never thought I'd learn how to improvise or solo. Taught myself the minor pentatonic because "someone told me I needed it". I plugged in, put this on just to see what'd happen. Turns out I really can do it and all I needed was a little backing to get me going. I was seriously tempted to cut my losses on guitar but honestly, all you need really is a push in the right direction
Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else is searching for guitar backing jam tracks try Jadonite Guitar Blues Buddy (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my brother in law got amazing results with it.
If i wasn't a learning guitarist myself i would call this comment pretentious, but seeing that the exact same thing happened to me when i found this i'll just give it a thumbs up.
Sky Golding YEEEP when I learned the blues scale and tried it out while playing chords and improvising -CHANGED MY LIFE DAWG! The synth that was sitting there now has NEW LIFE from learning that scale! I now download backtracks to jam over!! I know how you feel! 😎 *with us men ..later in our lives everything comes together and it all clicks!* *JAM ON BUDDY* 🤘🏾😎🤘🏾
Never stop. Keep noodling and learning scales. Jguitar.com has great tools for this you can choose a scale and it'll show you all the notes on the fretboard. Just pick one, get the fitting backing track and play til you know the scale. It gets easier with time and it's so worth it
My uncle owned a music store and i started playing when i was five . I'm now 54 . I earned discounts by working at the store, sweeping, taking out trash, the older i got the more i did. Ringing up merchandise, stringing guitars & setting intonation . Tune pianos, DELIVER piano's . When he bought the new delivery truck with the hydraulic lift was the happiest day of my life, well up till then anyway. Lol I can't help but hear one of my absolute favoites , Gary Moore's voice telling a DJ in a radio interview when asked what would he tell new guitarists if he could only tell them one thing. I was in my mid - late teens and (we didn't have backing tracks or the internet,we had to make our own) Mr. Gary Moore said he would say .. "Get out there . Find other musicians and start playing with other people as much as you can . Learn to mesh, be part of the music . There are a million bedroom guitar players who can tear the neck up but when you put them on stage they stick out like a sore thumb . Not in a good way . They are often off tempo , too much or not enough agression, or just the wrong emotion and its such a waste of talent." Over the years that always stuck in my mind & as i got older i noticed more & more it was true & it wasn't just me & actually something we value highly when auditioning a new member, is there any chemistry with the people . A goodly sum of them... well .. suck .. i've been playing in bands and been around guitarists close on 49 years and i see it all the time . You can really spot them if you look for them and they add nothing to the band but rather, usually distract from it . Backing tracks are nice on a Tuesday night and you have to work early wednesday but that's about it . Get out there and play with others . Even if your in different bands. You can't beat the experience and you figure out the parts of music you can't just 'learn' from some one else, like feel and texture, color and tone . There's more to music than volume and gain .. You learn how to feed off what the others are playing and stay in the same "groove" and THAT'S where the magic happens . THAT'S when you have your best shot of "Catching lightening in a bottle" . When you're all on the same plane , there's no feeling like it. & you can't describe it .You have it or you don't. I still play in a band and i often, on nights the band isn't playing, the wife & i'll go to the Fraternal Order of the Eagles or the V.F.W or one of the bars in our little town and she'll sit and watch as just an old Martin and me will play Neil Young . CCR, grand funk RR, CSNY, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, The Eagles (who are, BTW, just 1 Joe Walsh away from being a country band lol ) or even Joe Walsh . whatever , anything 'unplugged' for free sprite lol . I get bored playing alone after all these years, and the audience is like playing with others , you get to feed off their energy , you develop a sense what songs will be well recieved and what won't , learn to 'read the room' and its just a fun way to pass an evening . Bringing some music into their lives that they remember, a high school memory, or an old friend or flame and they get that wistful smile from what ever memory the song recalls for them , its the greatest feeling to give someone that gift. It is, really . Then, with the band you can do all that heavier Ozzy and LedZep and Chavelle or Greenday, SRV, Van Halen, The Scorpions, Gary More . UFO, Black Sabbath and my favorite, RUSH !!! So remember what Gary More said and get the hell out THERE and play , don't hide in your room playing alone . Its out there , go get it ! And until you get 'out there', backing tracks are the way to go .. ✌! Good luck !✌
My neighbor came up to me a couple of weeks ago, because I somewhat look like a guitar player ( was his impression) Turns out he has his own studio, and we’re recording and just having fun on the weekends. Your comment is so nice!
