One Chord Backing Tracks

Bones

Has anyone come across any play alongs that stay on only one chord (Cmajor, G minor, E7, etc)?

thanks

wim

Not exactly what you asked, but if you haven't studied them already: Samy's Plans en Do are excellent!

Buco

I do that with iReal app which I send via bluetooth to my stereo so I can crank up the volume and get decent sound.

Bones

Hey thanks guys. I'm looking for just a nice pompe and bass on mp3. Maybe I'll have to get my kid to record me doing it and play along with that. I'm getting bored practicing arps and licks with the metronome and want to hear them against the chord anyway so....

Shemi

I import backing tracks into Reaper. Denis' backing tracks are great for this as they're all 150bpm, so with a 150bpm tempo set in Reaper, I can import them then sync them up. I can then loop single chords, specific progressions or sections, plus slow them down or speed them up.

Bones

Hi Shemi, I have a couple of DC music school tracks but I forget where I got them prob off of Youtube? Yeah I suppose I could play them back and loop specific chords but was hoping for longer length just on one chord for a while.

thanks

wim

Actually loop stations are great for this (really improves your rhythm, too!)
Highly recommended investment for practice at home. Not to be used for performance! :P

bopster

If you have the app "Audio Stretch", it gives you a representative waveform, so you can load in a Denis track, or The Sauce track, highlight your A and B points for your loop, choose your tempo and key, and away you go!

Shemi

Bones wrote: »

Hi Shemi, I have a couple of DC music school tracks but I forget where I got them prob off of Youtube? Yeah I suppose I could play them back and loop specific chords but was hoping for longer length just on one chord for a while.

thanks

That's what I'm saying, when it's all synced up in Reaper I can then, for instance, take the first C chord in All of me and loop it. You'll get an infinite loop of that one chord that will go on until you stop it or your computer blows up!

Lango-Django

You might also consider practicing with just a metronome instead of a backing track.

Spoken from the perspective of somebody who plays in a clarinet/guitar/bass trio...

Buco

It works pretty well with "amazing slow downer" too, the loop function.

It might be worth mentioning that with the Spotify subscription, the ASD can pull the songs fr Spotify to play so no importing, converting or anything else is necessary.
I have a playlist on Spotify created with the songs I wanna use with ASD, which then "sees" this playlist and that's it, done.
Love it! Worth the Spotify subscription alone.