Now you are talking... This is the way all backing tracks suposed to looks like. And of course sound like... Very good for us beginners and not so good players. THANK YOU!!!
understanding the way notes relate to each other is one of the most empowering things you can do for your musical brain! we have ears, we have fingers, we have hearts and that is all very important but we also have brains and I personally love knowing what's going on in the musical environment, the 'why' is it awesome instead of just 'that' it is awesome! the numbers i was using are the relationship of the notes to the chord, i.e. a D not one a D chord is the 1, E is the 2, F or F# is the 3 etc
Hey - thanks for posting this - and EXCELLENT idea with the chords being displayed. This is one of my favorite blues backing jams - I am honing my solo skills daily with this video. Big thumbs up!
To all you having issues. I started playing solo since I first heard a backing track and I can tell you this, it's all in the feel as well as what you prefer as an effect on your git-fiddle. I like a bit of re-verb/a bit of blues crunch and I'll play to a lighter effect or clean. I'm not saying that your not doing this but it's up to you to look scales up and learn them. With in the first three months of playing to back tracks I was making songs; ie.... It's not very hard.
yes. dm and e7 are both chords that fall diatonically in a minor. however, if i was soloing over this and it got to dm or e7, i would start ending my phrases on notes within the chord i was on. for instance, ending a phrase with a D,F,or A on the dm and E,G#,B, or D on the e7. soloing in a minor pentatonic is perfectly fine though. theres actually a whole bunch of different scales you can solo over with this. it just depends on what feeling/mood your trying to convey
Hey 91dpo! The reason E7 fits so well over this is because it contains the leading tone, in this case the G#. This tone creates the Root - Fifth cadence that is commonly used in blues;jazz;and the like. ----------Substitutions for this include any altered 7th chord with an E root (Augmented, m7b5, b9, #9, etc...)------ also the tritone substitution being a Bb13------ or any of the diminished chords in the chain of Ab... (Ab, B, D, F)
It's very nice that you show all the chord changes on screen. Most of us use these tracks for practice and learning, the display of the changes on screen helps tremendously. I wish you had more to pick from. Out of the million backing tracks on youtube, yours are one of the few who include the chord changes. Seems to me that all of them would. People are fucking idiots.
It's common practice to replace the minor v chord with a major or dominant 7th V or V7 chord at the end of the form. This creates stronger voice-leading - or a more forceful sounding progression when it goes back to the minor i chord. It contains the "leading tone" - the note one half-step below the tonic. This also means you would use harmonic minor when improvising over that final chord.
Thanks for going to the trouble to link the instructional videos for the five positions of pentatonic scales that compliment this backing track. The color codes are super. I print screened each graphic (ten in all) and assembled a hard copy I can use to drill drill drill on those ten scales. Once up to speed, I'm coming back to this cool backing track to do this thing right. (melody note selections should be harmonically linked to the chord being played. If done with some style and grove, that's why it sounds good.) Thanks again. Mike
This is awesome I've been covering a lot of songs just to improve my skill but didn't lay any effort in improvisational stuff this is going to help me A LOT thanks!
I know im randomly asking but does anyone know a trick to log back into an instagram account? I was dumb forgot my password. I would love any assistance you can give me.
@Jett Mekhi i really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and I'm in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
The Thrill Is Gone? Or is it just a very similar chord progression? Anyway, the best thing is the description area, where you give hints how to play around with it. Highly appreciated!
***** thanks man. The one thing I didn't get is, that why would I still want to keep playing it if I am only playing with my head I've played it so much? Wouldn't it be time to move on so I can play with the heart again? Serious question. Seemed like good advice, just didn't understand that one part.
