free jam tracks

Hi all,

I am a muso from Melbourne Australia and have created some jam tracks for other muso's to use.

They are all free - literally - no advertising on the site etc - it's just for the common good of people who like jam tracks.

They are currently set up for guitarists/lead instruments here:
http://www.freejamtracks.com

and a few for bass players are on here:
http://www.freejamtracks.com/tracks4bass.html

They are mostly blues, blues rock and country style progressions at the moment.

The electric used is a Fender Tele with a strat neck and Seymour Duncan pickups. It's a bit of a hybrid but it's a nice axe. I should put up some pictures of it.

Have fun.

Cheers,
Nick.

PS Thank God for Danny Gatton! :cool:

Thanks for sharing, and welcome to TDPRI. Cool stuff, as you said, no advertising at all. It's hip that you've got jam tracks for bass too.

Thanks for the welcome. Very cool to have a forum devoted to Tele's. I love em.

Roy Buchanan, Danny Gatton are my absolute favourite masters of the telecaster. But love Albert Collins and a host of others. Man, the best tele sound I have ever heard live would have to be Robben Ford. Killer. Anyway........

Yeah, I only started putting the ones for bass players up there recently. All I had to do was drop out the bass on the multi-track of the ones recorded for lead.

It's all good clean fun.

:razz:

SWEET!!!

Now you just need a little more country on there. :cool:

Thanks for doing all that hard work.

RJ

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

Best Regards,
Don

I'm all for doing some more country ones.

Especially when you are playing with a tele. It's made for it.

Thanks for these.. downloaded them a few days ago, and have been playing to them .. especially like the D medium fast shuffle :)

Thanks Talmir.

Yeah - the D medium fast shuffle is a good one. I'm not patting myself on the back - it's a simplified take on the Allman's Statesboro Blues from the Filmore East album.

Love the ABB.

I will do a few more ABB inspired tracks soon.

Berry Oakley is one of my favourite bass players of all time. Love his playing so much.

Cheers,
Nick.

Thanks for the free jam tracks. They sound pretty good. I'm always looking for new tracks to jam with. I didn't really see anything country. I am on the lookout for some country tracks that can allow some practice of chicken picking. In the styles of Ray flacke, Brent Mason, Albert Lee. I also like the blues stuff.

thanks for that
nice work
always great to find some decent tracks to =noodle along with
i am from melbourne also

Thanks a lot for the tracks and welcome to TDPRI.

Gene

very cool

Nice! Thanks, Nick!

mud

Just a quick question, are you gonna put anymore country up?
Just wondering.
Thanks
RJ

Thanks for the specific artists golfnut - I will have a listen and base some stuff on those guys. Albert Lee is the only one you mentioned I've seen/really listened to - so a bit of homework for me, good stuff.

Yes RJ - I will put up some more country soon. I recorded a couple the other day, I just need to finalise the tracks - I'll post when they are up. But I need to get into country a bit more myself - who are you into?

old picker - relative to everyone else I'd say that makes us neighbours!

I am a long way from Texas - I'd really like to get to Austin and the rest of the state sometime to hear the real deal.

Cheers,
Nick.

[QUOTE=nickonbass;
Yes RJ - I will put up some more country soon. I recorded a couple the other day, I just need to finalise the tracks - I'll post when they are up. But I need to get into country a bit more myself - who are you into?

old picker - relative to everyone else I'd say that makes us neighbours!

I am a long way from Texas - I'd really like to get to Austin and the rest of the state sometime to hear the real deal.

Cheers,
Nick.[/QUOTE]

I'm into Pete Anderson from Dwight Yoakum and the guitar player from Alan Jackson.

You "should" come to Texas sometime, just wait until this dang summer is over first, about October or November!!!

RJ

... the guitar player from Alan Jackson.

You mean Brent Mason? Yeah, we've heard of 'im, he's not bad. :wink:

mud

Cool - will listen to a bit of Dwight Yoakum & Alan Jackson and try and do something with those kind of feels.

