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!!!
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!
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.
@TheGearmandude You can subscribe to my channel, to get a new backingtrack every week. Also you can like me on facebook and tell me your wishes for the next backingtrack. :-)
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
***** 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.
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!
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 )
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....
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.
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...
@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!!!
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.
Very mellow. Perfect for beginning soloists who want to work on "expressing" their moves...
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!!!
this is great to jam with until the trill is gone
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!
I love addictive drums. In the right hands... it can sound amazing.
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
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.
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.
Great sounding gets you in the mood blues
@TheGearmandude You can subscribe to my channel, to get a new backingtrack every week. Also you can like me on facebook and tell me your wishes for the next backingtrack. :-)
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
been a while but I had 2 come by 2 listen again...............still love it...........
love that bass line
GREAT work, friend, great work. Thank you for this BT !
Hey BackingTrackTV!!! I just wanted to say Hello and let you know how much I like your Channel!!! Thanks so much :)
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
visual chord changes are nice for working on playing arpeggios..thanks
not bad for a nice chill smooth jam session
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.
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@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.
@Jett Mekhi it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much, you saved my ass :D
@Griffin Nathan glad I could help :)
.....the thrill is gone...the thrill is away!...love bb king!
Very nice. Deep melody.
I enjoyed jam with my bass on it.
I think this fits BBs the thrill is gone perfectly. Nice
Too Much Fun.
Thanks for the exceptional work.
Very user friendly.
It's nice to have the chord progression like this :)
Sweet just what i was looking for, thanks bro !!!
i love this backing track great job thanks for posting
Nice !! I really like this !!
Thank you very good for all levels.
Lovely tune and thx for putting the chords up!!
la fddddg clci
Thank you for some great tracks
cant stop liesten!!! bravo!!!!
Thank's. This is just my speed.
OMG! Loved it so much!
Great work. Thanks!
Leaves a lot of room for inovation....nice.
I love this backing track. Thank you so much :)
Time to practice those B>B> King licks.
Best bt on UA-cam
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!! Love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smooth, creamy, delicious. Lots of flavour.
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
Very inspiring, thanks!
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.
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!
gracias, ver los acordes que suenan me ayuda a tocarlo en el piano
Sounds like The Thrill Is Gone - BB King. Nice
it's really smooth
Enjoyed that. Thanks
Nice track, Thank you.
gracias esta es la pista que estaba buscando
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)
Love it really helpful! :)
thank you this helps me learn
HAH! I had fun with this one.
Thanks for the help!
this is awesome i LOVE it
This keeps making me want to play Santana, Black Magic Woman.
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.
Thank You Bruttha just jamin away on it..
Great a minor track
no, in A minor is Emaj, but E7 is often used because as you noticed, it fits very well:) keep on playing!
Killer thanks!
tres utile et bien fait merci :D
wow...nice track... :)
this is nice................
Awesome!
Very nice!
Amazing!!!
Hey cool i will try to play on this backingtracks
Thank You
Thank you :)
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!
love it !!
Thanks very much!
really good
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 )
i love this track ..got video of me playing ..
Groovy
Nice!
try your blues scales same thing with a few extra notes, it'll give you a dark bluesyer feel
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!
Thx bro!!
thanks mate
mmm great ;)
Thrill is gone... :)
superb
loved
love it
Whenever you see a blues track on youtube with a minor key in its title, it will always be thrill is gone.
great!
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.
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!
LIKE IT
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...
Hi this is so great to play along with is it available to download please.
yes
...gone away! hahaha
@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!!!
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.