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Cutting teeth on the I-IV-V
Cutting teeth on the I-IV-V
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ReedSqueal
102 posts
Mar 16, 2011
3:44 PM
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Any recommendations on backing tracks or songs that have distinguishable and recognizable chord changes? Although I suppose 'easy and recognizable' is a relative term.
Any of Adam's [paid] lessons that address the i-iv-v specifically?
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
-Dan Castellaneta
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Joe_L
1127 posts
Mar 16, 2011
3:56 PM
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Two words: Jimmy Reed.
Even people without a sense of rhythm or time ought to be able to feel the groove on Jimmy Reed recordings. Eddie Taylor was a human metronome.
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Cristal Lecter
61 posts
Mar 16, 2011
4:05 PM
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In fact, even with a song like "Brother John" or any children songs, you can feel the chord changing.
Use your ear and spot the bass, then identify what note suits the change of chords. Once it's done, try to play an arpeggiate version of the bass "the tonic"
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Never try to be as good as someone else, succeed to be the best player you can be!
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tookatooka
2224 posts
Mar 16, 2011
4:20 PM
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Look at Adams *THE STORE* in the orange band over to the left. I can recommend this. I have it. Adam also provides a video with it explaining how to improvise with the tracks. Here's the info. Excellent value for money.
Blues Harmonica Play Along Sessions
For blues harmonica players of ALL levels: a set of 11 jam tracks (46 minutes total) plus a 58-minute video by Adam Gussow in which he shows you how to play along with each track, offering a wealth of tips, hints, and suggestions to help you make the most of your practice time. "Play Along Sessions" (2007) is the creation of the Hills Blues Collective, a well-known Dutch trio featuring Martin Hills van Heuvelen (bass), Little Steve (guitar), and Theo Thumper (drums). The eleven tracks, professionally recorded, feature shuffle, swing, rhumba, rock, funk, and slow blues grooves--the core of the urban blues tradition--in the keys of D, E, F, G, and A. In order to play along with all the tracks, players will need harps in the keys of A, B-flat, C, and D. (Only one track requires a B-flat.) On two of the songs, a G harp will also work.
www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/4537012-blues-harmonica-play-along-sessions-zip
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mandowhacker
30 posts
Mar 17, 2011
1:47 PM
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+1 for tooka's advice.
That lesson helped me with both harmonica and guitar.
It's an easy value outweighs cost deal.
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Just when I got a paddle, they added more water to the creek.
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