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Post subject: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:23 pm
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I was just goofing around using Audacity on my PC and came up with this:

Drum machine - shuffle beat written by me using Finale and saved as MIDI.
Fender Strat - rhythm track played by me in the key of E.
Samick Bass - walking bass line played by me.
Organ - Yamaha DGX-505 88-key portable grand keyboard (in organ mode) played by me.

Feel free to take this track, downoad it as MP3 or whatever and jam along to it. Add a hot bluesy lead guitar solo to it, or add slide guitar to it. Add whatever you want! :)

https://soundcloud.com/butch-ammon/shuffl-e

It's free for the taking... Have a ball with this! 8)


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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:57 pm
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Cool - after I finish packing and move I'll be back to take a ride with this cool backer! :D

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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:42 pm
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Not a problem... I wonder if Gilgafrank is around anywhere, and if he could add a really cool slide guitar to this!

Anyone can jam along to this in E and have a ball with it...


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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:06 pm
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Funny, I was just thinking about some slide guitar I did for someone on another forum a while back. So as requested here's a couple of tracks of slide. I start channelling Elmore James halfway through then I hit the high notes off the end of the fingerboard and the wardrobe falls over just in time to stop me wrecking my eardrums entirely.

https://soundcloud.com/gilgafrank/shuffle-e/s-gVvco

Done on my partscaster in open E tuning. Fender SCN pickups, mostly on the bridge only. Big heavy brass slide, takes no prisoners.

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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:44 am
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Great slide work, Frank! 8)

I'm going to have to go back and add a little something on slide and repost it.

A little more details on the backing track...

The drum track was hand written by me using Finale (enter the notes on the musical staff using the mouse buttons, or MIDI keyboard), then saved/uploaded as MIDI. Maybe I'm weird, I don't know... Every time I find a drum track/sample/loop, it sounds great, but not exactly what I hear in my head. So, I end up doing it the hard way, 100% old school, and write the drum track myself.

I played my '95 Fender Strat into my Fender Frontman 65r on the clean channel, pickup selector on 4 (neck & middle), volume knob backed off to 7, and I'm using my homemade BYOC Classic Overdrive (Ibanez Tube Screamer clone), with a very subtle amount of gain. I mic'd the amp with an old Shure mic and then straight into the sound card on my PC.

I played my old beat up P.O.S. pawn shop Samick 4 string bass into a home made 50 watt SS amp, built by my dad years ago from a kit out of a magazine (Heathkit - or something like that?). Hey, it works and has still worked fine after probably 20 years. It sounds awful with a guitar (I never had the heart to tell my dad), and either the frequency capacitors are wrong, or something is wrong with the whole tone/eq section. But yet it sounds fine with a bass. So... I use it as a small bass amp. I mic'd the amp with an old Shure mic and then straight into the sound card on my PC.

I played my Yamaha DGX-505 full size, 88-key, electronic keyboard and mic'd one of the stereo speakers on it. I found out that if I use the MIDI cable and try to record, it will blast the input or worse - Audacity has a bizarre split second delay built into it when trying to record live and overlay tracks. You have to be real careful with balance, recording levels both input and output, or you'll get heavy bleedover, and it will mess you up and your timing/beat. Anyway, the Yamaha keyboard is awesome and does everything I could ever imagine. Name the sound bank, and it will do it. It's got a pitch wheel, and a 6 track multi-track recorded built into it too - but I need one of those bigger size (no longer made) Smart Cards - i.e. like a giant size SD Card. I have to search Ebay and buy one.

Another funny story about the keyboard, and to show a hilarious example of the "generation gap"... I bought the keyboard from a very good friend and fellow Freemason at my lodge. He is an older guy in his upper 70's, retired, and is/was a real, professional pianist. Good God, can the guy play piano! After I bought it from him (it sat downstairs in his den for years under a tablecloth, and is in mint condition), he came over to my house with it in the back of his SUV. We carried it into my house and into my music room/computer room right here. He plugged it in and sat down at it and just started going off on Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, etc... -- FROM MEMORY!! Blew my freakin' mind, you know? :shock: :cool: But then when it was my turn to sit down at it, I started looking at the modes and soundbank switches. I found one that was like a mini moog/synthesizer and clicked it. I started playing "Love Comes Walking In" by Van Halen (Sammy Hagar days), and he looked at me and said, "I never heard that before. Who wrote it?" After I told him it was Van Halen, he said, "Wow, I didn't know the keyboard could do that!" I asked about the pitch wheel, and he never used it. So, I said, "Hmmm... let's try something..." And I launched into Geddy Lee's keyboard solo from "Tom Sawyer" and hit the pitch wheel rapidly on that sustained E note, and then for fun, I curled my fingers and went, Yeeeeeeoooooooowwwww all the way down the keyboard!!! Man, he looked at me with a shocked look like he wanted to say, "What is wrong with you!" :shock: Here he was playing all sorts of classical, professional pianist music on it, and then here comes me, and I'm rocking the hell out of it!!! :lol: :cool:


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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:26 am
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Here's my attempt at playing slide, but not as good as GilgaFrank. I'm using a glass/plexiglass Dunlop slide and my Frontman 65r on the gain channel, pickup selector on 3 (middle pickup).

