First upload/post: 12Bar B-flat Blues

[EricJames]

Backing track by Pete Anderson (Slow Down Blues). I believe his tracks are royalty-free, although I couldn't find any copyright info out there.


I've been playing for a little over two years. I don't have any recording equipment so I did a line-in from my amp into GarageBand. Always gives it that "thin" sound but sometimes it works.

Hope someone enjoys it!

download/file.php?id=1412

-Eric

[2WheelsOfBlues]

Eric, first of all welkom here, yuo found the best blues site there is.

Your song is very nice, i like it.
Keep on posting i love to hear more

[VikingBlues]

to 12bar Eric. I think you're OK with the Pete Anderson tracks if I recall right.

Remarkable how you've managed to get that good a sound with just the line-in. Well played too - I did enjoy it!

I too would be interested in hearing more. Out of interest - what sort of guitar were you using?

[12bar]

Two years? That's amazing! Maybe you can give us some more details?

[EricJames]

Thank you all for the warm welcome, I was half-expecting my post to get a few views and then fall to the bottom.

Remarkable how you've managed to get that good a sound with just the line-in.

I'll be honest in that I added some of GarageBand's effects to add more sustain and make up for the loss of quality. It's a powerful program but I always feel like I'm "cheating" when I use those effects. However it does sound good, which is the ultimate goal I guess.

The two songs I posted below are more "raw" in that it's the closest to what my amp and guitar naturally sound like.

El Setup: Fender Stratocaster (Mexico) fed into my cheap $60 fender amp.

Two years? That's amazing! Maybe you can give us some more details?

My musical history is odd as I didn't play anything until I was around 20. I started playing drums around then and then transitioned into bass around 2008. I picked up the electric guitar sometime around the summer of 2009 and took an intro to music theory class my senior year of college in 2010 (I was a business major so it was a welcome break to the monotony).

The theory class definitely helped me make connections, but the class focused on classical music theory which is mentally stimulating, but a genre I've never been able to "feel," if you know what I mean.

I fell in love with the blues when I was learning the basics of the bass/guitar. When I first figured out the "blues scale" I almost crapped my pants. It just sounded so different compared to everything else.

Anyway, I'll just lump all the Pete Anderson tracks in one thread. Here's the two more:

download/file.php?id=1416

download/file.php?id=1417

[MojoJim]

Eric,

There are many of us here in our first few years of learning to play - and we warmly welcome another.

What a terrific range of musical ideas you have in the pieces you've posted! I just been playing for a couple of years and I'm very envious of the progress that you have made in your time.

Hope to hear a lot more from you.

[2WheelsOfBlues]

Well deep respect from this side, in 2 years, and playing like this.... (take my hat off)

[MichaelRobinson]

Well deep respect from this side, in 2 years, and playing like this.... (take my hat off)

Eric

I agree with 2Weels of blues. Amazing

[VikingBlues]

The two songs I posted below are more "raw" in that it's the closest to what my amp and guitar naturally sound like.

El Setup: Fender Stratocaster (Mexico) fed into my cheap $60 fender amp.

As MojoJim said there's a wide range of ideas in your playing - fits nicely with the backing tracks but are quite different to versions I've herd others do. Nice work. Liked the bass note runs too!

The theory class definitely helped me make connections, but the class focused on classical music theory which is mentally stimulating, but a genre I've never been able to "feel," if you know what I mean.

I know JUST what you mean. I took classical lessons for a while until RSI put a stop to it. Tough mentally and tough on getting the precision to get the notes sounding right but very uninvolving. Even worse when you have a teacher who thinks even rubato is worthy of a death sentence! (Rubato didn't do Segovia any harm - and without him classical guitar would probably be almost non existent). But ... so little chance to put anything of yourself into the playing and not really much going in a feeling of being creative.