***** It's nice to see someone who actively promotes these concepts. People seem to just fixate on one single or a selected set of ways to go about everything, but that prevents them from improving in every single aspect of life. Everything you said can easily be extrapolated to: 1. Pay close attention to what you are doing at any time even if it seems like the most basic and simple thing in the world. Come up with new approaches to go about it, no matter how stupid or worthless they seem, some will be good, some will not, find out WHY some work and why some will not. 2. In the same manner pay attention to your mistakes instead of ignoring them and assuming they will fix with practice alone, even if they will (which they usually do), it's a good habit to point out what you did wrong, why it was wrong and what you can do about it every time. Mistakes are the best teacher as long as you learn from them. And although both might seem like different concepts on first glance, when broken down to the core it's the same approach. Find out how things work and why they work or don't. I believe the major difference between what is tagged as "gifted" (which honestly is just as much of a trait as being blonde, caucasian, asian or whatever and should probably be a neutral term) is this approach being a "natural", permanently occuring, sometimes even subconcious thing, while "nongifted" do not seem to do this anywhere as often or not at all and thus have to put effort into making it a habit, but that's a different topic. Or in other words: Anyone is most likely able to learn to be creative.
***** Honestly, I'm not sure whether or not there's fewer and fewer people relatively, it may or may not feel that way in absolute numbers due to increasing population however. It feels like humans are naturally "built" to "protect themselves" by not admitting errors and our social norms and indirect ways of communication seem to reinforce that. "Do you really think this is the case? Are you sure?" will more often than not be taken as an insult of one's intellect, rather than as what (often) is. An attempt at understanding someone else's thoughts in order to decide whether or not one can use that understanding or explain their own approach. This perceived passive aggressivness seems to actively reinforce this whole "being embarassed of making mistakes and ignoring them". It would be nice if school taught children how to approach things instead of testing how hard they can cram worthless information into them. Sure, someone may deem those things useful, but humans differ and everyone likes other things. Teach people to learn and be open minded, not to regurgitate trash. Discpline can be taught without making them hate trying to solve problems, which is one of the most rewarding experiences in life that is stolen from them. Just a quick mini-rant I guess, I'm not saying this is fact, this is just my personal opinion, which may or may not be wrong. And back on topic: Music theory, just as any other theory, is just that. A theory, like you said. Someone has found it by understanding the concepts, putting names on things and then putting it on paper. We use theories to communicate concepts and to be able to figure out with others if things "work" or not. This surely allows people to just take some concepts out and apply them, which makes progress much faster overall. But in the end you have no idea what you are doing if you don't try to understand the details. If you do however, an infinite amount of new paths will open. I find it odd, that everyone copies things from others and thus LEARNS from others, while so many people feel inferior for making mistakes which is exactly what created everything they learned to begin with. It's nice to see someone see it more or less the same way, I wasn't sure just how odd all this was, haha.
***** We still heavily rely on others, even though it's not obvious anymore. The one biggest flaw which would quickly fix (in a matter of 2-3 generations) many problems, would be changing education to promote critical thinking and problem solving, opposed to blatant memorization and competition in a way that makes mistakes seem unwanted and bad. And while on paper everyone acts as if you have to critically think in school, this is not the case. Even in a university mathematics course, you do not have to understand anything to get the highest marks. If you can memorize all the steps, which are fairly limited in number (think of it as having a hammer and a screwdriver, just try both and one will work always), and just try them out one by one, you will get the solution without knowing what you are doing. The majority of students go about it this way: repeat the same things over and over until you can do them in your sleep. They do not understand anything however and can not solve any problems on their own unless they have already seen it. I've been trying to stop letting these things have too much of an impact on me, since I clearly can't change the world, be it for better or for worse, anyways. What I can do however, is learning as much as possible and then trying to share and discuss my insights with the people I care about and my children, should I have any. There have been a few people who have taken my approach of problem solving and actually made it a habit of their own and they seemed to be quite happy with that and have become less judgmental. I at least want to fool myself to believe that if I can convince a few people to seek out mistakes and their solutions, that they will eventually convince a few others and so on. Whether or not this actually happens, I won't be able to see in my life time anyways, so there is no further reason for me to dwell upon this issue I believe.
Here's a few tips for jam backing tracks: Use ready made tracks outlines. Try it out in front of a few people and ask for their opinions. (I discovered about these and more from Makale jam plan site )
A minor key includes: Am Dm and Emaj with the major relative key, C wich includes thos chords: C, F and G. So in Am key you should play this chords: Am, Dm, Gmaj, Cmaj, Fmaj and Emaj.
depends what you're implying by Dm? do you mean when you use Amin pent over the Dm chord? or if you use Dmin Pent on this track? Dmin pent is an iffy choice for the Am chord because of the F note which is a flat6 to the Am chord, not the prettiest tension in the world at all! if you mean Amin pent on the Dm chord (iv chord of the track) it sounds 'sad' because of the relationship of notes to chord. i.e. A, C, D, E, G over Dmin = 5, 7, 8/1, 9/2, 11/4. these are beautiful melancholy sounds.
