ULTIMATE BLUES JAM/PRACTICE CD VOL. 1 + 2

[eteptdimhcs@yahoo.com]

2 CD's for musicians: "The Ultimate Blues Jam}" Vol.1 and Vol. 2 for
practice/warm-up etc. GREAT for
guitar - helps to prepare for an actual jam session or gig. Both discs
were recorded
live off the floor and feature 10 backing tracks each with piano,
bass, drums &
rhythm guitar - you
add the add the solos or you can play the rhythm yourself. Free audio
samples available on my website at
http://www.peteschmidt.com
Mention this posting and I'll send both cd's for US$22.00 including
shipping!

[David and/or Rena Covell]

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> 2 CD's for musicians: "The Ultimate Blues Jam}" Vol.1 and Vol.
2 for
> practice/warm-up etc. GREAT for
> guitar - helps to prepare for an actual jam session or gig.
Both discs
> were recorded
> live off the floor and feature 10 backing tracks each with
piano,
> bass, drums &
> rhythm guitar - you
> add the add the solos or you can play the rhythm yourself.
Free audio
> samples available on my website at
> http://www.peteschmidt.com
> Mention this posting and I'll send both cd's for US$22.00
including
> shipping!

I own quite a few jam-along CD's, including a handful of blues
CD's, so I was curious enough to go download several samples of
your tracks ("Slow Blues in C" and "Texas Swing in D"). May I
make a suggestion? I think the piano tracks are too busy for a
jam CD. In a real band context, the pianist would not likely
play like this when the guitarist is soloing, at least during
the first solos. There's enough plinking on the piano that the
guitar soloist would be more or less "required" to adapt his
style to what the piano is doing. At best, the piano would be
distracting from what the guitar is doing. I'd suggest that the
piano tracks focus more on comping chords rather than plinking
around so much. The idea of a jam-along CD is not to showcase
the recorded instruments, but to provide good backing tracks for
the solo instrument. I think the piano noodling would be better
suited for solos at the end of a song, where several instruments
are being featured at the same time. On the two songs I
downloaded, it sounded like there were two separate piano
tracks: one with chords, and one with the 'plinking'. I think
they'd work better with the 'plink' track turned off, at least
for the first few verses, to make a little more space for the
guitarist.

Just my opinion.