@@spyfox9796 thats awesome . I should have made it clear I wasn't mocking these backing tracks I'm actually in favor of them because it's the next best thing to playing with people and you can't at the moment . Plus they help newer players get the rhythms ingrained . You said that he said you look like you play guitar ? Was he right?
@@Mr.CliffysWorld yes! I‘ve picked up the guitar at age 11. played till I turned 16 then I stopped because I was a dumb teenager. I started again at age 21 and I love it. Again, thanks for sharing your story!
Thank you for sharing your story So I take it you're in your young to mid 20s I'm curious what part of the country you live in.That would give me a few for which musical senor inThat would give me a feel for which music Seen you R IN . like if you're in the Chicago area or if you're on 1 of the coasts or If you're in The plains states... I myself live in the rest belt. West central Ohio. to be exactAbout 25 miles north west Of Dayton.:
Curious what seen you playing Wow the area anyway And what star music you were into And I'd like to know what your set up is I'm currently playing an ES355 and a Les Paul through a marshal Vintage modern I love it.
Just an idea here....... more than anything, the backing track's setting up the map for your lead playing, which includes giving you points of anticipation and resolution to play thru..... more than just song key, pulse, and tempo. Without the harmonic movement---which essentially is the chords and bass---there's not too much difference to playing leads over just a drum track :)
This is a really good comment. I'm not to far on my guitar journey, and after memorizing a scale or two, and practicing them for weeks on end. Your exactly right. Amazing how the track gives the notes of whichever scale/position your playing, a kinda color, or feel. What's even cooler, is switching to a different key, let's ya say A, and playing the same scale, gives you an entirely different feel. A+ comment
The Stevie Ray Vaughan one 12 minutes long I think the hellaciously slow one is and another it's around 18 minutes but it's not as slow but it is still fun
I was playing along with that 18 minute SVR1And I thought it had been maybe 9 or 10 minutes and when I looked at the timer There was only like 2 minutes left LOL
Barrels were great. Johns turns were next level (even for him). Ivan is a master tube rider. Nathan is surfing as good as ever! Keep up it Florences!!!
Play it's many hours or days you want But when she start getting tired And you have to force yourself to play Then it's time to hang it up and take a break for the day
if you want to play 6 hours a day try this in open E tuning using E minor pentatonic scale and link the 4 & 5 together , it's a little hard to find resources but oh my can my guitar sing when I get out of standard
For anyone just getting started on guitar soloing/improv, try mixing together your E minor pentatonic/blues scale along with some some C# minor pentatonic/blues (aka E major pentatonic) on this track. Literally the same shape, just slide it down 3 frets. Both scales will sound great over a straight 12 bar E blues, but with a very different color and emotion.
On which fret Can I just play the Pentatonic blues scale on to this track? And any tips on how to start soloing . I can play the blues scale but no idea how to solo ?😞😏
@@watsongartry6370 For your typical pentatonic box shape which most guitarists learn first, the one that starts on the low E string and goes up to the high E (also referred to as first position pentatonic), you'll want to start at either the 12th or the 9th fret. As for tips on how to start soloing, keep it simple. Noodle around in your pentatonic box to the best of your ability, while aiming to hit the root note of the chord being played (in this case E, A, and B). Use your ear and play what sounds good to you. Don't worry about playing overly complicated licks or runs or anything, just keep it nice and easy. The main key is to have fun and enjoy what you're playing, as you improve this will become easier and easier over time. Once your skill increases you can focus on learning higher level concepts, but for now just pick up your guitar, find your pentatonic box, and give 'er hell.
Thank you, very helpful and sound advise, I get maybe starting on the 12th fret which is E but why the 9th fret isn't that C# ? Doesn't seem to fit with E A B and when you say aim to hit the root note, do you mean on each chord change so I play the root note for the E the A and the B?
@@watsongartry6370 Starting on the 12th fret will give you E minor pentatonic, starting on the 9th fret will give you E major pentatonic (which also happens to be C# minor). Both scales will sound good here via the magic of relative keys/modes. E minor will have a darker, edgier sound, while E major will have a brighter, happier feel. Just keep in mind that your root note for both scales will be E, regardless of which note you start on. For your second question, yes that's exactly what I mean. Though assuming you're brand new to this stuff, you might be better off just focusing on hitting the E notes for now. Since we're in the key of E it will sound good no matter what chord is being played in the background. Try not to overthink this stuff too much, just pick up your guitar and jam and let your ears be your guide. Once you get a bit more skilled these concepts will start to make more sense and you can really sink your teeth into the theory side of things.