Okay, so after playing with this track for the longest time, what I did was speak in a Bassy voice... it sounded so cool, no really ... try it .... just say whatever (hopefully something pretentious and flowery) with a bassy voice and record it .... or even better play Morgan freeman's stuff in the background ... bliss....
Hey ! I play guitar for 8 years and my level is not so bad but I don't know about harmonics and it hinders me... the internet is too wide on this subject I don't know where to begin ! Could you please explain me the basis ? Or else advise me a website ? Or at least what "8/1, 9/2..." means and why does it sound beautiful ?
This is exactly what I've been looking for. However, Maybe its my computer but the drums override everything and the actual chord progression is really hard to hear.
@Amitzi - a track like this is perfect for you if you are a beginner, and still usefull as your skills improve. Use either the Am blues scale or the Am pentatonic scale. A little later on you could try the dorian mode, should sound kinda cool. When you first try it play slowly, pay attention to the beat, and have fun!! Also, follow the chords. If you need any more help message me, I am just a so-so player but I can send you some pretty cool links. But remember, HAVE FUN!!!
I wanna play a solo with this xD Congrats! :D... Hey for those interested, I just released my 1st song, it's darker and heavier, actually kinda different to this...
Use the A minor scale (pentatonic works fine), and you can get away with a few A harmonic minor notes -Because there's an E7, although its more of a chord that is being used to bring the progression back to the tonic triad.
Art also has theory, and as much as anyone will tell you otherwise, every great musician learns the rules just to break them. Think of music theory not as a restriction, but as a guideline that you can choose to follow, and you'll do much better.
Guitar players it would be help ful if you answered my question when you find a backing track do you just plug in the scale that's right for the key and play or do most of you try and learn the theory for whatever note sounds best over every chord
jesse durrwachter i guess you are in the very beginning of soloing ( pls don't kill me if i'm wrong ^^). in the beginning i just learned the minor/blues scale and started improvising with it. but now i also use different mixes of minor and major scales or others lis the mixolydian scale... but whatever: keep practicing and have fun ;)
When you first start off soloing its totally natural to just plug in then parent scale and doodle around with it. But you eventually want to start narrowing down what notes you're choosing ton play over each chord. This is called soloing with chords tones. There's lots of useful videos on RUclips that can help you with it, but the best way to get started is to focus on one position at a time. Find the notes of all the chords in that position only and you'll probably find that lots of notes go well over the same chords, but there will be one or two different as each chord changes. Whenever a chord changes try to land on the root, third or fifth of that chord at the same time. Then slowly start flushing it out with more notes, first from the pentatonic, then from the major scale. Hope that helps :)
When you first start off soloing its totally natural to just plug in then parent scale and doodle around with it. But you eventually want to start narrowing down what notes you're choosing ton play over each chord. This is called soloing with chords tones. There's lots of useful videos on RUclips that can help you with it, but the best way to get started is to focus on one position at a time. Find the notes of all the chords in that position only and you'll probably find that lots of notes go well over the same chords, but there will be one or two different as each chord changes. Whenever a chord changes try to land on the root, third or fifth of that chord at the same time. Then slowly start flushing it out with more notes, first from the pentatonic, then from the major scale. Hope that helps :)
+jesse durrwachter As Jess said, but i started off just playing one note solos! then move onto using just two notes, then add in slides and bends keeping just those two notes. Then onto three notes and onwards. Try to milk three notes in every way you can. BTW BB King seldom uses more than three notes in his solos!
+jesse durrwachter Hi You may find it easier to start with the Am position on the guitar, which covers the 5th and 7th frets all note here will sound in key, most good lead guitar is about feel and not just the notes. Keep it real simple and just listen to the notes as you work the frets. As you keep playing you'll start to venture out into the rest of the fret board. Learn to string bend, this can really give you that Feel factor, and Practise and practise and guess what, practise again. Good luck and enjoy.
one thing i dont get it, when i play solo with Am pentatonic, i get a happy feeling with it, however, if i play it on Dm, i get a rather sad feeling. anyone could help me, i dont get it, what is the relationship here lol?