I will get more structure in the site and the styles as the year goes on. I'm working it out as it goes. At the moment I'm just trying to get it so there is a fair few tracks up there with some variety - a bit in feels and trying to cover all keys.

But I will get more specific stylistically and group by style, key etc as the year rolls on.

Nothin' but good clean fun.

I was watching Albert Lee from the Crossroads II festival tonight - aweseome stuff. I saw him live once with Steve Morse - now THAT was a good day. :grin:

You mean Brent Mason? Yeah, we've heard of 'im, he's not bad. :wink:

mud

Brent doesn't tour with Alan does he? Wasn't talking about Brent but his touring player. SORRY!!!!

RJ

Hi All - well I've done nothing this weekend except record, record and record.

I've just put up 7 new tracks. I've tried to cover some, Country, Blues, Funk, Reggae and Swing.

http://www.freejamtracks.com/index.html

I've been listening to a fair bit of country and looking into stuff y'all have mentioned to me to check out - all good.

Everyone learns, everyone wins!

Cheers,
Nick.

Well done - thanks.

nikonbass, could you explain a bit about how you got the guitar tone on your "G6-9 Progression... (120pm)" jamtrack? Just curious which settings/patches on the Zoom you used. Cool tone. :razz:

Thanks pango_twango - it's patch 3 - 'crnch cmp' on the zoom.

Tele (seymour duncan pickups) going into the chanel direct.

That's 1/2 the tone - the other 1/2 is that I'm playing finger style. So pulling the individual strings (one string per finger) cept on the 'an' of 3 (1 an, 2 an, 3 an, 4 an) I am doing an upstroke with my index finger. Then doing a percussive rest/hit with my right hand on beat 4.

The level on the inputs is pretty high and I'm (trying) to play light.

The G chord is being played with Thumb on the G (too much Hendrix/SRV), fretting the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings and leaving my fingers there and the pinky is doing the work between the 2nd string (the 6th) to the 9th on the 1st string.

The shape stays the same the whole song, just moving it up to the 8th/10th frets.

That's what you get for studying Jimi, SRV, Danny Gatton & Tuck Andres (ie you get confused).

The rhythm is countr02 #239 at the default 120 bpm.

So if you have a zoom you'll probably be able to record it better than I did. :mrgreen:

That's probably too much information - I don't watch TV!

Brent doesn't tour with Alan does he? Wasn't talking about Brent but his touring player. SORRY!!!!

RJ

Alan Jackson's road guitarist, the one that tours with him, is named Danny Groah. You will never hear him on any of Alan's albums. He just does the tours.

The guitarist that has played on Alan's albums from 1992 through 2008 is named Brent Mason. He actually creates all those licks in the studio. Danny learns them later and plays them live.

I'll have to get hold of some of those albums.

Are there any live ones with Alan on them as well as the studio stuff with Danny?

There should be one somewhere, since I have a bootleg of a radio broadcast that Alan did once. Brent wasn't playing, so it should have been Danny!

Check your PM's.

RJ

Alan Jackson's road guitarist, the one that tours with him, is named Danny Groah. You will never hear him on any of Alan's albums. He just does the tours.

The guitarist that has played on Alan's albums from 1992 through 2008 is named Brent Mason. He actually creates all those licks in the studio. Danny learns them later and plays them live.

Shhhhhh :wink:

It's all good - will definatley check him out. Thanks for the info.

Hi all - I have put up the 'July' updates on the site.

There is a good country one up there for y'all.

Cheers,
Nick.

bumpity bump :razz:

I have put a few more tracks up on the site.

Tried to do a few rockier ones - not so great at rock though so I had to throw in a few more blues tunes for good measuer.

Keep on pickin'

Thanks a lot Nick, I really like your Country backing tracks.

Thanks - I've only just started really getting into trying to play country feels. But it's been a great help for me trying to put some country tracks together - I've learnt a fair bit just doing that.

Got out a Walon Jennings cd the other day - that is good stuff.

'Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line' - that's a cool song if I ever heard one.

Bump!

*cough*
Metal tracks
*cough*

lol - very subtle.

Can somenoe give me some metal bands I should listen to for good metal?