Thank you again, I'm not a beginner but just haven't done any theory, so last question to get thru my head.. I understand starting on the E string the root note of the A Chord ,but are you saying when I play along to the backing track and it the Chord Progression changes to Let's say to the B , Chord should I immediately change and play the B note (root note) and the same for A Chord ? So every change of Chord I play the root note of that Chord? Or can I just carry on the pentatonic Scale and play whichever note I feel like? Apologies for sounding a bit simple but I really appreciate your patience and advice, thanks again ..
Those of us old fuckers who had to play along with vinyl records when we were learning to play are very jealous that we didn’t have things like this back then.
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Only been playing about seven months and all I know is a bit of e blues caged system, But this showed me that that system can still get you sounding pretty sweet! Many thanks
I'm a huge fan of this, I've been playing blues since I was 10, so basically 26 years and I've got a LOT of chops, but never really had anyone solid to jam with, these have seriously helped my cadence, and note controls...basically, these track are dope as fuck, well played....
You have no idea how much this helped me feel more confident in my guitar practice. Felt like playing scales was getting really old and repetitive but it’s like a lightbulb came on! Started just improvising and its so much fun. Thanks a lot dude! 👍🏻🙌🏻
@@cliftonlloyd8395 The gear icon on the lower right is for settings. If you click on it and select speed, you get 8 speed options. You can slow it down or speed it up. I chose 1.5 and the playback was exactly what I wanted to play along with.
As bad as we're told to believe things are...it's the little things like having a killer backing track like this one, to play along and practice with...in my mind that tell me .."great! things are..." ( to quote the wise old Yoda) I get to enjoy the fruits of others inspiration and hard work...htf could I be anything but grateful. The least I can do is practice my ass off to become a great player and offer something back !
Giving an honest feedback to this backing track. I mostly play metal genre on my guitar and never really into blues. But this backing track is legit so good, it literally makes me wanna buy a suit and fedora, just to play with this backing track. I know this is an old video, but thanks for the work, dude. Very nice and really makes me appreciate blues more!
Amazing how the time passes...all i did before was repeating those same E scale runs up and down the neck, now the licks come out of nowhere...i find myself clicking the repeat button over and over LOL. Been playing over this one at least an hour every day. Tnx!
@@veronicapatil1647 you ask a very good question and deserves a very good answer .. major is usually considered a happy progression without 3rd and 5th flats where minor will typically ring out with sad notes on a flat 3 or 5 depending on your melody hook .. try sliding up from a ghost flat minor notes or even emphasizing them on a turn around lick .. go outside your box and blend both Maj and Min together emphasizing the individual common chord tones or adding in a 7th on the B chord turn around .. see if that generates your natural feeling .. remember to hit target notes .. hope this helps you
All thanks to my right fast flapping hand for E Back track. I can reverse after throwing it n can reverse the process by this awesome back track for my flap hand.
This track is all you need to keep your chops up on playing in a blues band. Nothing gets a session going like breaking out into the EAB progression. I tend to speed up, but this track keeps me with the tempo.
I keep coming back to this backing track again and again. I started playing guitar just a bit shy of a month ago and I just kept practicing the minor pentatonic shapes I knew. Today was the first time I got in the groove playing up and down the fret board (albeit not very well ahaha). Such an excellent backing track.
I just found your Channel and I am subscribing. What a great way to practice my Yonberg harmonica in A. Fantastic track! Thanks for posting this. Cheers.
Here I am a very novice noob with my nylon strings guitar soloing to it and improvising through the pentatonic I know. that's just amazing, it makes me learn more and more and maybe one day be enough to buy a good guitar. :)
Don’t waste your time with a bad guitar, a decent one can be found under $200. My first guitar was crap and it frustrated me and set me back in learning.
I sat here for the whole 10 minutes just playing the e minor scale and jamming out. Never done that before.
it's a beautiful thing
Fingers bleeding.
Check.
New strings broken in.
Check.
All stresses of the day gone.
Check.
