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Hi!!!
in this video Rice Miller use a Low D?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELLV-qzSgIo

Can I please ask if we are meant to be able to see/comment on any of the shuffle king entries so far? Or if there haven't been any-I saw a link on facebook and clicked on it but there wasnt an entry there?

Does anyone have a good backing track for "baby scratch my back"? Thank you .
Paolo

I've got a gig tonight, which is unusual in the current climate where I live as there's no real demand for blues bands. Hopefully that will start to change once the local crowd hear my stellar harp playing (hoho). Anyway, I've decided to throw a rendition of "My Blues" into the set. I think it's such a great instrumental and you can really dig deep and put loads of feeling into it. We haven't rehearsed it but, being a straight forward slow 12 bar, I'm expecting the band will follow my lead easily enough. continue reading...

Hi!!!!

someone would know where I can find a free backing track in Jimmy Reed Style ?

When you are studying an Instrumental, if you want the backing track to practice, you may be lucky... chances are high that the Lead Harmonica on the mp3 was mixed as if it was the vocal, and sofor easy to remove (thank you David for the hint)

I found the free program Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ ) and the plug in "Center Pan remover" ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/nyquist/centerpanremover.zip ) to be an easy way to end up with an accaptable jam track of the instrumental you are working at. continue reading...

I might be wrong but it looks like Sonny Boy II gets it 'wrong way up' at the opening of his rendition of Ninety Nine with Otis Spann during one of their European tours with the American Folk Blues festival in the 1960's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS62SfV10FE

The SPAH 2011 Convention is in Virginia this year, in August.
Is anyone here going?
Can anyone share previous SPAH experiences and advice?

Thanks.

It is almost 3 weeks I'm done with Gary's blues which acoustically sounds just fine, and what I'm busy at the last 20 days is to make it sound acceptable amped, with not the slightest success. I mean normally anythingh you study emplove with time, with the amp it sounds as bad as when I started experimenting.

The strut amped isnt too bad, do you also find low key to be harder to play smooth with the amp?

I would like to know if I'm alone in that, or if someone of you experimented the same trouble moving from acoustic to mic, and if so how overcomed it. continue reading...