I'm 36. When I was growing up Metallica were metal. Then they released the black album and suddenly became pop!

So I'm out of touch with the genre - Pantera?

I dunno - give me some ideas - "throw me a freakin' bone!" :grin:

Recorded a few more blues/funk ones last night - including a version of the Allman Brothers version of Stormy Monday.

So 4 new tracks are up - happy jamming!

http://www.freejamtracks.com/

http://www.freejamtracks.com/tracks4bass.html

Cheers,
Nick.

Hi all,

I have put the August tracks up as both mp3 and wma files. I will convert all the wma files to mp3 over the next couple of weeks so you have a choice which format you download.

I think this helps out the Mac users and a few others.

Cheers,
Nick.

These are very cool... Thanks Nick


Scotty

this is fabulous, thanks!

All cool Gunslinger and dijos. Cheers for the comments.

I've just put up 2 new tracks - a laid back rock/country one and a reggae style track.

I am about to upgrade to a new multri-track recorder. The one I've been using has been borrowed when available - when I have the new one I'm going to get stuck into the styles etc people have been requesting and try and take it all to a new level. :cool:

Hi Nick,

Any chance to could include a zip file of your backing tracks on your site? I can't download mp3/wma files at work which drives me crazy! It's like my employer actually expects me to not waste time on guitar-related sites or something. How rude.

LMac83 - hmmm interesting suggestion - so zip each file as well and put the zipped file as a link to download?

That could be good for everyone - use less bandwidth for us all.

I'll try and zip/put them up tomorrow night with the 2 new tracks I put up - and if people download them then I'll do the whole site along with putting up the mp3's.

I fully encourage people to use the site at work - finding ways around work servers is definately worthy of a bit of extra time.

If it works you owe me a Beez Neez.

;)

Hey Nick,

Yeah that would be great. Or you could zip several tracks into one file ie. put all the blues tracks in one file, country tracks in another etc. As for reducing bandwith, mp3 is already a compressed format (not sure about wma though) so zipping them won't reduce the file size all that much. But it will enable people who can't download mp3/wma files at work to get your tracks, as they'll be in .zip format!

haha - yes, I was wondering that on the train in to work this morning - ie aren't mp3's already compressed tracks.

So it's 100% devious behaviour against work servers - I'm all for it!!

I'll post when I've put up the lastest 2 tracks and you can tell me if it works. Then I'll monitor the stats - if people download them as zips a bit I'll do the others.

Classic.

LMac83 - mate, I zipped the latest two tracks into a folder for each, both are mp3 format. Let me know how you go downloading them.

If that works I'll do what you suggested and zip up files in groups.

Probably not by genre - more likely 1-10, 11-20 etc etc.

Now you have to work out how to sneak your guitar into work - tell everyone it's an old school mouse? :mrgreen:

Hey Nick,

Thanks for zipping your tracks. I just downloaded them at work without problems, and they sound great! Would love to get the others, so hopefully people start downloading them as zips.

And yes, sneaking my guitar into work is on the cards. Haven't thought of using the old school mouse angle, but it could be worth a shot ;)

Thanks again,
LMac

I zipped and put the next 4 mp3's up LMac.

Over the weekend I am putting up more mp3's - I'll put up the zips as well.

Thanks very much mate. I'll blame you when work realise I haven't done anything productive since discovering this forum!

It's a great forum. Very cool to find one dedicated to masters of the telecaster.

I have just discovered this great thread & are downloading a zip file to my work pc. You bad! No seriously top work fella. I don't know where this will all end. I can see you with your own Podcast.

haha - a podcast - interesting!!!

I've got some really good ideas :idea: to add a lot of extra stuff on the site. I have a lot of work to do. :cool:

I've just put up 6 new ones.

Tried to go a bit metal this time with a couple of them. Some rock and some light jazz.

Enjoy,
Nick.

I am picking up a new multitrack recorder today and working on a lot of new stuff to put up on the site.

Lot's of work ahead.