Thank you for the therapy session, my friend! 😊
Funny you should say that, Les Paul said that his guitar was his therapist.
@@boataxe4605 I did not know that. But I like it!
never thought I'd learn how to improvise or solo. Taught myself the minor pentatonic because "someone told me I needed it". I plugged in, put this on just to see what'd happen. Turns out I really can do it and all I needed was a little backing to get me going. I was seriously tempted to cut my losses on guitar but honestly, all you need really is a push in the right direction
Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else is searching for guitar backing jam tracks try Jadonite Guitar Blues Buddy (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my brother in law got amazing results with it.
If i wasn't a learning guitarist myself i would call this comment pretentious, but seeing that the exact same thing happened to me when i found this i'll just give it a thumbs up.
Sky Golding YEEEP when I learned the blues scale and tried it out while playing chords and improvising -CHANGED MY LIFE DAWG! The synth that was sitting there now has NEW LIFE from learning that scale! I now download backtracks to jam over!! I know how you feel! 😎
*with us men ..later in our lives everything comes together and it all clicks!*
*JAM ON BUDDY* 🤘🏾😎🤘🏾
Right on bro, nothing gets you out of a rut like playing with other musicians!
Never stop. Keep noodling and learning scales. Jguitar.com has great tools for this you can choose a scale and it'll show you all the notes on the fretboard. Just pick one, get the fitting backing track and play til you know the scale. It gets easier with time and it's so worth it
My uncle owned a music store and i started playing when i was five . I'm now 54 . I earned discounts by working at the store, sweeping, taking out trash, the older i got the more i did. Ringing up merchandise, stringing guitars & setting intonation . Tune pianos, DELIVER piano's . When he bought the new delivery truck with the hydraulic lift was the happiest day of my life, well up till then anyway. Lol I can't help but hear one of my absolute favoites , Gary Moore's voice telling a DJ in a radio interview when asked what would he tell new guitarists if he could only tell them one thing. I was in my mid - late teens and (we didn't have backing tracks or the internet,we had to make our own) Mr. Gary Moore said he would say ..
"Get out there . Find other musicians and start playing with other people as much as you can . Learn to mesh, be part of the music . There are a million bedroom guitar players who can tear the neck up but when you put them on stage they stick out like a sore thumb . Not in a good way . They are often off tempo , too much or not enough agression, or just the wrong emotion and its such a waste of talent." Over the years that always stuck in my mind & as i got older i noticed more & more it was true & it wasn't just me & actually something we value highly when auditioning a new member, is there any chemistry with the people . A goodly sum of them... well .. suck .. i've been playing in bands and been around guitarists close on 49 years and i see it all the time . You can really spot them if you look for them and they add nothing to the band but rather, usually distract from it . Backing tracks are nice on a Tuesday night and you have to work early wednesday but that's about it . Get out there and play with others . Even if your in different bands. You can't beat the experience and you figure out the parts of music you can't just 'learn' from some one else, like feel and texture, color and tone . There's more to music than volume and gain .. You learn how to feed off what the others are playing and stay in the same "groove" and THAT'S where the magic happens . THAT'S when you have your best shot of "Catching lightening in a bottle" . When you're all on the same plane , there's no feeling like it. & you can't describe it .You have it or you don't. I still play in a band and i often, on nights the band isn't playing, the wife & i'll go to the Fraternal Order of the Eagles or the V.F.W or one of the bars in our little town and she'll sit and watch as just an old Martin and me will play Neil Young . CCR, grand funk RR, CSNY, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, The Eagles (who are, BTW, just 1 Joe Walsh away from being a country band lol ) or even Joe Walsh . whatever , anything 'unplugged' for free sprite lol . I get bored playing alone after all these years, and the audience is like playing with others , you get to feed off their energy , you develop a sense what songs will be well recieved and what won't , learn to 'read the room' and its just a fun way to pass an evening . Bringing some music into their lives that they remember, a high school memory, or an old friend or flame and they get that wistful smile from what ever memory the song recalls for them , its the greatest feeling to give someone that gift. It is, really . Then, with the band you can do all that heavier Ozzy and LedZep and Chavelle or Greenday, SRV, Van Halen, The Scorpions, Gary More . UFO, Black Sabbath and my favorite, RUSH !!! So remember what Gary More said and get the hell out THERE and play , don't hide in your room playing alone . Its out there , go get it ! And until you get 'out there', backing tracks are the way to go ..
