Guitar backing tracks?
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Hi all. Hope somebody can help? The guy I'm taking lessons from has suggested I get some backing track cd's to jam/solo over to further my playing. I don't want anything too advanced, just the basic "Backing track in C minor etc" type of thing, like you'd get stuck to the front of magazines and teach yourself guitar books.
Why not buy yourself a magazine or teach yourself guitar type book I hear you ask. Well quite simply I'm too tight! (Read: too skint
) So anyway, what I'm actually asking is, does anyone know of any sites where I can download such tracks to copy to cd? (Preferably for free
) Any help anyone can give me will be very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dazza.
If you want I've got one particular disc with 12 backing tracks, each in a slightly different style and tempo (mainly slow), in all 12 keys. They go up in fourths too, which gets your ear used to the movement. So the first track will all be in C for example, then the next will be in F.
Each track is about 3 - 4 mins long.
The backing is piano, bass and drums (good 'name' musicians too).
PM me with your address, and I'll send a burn through the post.
Each track is about 3 - 4 mins long.
The backing is piano, bass and drums (good 'name' musicians too).
PM me with your address, and I'll send a burn through the post.
A shitty tape recorder is the go here, without a doubt, then you can develop your rhythm as well as lead playing.
If you can't play good rhythm, it's pointless bothering about good lead. One thing I realised was that my inbuilt metronome was shite! Have sorted that out. Also recording yourself lets you really know how you sound and you can learn lots from it, you can pick up loads of "what works" ideas.
If you're developing your lead style, it might be worth adding a trick which I use. Singing what you play (sounds idiotic but will make your playing make sense). A surprising number of guitarists (including Dave Murray and Brian May, George Benson, etc) use this method to construct a solo, that allied with constructing solos note for note. If you ask me, cardinal sinners for not constructing intelligent solos are Steve Vai (rockwank guitar my mum could do) and Jools "One Trick" Holland.....
Also, doing your own backing tracks will allow you to develop your own style of playing.
The idea is that eventually when you get pretty good, your composition of melody lines plus your "Vocalese" will allow you to hear a piece of music, know what is possible, think a solo instantly and play it instantly. The essence of improvisation. The best part is that when you "kind of" get that, you will be able to improvise harmony as well which is great. Eventually you should be able to sit down and just spontaneously create great tunes. Or as my old piano teacher can, read full score music and play something totally different based on it's components.
That's the idea anyway.
Sorry to waffle but the above points were critical to my development as a pianist, if they are of use to anyone else, that's a great thing.
GET A TAPE RECORDER FROM A TIP OR SOMETHING!
Stu
If you can't play good rhythm, it's pointless bothering about good lead. One thing I realised was that my inbuilt metronome was shite! Have sorted that out. Also recording yourself lets you really know how you sound and you can learn lots from it, you can pick up loads of "what works" ideas.
If you're developing your lead style, it might be worth adding a trick which I use. Singing what you play (sounds idiotic but will make your playing make sense). A surprising number of guitarists (including Dave Murray and Brian May, George Benson, etc) use this method to construct a solo, that allied with constructing solos note for note. If you ask me, cardinal sinners for not constructing intelligent solos are Steve Vai (rockwank guitar my mum could do) and Jools "One Trick" Holland.....
Also, doing your own backing tracks will allow you to develop your own style of playing.
The idea is that eventually when you get pretty good, your composition of melody lines plus your "Vocalese" will allow you to hear a piece of music, know what is possible, think a solo instantly and play it instantly. The essence of improvisation. The best part is that when you "kind of" get that, you will be able to improvise harmony as well which is great. Eventually you should be able to sit down and just spontaneously create great tunes. Or as my old piano teacher can, read full score music and play something totally different based on it's components.
That's the idea anyway.
Sorry to waffle but the above points were critical to my development as a pianist, if they are of use to anyone else, that's a great thing.
GET A TAPE RECORDER FROM A TIP OR SOMETHING! Stu
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