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Post subject: Downloading backer tracks
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:30 pm
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Can anyone give me some recommendations for websites to visit that offer downloads of guitar backer tracks? Are any of these free, or what is a reasonable price to pay?

Also, I've never owned an MP-3 player, so some advice on the download and transferring process would be greatly appreciated.

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Post subject: Re: Downloading backer tracks
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:17 pm
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I get all my free backing tracks from http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/. I don't have an mp3 player so I can't help you there.
What I do is download the backing tracks to the Fuse software on my computer. You put them in the audio sub folder called WAVE/MP3. (Fender/Fuse/Audio/Wave/Mp3). Then when you run Fuse you can call up which backing track you want to run with your preset selection. Just click on the Band radio button, then select the Wave/Mp3 button, then click the selection box carrot and a list of the backing tracks will show in a drop down menu.There you can select and preview the track before selecting it. Once you decide on a track click OK. To start the track just click on Start alongside the Band Radio button. Just make sure you connect a stereo cable from the computer headphone jack to the Aux input on the Mustang. Note. I loop the aux cable around the amps handle as a precaution against putting too much strain on the connector. Better to be safe than sorry. Good luck, have fun, the Mustangs are really great amps.
John (68 years young disabled Rocker)


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Post subject: Re: Downloading backer tracks
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:59 am
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there's a few you can try for free as well as the one previously suggested.

go to you tube and do a search for Coffebreak Groves. they have a bunch, about 15 minutes long.
you can buy these for around 3 bucks a track, or whole albums for under $16.00 (USD). you can preview them all before you purchase, you can get there from the Youtube uploads.

Another one you can find on You Tube with free tracks is Random Jammer, plenty of free ones right there too. most about 5 to 7/8 minutes. I've never bought any of these. so not sure.


Megabacking tracks, yet another, most of them are 5 to 8 minutes long, he's got a bunch on his web site. you can buy them for 2.99 per. or just play them off the web site through your PC.
http://megabackingtracks.bandcamp.com/

in all three examples, the backing tracks are of excellent quality and are usually actually recordings played by humans.

in many cases, the chord charts are posted as well fore free. These are very good sites, and worth the $ for downloads.


In the last post that mentions http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/ note that there are tons of tracks there, some are really good, and others, are not that great but, there's many tracks there of very popular songs listed by artist. it's a very good site if you're looking to practice/learn cover songs and want to play along without the original guitar tracks or solos. (like if you're for example, learning the solo for "Still Got The Blues" you can down load the MP3 that has no vocals and no guitars. the Jamtracks section on that site has a crap load of stuff to play along with.


your second question, how to down load files to an MP3 player,, usually... onc eyou plug in the usb cable from the MP3 player, your PC will recognize this as a storage device, and you can drag and drop files there with windows explorer. Your mp3 player may come with software to install on the PC that will help to manage the device.

iPod/iTunes is a little more elegant in how you do this. iTunes has a great PC interface for the iTunes library, very easy to use. (I hate apple products, EXCEPT for the iPod and iTunes,, that is about the best around IMHO)

if you have an iPod, iTunes is free, so you can install it on Windows, or a Mac. then you can start to build your library and manage your device.

Generic MP3 players,, you'll probably have to sort it out by trial and error.


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