Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are FREE Backing Track with Chords/Tabs by Ricky Molina

To expand on a previous guitar lesson for Billy Joel's classic hit "Just the Way You Are" (from his 1977 The Stranger album), here's a backing track for lead instrumentalists to practice soloing. Try playing the melody, or try out your own improvisational ideas over the chords of the song from start to finish. The backing tracks were recorded and produced in my home recording studio - pretty decent quality, as far as backing tracks go. Click on the link below to download the pdf and 2 backing tracks (one at 139 bpm, the other at 120 bpm).
The pdf with chords and tabs along with the backing track are NOW FREE!!!
Just click on the following links to download:
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Enjoy!
In addition, you can purchase the Billy Joel song mp3 from Amazon at amzn.to/3jGyUR1
Timestamp
0:12 Welcome and introduction
1:16 Quick review of the intro phrase of the song
3:06 Backing track intro
3:15 Verse 1
3:43 Verse 2
4:07 Intro revisited
4:15 Verse 1.b
4:43 Verse 2.b
5:06 Intro revisted
5:13 Break
5:41 Verse 2.c
6:05 Intro revisited
6:13 Ist sax solo a la Verse 1
6:40 Verse 2.d
6:53 Ritard
7:04 Tail end of Break revisted
7:15 Outro sax solo a la Verse 1
7:42 More outro sax solo a la Verse 2 and ending
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Thanks and 'til next time,
Ricky Molina

[@mrguru75]

Great Job ! That’s as close to the original as it can get! I love this song and was unsure about some voicing, now I got it! Thanks a lot

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

Hello Rick! is that an old froggy bottum OM?

[@rickymolina7390]

yes it is....from around 1987