natural talent' for playing freely dramatically closer!
Have you come across a lead sheet or jamming on a chord progression and you realise that you can't, for the life of you, remember what those chords are anymore? I call it ‘chord amnesia’, when we forget chords all. the. dang. time!