free jam tracks

nickonbass · June 14th, 2008, 12:32 AM

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!

JayFreddy · June 14th, 2008, 01:55 AM

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.

nickonbass · June 14th, 2008, 08:44 AM

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.

hou35male · June 14th, 2008, 09:37 AM

SWEET!!!

Now you just need a little more country on there.

Thanks for doing all that hard work.

RJ

DonnyO · June 14th, 2008, 11:24 AM

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

Best Regards,
Don

nickonbass · June 14th, 2008, 07:52 PM

I'm all for doing some more country ones.

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

Talmir · June 17th, 2008, 06:59 PM

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

nickonbass · June 18th, 2008, 07:09 AM

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.

golfnut · June 18th, 2008, 09:21 AM

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.

old_picker · June 18th, 2008, 05:33 PM

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

tele-martini · June 19th, 2008, 10:56 AM

Thanks a lot for the tracks and welcome to TDPRI.

Gene

Old Cane · June 19th, 2008, 11:26 AM

very cool

mudbean · June 19th, 2008, 11:57 PM

Nice! Thanks, Nick!

mud

hou35male · June 20th, 2008, 01:14 PM

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

nickonbass · June 20th, 2008, 10:57 PM

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.

hou35male · June 20th, 2008, 11:48 PM

[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

mudbean · June 21st, 2008, 03:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hou35male

... the guitar player from Alan Jackson.

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

mud

nickonbass · June 21st, 2008, 10:43 AM

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.

hou35male · June 21st, 2008, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mudbean

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

mud

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

RJ

nickonbass · June 22nd, 2008, 08:55 AM

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.

VWAmTele · June 22nd, 2008, 10:04 AM

Well done - thanks.

pango_twango · June 22nd, 2008, 11:51 AM

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.

nickonbass · June 23rd, 2008, 04:51 AM

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.

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

bsm1392 · June 23rd, 2008, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hou35male

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.

nickonbass · June 24th, 2008, 03:42 AM

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?

hou35male · June 24th, 2008, 06:28 AM

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

Gunslinger · June 24th, 2008, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bsm1392

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

June 14th, 2008, 12:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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!

June 17th, 2008, 06:59 PM	#7 (permalink)
Talmir Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: iceland Age: 25 Posts: 268	Thanks for these.. downloaded them a few days ago, and have been playing to them .. especially like the D medium fast shuffle :) __________________ - By the light of night, it´ll all look alright.

June 18th, 2008, 09:21 AM	#9 (permalink)
golfnut Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada Age: 48 Posts: 289	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. __________________ Dr Z Stangray - 2X12 Open back cab W/Celestion Blues AV52 RI 62 RI Hotrod strat

June 18th, 2008, 05:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
old_picker Tele-Meister Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 407	thanks for that nice work always great to find some decent tracks to =noodle along with i am from melbourne also __________________ ray

June 19th, 2008, 10:56 AM	#11 (permalink)
tele-martini Tele-Holic Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Hilton, NY Age: 49 Posts: 896 11 Photos	Thanks a lot for the tracks and welcome to TDPRI. Gene __________________ Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two. ...Frederic Chopin

June 14th, 2008, 01:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
JayFreddy Tele-Holic Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Dallas TX USA Age: 43 Posts: 873 2 Photos	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.

June 14th, 2008, 08:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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.

June 14th, 2008, 09:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
hou35male TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston, TX. Age: 40 Posts: 69	SWEET!!! Now you just need a little more country on there. Thanks for doing all that hard work. RJ

June 14th, 2008, 11:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
DonnyO NEW MEMBER! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Edmonton Age: 38 Posts: 2	Cool! Thanks for sharing! Best Regards, Don

June 14th, 2008, 07:52 PM	#6 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	I'm all for doing some more country ones. Especially when you are playing with a tele. It's made for it.

June 18th, 2008, 07:09 AM	#8 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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.

June 19th, 2008, 11:26 AM	#12 (permalink)
Old Cane Tele-Holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Murfreesboro, TN Age: 47 Posts: 719	very cool __________________ http://www.myspace.com/otiskeithwatkins http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music

June 19th, 2008, 11:57 PM	#13 (permalink)
mudbean Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: SoCal Semi-Desert Semi-Paradise Age: 49 Posts: 1,383	Nice! Thanks, Nick! mud __________________ www.mudbean.com "Do ya want it to be interesting, or do ya want it to be true?" "So far, it's neither."

June 20th, 2008, 01:14 PM	#14 (permalink)
hou35male TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston, TX. Age: 40 Posts: 69	Just a quick question, are you gonna put anymore country up? Just wondering. Thanks RJ

June 20th, 2008, 10:57 PM	#15 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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.

June 20th, 2008, 11:48 PM	#16 (permalink)
hou35male TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston, TX. Age: 40 Posts: 69	[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

June 21st, 2008, 10:43 AM	#18 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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.

June 22nd, 2008, 08:55 AM	#20 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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.

June 22nd, 2008, 10:04 AM	#21 (permalink)
VWAmTele Tele-Meister Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Palm Harbor, FL Age: 53 Posts: 372	Well done - thanks.

June 22nd, 2008, 11:51 AM	#22 (permalink)
pango_twango Tele-Meister Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 144	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.

June 23rd, 2008, 04:51 AM	#23 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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. That's probably too much information - I don't watch TV!

June 24th, 2008, 03:42 AM	#25 (permalink)
nickonbass TDPRI Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 36	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?

June 24th, 2008, 06:28 AM	#26 (permalink)
hou35male TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Houston, TX. Age: 40 Posts: 69	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