Thanks for the tracks Nick

Hi Nick, just looked at your site and wanted to say that you have a quite extensive list of tracks there. Thanks for all of the effort and time involved. I will certainly be using these! :grin:

All good.

A good mate of mine (Dylan) is coming on board to help out with the tracks.

He has a lot of experience with rock, metal and reggae so that is going to help mix things up a bit considerably.

We are going to add a few more things to the site as well in the coming months.

All good - jam on.

I've just posted 2 new tracks on the site.

Cheers All,
Nick.

amazing site! thx for this
there are still few good men in this world and they give things for free hehe :razz:
cant wait to start downloading
thanx again

All good T.C. Thanks.

Yee-ha!

Tonight I added a new page for drummers.

So dropping the drums out as well.

It's a good thing for everyone because I'm going to start focusing more and more on rhythm and playing between all instruments.

Well in about a week I'll be putting up some new tracks done by a good mate of mine who is going to help me add some variety to the site.

Two axes are better than one!

Mix things up a bit. I'll let you all know when the new ones go up.

It might have been mentioned before, but you should think about having different catagories to choose from, instead of putting them all on one page.
Would make it easier to go to the catagory and get say just country or just blues.
Just an idea.
RJ

Yes Hou35.

I'm currently overhauling the site - and splitting it into 7 categories/genres.

Plus moving to a new webhost and a few more things coming up.

Lot's of work to do!!!

Stayed tuned (literally).

Just downloaded a half dozen "for bassist" tracks.

Thanks for your work!

FYI - the website is undergoing some change at the moment.

Please bear with me while I move things over to the new host.

Cheers,
Nick.

Rock n Roll - the newly designed site is running and on the new host server. :razz:

http://www.freejamtracks.com/

The Guitar Home is here: http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitar&lead.html

Phew - that was a lot of work. Not too many changes - and I've only put up a few of the old tracks - will do the rest over the course of the next few days/week.

It's all the tracks from the old site but they are just sorted into styles and I'm putting up mp3's for all tracks. Also they are renamed - the name stays the same but the numbers of the tracks are going from 01-11, sorted by style and kind of an album number.

eg Blues 01 - is 11 tracks. Blues 02 another 11 blues tracks.
Funk 01 - is 11 funk tracks etc etc etc

So you can see what is happening with it from here.

Just keep writing tracks 01-11 for each style - fill up all styles and have multiple 'albums' within each style.

So they are being grouped into Albums - will zip each album by mp3 and wma zip at some point too so the tracks can be downloaded in groups.

There are other things coming too - just a bit of instructional stuff and so on - but that is later on down the track.

blah blah blah - 15 hours later - time for sleeeeeeeep

:grin:

I like that!!!! It's nice how it's setup.
Thanks a bunch!!!!

RJ

Pretty cool stuff, good work indeed!!!!!

Thanks for the kind words. All encouragement is greatly appreciated.

Yee-ha!

The country link is up with all the country tracks from the old site up and running.

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/country.html

I like the country stuff - it's a lot of fun playing it and trying to learn a bit more of that style. Lot's more country type stuff to come.

Jam on.

rock n roll!!!

I've put the jazz ones back up.

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/jazz.html

I've been away with work so out of action for the last week but I'm back in the groove now.

All the other stuff I'm loading as we speak ie the metal, reggae, rock and the rest of the blues stuff. So that should be up on Monday or Wednesday. (not tuesday cause I am off jamming with some cats).

Then this Saturday onwards - new stuff will start going up.

So this coming weekend I will do my usual go ballistic on the recording front and start cranking out some new sounds for y'all.

Also my mate Dylan who has been working on stuff too - he has about 10 tracks to give me - I haven't heard them but he is a better muso than I am so it'll be good to hear what he comes up with.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH.

Metal and Reggae tracks are back up:

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/metal.html

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/reggae.html

So all that's left is the Rock ones and 11 more of the blues ones.

Then I'll start adding the zip files while I'm doing the new stuff (starting this weekend).

Jam on y'all. :razz:

I'm going to download some of these tracks tonight. Thank you!

