The Secret To How I Record My Solos, Backing Tracks and Loops

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If you've ever wondered about my workflow, how I create backing tracks, what I'm soloing over...What I use for drums, what I use for bass...What DAW I use...Here's basically everything covered!
00:00 what you see is not the same as me
1:35 this is how it starts
2:55 the benefit of ambiguity
4:08 why I don't start on chord 1 that often
5:35 the chords aren't set in stone...
8:00 but then
9:14 the trick revealed
9:40 the process in the DAW
11:29 Drums
16:00 Bass
21:00 lining it up in DaVinci Resolve
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[@ksharpe10]

This could be the start of the Cordy Masterclass video series.

[@nekkon1989]

Now this is something that makes total sense. It is not a "how do I create backing tracks", but rather how John makes music that is actually enjoyable to solo over. So many backing tracks on KZbin lead nowhere, thus making practice less efficient. Cheers, John

[@Allsystemsaredown]

This is about the most consistently interesting and informative guitar channels I've stumbled upon. All delivered in such a chilled style as well.

[@GearAGoGo]

I see you got tired of my Patreon messages and decided to just explain your entire process! Well done and thank you!

[@user-sn3cs2hd8r]

John - wow this post is amazing! Your post keeps getting better and better - you have nailed your audience. How does John Cordy think as he creates......just amazing

[@r0bophonic]

Thank you for explaining the music theory behind your backing track compositions. Very cool!

[@CloudyNoodling]

The video I've been waiting for!

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thank you! This is great!

[@jwstout007]

That outro ambience was incredibly creepy. You should play something over it sometime :)

[@NsteveA]

This was very informative! Thanks for sharing.

[@jimvee4528]

Brilliant. Super helpful, thanks. You're intros are so good... Doing something similar in my style has been on my list for a while.

[@cezarsantana]

Great insight of your beautiful and musical mind & workflow! Amazing how efficiently you glide through it all when you have a clear "vision" of what you want plus the templates and systems you know work for you. Lots of work involved in the process to get to this stage. Thanks for sharing John!

[@NickGranville]

Very cool mate! I did wonder about your process, so this is helpful

[@henrystrzelecki5042]

Thanks John. Apparently you got my email. I'm a beginning reaper user and how you effortlessly glide through the whole process is amazing to see. Clearly you have put in the time and the hard work. Great job.

[@Liofigsguitar]

Thanks for sharing all those gold nuggets!!! Amazing

[@jimmccall8030]

This is great! Please create more videos like this!

[@tgarder]

I'm starting to suspect that actually learning some music theory might be good after all.. :D Amazing to see (and hear), well done

[@prazakgrg3]

I’ve been searching for this on KZbin for sometime.. thank you 🙏

[@ey870]

Awesome video mate - great to see the workflow, very impressive

[@MWS-Designs]

Favorite video of yours in awhile man

[@dvdcoll321]

A real, useful and value lesson. Many Thanks, John:

[@GuitarsOK]

Now this, this is very interesting! Thanks for sharing! Useful, informative and helpful. You’re the man, John! 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@ksharpe10]

Wow very good Video John!!!!!

[@majorpentatonic2310]

Very inspiring and insightful, and beautiful playing, thanks.👏👏👏

[@davegrice3423]

VERY interesting learning about your workflow John. Appreciate the peek into the process, I think I learned a couple of things I'd like to try out.

[@jcugnoni]

Very very cool. A lot of good tricks in this video. But I am even more impressed by your soloing now that I know that you record it without any background, just the metronome. Very nice

[@davecarrsfabulouscontraption]

This is great, thanks John

[@iemon7722]

Thank you man .. this is brilliant!

[@garyadamsmusic]

Very helpful thank you

[@srubel59]

Outstanding! Thanks.

[@Stratguy10NZ]

Super cool John

[@SebastianDavidMusic]

Sorry, I don't quite understand, are you actually playing only over the click?

[@rossanoevangelisti3642]

Very useful... thank you

[@DylanODonnell]

I was curious, so thanks!

[@brianmiller3287]

Very good!

[@JoeEnabnit]

The leads here reminded me of Brad Paisely 🤠

[@timchalmers1700]

Very interesting !

[@bry8500]

so is reaper actually looping or are you recording and then going back to mimic it? I don’t understand how you get it to loop and be in sync with the video without stopping to edit. You could use something like super 8 to do the looping with foot switches? that would give you the sound of the guitar through the modeler in your monitors.

[@tylerrayhughes]

Awesome video! Can you talk about how you record the first couple of loops? Were you recording straight the whole time and then you split it up? Or do you have some sort of floor board record trigger? Or perhaps there is a loop feature in reaper that creates a new track every time you create a new loop? Thanks in advance!

[@Harrysound]

Damn….somthis is what I’m going to be doing today

[@swardmusic]

Nice man! On side note, which neck p/u is that again? More sparkle in that compared to most tele necks? Im looking for the sparkle!

[@OG_Sasquatch]

Quick question John, do you outline the key of each of your backing tracks? With your inversions and chordal flavours I was just wondering as it would help dial in what to play over them etc. Keen to become a member!

[@majorpentatonic2310]

Hi John, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to music theory, so don't understand why leaving the 4 chord out of the first bits recorded allows room for the additional parts to florish. Could you explain, please ?

[@ElmerFerrer]

What finish is that Tele?! 😍

[@thisday77]

I really love your playing. It's just so beautyful in melody and harmonics. Really great. For me you are one of the best! So the first part of the video was of course the most interesting for me, but I apreaciate that you are also sharing your workflow on the PC. And I like Reaper :)

[@NedJeffery]

I still don't quite understand something. Do you just record 1 take to the click, and cut it up later to produce loops? Because the way you showed it, the backing tracks were already there.

[@tomtrack16038]

Great tutorial on how you do this stuff. Its nice that your backing tracks are available to your Patreon members, but i still say you should release an album proper of your instrumentals, I'd be the first in line to buy it.

[@jimmcdougall9973]

John has done an album in the past. Google John Cordy Seven Good Days a Year.

[@tomtrack16038]

@@jimmcdougall9973 thank you.

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

You're missing out on the 4 being the best note on which to resolve. Try ending a climax with a giant high four. I bet you like it.

[@Arthur_My_Dear]

He’s not though. By leaving the 4 out of his repeating phrases at the beginning, he’s still free to play one over that, within a melody or even the F chord. It’s because it’s not there in the loop that he’s able to use it in a resolution

[@CraigFlowersMusic]

@@Arthur_My_Dear Oh I misunderstood. I thought 4 was off limits altogether, not just in the backing loop.

[@wurzlgaming]

may i ask why you leave out the F note ? the 4th note. is there more theory behind ? that would be amazingly interesting to know

[@jimmccall8030]

The 4th being next to the 3rd can sound dissonant. Try playing a hexatonic (6 note) scale without the 4th and then include the 4th and you’ll hear the difference

[@TheBbtlegit]

What kind of recording software are you using.

[@ksharpe10]

John uses Cockos REAPER, from what I remember.

[@TheBbtlegit]

@@ksharpe10 Thanks so much.

[@Abdul-Amburadul]

Reverb n delay all videos😂

[@joemiller9856]

I love this video! So cool. Can’t wait to try this. Thanks @johnnathancordy!