Western Blues Backing Track in Am

Western Blues Backing Track in Am | SZBT 978

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@TheScmtnrider 3 жыл бұрын

Sebastian Been subbed for awhile now. I appreciate these backing trax you produce, a lot! Figured it was time to let you know that. I'm a 60 year old fart...old school anyways...;) I started playing in 1971. In bands by 1976. I'm retired now, living in the middle of bumfuck egypt in NorCal. An hour away from...everywhere! Certainly from anything resembling a music scene. But I still shred every day. Backing videos are my only alternative to having jam worthy bands to play with, and your vids provide enough variety to challenge my comfort zone which, has expanded greatly since tripping over Troy Grady's Cracking the Code series and my nearly 50 years living oblivious to the vital importance of picking techniques. I realized it wasn't comfort... I was simply used to leaning against the wall I'd slammed into, about 30+ years ago! As an "ear trained" guitar player, those years cemented muscle memory into my playing and although all that time got me sounding ok to the layman? Retraining my picking hand forced me to loose that repetitive muscle memory and look to scalar playing, intervals and melody in my riffs. The charts you throw in there have really helped with position changes and their different sounds, my creativity and most importantly? Pure enjoyment! This video for example, is a blues structure I'd unknowingly encountered many times but (embarrassingly) never learned, never experimented with. That F major to E major change, in an A minor blues song, pulled back the curtain to reveal a very cool scalar expansion, well beyond the limitations of standard structural blues melody. Providing possibilities, faaaaar outside that pentatonic box and minor scale. Those limitations can help repetition to fester, especially with blues, eventually taking the fun right out. Thanks for putting it back where it belongs with your content, and its variety! Have a great day bro! PS: And for any of you would-be shredders out there who know your scales, yet are stuck behind a seemingly unsurmountable wall with speed and melodic playing, tantalizingly seated just out of reach? I have one piece of advice: (Beyond learning to sight read music which, few "modern" guitar players can do, including myself.) You can climb over that wall only by realizing that your picking technique is just as, if not more, important than your fingering ability! *AND* The charts and jams here are a great tool to see outside "the pentatonic box". ✌️

@760Piper 3 жыл бұрын

The PS is a great piece of advice. Thanks Jon. If you know your pentatonics, the second chart just adds a few notes to unlock a lot more of the fretboard. Seb's backing tracks helped me to explore new notes which leads to better phrasing. Think about trying to write words using only 15 letters and then how many you can write using all 26. Same for music. Happy jamming.

@TheScmtnrider 3 жыл бұрын

@@760Piper I'm always happy when I'm jamming! Pentatonics are cool (2 note per string) scales. Very simple! And by sliding that fifth note in the pattern up or down two frets, over and over, both the fingering patterns and their sound changes in the new positions. Learn those new patterns across all 6 strings and the lid comes off of the box! What I discovered is that most scales can actually become chromatic patterns, simply by playing the scalar fingering pattern on the first two strings, sliding the last note up two frets and repeating the pattern on the next two. Just like the three string pentatonic "box" does by sliding the last note up two frets. The fingering pattern repeats. Try this... On the low E string, play the first 3 notes of the A minor scale, starting with your index finger on the A note. (A,B,C) Now the next 3 notes on the A string, again, index finger on the D note. (D,E,F) Now slide your pinkie up two frets and hit the G note. Now your index finger is poised to hit the A note on the D string and that first (A.B.C.) fingering pattern repeats. Up one string to the G string, and just as before, and the (D.E.F) fingering pattern repeats. Slide the pinky up two frets and keep going. (Of course you're now on the B and high E strings so those offset up one fret.) That's the same pattern repeating. You only need to keep track of the root note to know where you are... See what I mean? The major and minor scales are in fact the exact same notes by simply changing the root note you reference. Fascinating how using the same notes becomes a different scale, just by using a different note as the root. Like how the G major and E minor scales are exactly the same notes and visa versa. Exactly the same notes. And the A minor scale becomes the E Phrygian scale, when changing your reference root note from A to E! And the E minor scale becomes the A Dorian scale by using the A as the root instead of the E! And of course the A minor pentatonic scale is also the D Major pentatonic scale. What's fun for me with Sebastian's charts, is just playing the chart! If you can *NOT* watch your fretting or picking hands and know where you are? You can go all over that chart just by following it like a map. Very cool. Have a great day

@760Piper 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheScmtnrider Hi Jon, Check out Chris Sherland's channel if you haven't already. I think you'll really like his instruction.

@DrDanielFox 4 ай бұрын

Amazing track

@SebastienZunino 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Daniel !

@Krullmatic 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sebastian! I've been jamming on this the last couple of days almost nonstop for real. I've been playing until my fingers are so sore I have to stop for awhile. Thank you for your awesome music sir!

@hetjamesfield4473 3 жыл бұрын

Im a heavy heavy guy but, i enjoyed this very much 👍👌 It is nice to remember, that after years and years of Thrash and Power metal, playing slow is very hard, and i proved now to myself that i still got it :) Got the Blues ;) Thanks man, great track

@martinlim00 3 жыл бұрын

Feels like Red Dead Redemption! Thank you!

@SebastienZunino 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@rzegorzgil4664 7 ай бұрын

Ciao Sebastien, la gente di Torino mi ha convinto di suonare spesso questo brano, la cosa che fa piacere anche a me. La mia versione di questa traccia è un'po "el mariacci blues ". Sto sempre aspettando al trasferimento in Germania e poi cerco di inviarti le registrazioni di tutti cinque o sei tuoi brani che ho suonato fino ora. Complimenti. Gregorio