✌! Good luck !✌
My neighbor came up to me a couple of weeks ago, because I somewhat look like a guitar player ( was his impression)
Turns out he has his own studio, and we’re recording and just having fun on the weekends.
Your comment is so nice!
@@spyfox9796 thats awesome . I should have made it clear I wasn't mocking these backing tracks I'm actually in favor of them because it's the next best thing to playing with people and you can't at the moment . Plus they help newer players get the rhythms ingrained . You said that he said you look like you play guitar ? Was he right?
@@Mr.CliffysWorld yes! I‘ve picked up the guitar at age 11.
played till I turned 16 then I stopped because I was a dumb teenager. I started again at age 21 and I love it.
Again, thanks for sharing your story!
Thank you for sharing your story So I take it you're in your young to mid 20s I'm curious what part of the country you live in.That would give me a few for which musical senor inThat would give me a feel for which music Seen you R IN . like if you're in the Chicago area or if you're on 1 of the coasts or If you're in The plains states... I myself live in the rest belt. West central Ohio. to be exactAbout 25 miles north west Of Dayton.:
Curious what seen you playing Wow the area anyway And what star music you were into And I'd like to know what your set up is I'm currently playing an ES355 and a Les Paul through a marshal Vintage modern I love it.
It's amazing how much your notes come alive playing with a backing track!!
ikr!
Yep! And just wait till you play with a live band in front of people!
@@boataxe4605 frrr
Just an idea here....... more than anything, the backing track's setting up the map for your lead playing, which includes giving you points of anticipation and resolution to play thru..... more than just song key, pulse, and tempo. Without the harmonic movement---which essentially is the chords and bass---there's not too much difference to playing leads over just a drum track :)
This is a really good comment.
I'm not to far on my guitar journey, and after memorizing a scale or two, and practicing them for weeks on end. Your exactly right. Amazing how the track gives the notes of whichever scale/position your playing, a kinda color, or feel.
What's even cooler, is switching to a different key, let's ya say A, and playing the same scale, gives you an entirely different feel.
A+ comment
I just realized I’ve been playing along to this for ten minutes nicely done
For real I didn’t realize it ether lol
I had to hit replay hahha
Same
The Stevie Ray Vaughan one 12 minutes long I think the hellaciously slow one is and another it's around 18 minutes but it's not as slow but it is still fun
I was playing along with that 18 minute SVR1And I thought it had been maybe 9 or 10 minutes and when I looked at the timer There was only like 2 minutes left LOL
Great track , Playing along with this track makes me feel the blues ;)
Jesus lord all mighty, I just looked this up started improvising a little and my god theres a huge difference when I have this playing
The beauty of this beauty is the space it allows you to play. Great track folks!
I love playing along with this. You're only limited by your mind.
Barrels were great. Johns turns were next level (even for him). Ivan is a master tube rider. Nathan is surfing as good as ever! Keep up it Florences!!!
i have a class for guitar and we are supposed to be playing 30 minutes a day but i caught my self at two hours today
That's a great sign. Keep your joy.👍
Play it's many hours or days you want But when she start getting tired And you have to force yourself to play Then it's time to hang it up and take a break for the day
if you want to play 6 hours a day try this in open E tuning using E minor pentatonic scale and link the 4 & 5 together , it's a little hard to find resources but oh my can my guitar sing when I get out of standard
Lessons are good for learning the basics, but if you want to develop an original style, try to forget most of what they teach you.
@@boataxe4605 good advice
As a beginner, this is the best thing I've found.
For anyone just getting started on guitar soloing/improv, try mixing together your E minor pentatonic/blues scale along with some some C# minor pentatonic/blues (aka E major pentatonic) on this track. Literally the same shape, just slide it down 3 frets. Both scales will sound great over a straight 12 bar E blues, but with a very different color and emotion.
On which fret Can I just play the Pentatonic blues scale on to this track?
And any tips on how to start soloing .
I can play the blues scale but no idea how to solo ?😞😏
@@watsongartry6370 For your typical pentatonic box shape which most guitarists learn first, the one that starts on the low E string and goes up to the high E (also referred to as first position pentatonic), you'll want to start at either the 12th or the 9th fret.
