![]() The Blues is the capacity of holding one note for the whole twelve bar chorus and make the mere mortals who are listening wanna howl at the moon. The shittiest the sound, the more complicated will be our solo because we instinctively want to compensate the deficit of coolness with monumental chops. ![]() To play our axes with simplicity and taste we need sound. We need poetry -for Muddy’s sake- and more dynamics, tempo wobbling, highly imprecise shuffle beats, Hammond B-3 growls, whiskey stains, that is, in short, not a good sounding band… A f***ing cool band! Concerning the Blues, we all know that the sound itself is not enough to satisfy us, grandchildren of the Blues! When it comes to Rock backing tracks, even if it is all zero swing quantised and sounds worse than Lenny Kravitz’ records, it may easily satisfy the specimen as long as the Rocky vibes are disseminated in the room. Take an average Rock musician for example: he is just enough happy to bring the sound of his Les Paul to 11 and whip his hair to the sound of a valve cream torrent who runs upon an ocean of beer and armpit stench. Let’s face the truth guys, the Blues musician is usually very fussy. While the jazz world is covered with one and a half trillion Aebersold books, the Blues is missing the good stuff. The idea behind this project was to make something we believe the market is lacking of. ![]() If you are familiar with jazz music, you probably came already across the Jamey Aebersold play-a-long collection.īasically, all you have to do is blast this track on your device -or on your Hi-Fi if you are vintage fashioned- and play along the chord grid with your instrument. ![]() That’s why the prehistoric musicians invented the backing tracks, which are usually songs in turn-around progressions and where the band is ‘backing’ you up for you to go solo and try all your shreds like in a ‘live’ simulation. Now… Ain’t a good band hard to find? Or, more appropriately seen the crazy times we are living in, isn’t a band hard to find at all? Every musician knows that all those hours of solo practice are not enough to shape a glorious stage killer but only playing with a real band can enroot such skills as sense of interplay, ability of bending the tempo line with musicality, build up a great solo, etc… Let’s say you are a musician who is well accustomed to practice alone his instrument for hours in his bedroom and eventually needs to develop his ‘band-member’ sense in order to level himself up. For those who don’t know what a backing track is, well, it is a very ‘stimulating’ concept. ![]()
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