Sunday 8 December 2019

Your very own backing band

Well I wasnt expecting that !

As I said in my last post I am running through Justin Guitars online course.

I have his song book from a couple of years ago so It made sense to follow his advice and play his song arrangements.

Unfortunately his revised course now guides you to his play along app which is free to try buy requires a paid subscription to go past the 30 second sample tracks. So trying to learn a song in 30 second bites isnt going to work!!

This is where things started coming together -

  • I can use Justins Youtube videos and my foot pedal to loop the playalong bits  and that really works well but still means  playing only segments.
  • In the comments to one of the songs I picked one of Justins contributors mentions ChordPulse Lite as a playalong option
ChordPulse   allows you to build a Chord progression and even provides a backing track of sorts at any given tempo. The free version has 20 odd "styles" which seem to be useful enough for now.
Once the sequence is added you can save it and loop it - even add a count in. I have been playing with it for a couple of hours now and I really think this is the missing link between the Yousician song interface and jamming with the real song.

My optimism just leapt another notch !! 

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