Hey guys, I need some help! I know tons of scales throughout the neck but still I'm not able to improvise to even a half good standard. I've been playing for about 1 year and 4 months (acoustic guitar) and I'm actually a fingerstyle guitarist. I've been learning scales ever since the first month and I'm just pissed off now. If you could just give me some pointers then that will be great. Thank you.
if you're talking about improving blues on your guitar, it is something you don't have to learn. You've been playing 1 year and 4 months without feelings. all you have to do is feel, and let it poured to your fingers. everytime i play blues by myself, i always feel sad and sleepy. Dont let your brain overcome your heart HAH
Well every time I play something, I actually DO feel the music. The thing about feeling the music is all well and true but its not clear! After months of trying, did you just wake up one day and were able to solo? I can improvise, but I can't create anything new. I'm mainly a fingerstyle guitarist but I also want to able to improvise and solo. I have a few decent licks here and there but there is no coherent system.
Wise Fool If you still require an answer to this question (ironically) is that there is none unfortunately, but i liken blues improvisation to singing, as do many people and so you should play with phrasing and patterns similar to how a singer would sing a song, with all the emotion and nuances intact. Different notes and phrases can be learnt but ultimately its how you're inner self plays guitar, it's very pure, hence why blues guitarists are different from one another in playing style
Hey calm down. You say you know tons of scales, what about chords? Creating interesting solos is about what you play & when. You have to know the chords, what notes are in the cho5rd & what notes sound the best against each chord. {Theory}. You have been playing for only a year. most people are still struggling with chords ,basic runs etc. It takes a lot of years to get good.
Simple. Listen to your head and quit and looking at your fingers. That sounds trite, I'm sure, but it's true. Took me 30 years to figure that out. The music is in your head, not in your hands, not in the guitar, in your head. God that sounds so stupid...I hate saying it.
Very mellow. Perfect for beginning soloists who want to work on "expressing" their moves...
this is great to jam with until the trill is gone
I am 65, but when I played this I was 21, and I did not throw in the Fmaj7.
My life could have been different.
Now you are talking... This is the way all backing tracks suposed to looks like. And of course sound like... Very good for us beginners and not so good players. THANK YOU!!!
I love addictive drums. In the right hands... it can sound amazing.
understanding the way notes relate to each other is one of the most empowering things you can do for your musical brain! we have ears, we have fingers, we have hearts and that is all very important but we also have brains and I personally love knowing what's going on in the musical environment, the 'why' is it awesome instead of just 'that' it is awesome!
the numbers i was using are the relationship of the notes to the chord, i.e. a D not one a D chord is the 1, E is the 2, F or F# is the 3 etc
Hey - thanks for posting this - and EXCELLENT idea with the chords being displayed. This is one of my favorite blues backing jams - I am honing my solo skills daily with this video. Big thumbs up!
visual chord changes are nice for working on playing arpeggios..thanks
Thanks for showing chords. I'm trying to work on playing to chords versus one set scale, and this really helps.
Be sure to check out different modes for each scale
To all you having issues. I started playing solo since I first heard a backing track and I can tell you this, it's all in the feel as well as what you prefer as an effect on your git-fiddle. I like a bit of re-verb/a bit of blues crunch and I'll play to a lighter effect or clean. I'm not saying that your not doing this but it's up to you to look scales up and learn them. With in the first three months of playing to back tracks I was making songs; ie.... It's not very hard.
word up!
