![]() I have been doing most of my practicing during these crazy times with YouTube videos, a lot of them from the Tune Supply shows Caitlin and Chris were doing with guest artists on Mondays and Thursdays.Īll 40 of the shows are archived on YouTube, with additional teaching material available on their website I used to practice with Band-in-a-Box backing tracks years ago before there were ever session videos on YouTube. There is value in learning to be adaptive to all situations even if not ideal. Playing along with backing tracks from programs like Band-in-a-Box will better prepare you for playing successfully with backup players in real life who are unable or unwilling to slave their rhythm to you. When you’re in musical lockdown for COVID-19 for months and have zero ability to play with other people, do whatever you enjoy. Or practicing along with a recording from an artist or band, where the accompaniment would be tracking the implied harmonic changes in the melody line. Even one of those ambiguous DADGAD strums wouldn’t work, because sometimes you do want a strong harmonic statement in accompaniment to signal the change in mode.īetter a metronome with no preconception of key. A guitar backing track would necessarily be fixed in one key and just wouldn’t work when practicing these tunes. To me, that’s one of the joys of this music the fact that it isn’t always locked down in a standard Western Music concept of “key.” I love these quirky tunes that shift modes. ![]() Or tunes that play subtle games with implied harmony by constantly shifting between C sharp and C natural, like Paddy Fahey tunes and others. #Īnother reason to avoid guitar backing tracks is that it would be no help at all with the many tunes that shift back and forth between modes like Kid on the Mountain, Gravel Walks, or Knocknagow. If you want to play along with something other than a metronome, I’d suggest playing along with recorded tunes from great melody players and bands, where the melody players are leading the rhythm and the guitar player is following their lead. If a guitar player isn’t emphasizing the backbeat at all, or is pounding on it, it will affect how you play the melody. Some melody players go for that, others don’t, and it can depend on the tune itself. I think that doing it the other way around, by using a pre-recorded backing track could be harmful, even worse than a metronome because the guitar accompaniment may emphasize the beat in a different way than a melody player would.Ĭonsider the question of how much to emphasize the backbeat in a reel. ![]() It’s one of the first things I learned as a guitar player entering this music, before later transitioning to melody instruments. I agree with Kenny that accompaniment is supposed to follow the melody player’s feel for rhythm, not the other way around. “Do you think it will hurt their music, Kenny?” ![]()
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