Slide guitar is hard to get it just right, and with the right intonation and speed! :shock:

https://soundcloud.com/butch-ammon/shuffl-e-slide

It's not fair... Why can't I play slide like Duane Allman? :oops:


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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 11:22 am
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It's been years since I tried E tuning, I usually like to play slide in standard tuning. You have to work a lot harder on the damping and there's not so many easy ways to play triads but it does make you a more accurate player with practice.

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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:35 pm
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ButchA wrote:
I was just goofing around using Audacity on my PC and came up with this:

Drum machine - shuffle beat written by me using Finale and saved as MIDI.
Fender Strat - rhythm track played by me in the key of E.
Samick Bass - walking bass line played by me.
Organ - Yamaha DGX-505 88-key portable grand keyboard (in organ mode) played by me.

Feel free to take this track, downoad it as MP3 or whatever and jam along to it. Add a hot bluesy lead guitar solo to it, or add slide guitar to it. Add whatever you want! :)

https://soundcloud.com/butch-ammon/shuffl-e

It's free for the taking... Have a ball with this! 8)


Well first off what can I say other than the fact that it had the "Going through the motions" the "Get this over with" the "Why am I actually doing this" vibe to it. Where is the emotions, passion and feel at? Oh, and the guitar solo, at times, couldn't keep up with the beat by the way. :roll: :arrow: :? :arrow: :| :arrow: :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:44 pm
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JimRussellMills30! wrote:
ButchA wrote:
I was just goofing around using Audacity on my PC and came up with this:

Drum machine - shuffle beat written by me using Finale and saved as MIDI.
Fender Strat - rhythm track played by me in the key of E.
Samick Bass - walking bass line played by me.
Organ - Yamaha DGX-505 88-key portable grand keyboard (in organ mode) played by me.

Feel free to take this track, downoad it as MP3 or whatever and jam along to it. Add a hot bluesy lead guitar solo to it, or add slide guitar to it. Add whatever you want! :)

https://soundcloud.com/butch-ammon/shuffl-e

It's free for the taking... Have a ball with this! 8)


Well first off what can I say other than the fact that it had the "Going through the motions" the "Get this over with" the "Why am I actually doing this" vibe to it. Where is the emotions, passion and feel at? Oh, and the guitar solo, at times, couldn't keep up with the beat by the way. :roll: :arrow: :? :arrow: :| :arrow: :wink:

There's something wrong with you isnt there.


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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:54 pm
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tbazzone wrote:
JimRussellMills30! wrote:
ButchA wrote:
I was just goofing around using Audacity on my PC and came up with this:

Drum machine - shuffle beat written by me using Finale and saved as MIDI.
Fender Strat - rhythm track played by me in the key of E.
Samick Bass - walking bass line played by me.
Organ - Yamaha DGX-505 88-key portable grand keyboard (in organ mode) played by me.

Feel free to take this track, downoad it as MP3 or whatever and jam along to it. Add a hot bluesy lead guitar solo to it, or add slide guitar to it. Add whatever you want! :)

https://soundcloud.com/butch-ammon/shuffl-e

It's free for the taking... Have a ball with this! 8)


Well first off what can I say other than the fact that it had the "Going through the motions" the "Get this over with" the "Why am I actually doing this" vibe to it. Where is the emotions, passion and feel at? Oh, and the guitar solo, at times, couldn't keep up with the beat by the way. :roll: :arrow: :? :arrow: :| :arrow: :wink:

There's something wrong with you isnt there.


Oh it's 'are' not 'is' when referring to more than one emotion. Thank you very much Arth2.0! :P


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Post subject: Re: Sound Cloud backing track in E
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:03 pm
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tbazzone wrote:
JimRussellMills30! wrote:
ButchA wrote:
I was just goofing around using Audacity on my PC and came up with this:

Drum machine - shuffle beat written by me using Finale and saved as MIDI.
Fender Strat - rhythm track played by me in the key of E.
Samick Bass - walking bass line played by me.
Organ - Yamaha DGX-505 88-key portable grand keyboard (in organ mode) played by me.

Feel free to take this track, downoad it as MP3 or whatever and jam along to it. Add a hot bluesy lead guitar solo to it, or add slide guitar to it. Add whatever you want! :)

https://soundcloud.com/butch-ammon/shuffl-e

It's free for the taking... Have a ball with this! 8)


Well first off what can I say other than the fact that it had the "Going through the motions" the "Get this over with" the "Why am I actually doing this" vibe to it. Where is the emotions, passion and feel at? Oh, and the guitar solo, at times, couldn't keep up with the beat by the way. :roll: :arrow: :? :arrow: :| :arrow: :wink:

There's something wrong with you isnt there.


Nope. :|


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