yes. dm and e7 are both chords that fall diatonically in a minor. however, if i was soloing over this and it got to dm or e7, i would start ending my phrases on notes within the chord i was on. for instance, ending a phrase with a D,F,or A on the dm and E,G#,B, or D on the e7. soloing in a minor pentatonic is perfectly fine though. theres actually a whole bunch of different scales you can solo over with this. it just depends on what feeling/mood your trying to convey
Hey 91dpo! The reason E7 fits so well over this is because it contains the leading tone, in this case the G#. This tone creates the Root - Fifth cadence that is commonly used in blues;jazz;and the like. ----------Substitutions for this include any altered 7th chord with an E root (Augmented, m7b5, b9, #9, etc...)------ also the tritone substitution being a Bb13------ or any of the diminished chords in the chain of Ab... (Ab, B, D, F)
It's very nice that you show all the chord changes on screen. Most of us use these tracks for practice and learning, the display of the changes on screen helps tremendously. I wish you had more to pick from. Out of the million backing tracks on youtube, yours are one of the few who include the chord changes. Seems to me that all of them would. People are fucking idiots.
love that bass line
been a while but I had 2 come by 2 listen again...............still love it...........
It's common practice to replace the minor v chord with a major or dominant 7th V or V7 chord at the end of the form. This creates stronger voice-leading - or a more forceful sounding progression when it goes back to the minor i chord. It contains the "leading tone" - the note one half-step below the tonic. This also means you would use harmonic minor when improvising over that final chord.
Great sounding gets you in the mood blues
Time to practice those B>B> King licks.
Thanks for going to the trouble to link the instructional videos for the five positions of pentatonic scales that compliment this backing track. The color codes are super. I print screened each graphic (ten in all) and assembled a hard copy I can use to drill drill drill on those ten scales. Once up to speed, I'm coming back to this cool backing track to do this thing right. (melody note selections should be harmonically linked to the chord being played. If done with some style and grove, that's why it sounds good.) Thanks again. Mike
This is awesome I've been covering a lot of songs just to improve my skill but didn't lay any effort in improvisational stuff this is going to help me A LOT thanks!
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not bad for a nice chill smooth jam session
gracias, ver los acordes que suenan me ayuda a tocarlo en el piano
I think this fits BBs the thrill is gone perfectly. Nice
no, in A minor is Emaj, but E7 is often used because as you noticed, it fits very well:) keep on playing!
Very nice. Deep melody.
I enjoyed jam with my bass on it.
.....the thrill is gone...the thrill is away!...love bb king!
GREAT work, friend, great work. Thank you for this BT !
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Leaves a lot of room for inovation....nice.
It's nice to have the chord progression like this :)
Too Much Fun.
Thanks for the exceptional work.
Very user friendly.
Lovely tune and thx for putting the chords up!!
la fddddg clci
The Thrill Is Gone? Or is it just a very similar chord progression? Anyway, the best thing is the description area, where you give hints how to play around with it. Highly appreciated!
Sounds like The Thrill Is Gone - BB King. Nice
Thank you very good for all levels.
Sweet just what i was looking for, thanks bro !!!
Thank's. This is just my speed.
Nice track, Thank you.
This is nice - thanks for doing it - I ended up doing my futile attempt of "The Thrill Is Gone" to it - the BB KIng classic
Used to spend so much time to play over.
***** thanks man. The one thing I didn't get is, that why would I still want to keep playing it if I am only playing with my head I've played it so much? Wouldn't it be time to move on so I can play with the heart again? Serious question. Seemed like good advice, just didn't understand that one part.
Charlie Ellis
***** It's nice to see someone who actively promotes these concepts. People seem to just fixate on one single or a selected set of ways to go about everything, but that prevents them from improving in every single aspect of life.
Everything you said can easily be extrapolated to:
1. Pay close attention to what you are doing at any time even if it seems like the most basic and simple thing in the world. Come up with new approaches to go about it, no matter how stupid or worthless they seem, some will be good, some will not, find out WHY some work and why some will not.
2. In the same manner pay attention to your mistakes instead of ignoring them and assuming they will fix with practice alone, even if they will (which they usually do), it's a good habit to point out what you did wrong, why it was wrong and what you can do about it every time.
Mistakes are the best teacher as long as you learn from them. And although both might seem like different concepts on first glance, when broken down to the core it's the same approach. Find out how things work and why they work or don't.
I believe the major difference between what is tagged as "gifted" (which honestly is just as much of a trait as being blonde, caucasian, asian or whatever and should probably be a neutral term) is this approach being a "natural", permanently occuring, sometimes even subconcious thing, while "nongifted" do not seem to do this anywhere as often or not at all and thus have to put effort into making it a habit, but that's a different topic.