You're on my favorites, Thanks!
Hey, how about some jam tracks with a video of the band playing. It'd be like jammin' with my buddies.

no worries Graph.

What do you mean about the video B Valley - the band is one person!

It's either myself (Nick) or my mate Dylan. I haven't put any of Dylan's tracks up he's recorded yet but they will be going up soon.

But we just both record on a multi-track recorder all the instruments ourselves - so a video might be a bit hard (and or boring!!!).

I'm going to get Dylan to do some clips to put on YouTube or something like that at some point down the track - but gotta get the website more happening first.

All the rock ones from the old site are back up:
http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/rock.html

as well as the rest of the blues tracks:
http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/blues.html

Plus I added more menu items for the styles under the picture of the guitar so it's hopefully easier to move around quicker from one style to another.

Yippee - that's all the old site's content up on the new site. :cool:

Now it's time to record new stuff. :razz:

Hi all,

I am a muso from Melbourne Australia and have created some jam tracks for other muso's to use.

They are all free - literally - no advertising on the site etc - it's just for the common good of people who like jam tracks.

They are currently set up for guitarists/lead instruments here:
http://www.freejamtracks.com

and a few for bass players are on here:
http://www.freejamtracks.com/tracks4bass.html

They are mostly blues, blues rock and country style progressions at the moment.

The electric used is a Fender Tele with a strat neck and Seymour Duncan pickups. It's a bit of a hybrid but it's a nice axe. I should put up some pictures of it.

Have fun.

Cheers,
Nick.

PS Thank God for Danny Gatton! :cool:


You did a very nice job on the music AND on your web-site. It's very intuitive and easy to follow.

I currently use a Fender GDECJr for practicing leads. The GDECJr is nice because it allows you to change keys, BPM and rhythms on the fly. Unfortunately, the GDECJr uses "loops", which are rather short and lack the "live" vibe.

Your tracks are not looped and have a very "live" feel to them.

Thanks so much. I've bookmarked your site for future reference.

Thank you FenderGuy53 - that fender amp you have looks like a great amp for practice. It's pretty amazing the stuff you can get out there. I take it your avatar is your axe - very nice looking guitar.

Cheers, Nick.

Thank you FenderGuy53 - that fender amp you have looks like a great amp for practice. It's pretty amazing the stuff you can get out there. I take it your avatar is your axe - very nice looking guitar.

Cheers, Nick.


You are very welcome.

Nick, if you're speaking of the Fender SCXD, then I agree - it IS a terrific practice amp. I use it for band rehearsals, too - no pedals required! It can mimic all of the Fender tube amps quite nicely and is a great grab-and-go amp for relatively few $$$.

Yep, my Strat is in my avatar. I have a Tele, too, in the same get-up - maple fret board, 3TSB and white pickguard. I love both.

Yeah - that'd be a nice tele. My tele is the one on the free jam tracks site (ie photos and everything is recorded with that). It's the only electric I own.

It's a strat neck on a tele body with symour duncan pickups.

Semi-beat up by the guitar player in my band - it was his first attempt at making a 'vintage' instrument - hehe.

I love that guitar.

rock n roll - I've started putting up zipped files - what I'm doing is once an 'album' is done (ie tracks 1-11 for any style) - I'm zipping all 11 tracks (for both mp3 & wma) into the one mega file - so people can download all the tracks for each 'album' in one hit.

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/blues.html

might be more convenient for some people who want to download everything at once but it's also for people in offices etc whose internet firewalls won't let them download mp3/wma files.

jam on

yee haw - got the tele out for some of the new tracks and done put up 2 new country tracks for y'all.

Mosey On Down and Both Kinds Of Music

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/country.html

Jam on y'all! :razz:

Nick.

I put 2 new Rock tracks up tonight - you can find them here:

http://www.freejamtracks.com/guitarlead/rock.html

:shock: Rock on!!

I will put up 2 new jazz ones in a day or two. :cool:

A place for some free country backing tracks is http://www.funkytigerbackingtracks.co.uk/Country.htm

folsom prison blues - what kind of instrument is playing the vocal line, hehe.

All good - everybody jammin'