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What kinda Blues do you like? A lot of songs out there some are not classed as blues but they are. Just let us know. Some Blues I don't like . but some I do. Delta blues. slow Blues. . Hears one I like by Daniel Castro . Good Slow One To Kick it off.

Your guitars have a website?!? Mine don't even know how to use the internet!

Gotta go with classic Delta Blues on this one. Not only for the music itself, but also because if forms that basis for most Classic Rock like Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones and countless others.

Steve has often mentioned Coffee Break Grooves Backing Tracks. They are great. I have all their blues albums. They have 5 free ones on YouTube:

The blues shuffle is one example.

Here's a couple I've been using a for a while. Both Gilmour style tracks

I posted this link on FB but wanted to share it here. There is the usual "rambling" in such videos; but the 2 & 4 beat concept looks interesting and worth a try. Enjoy! https://www.facebook.com/groups/GuitarGathering2018/permalink/139897820039665/

A place for members to post links to BACKING TRACKS To start off; A Slow Blues in A, 12/8 time in the style of BB King ; A good one for practicing Pentatonic solos. Download available below video. slow_blues_in_A BB King style.zip

So in the new forum I can't display a list of my guitars (too long for the signature) so I created a website for my guitars. You can click on the My Guitars link below in my signature. It is a work in progress and I'm missing quite a few pictures. It was a fun little project to work on. I showed my wife last night and she was impressed that she was mentioned so many times. She even sent a link to one of her co-workers. Is that license to get another one? Let me know if you see any errors. Ben

That page must be incomplete. Where are all the non-Gibsons?

Thanks for starting it, Neil!

Boy this thread really took off! Glad you guys liked it. In case you didnt know.... see the attach area lower left? You can upload the mp3 or .wav file there up so others can download it, rather than play live with YouTube. SoundCloud works well too. Enjoy.

Ice, these are all nice ones but that Em one is really cool!

A few more of my favorites.

So, Blue Dog I guess I should answer your question. What kind of Blues do I like? I love Chicago. I love Blues. So it follows my favorite Blues should be the Chicago variety, correct? I do really like Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Mike Bloomfield, etc. But my blues taste run towards the Texas variety.

I adjust the pickup height in all of my guitars when I purchase them. I also adjust the individual pole pieces to match the radius of the fret board. I know you can't adjust pole pieces on the mini humbuckers but you can adjust them to factory specs at the high and low E strings. Ben

Every month Guitar Techniques magazine has 4 free jam tracks. They are produced by Jacob Quistgaard. He has his backing tracks available on YT. What's interesting about his is that most of them start at about a minute. During that first minute someone is soloing and there is a link to the solo lesson and tabs. Also, it takes a little looking, but most of his backing tracks come with chord charts: Here is his website where he offers his jam tracks for sale. But he has quite a few free ones there: Quistorama Jam Tracks

Thank you for posting, these are just what I've been looking for.

Good stuff guys! I don't play to backing tracks much but I jammed to these 3 this morning.

Yesterday I ordered a CD of Louis Jordan, His blues was defined as Jump Blues, a combination of blues and some brass from a big band. Among his best known songs is CHoo Choo Ch'Boogie:

You can find a lot of backing tracks on youtube. or here. https://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/ http://blog.guitarvoice.com/ This one is down right now but will be back soon.

There is also another pattern that can help with the memorization of scales: If you look at G for example, the sharp is F. But looking at Gb, the F is the only note not flatted, so it is the opposite. Same is true for all of the other sharp vs flat scales (except the C# and Cb). For F, the B is flat, but F# the B is the only one not sharp.... etc. So if you memorize one, the opposite is easy to remember too Once you see the pattern it is hard to 'not' see it!