As for tips on how to start soloing, keep it simple. Noodle around in your pentatonic box to the best of your ability, while aiming to hit the root note of the chord being played (in this case E, A, and B).
Use your ear and play what sounds good to you. Don't worry about playing overly complicated licks or runs or anything, just keep it nice and easy. The main key is to have fun and enjoy what you're playing, as you improve this will become easier and easier over time.
Once your skill increases you can focus on learning higher level concepts, but for now just pick up your guitar, find your pentatonic box, and give 'er hell.
Thank you, very helpful and sound advise, I get maybe starting on the 12th fret which is E but why the 9th fret isn't that C# ? Doesn't seem to fit with E A B
and when you say aim to hit the root note, do you mean on each chord change so I play the root note for the E the A and the B?
@@watsongartry6370 Starting on the 12th fret will give you E minor pentatonic, starting on the 9th fret will give you E major pentatonic (which also happens to be C# minor). Both scales will sound good here via the magic of relative keys/modes. E minor will have a darker, edgier sound, while E major will have a brighter, happier feel. Just keep in mind that your root note for both scales will be E, regardless of which note you start on.
For your second question, yes that's exactly what I mean. Though assuming you're brand new to this stuff, you might be better off just focusing on hitting the E notes for now. Since we're in the key of E it will sound good no matter what chord is being played in the background.
Try not to overthink this stuff too much, just pick up your guitar and jam and let your ears be your guide. Once you get a bit more skilled these concepts will start to make more sense and you can really sink your teeth into the theory side of things.
Thank you again,
I'm not a beginner but just haven't done any theory, so last question to get thru my head.. I understand starting on the E string the root note of the A Chord ,but are you saying when I play along to the backing track and it the Chord Progression changes to Let's say to the B , Chord should I immediately change and play the B note (root note) and the same for A Chord ? So every change of Chord I play the root note of that Chord?
Or can I just carry on the pentatonic Scale and play whichever note I feel like?
Apologies for sounding a bit simple but I really appreciate your patience and advice, thanks again ..
Can’t keep track of time while jamming to this, good thing it’s only 10 minutes and not 10 hours or I’d be up all night without sleeping
es difícil explicar lo entretenido que esto puede ser.. Muchas gracias al genio que subió esto
Those of us old fuckers who had to play along with vinyl records when we were learning to play are very jealous that we didn’t have things like this back then.
I come from just playing chords and I stumbled on blues scale and now I'm just jumming. it's wonderful
I remember when I found this track . It had just under a mil views.
It has done well . 👍🎸🎶😎
I love this UA-cam rand I would recommend it to anybody who plays guitar
FABULOUS.
Robert
London, Canada 🍁
Currently Practicing Harmonica to this track. Solid!
I want to run, I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside
I wanna reach out and touch the flame
Where the streets have no name, ha, ha, ha
I wanna feel sunlight on my face
I see that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I wanna take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
It's all I can do
The city's a flood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on the desert plain, yeah
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
It's all I can do
Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love
See our love turn to rust
Oh, we're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
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Strange Brew
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Strange brew, kill what's inside of you.
She's a witch of trouble in electric blue,
In her own mad mind she's in love with you.
With you.
Now what you gonna do?
Strange brew, kill what's inside of you.
She's some kind of demon messing in the glue.
If you don't watch out it'll stick to you.
To you.
What kind of fool are you?
Strange brew, kill what's inside of you.
On a boat in the middle of a raging sea,
She would make a scene for it all to be
Ignored.
And wouldn't you be bored?
Strange brew, kill what's inside of you.
Strange brew, strange brew, strange brew, strange brew.
Strange brew, kill what's inside of you
want to run, I want to hide
I wanna tear down the walls that hold me inside
I wanna reach out and touch the flame
Where the streets have no name, ha, ha, ha
I wanna feel sunlight on my face
I see that dust cloud disappear without a trace
I wanna take shelter from the poison rain
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
It's all I can do
The city's a flood
And our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Trampled in dust
I'll show you a place
High on the desert plain, yeah
Where the streets have no name, oh, oh
Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name
We're still building then burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there, I go there with you
It's all I can do
Our love turns to rust
We're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, and I see love
See our love turn to rust
Oh, we're beaten and blown by the wind
Blown by the wind
Oh, when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do
Only been playing about seven months and all I know is a bit of e blues caged system, But this showed me that that system can still get you sounding pretty sweet! Many thanks
Think in terms of feelings and emotions instead of thinking about a system.
