Great backing tracks for practice - Blues

Toward the end of Dec, inspired by this thread, I tried plugging the earbud jack / spkr out jack from the laptop, or iphone into the Lo input of my Champ and play along to Highway to Hell.
I have an adapter to go from the 1/8" to 1/4" jack, it just didn't work well.

Played along quietly to small pc speakers a bit but gave up on it for the time being.
 
kevinpaul said:
View attachment 11832 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.
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Kev I see you have the perfect guitar chair, I have one just like it, but mine has a little more padding. I had a stool before didn't like then I found one of these perfect height and comfortable, also nice to have a back support.
 
My ancient studio PC is running into a stereo power amp then into my Event 20/20 monitors. Play along using my guitar and amp.
When away for a few days, I use the MicroCube with a laptop, netbook, tablet, or cell phone plugged into its mp3 input.
If you don't have it, "Amazing Slow Downer" is a great software tool for jamming with tracks and slowing them down to learn licks note by note.
 
I have been practicing these modal changes over the chord changes for the past few weeks. Now that they are starting ti flow, I am finally breaking free of pure pentatonic leads. I highly recommend putting in the effort.
 
I have not done anything with this since the end of last year.
Never enough time.
It is still my intent to incorporate this method at some point.
 
RVA said:
I have been practicing these modal changes over the chord changes for the past few weeks. Now that they are starting ti flow, I am finally breaking free of pure pentatonic leads. I highly recommend putting in the effort.
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Great to hear about your progress with this.
When you practice to the chord progression, are you looking at scale tablature or is it memorized? Using different positions?
 
Bocc69 said:
Great to hear about your progress with this.
When you practice to the chord progression, are you looking at scale tablature or is it memorized? Using different positions?
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Since you are constantly shifting modes, and keys really, you must commit it to memory so you can listen to chord changes and apply it dynamically. I started by just applying a mode per chord and then I started to move it around. It is just starting to flle.
 
Thanks. I like to see how others go about practice. I tend to look at tabs a lot while practicing. I like to reinforce where the root note is etc. I guess I don't practice theory enough though....not consistently, anyway. Just like to have fun with it....the backing tracks do that for sure.


I think Steve Stine has some great videos on theory. not sure if your familiar with him, but I like his approach.
 
Like Steve Stine
I think he demonstrates very clearly. There are 3 or 4 Masterclass free ones on da Yout tube.
I really liked and learned, esp. the one where you develop the chords from a scale, and why the chord (or 3rd) is major or minor, how the sharps and flats work into the key(s).

This all really came together well helped me reading the circle of 5ths chart, which has since become clear to me.

 
jtcnj said:
Like Steve Stine
I think he demonstrates very clearly. There are 3 or 4 Masterclass free ones on da Yout tube.
I really liked and learned, esp. the one where you develop the chords from a scale, and why the chord (or 3rd) is major or minor, how the sharps and flats work into the key(s).

This all really came together well helped me reading the circle of 5ths chart, which has since become clear to me.

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Yup, exactly. Love those videos. I've watched them several times. Actually, I'm due for a refresher.
 
So I continue to practice these modal changes. They give me a haedache, but I am slowly learining to use the modes in difrent keys to create completity without any new scales. If you don't remember, see post #27 for the full explanation, but here is an excerpt

II: G7 I C7 I G7 I G7 I
I C7 I C7 I G7 I G7
I I D7 I C7 I G7 I D7 :II

G Major Pentatonic (not on C7 chords) - G A B D E (G)

(you could think good old E minor pentatonic as it's the same!)

G Mixolydian (G7 chords) - G A B C D E F (G)

G Dorian (C7 chords) - G A Bb C D E F (G)

G Major Scale (D7 chords) - G A B C D E F# (G)

And here is a chart I made to try to drill this into my head (the bracketed names are appoximate - do not depend on me for acurate theory, just a shortcut or 2). So starting on the third fret, you apply the mixolidian mode, then dorian. If you started in the box before that, it would be phrygian then ionian, and so on. The 2 in parenthesis indicate what to use in the last bar starting with D7. Of course, this works for any key, just move it. If anyone cares and want a better explanation, just ask

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