Or in other words: Anyone is most likely able to learn to be creative.
*****
Honestly, I'm not sure whether or not there's fewer and fewer people relatively, it may or may not feel that way in absolute numbers due to increasing population however.
It feels like humans are naturally "built" to "protect themselves" by not admitting errors and our social norms and indirect ways of communication seem to reinforce that.
"Do you really think this is the case? Are you sure?" will more often than not be taken as an insult of one's intellect, rather than as what (often) is. An attempt at understanding someone else's thoughts in order to decide whether or not one can use that understanding or explain their own approach.
This perceived passive aggressivness seems to actively reinforce this whole "being embarassed of making mistakes and ignoring them".
It would be nice if school taught children how to approach things instead of testing how hard they can cram worthless information into them. Sure, someone may deem those things useful, but humans differ and everyone likes other things. Teach people to learn and be open minded, not to regurgitate trash. Discpline can be taught without making them hate trying to solve problems, which is one of the most rewarding experiences in life that is stolen from them.
Just a quick mini-rant I guess, I'm not saying this is fact, this is just my personal opinion, which may or may not be wrong.
And back on topic: Music theory, just as any other theory, is just that. A theory, like you said. Someone has found it by understanding the concepts, putting names on things and then putting it on paper.
We use theories to communicate concepts and to be able to figure out with others if things "work" or not.
This surely allows people to just take some concepts out and apply them, which makes progress much faster overall. But in the end you have no idea what you are doing if you don't try to understand the details. If you do however, an infinite amount of new paths will open.
I find it odd, that everyone copies things from others and thus LEARNS from others, while so many people feel inferior for making mistakes which is exactly what created everything they learned to begin with.
It's nice to see someone see it more or less the same way, I wasn't sure just how odd all this was, haha.
*****
We still heavily rely on others, even though it's not obvious anymore. The one biggest flaw which would quickly fix (in a matter of 2-3 generations) many problems, would be changing education to promote critical thinking and problem solving, opposed to blatant memorization and competition in a way that makes mistakes seem unwanted and bad. And while on paper everyone acts as if you have to critically think in school, this is not the case. Even in a university mathematics course, you do not have to understand anything to get the highest marks. If you can memorize all the steps, which are fairly limited in number (think of it as having a hammer and a screwdriver, just try both and one will work always), and just try them out one by one, you will get the solution without knowing what you are doing. The majority of students go about it this way: repeat the same things over and over until you can do them in your sleep. They do not understand anything however and can not solve any problems on their own unless they have already seen it.
I've been trying to stop letting these things have too much of an impact on me, since I clearly can't change the world, be it for better or for worse, anyways.
What I can do however, is learning as much as possible and then trying to share and discuss my insights with the people I care about and my children, should I have any.
There have been a few people who have taken my approach of problem solving and actually made it a habit of their own and they seemed to be quite happy with that and have become less judgmental.
I at least want to fool myself to believe that if I can convince a few people to seek out mistakes and their solutions, that they will eventually convince a few others and so on. Whether or not this actually happens, I won't be able to see in my life time anyways, so there is no further reason for me to dwell upon this issue I believe.
Smooth, creamy, delicious. Lots of flavour.
Great work. Thanks!
Hi this is so great to play along with is it available to download please.
i love this backing track great job thanks for posting
cant stop liesten!!! bravo!!!!
Thank you for some great tracks
try your blues scales same thing with a few extra notes, it'll give you a dark bluesyer feel
gracias esta es la pista que estaba buscando
it's really smooth
Nice !! I really like this !!
Here's a few tips for jam backing tracks:
Use ready made tracks outlines.
Try it out in front of a few people and ask for their opinions.
(I discovered about these and more from Makale jam plan site )
Best bt on RUclips
Very inspiring, thanks!
I love this backing track. Thank you so much :)
Are there any other common chord substitutions like that I should learn?
guys do yourselves a favor and play it at 1.25 speed - miles better.
how?
you can change the speed where you can change the quality of the video
I wish I would've done this before I recorded my version of this
you do realise there's a faster version of the exact same chord sequence, pattern etc?.
Great call!