I'm a huge fan of this, I've been playing blues since I was 10, so basically 26 years and I've got a LOT of chops, but never really had anyone solid to jam with, these have seriously helped my cadence, and note controls...basically, these track are dope as fuck, well played....
Correctly!👍👍👍Dope as Fuck!😎😎😎✌️✌️✌️
Mon on up to the house man. We got telecasters and spaghetti
Just jammed for ten minutes straight wow amazing
Ain't it great?
You have no idea how much this helped me feel more confident in my guitar practice. Felt like playing scales was getting really old and repetitive but it’s like a lightbulb came on! Started just improvising and its so much fun. Thanks a lot dude! 👍🏻🙌🏻
Same here mate, all i know was repeating those scales over and over again, now suddenly the licks come out of nowhere :-)
yes I fkn. do.
Had to come back to add this to my guitar playlist. Really groove-y to play along to as a beginner.
man this makes me feel like im jimmy page, this backing track compliments my sloppy blues solos
This is a great slow blues right here. Cheers
I changed the speed (gear icon) to 1.5 and really got in to it. Great track, thanks a million !
cool trick,
Explain?
Ummm I commented over 10 minutes ago, I do need to loop this lol
@@cliftonlloyd8395 The gear icon on the lower right is for settings. If you click on it and select speed, you get 8 speed options. You can slow it down or speed it up. I chose 1.5 and the playback was exactly what I wanted to play along with.
Nice track! Fun to jam along with this one.
Thanks for posting, I can actually play blues to this, and sound ok.
Ty for endless blues box fun ❤😊
I hardly play my guitar with the amount of passion this backtrack givese
This is without a doubt one of the best blues tracks on UA-cam ! 👍👍👍
As bad as we're told to believe things are...it's the little things like having a killer backing track like this one, to play along and practice with...in my mind that tell me .."great! things are..." ( to quote the wise old Yoda) I get to enjoy the fruits of others inspiration and hard work...htf could I be anything but grateful. The least I can do is practice my ass off to become a great player and offer something back !
This track is the reason I'm taking blues guitar lessons ...can only play air guitar for so long..
Giving an honest feedback to this backing track. I mostly play metal genre on my guitar and never really into blues. But this backing track is legit so good, it literally makes me wanna buy a suit and fedora, just to play with this backing track. I know this is an old video, but thanks for the work, dude. Very nice and really makes me appreciate blues more!
It's not what you play , it's what you don't play .
B.B. King
SAME!
Amazing how the time passes...all i did before was repeating those same E scale runs up and down the neck, now the licks come out of nowhere...i find myself clicking the repeat button over and over LOL. Been playing over this one at least an hour every day. Tnx!
is this e minor pentatonic or e major pentatonic scale?
@@veronicapatil1647 you ask a very good question and deserves a very good answer .. major is usually considered a happy progression without 3rd and 5th flats where minor will typically ring out with sad notes on a flat 3 or 5 depending on your melody hook .. try sliding up from a ghost flat minor notes or even emphasizing them on a turn around lick .. go outside your box and blend both Maj and Min together emphasizing the individual common chord tones or adding in a 7th on the B chord turn around .. see if that generates your natural feeling .. remember to hit target notes .. hope this helps you
@@textsmsmaster9884 If the person is asking a basic question about minor and major something tells me your response was Chinese to her.
Thank you! I am jamming along and having fun.
Awesome track to sing or shred some Blues on! Excellent.....
Thank you very much for doing this. It's just excellent!
Kudos to the band! What a fun jam. I only started to run out of ideas right at the end.🤣 Thanks for this!🔥
i’m just imagining the crazy fills and licks that people come up with to this track
I wish I could upvote this more - I just broke my guitar string playing the blues. :P
The way to play bass to this is just play louder than the bass, that's working for me lol, now I can blues bass riff over top of this beautiful track
I drive a lot, but now I drive a lot with these tracks playing thru the radio while I get down on a harmonica!
Thank you. Thank you. This is the first time I have found a jamtrack I can almost play along with.
I feel like I've had a break through moment.
this is a wonderful thing you've done
Improvised up and down the neck. Thanks a bunch for this track!
This is a great back track for beginners trying to improvise thank you!
