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Post by cunningr on Feb 22, 2015 5:40:23 GMT -6
I use garagband as my daw. What I do is set up for my recording. Track for my guitar, a track for the practice track, and a track of the backing tracking track.
I expand the view so I can align the timing up between the 2 versions. I turn off the monitoring of the backing track while I learn the tune, after I get to a point That I can play the song ok, I switch over to play with the backing track only, I record myself playing with the backing track then I swith off the backing track and Switch back on the practice track, pan my guitar left the practice track to the right and then listen, any blatant flaws in my timing can be heard because I should be in time with johns guitar on the practice track. This helps me here the timing issues, because I am like many cant really here when I am off a little getting better but, using the daw as a tool in this manner is helping.
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Post by Phil on Feb 22, 2015 6:03:33 GMT -6
I use garagband as my daw. What I do is set up for my recording. Track for my guitar, a track for the practice track, and a track of the backing tracking track. I expand the view so I can align the timing up between the 2 versions. I turn off the monitoring of the backing track while I learn the tune, after I get to a point That I can play the song ok, I switch over to play with the backing track only, I record myself playing with the backing track then I swith off the backing track and Switch back on the practice track, pan my guitar left the practice track to the right and then listen, any blatant flaws in my timing can be heard because I should be in time with johns guitar on the practice track. This helps me here the timing issues, because I am like many cant really here when I am off a little getting better but, using the daw as a tool in this manner is helping. That's a great idea. I wasn't sure if the backing tracks would sync up perfectly to the original full version, since John G. did the backing tracks after the fact. I guess you've proven that they can be synced up. Yeah, that's a really good idea. I'll have to see if I can do it with Reaper.
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Post by cunningr on Feb 22, 2015 6:15:50 GMT -6
Phil it seems to work pretty well, you have to really play with the alignment though. I am not sure it's perfect, but pretty darn close to check out timing. Only thing I have found is that if you play the backing and practice track together it doesn't sound right since they are a little different, theory is the timing should be same or close to each other.
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Post by bluesbruce on Feb 22, 2015 8:13:01 GMT -6
That's a cool idea, Rich. I never thought of doing that, either. One trick I've used is making my own "backing track" using Band-In-A-Box. It will, of course, be a little different, but I think that forces me to think more about the actual count and timing. I think there's definitely more than one way to skin the cat, so to speak. At some point, though, you've got to break away from playing along with the recorded track and start "internalizing" the timing on your own.
Bruce
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Post by nursedad on Feb 22, 2015 9:22:41 GMT -6
Thanks for the cllearification . Fun fact for you all. Did you know it isn't John G playing on the original play along tracks of BYCU?
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Post by cunningr on Feb 22, 2015 10:08:40 GMT -6
Did not know that, interesting.
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Post by jack1982 on Feb 22, 2015 11:51:44 GMT -6
Thanks for the cllearification . Fun fact for you all. Did you know it isn't John G playing on the original play along tracks of BYCU? Is it Phil?
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Post by david53 on Feb 26, 2015 22:21:00 GMT -6
Hi Folks I too have used Garageband to work on this timing issue. I have 4 tracks, 2 with me playing and one each for the original BYCU recording and one with the backing track. You can then play both of your tracks without any backing tracks to compare your timing. It's kind of fun and I am getting closer to understanding timing of the one tune, minor blues. Now that I have downloaded the backing tracks, I guess I need to work on all of them. Hope I have enough time...
If John G is not playing who is and does anyone know the guitar/amp setup? It has a great sound.
Dave
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Post by nursedad on Feb 27, 2015 5:12:08 GMT -6
Look on the table of contents bottom of the page. Guitar is Jim Weber and David Hussman this is on the original version that came with the book. Pretty sure it's John on the DL version.
Edit: Oops didnt see Tbone's response.
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