HAH! I had fun with this one.
Thanks for this! Why does the E7 fit so well in this? Isn't it suppose to be E minor in the A minor key?
Enjoyed that. Thanks
OMG! Loved it so much!
thank you this helps me learn
Thanks for the help!
A minor key includes: Am Dm and Emaj with the major relative key, C wich includes thos chords: C, F and G. So in Am key you should play this chords: Am, Dm, Gmaj, Cmaj, Fmaj and Emaj.
This keeps making me want to play Santana, Black Magic Woman.
Hey cool i will try to play on this backingtracks
Thank You Bruttha just jamin away on it..
Great a minor track
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! Love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you do one for Danny Boy Eric Clapton.Thanks later
depends what you're implying by Dm? do you mean when you use Amin pent over the Dm chord? or if you use Dmin Pent on this track? Dmin pent is an iffy choice for the Am chord because of the F note which is a flat6 to the Am chord, not the prettiest tension in the world at all!
if you mean Amin pent on the Dm chord (iv chord of the track) it sounds 'sad' because of the relationship of notes to chord. i.e. A, C, D, E, G over Dmin = 5, 7, 8/1, 9/2, 11/4. these are beautiful melancholy sounds.
Okay, so after playing with this track for the longest time, what I did was speak in a Bassy voice... it sounded so cool, no really ... try it .... just say whatever (hopefully something pretentious and flowery) with a bassy voice and record it .... or even better play Morgan freeman's stuff in the background ... bliss....
Ashwin Rai I'm just speaking the words to one scotch, one bourbon, one beer and am cracking up as is the guy sitting across from me! Good tip!
this is awesome i LOVE it
really good
It would be good to show how many times tp play each chord.
Hey ! I play guitar for 8 years and my level is not so bad but I don't know about harmonics and it hinders me... the internet is too wide on this subject I don't know where to begin ! Could you please explain me the basis ? Or else advise me a website ? Or at least what "8/1, 9/2..." means and why does it sound beautiful ?
Very nice!
Love it really helpful! :)
i love this track ..got video of me playing ..
This is exactly what I've been looking for. However, Maybe its my computer but the drums override everything and the actual chord progression is really hard to hear.
Killer thanks!
Is this song called “Five Women” by Prince? Written for Joe Cocker by Prince ?
@Amitzi - a track like this is perfect for you if you are a beginner, and still usefull as your skills improve. Use either the Am blues scale or the Am pentatonic scale. A little later on you could try the dorian mode, should sound kinda cool. When you first try it play slowly, pay attention to the beat, and have fun!! Also, follow the chords. If you need any more help message me, I am just a so-so player but I can send you some pretty cool links. But remember, HAVE FUN!!!
I wanna play a solo with this xD Congrats! :D... Hey for those interested, I just released my 1st song, it's darker and heavier, actually kinda different to this...
What scale would i use for this? Semi new to this. And how would i be able to tell what scale to use for any backing track? Thanks!
Use the A minor scale (pentatonic works fine), and you can get away with a few A harmonic minor notes -Because there's an E7, although its more of a chord that is being used to bring the progression back to the tonic triad.
just listen and play. trade theory for feeling..it's art, dammit :)
Art also has theory, and as much as anyone will tell you otherwise, every great musician learns the rules just to break them. Think of music theory not as a restriction, but as a guideline that you can choose to follow, and you'll do much better.
Also, no one said you couldn't feel what you're playing. Theory or no.
tres utile et bien fait merci :D
Awesome!
I'm a beginner. Is this track for the player to solo with?
this is nice................
Thank you :)
Guitar players it would be help ful if you answered my question when you find a backing track do you just plug in the scale that's right for the key and play or do most of you try and learn the theory for whatever note sounds best over every chord
jesse durrwachter i guess you are in the very beginning of soloing ( pls don't kill me if i'm wrong ^^). in the beginning i just learned the minor/blues scale and started improvising with it. but now i also use different mixes of minor and major scales or others lis the mixolydian scale...
