Jak's challenge

[Alan Celis]

jak’s challenge last week

so after 2 weeks my exams finally ended and since i didnt have time to improv on the backing track i suggested so yeah…
Dont worry i will catch up to this one later

 

[idssdi]

Can we pick a new backigtrack already? If not I’ll tryou to find some by myself (probably gypsy jazz)

 

[idssdi]

I meant to say I think we should keep it going and have someone pick another backing track because I like the fact that people choose stuff I wouldn’t nescecarily pick. So, who’s up next?

 

[Alan Celis]

id say you choose a gypsy jazz backing track, i havent ventured into that realm of guitar playing. and this time i will tone it down with the distortion hahaha

 

[idssdi]

Ok let’s do this one then. Harmonically it’s probably the easiest gypsy jazz song there is. You can do A harmonic minor over the whole thing btw (and a bunch of other stuff but that mau be makes it a bit more difficult)

This one is also a bit slower. The original django reinhardt recording is like 197 BPM and this one is only 150 BPM

 

[Alan Celis]

Do you know the chords of that jam? so i can kinda get familiarized

 

[idssdi]

Am6|Dm6|E7|Am6|Dm6|Am6|Bb6|E7|Am6|E7|
The Bb6 is sometimes also played as F7.
The intro is Am6|Dm6 and the outro is Am6|Dm6|E7|Am6

 

[Jak Angelescu]

this is a GREAT backing track Ids! I have no clue about anything with gypsy jazz but it leaves a lot of room for me to be able to actually find notes that sound cool and get in a good feel and melody for the progression. I’ll be working on this for sure!

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

wow..nice track Ids. Love its feel. I have never jammed with such tracks. I will try if I can. Definitely a nice challenge.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

improve 7 (g minor pink floyd)

My improv for this weeks… one take. I made a couple slight mistakes in wanting to back to the D minor scale from last week. Didn’t get to spend as much time as last week but I’m pretty content.

 

[idssdi]

Here’s mine. There’s another take coming which I actually think is better but some feedback is still really appreciated!
Jaks challenge 9

 

[idssdi]

Here’s that better take I was talking about
Jak’s challenge 9 (2)

 

[idssdi]

I kinda would like for someone to pick a new backingtrack but I noticed I’m the only one who did the last backingtrack so maybe we should wait a little. What do you guys think?

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Its sunday i need time still. Might have one up tonight but yeah. Id wait til the end of the day. This is probably a style thats new to everyone so they may be taking more time. Me i just have a ton of work ahead

 

[idssdi]

Let’s do this one for this week

 

[Jak Angelescu]

I think this backing track improvisation should be taken at a slower pace. We’re picking a lot of different styles, key signatures, and chord phrases that may be making it difficult for some to have time to learn a scale that will work and get it solid enough to be able to use. Let’s start with one key signature a month and focus on that.
@calvin you pick the key signature

 

[Calvin Phillips]

As per jak. I have decided to use g minor. We just did this one for the floyd track so a lot of us should be familiar. Lets see how far we can expand on this scale.

I picked a longer back track. But after a month of learning the scale and arpeggios and whatnot that 10 minutes wont seem long enough. Remember that you have a month. So the week of july 16th is when well readdress. Now im not gonna tell people to not do the track ids posted. If you wanted to keep dping those with him all the power to you. But jak made a good point on my last video of not really expanding enough on one scale before moving to the next. Maybe we should have started with a month to begin with.should give you lots of study time. If you liked the weekly deadline you could make weekly goals for yourself. Learn the base scale first. Maybe a mode or two tp fit eaxh chord the next week. The arpeggios the next week.. etc. Then put it all together in the video. I look forward to seeing what everyone puts together.

 

[idssdi]

Here’s mine
Jak’s challenge X

 

[idssdi]

Since I did really enjoyed this I figured we can maybe try this again. It’s also kinda in line with the solo trouble thing Syn asked us to do

 

[Guest]

I’ll jump in on this now. I’ve been trying to push myself to play more and participate more here (wasn’t that great at participating in regular school either). Also, seems like fun. So what’s next?