Great backing tracks for practice - Blues

[RVA]

Check out the suggestions for modal scale changes over the chords (hit the "Show More" button) and apply them to this very relaxing blues. It is a nice practice tool.

In A

In G

 

[RVA]

As I get better at playing mixo - dorian - aolian in succession and appreciate how close they are to each other, I now realize why I spent so much time trying to understand why I could "add" a note to a scale sometimes and not others, and when that might be.

 

[jtcnj]

Cool, how do you guys play backing tracks to jam to?
I think I have asked before, but never put it all together.
I'm gonna try the Trio to just play around / along with, and I have a cheapie looper but dont really know how to use it productively.

 

[Sp8ctre]

I have to say that had me quite confused at the beginning...I was wondering why a backing track had a guy soloing...that's the listeners job!
Then I read the description and realized I had to FF to the 2 minute mark...

 

[RVA]

Cool, how do you guys play backing tracks to jam to?
I think I have asked before, but never put it all together.
I'm gonna try the Trio to just play around / along with, and I have a cheapie looper but dont really know how to use it productively.

I play in front of a computer! Otherwise, I use a Ditto Looper. They take some getting used to, but are very valuable for establishing timing and creativity. I do not use it often enough to have achieved either of these benefits!

 

[flatrockmobile]

Computer here too. I just tell the wife I'm going to the basement to play with myself

 

[jtcnj]

I play in front of a computer!

Computer here too. I just tell the wife I'm going to the basement to play with myself

Please elaborate.

Please type S L O W L Y.
sometimes I can be the dimly lit bulb of a current limiter rig.

I realize I am walking right into it so, specifically "the computer part".
You play into an interface, and out through the computer, or low volume amp?
You have computer speakers loud enough to play the tracks as you play along on the amp?

I'm so confused;

 

[RVA]

You have computer speakers loud enough to play the tracks as you play along on the amp?

This one!

 

[Don O]

My computer has a little help. The laptop on the top shelf, with its lid closed, feeds into the audio amp on the left and that drives the 4 audio speakers. When the wife is not around I can have some fun playing loud

 

[RVA]

View attachment 11827 My computer has a little help. The laptop on the top shelf, with its lid closed, feeds into the audio amp on the left and that drives the 4 audio speakers. When the wife is not around I can have some fun playing loud

Wow, nice setup! Where is the audio amp in the photo?

 

[WavMixer]

Wow, nice setup! Where is the audio amp in the photo?

My guess is in the wood roll top desk on the left. Looks like a DVD and remote laying on top of it.

 

[Inspector #20]

View attachment 11827 My computer has a little help. The laptop on the top shelf, with its lid closed, feeds into the audio amp on the left and that drives the 4 audio speakers. When the wife is not around I can have some fun playing loud

The Mojo Oil and the Jensen Speakers advertisement are the best....

 

[Inspector #20]

 

[Don O]

Wow, nice setup! Where is the audio amp in the photo?

Yep, on the roll top desk. Used to have two 200 CD carousels next to the amp full of CDs. Thank goodness for mp3s.

 

[RVA]

Thank goodness for mp3s.

Are those the things they had before streaming?

 

[kevinpaul]

I do a lap top, a Line 6 pod 3X live it's a older one. My sound is into the Line 6 pod then a preamp and out my monitors. When I'm lazy I use my little Vox with a 1x12 Black Star cabinet and a back track from my iPad into my monitors. I will pick a couple pedals depending on the back track. I use my own backtracks often.

 

[Don O]

I play vinyl every now and then to hear the snap, crackle and pop

 

[Gahr]

Growing up I (like thousands of other aspiring guitar players) always used to play along with records. I find it a good way to practice the blues AND learn songs at the same time. Plus you get to jam with your heros!

 

[Bocc69]

Cool slow jam Ray. Ive been using slow blues tracks a lot lately. I believe it's the best way to learn all the positions of a particular scale.

I listen to backing tracks on my computer every practice. I consider my computer just as important of a tool as anything I use.

I too, started learning with records. I destroyed many needles....it just wasn't practical.

 

[Truss_rod]

I run my laptop through my amp and use youtube video's myself It keeps me entertained for hours......