This is my best Backing Track find to date. Very nicely played and a live band I think. There are 52 tracks in various keys which should satisfy most tastes.
I emailed the website support staff asking if there were any restrictions on use. I told them they would mainly be used for harmonica practice and maybe on YouTube with harp played over the top in a non-comercial manner. The reply I got was "Go for it".
Click the arrow to listen to a track - if you like it, right click the track number and select 'save target as'. Give it an identifying name and save to a folder on your disc.
Let me know how you get on and what you think of the tracks. They are all in mp3 format by the way.
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Also available as BitTorrent if you want the whole package, named and ready. About 80 tracks or so. The guy who made these are Lawrence Fritts. All credit to him. He released it free for good intended usage. Ie not for sale. ---------- Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
Both I think. There's mannish boy in e. crosscut saw, mojo, messin with the kid and some more.. Some (of my downloaded torrent version) are just drums. Some are just made up, I think. ---------- Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
When I right click them it only lets me save the link, not the song. Also, I may be a little computer challenged, but how would I download the whole thing at once?
Well, if you haven't got a BitTorrent client you can try this link. Can't vouch for it now though as I am on my phone (you have to copy/paste) http://www.4shared.com/dir/24431625/144086e3/Lawrence_Fritts_Backing_Tracks.html
Don't think you can download all at once. If you do have a BitTorrent client you can get them all at once by google "Lawrence Fritts backing track .torrent" and grab from thepiratebay or other torrent tracker. ---------- Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
These are solid gold....I need help selecting tracks to use to cover some blues numbers. Please list some tracks that you think would be good for various songs. I am beginning the process myself and will post my results. I am taking these tracks to the local cafe so all the locals will know who the best harp player in this town of 1200 is ! :-) Thanks Much.
you aint gonna murder 1199 people are you?? TE HE! good one eharp that tickled me.I would deffo like to read some suggestions as to which of these tracks would work with what song.
I asked on the website if these tracks are available either for download or for purchase. The email answer I got was that they are not available either way, "for various reasons". Too bad. ---------- Matthew
Thanks tooka. I signed up for a month on the 4shared site (cost $6.96; be sure to cancel this "subscription" unless you want to be automatically billed $6.96 every month). I figure these 79 tracks are well worth that price. Especially since they are being sold online by 50Blues.com for $40. I found several forum threads online pertaining to these tracks originally produced and published for free use by Lawrence Fritts, a PhD music professor in Iowa (if I remember right). Because he stated when he published them that they could be used by anyone "without restriction", the guy at 50Blues.com apparently packaged them for sale, when they were originally intended to be available for free.
Anyway, a big public THANK YOU to professor Fritts for some very professionally produced and really good blues tracks (using real live musicians). ---------- Matthew
Several of these 79 tracks are "drums only", so no other instruments providing the back-up band experience. Even so, they are mostly (68 of them I think) the full band minus the lead - YOU! ---------- Matthew
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