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Post by bluesbruce on Apr 12, 2020 10:32:03 GMT -6
Oh, and then you need to take the four other backing tracks and appropriate 15 licks, and do the same thing...
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Post by Phil on Apr 12, 2020 14:06:48 GMT -6
Bruce, I thought it was Reaper because the interface is so similar. You are right. If you can do something in one DAW you can do the same thing in another. Man, you are really fired up this week. Your enthusiasm is contagious. (Oops, I probably shouldn't be using the "C" word at this time.)
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Post by joachim on Apr 13, 2020 2:35:55 GMT -6
Joachim and Phil, you're welcome. That was done in Logic (using Quicktime to record video of me doing it on my computer and iMovie to insert the text), but you should be able to do these basic functions in whatever DAW you use. The exact menu items and command names may vary some, but you should be able to figure it out. I'm not like some kind of "DAW power user" or anything, but you should be able to put this lick over the backing track in your DAW as well - you may have to time stretch one or the other track to get the beats to line up. You could also probably get all the beats to actually line up with the correct tempo in your DAW (I just left Logic set on the default tempo of 120 in this video). A really advanced project for anyone wanting an extra credit assignment would be to take backing track 78 in BLYCU into your DAW, setting it to the proper tempo (so you could just use the metronome in your DAW), and THEN take licks 1-15 in BLYCU each into a separate track in your DAW (lined up with the proper timing to the backing track). Then you could mute all the tracks and just enable whichever one you wanted to hear, and play it along with the backing track. You could loop whatever section you wanted (the middle four bars, for instance). You could also "mix and match" (by enabling selected tracks in your DAW) several licks to put together an entire 12 bar solo (like JG talks about in the book). Wow - now that I think about, I think this would be really useful. Hmmm, I might work on this project myself! It would be easy enough to export these individual DAW tracks as compressed audio files (like MP3's) and e-mail them out to anyone who participates in this to import into their own DAW. Hmmm... I tried to time-shift lick 1 to match with the backing track, but it feels like they are recorded at different tempos, and then I gave up.
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Post by grampalerxst on Apr 13, 2020 7:06:21 GMT -6
This sounds like fun to me. I have the book from ages ago, came with a cd. Will take some effort to excavate it. Does the cd contain the backing tracks, anyone know off the top of their head? Or do I need to buy again to get the backing tracks?
I too was frustrated when I first got the book since the examples all seemed to be in isolation. Less intimidating now because all the work I did working on playing in rhythm had the side benefit of forcing me to learn to extract the rhythmic values from notation.
Maybe we should start a new thread with the first post being a concise outline of the rules/guidelines? Kinda confusing to meander through this thread and figure out what is going on.
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Post by bluesbruce on Apr 13, 2020 7:19:53 GMT -6
I tried to time-shift lick 1 to match with the backing track, but it feels like they are recorded at different tempos, and then I gave up. Joachim, I had a go at this. Sent you an e-mail mp3. Listen to it, see what you think. Just to look at the printed music on this, trying to count this lick is a bear - and JG says the easier licks are at the front of the book! I think it's one of those "by ear" kind of things. I think it sounds pretty cool in context with the backing.
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Post by bluesbruce on Apr 13, 2020 7:29:58 GMT -6
This sounds like fun to me. I have the book from ages ago, came with a cd. Will take some effort to excavate it. Does the cd contain the backing tracks, anyone know off the top of their head? Or do I need to buy again to get the backing tracks? I too was frustrated when I first got the book since the examples all seemed to be in isolation. Less intimidating now because all the work I did working on playing in rhythm had the side benefit of forcing me to learn to extract the rhythmic values from notation. Maybe we should start a new thread with the first post being a concise outline of the rules/guidelines? Kinda confusing to meander through this thread and figure out what is going on. Grampa, glad to hear you're on board. I would expect all the backing tracks are on the CD, since they are in the downloadable form. They're probably the last 5 tracks on the CD. There are no rules or guidelines. Just take lick 1 for the next two weeks. Learn to play it, and then play around with it - play it in different keys, at different tempos, in different positions on the fretboard, change the timing, move notes around - whatever you'd like to do with it. At the end of two weeks, my hope is that everyone can record it over the backing track. If you do something else with it, you're encouraged to record that for us as well. If you only get it up to half speed or can only play the first four notes of it, then please record that for us. The whole point of this is to try to develop some blues vocabulary that you can use.
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Post by Phil on Apr 13, 2020 15:18:40 GMT -6
I hope your wrist situation improves rapidly. Don't rush it or do anything that's painful.
Thanks for the kind words about my Mickey Baker book review. I didn't think anybody had read it. I was watching a YT lesson yesterday and the 1st thing that popped into my head was, "That was covered in Mickey Baker's book." This occurs at least weekly. It's amazing how much is covered in that little book. Thanks, Phil, I'm doing alright now, and as everyone else I'm still chipping away at it, working on projects and non-BYCU-related stuff I'm interested in - I'm just not ready to commit to weekly lessons or projects with fixed timeleines I probably couldn't keep up with yet - but that's not only because of injury-related rests I have to take every now and then, it's also because the current situation adds to the daily work load in an unforeseeable way, so I really have to carefully balance out the things I want to do with the things I have to do in order to avoid a pile-up of the latter. But Bruce surely is kind of persuasive...
Regarding the Mickey Baker stuff, Robben Ford mentions him every time when talking about how he started out, and so are many other not to shabby players, so if those lessons in there didn't hurt them they should be worth checking out. Mickey was a highly sought after player back in his day. I don't know if you've ever actually heard play, so here are some teasers:
I 1st heard about the book from a Robben Ford interview. I think he mentions it in almost every interview. I later found several others, including BB king, say they learned their "Jazz chords" from this book.
I have yet to find a video of Baker playing Jazz. Kind of strange since the book directed at Jazz. I remember him from a duet called Mickey and Sylvia. They had at least one big pop hit in the early 60s, "Love is Strange". They may have had others too.
Actually, my review is the most popular article on my blog. It gets almost 3 times as many hits as the next most popular article which is a Jazz Blues progression tutorial. I thought the article about turning a 3-chord standard Blues progression into a Jazz Blues progression would have been more popular since it's one of the most asked questions on the Internet. However, Mickey Baker continues in the lead.
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