All thanks to my right fast flapping hand for E Back track. I can reverse after throwing it n can reverse the process by this awesome back track for my flap hand.
i bought my first guitar last week. Started learning blues solo 2 days ago and this track is really helpful to create structure while improvising
that's awesome! it's a really good way to start this early on playing along to jam tracks, best of luck :)
@@benjamminify Thank you. 😁
Kool brotherman
Salutations on being an incubator of new blues players. You've done something quite good.
Awesome backing track! It was fun to play along with.
This track is all you need to keep your chops up on playing in a blues band. Nothing gets a session going like breaking out into the EAB progression. I tend to speed up, but this track keeps me with the tempo.
That felt like 2 minutes. lol. Must have been into it. Nice track.
Now I got to jam along with that track ty🤙🏼😎🎸..
Please never delete this!!! I LOVE IT!! KEEP MAKING MORE STUFF LIKE THIS!!
Been using this to learn how to solo on a lap steel and it’s proving to be the most useful teaching tool I’ve come across. Thank you kindly
Best backing track I've played to date, great job.
This was my first ever backing track way back when i learnt that revolutionary e-minor blues scale at the start
Thank you for providing this track. Very helpful.
So good to play my harmonica too!!
I keep coming back to this backing track again and again. I started playing guitar just a bit shy of a month ago and I just kept practicing the minor pentatonic shapes I knew. Today was the first time I got in the groove playing up and down the fret board (albeit not very well ahaha). Such an excellent backing track.
Fatneek
@isoin don't need them anymore friend, I'm a much better guitarist a year later
Amazing good jamming track yarhhhhh
Great job. I really like the open space you leave while keeping it right on the one...
Thank, great track to jam to. Love the feel changes!
I just listen to this man in fact it's for sure my fav track of 2016
had a hard ass day, and this, this got me out of one hell of a funk, by adding a little funk to this freaking amazing track. thannkkk youuu
THAT is what it's ALL ABOUT!
Same brother. It's been a rough week
Blues is so fucking good. I can play notes out of scale and still sound good if I bend and slide afterwards
Thanks for providing this backing track. Really helps with practice
Amazing track......flirted with my epiphone on blues!
Blues is primarily sung by people who woke
up this morning,😉👌
instead of the people who never woke up? i guess that's completely true
Yeah. Then went down to the crossroads!
I sing it in my sleep
They're lying. Blues men don't get up in the morning. They go to bed in the morning.
Delta skelta haha that’s nice
Man this is so fun coming from a beginner that just learned maj. pentomic
I just found your Channel and I am subscribing. What a great way to practice my Yonberg harmonica in A. Fantastic track! Thanks for posting this. Cheers.
really useful for my guitar practice, Love It!
broke a string. 👍
Here I am a very novice noob with my nylon strings guitar soloing to it and improvising through the pentatonic I know. that's just amazing, it makes me learn more and more and maybe one day be enough to buy a good guitar. :)
Don’t waste your time with a bad guitar, a decent one can be found under $200. My first guitar was crap and it frustrated me and set me back in learning.
This is a great track to jam to, many thx buddy.
Thank you...!
Best JT ON YOTUBE! This is my Stanky blues medicine jam track.
If I start a band I will name it ‘ The Stanky Blues Band’! It’s even better than the name I was going to go with’ Deep Dick And The Muff Divers’.
great for guitar... and harmonica too!
Duuuude! I just bought a key of A Crossover! This is soooo perfect with that! Thanks for this video so much! So nice sounding playing along.
This is such a fun backing track
My guitar teacher is teaching me penatonic scales in different keys and this helps so much as a backing track to improvising and creating solos
Awesome backing track loved it...
This is a perfect track for my style of guitar playing. It works great for singing too
Now started having guitar lesson to work on my lead wor. this backing trac is a big help
Very nice backing track. Thanks for this.
Wow. Just found this and I love it Great jam. Thanks!
Thanks for the track!
Very cool track
Wonderful . Very good to Jam on. Please make more of these e blues beginner tracks.
Blues is a healer 💙
Great really appreciate that 🚜
Nice backing track. Many thanks. It's my homework for the next two weeks.
anthakata Heard it once, played killer lead guitar the second time, why? Because I don’t consider music to be homework ( or any kind of work) at all.
also youre an asshole, i heard lot of great musicians are, great!
Nice track, thanks!