but whatever: keep practicing and have fun ;)
When you first start off soloing its totally natural to just plug in then parent scale and doodle around with it. But you eventually want to start narrowing down what notes you're choosing ton play over each chord. This is called soloing with chords tones. There's lots of useful videos on RUclips that can help you with it, but the best way to get started is to focus on one position at a time. Find the notes of all the chords in that position only and you'll probably find that lots of notes go well over the same chords, but there will be one or two different as each chord changes. Whenever a chord changes try to land on the root, third or fifth of that chord at the same time. Then slowly start flushing it out with more notes, first from the pentatonic, then from the major scale. Hope that helps :)
When you first start off soloing its totally natural to just plug in then parent scale and doodle around with it. But you eventually want to start narrowing down what notes you're choosing ton play over each chord. This is called soloing with chords tones. There's lots of useful videos on RUclips that can help you with it, but the best way to get started is to focus on one position at a time. Find the notes of all the chords in that position only and you'll probably find that lots of notes go well over the same chords, but there will be one or two different as each chord changes. Whenever a chord changes try to land on the root, third or fifth of that chord at the same time. Then slowly start flushing it out with more notes, first from the pentatonic, then from the major scale. Hope that helps :)
+jesse durrwachter As Jess said, but i started off just playing one note solos! then move onto using just two notes, then add in slides and bends keeping just those two notes. Then onto three notes and onwards. Try to milk three notes in every way you can. BTW BB King seldom uses more than three notes in his solos!
+jesse durrwachter Hi You may find it easier to start with the Am position on the guitar, which covers the 5th and 7th frets all note here will sound in key, most good lead guitar is about feel and not just the notes.
Keep it real simple and just listen to the notes as you work the frets. As you keep playing you'll start to venture out into the rest of the fret board. Learn to string bend, this can really give you that Feel factor, and Practise and practise and guess what, practise again. Good luck and enjoy.
Amazing!!!
Thank You
Do you mind if I use this one day? I'll give you credit of course :)
can someone explain to me the theory of what notes you change in the scale to go with the chords?
You have to know your scales really well. If you do you will know how to change and and know what notes will sound good and don't.
Thanks very much!
wow...nice track... :)
It's the same chord progression. It's the common 1, 4, 5 progression with minor chords which makes it stick out to most blues songs.
je peut la mettre sur cd ?
MERCI !!
one thing i dont get it, when i play solo with Am pentatonic, i get a happy feeling with it, however, if i play it on Dm, i get a rather sad feeling.
anyone could help me, i dont get it, what is the relationship here lol?
Hey guys, I need some help! I know tons of scales throughout the neck but still I'm not able to improvise to even a half good standard. I've been playing for about 1 year and 4 months (acoustic guitar) and I'm actually a fingerstyle guitarist. I've been learning scales ever since the first month and I'm just pissed off now. If you could just give me some pointers then that will be great.
Thank you.
if you're talking about improving blues on your guitar, it is something you don't have to learn. You've been playing 1 year and 4 months without feelings. all you have to do is feel, and let it poured to your fingers. everytime i play blues by myself, i always feel sad and sleepy. Dont let your brain overcome your heart HAH
Well every time I play something, I actually DO feel the music. The thing about feeling the music is all well and true but its not clear! After months of trying, did you just wake up one day and were able to solo? I can improvise, but I can't create anything new. I'm mainly a fingerstyle guitarist but I also want to able to improvise and solo. I have a few decent licks here and there but there is no coherent system.
Wise Fool If you still require an answer to this question (ironically) is that there is none unfortunately, but i liken blues improvisation to singing, as do many people and so you should play with phrasing and patterns similar to how a singer would sing a song, with all the emotion and nuances intact. Different notes and phrases can be learnt but ultimately its how you're inner self plays guitar, it's very pure, hence why blues guitarists are different from one another in playing style
Hey calm down. You say you know tons of scales, what about chords? Creating interesting solos is about what you play & when. You have to know the chords, what notes are in the cho5rd & what notes sound the best against each chord. {Theory}. You have been playing for only a year. most people are still struggling with chords ,basic runs etc. It takes a lot of years to get good.
Simple. Listen to your head and quit and looking at your fingers. That sounds trite, I'm sure, but it's true. Took me 30 years to figure that out. The music is in your head, not in your hands, not in the guitar, in your head.
God that sounds so stupid...I hate saying it.