The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

Within the thread on my "Black Cat Blues" posted this week, BluesinBb and Blindboy both picked up I didn't sing on the V and let the guitar take over. Although I feel that to me it worked musically, I wondered if anyone could say is this a common device, and if so are there some good examples of thi...

To avoid confusion... what - confusion about modes and scales - surely not!!! :roll: ... when I said that "My Life" was using the Phrygian scale, I should have said the Phrygian Dominant Scale - the one with the major 3rd so in C the major third is E rather than the usual Eb for the normal Phrygian ...

:eye_rub: Hey VB, is that all you :clap: Fantastic job. I enjoyed this tremendously :thumbsup: Thanks HBL - I think I'm learning some good stuff here. Yes - all me but with shorter finger nails than when I started the song! :big_smile: I'd forgotten about the archive hideaway 12bar - I'll try and r...

Some spring BB - I guess it looks nicer from a distance. Do you often get that much snow this late in the year. :sad: What does look nice is the studio - doesn't look like a self-build. :thumbsup: No fun when you've got to chop your own logs for all your heating though. Hope you get a quick thaw.

bluesinbflat wrote:Btw, Will that backing track be made available for download?

Now uploaded into the Backing Tracks section of the Site.

As requested teh Lawrence Fritts backing track, Cussed Out Blues in C, that I used for Black Cat Blues. Enjoy.

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I liked that a lot, VB. Particularly impressive that you did the composing, arranging, writing, playing and producing. What a heartfelt story in a few verses. I was listening to it this afternoon and looking out the window into the garden. I was watching old orange Chester lying in the sun while yo...

bluesinbflat wrote:Btw, Will that backing track be made available for download?

I'm getting a message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached" when I try and upload the BT. Is there a problam 12bar?

Dig the buttery "Gibson" tone too, which I had one. :) I only found that tone when I found the Tokai - I can't sing the praise of this guitar or the Japanese workmanship highly enough. Weighs a ton, but so solid and responsive to the slightest touch. She sings so well it encourages me to join in to...

You're right B2M - it did come off well - nice moody bluesey playing. Never mind rough edges and btw nice tones from the Tele.

I like how you didn't sing on the V and let the guitar take over, very cool idea. I wondered whether this would be an acceptable idea - I'm interested to see both you and Blindboy picked up on it - is it unusual? It ended up that way by accident as I'd been writing the lyrics before deciding on a b...

Thanks very much everyone - mjo, wildwood, vancouverois, HalfBlindLefty, cruisemates. :D I'm amazed at the positive responses to something I was so unsure about posting on the site here. As is often the case the quality of the backing track is a big help to the end result. I just wish I could feel m...

Well here we go - I hope you won't all regret encouraging me to excercise the vocal chords. :roll: Black Cat Blues is based on a backing track blues in C - Cussed Out Blues by Lawrence Fritts (yes - him again!!). It's maybe a bit of a work in progress:- The lyrics - all mine and I'm no wordsmith - c...

I'd love to join in on this one 12bar - that's a BT I could listen to a lot just on its own.

Isn't mixolydian what rabbits suffer from?

This my take on a basic phrygian exercise: Listening to your excercise I see what you mean about the "pseudo flamenco with the Phrygian thing" you mentioned in the earlier post. Hadn't thought of that while I was recording my piece - and I used to try to play Flamenco way back too - shows how littl...

Interesting...! I have tried some pseudo flamenco with the Phrygian thing. You emphasize the 1 - b2 and 5 - b6 thing, playing those notes a fret apart quickly after each other. That fret apart business sounded right and seemed from what I could interpret to be one of the things Piotr Grudziński of ...

It may not be John Lee Hooker (best Blues voice IMHO) +infinity. John Lee Hooker could sing the phone book and make it sound cool. :clap: Thank you for the kind words and the tolerance 12bar. :D I promise I'll not intrude into this site very often with this kind of stuff. :naughty: Hoping to get a ...

I'm very glad you were encouraged to play more and let us guys on the forum hear your playing BB. :thumbsup: You have in turn encouraged my playing and I'm sure other members of the forum would agree. They also have encouraged my attempts at playing and have helped to kep my enthusiasm going, partic...

I could still detect a little of that VB blues sound in there. Hidden deep!!! :shy: Don't worry that your voice isn't all deep, gravely, and gruff... you can sing and sing well, much more than most of us can do. Thank you for the encouragement Golfxzq. I think it's partly that the voice is more exp...

I have been hesitating in posting this one for you guys as I'm feeling it's stretching too far away from blues. But, I value so many of you as friends as well as knowledgable players and would rather hear your views and ideas than others. :thumbsup: If any of you are prepared to listen to something ...