Can anyone tell me why I'm finding this backing track awkward to play along to please? I'm used to twelve bar but this is weird in that I don't think it's sixteen bar. Help please. Where am I going wrong?
1. Instead of V and IV in bars 9 and 10, he plays ii and V. Not that uncommon, but that might be confusing you. In the key of A, that means he's playing Bmin7 to E7 instead of the more typical E7 to D7.
2. He's stretching the third section out, playing 6 bars instead of 4, making the form 14 bars instead of 12.
Last Edited by on Sep 10, 2012 2:29 PM
I had a quick listen. Seems to me to have 13 bars in the cycle. Conventional enough 12 bar changes until the turnaround. I think there is just an extra bar. I might not have counted correctly though, it might even be 14. I'm not sure if I counted the drum roll. Edit: ah yes, 14 ----------
Last Edited by on Sep 10, 2012 2:23 PM
I used to work with a guitarist who shunned th 12 bar format. He was always excited to find blues numbers which used different structures. I found a few but I think this is the first I've noticed this little variation. It would be easy to get lost without that drum roll hey? I can't think of any well know numbers which use this. I'm sure they exist though. ----------
It reminds me that the Larry Fritts back tracks seem unavailable from now on. I read that they were "free access" since 2006, but some mean people did sell them! Anyway, I think there's too much (good) guitar to use them as backing tracks, IMO.
Last Edited by on Sep 10, 2012 2:23 PM