Blues Backing Tracks for Musicians Vol. 1 (DIGITAL)
12 gorgeous play-along tracks made for aspiring and professional musicians who want to practice the Blues. For all levels and instruments. Sheet PDF included.
(Folder in compressed .zip format containing 12 mp3 files and 1 PDF file. 84 MB)
12 gorgeous play-along tracks made for aspiring and professional musicians who want to practice the Blues. For all levels and instruments. Sheet PDF included.
(Folder in compressed .zip format containing 12 mp3 files and 1 PDF file. 84 MB)
12 gorgeous play-along tracks made for aspiring and professional musicians who want to practice the Blues. For all levels and instruments. Sheet PDF included.
(Folder in compressed .zip format containing 12 mp3 files and 1 PDF file. 84 MB)
NEW RELEASE SIGNED BY THE CINELLI BROTHERS
FULL-LENGTH ALBUM FOR BOTH BEGINNERS AND ADVANCED MUSICIANS.
DIFFERENT STYLES AND KEYS In THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BLUES PATTERNS.
GORGEOUS RAW BLUES SOUND
TRACK SAMPLES
“What a really great idea to have wonderful Blues backing tracks to play along to. It’s perfect for any instrument to join in, and really good for practising and songwriting too. Totally inspirational…..so get making cool music to it!!!”
“If you wanna play along with some of the best guys on the UK and European blues scene and feel like you’re IN the room with them while you learn your chops then this is these are the backing tracks you need. Plenty of different styles to get your teeth into and most importantly you can feel the fun vibe going down.”
WHAT IS A BACKING TRACK?
For those who don’t know what a backing track is, well, it is a very ‘stimulating’ concept.
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. 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…
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???
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. If you are familiar with jazz music, you probably came already across the Jamey Aebersold play-a-long collection.
Basically, 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.
WHY US?
The idea behind this project was to make something we believe the market is lacking of. While the jazz world is covered with one and a half trillion Aebersold books, the Blues is missing the good stuff.
Let’s face the truth guys, the Blues musician is usually very fussy. 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. 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. Concerning the Blues, we all know that the sound itself is not enough to satisfy us, grandchildren of the Blues!
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!
To play our axes with simplicity and taste we need sound. The shittiest the sound, the more complicated will be our solo because we instinctively want to compensate the deficit of coolness with monumental chops. But real Blues playing is none of that. 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 Blues is the ability of squeezing a major third on the fourth degree and make it give goose bumps of pleasure even to a conservatory book worm.
All of that is only possible if the band behind your squeaks and screeches has got that magic. If not, believe us, that can be everybody’s worst dream ever.
That's why we decided to put all our decent knowledge and make an effort to be the band that will accompany you on your solos. We selected twelve grooves that we would dream to play along to and we have recorded them whenever and however we could throughout the year 2019 and 2020.
DRUMS ON THE LEFT, BASS ON THE RIGHT!
In order to make happy also bass players and drummers, we decided to pan the drums and the bass in the mix respectively on the outer left and right of the track. This way, you will hear the drums only on your left speaker in your stereo wi-fi and the bass on your right speaker. The remaining instruments are mixed in the center, so that panning the knob won’t affect their volume.
If you are a drummer, you can hence isolate the right speaker and you can play on the track. Same thing with the bass players panning all to the left. The track will be still there but no bass!
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