#1845162 - 11/22/07 05:45 AM
Playing out with artificial backup...
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I have been wanting to start playing out again on a limited basis for a long time now, but I keep running into problems with other people. Either they want to play stuff that topically makes me uncomfortable, or live too far away to make practicing more than once a week affordable, or don't have the time to pull it together, or something else.
So, I want to look into working with some sort of mechanized/computerized or prerecorded backup. It seems like the easiest way to solve the problems, and it seems like there are as number of ways to do it.
Being your basically ignorant singing guit-fiddler who can't read music or play drums, and who has no real expertise in programming sequencers/computers, studio recording, or anything that would make this easier, I wonder if some of y'all who do this would share with me what works for you, and what you'd recommend for someone like me that would sound halfway decent.
My goal is to play very small clubs and/or restaurants (there are a lot of little bar-be-que joints that a full-sized blues band would drive the customers out of around here; it is Kansas City, after all...) I'd be looking for something that would deliver drums and bass backup primarily, although occasional keyboard sounds would be nice too.
What do you guys suggest, other than hanging myself for wanting to work with "trax"?
Edited by Picker (11/22/07 05:45 AM)
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#1845245 - 11/22/07 09:39 AM
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Hey Picker,
The only thing I can think of, short of creating your own backing tracks, is to look into some sort of 'karaoke' rig. There's a ton of pre-recorded tracks available, and you'd simply make yourself the lead singer instead of the audience. I know nothing about the actual format(can't stand those karaoke bars and such), but from what I have seen, it seems fairly simple to set up and run.
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#1847280 - 11/27/07 06:08 AM
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Except those Karaoke backtracks pretty much suck....
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#1847949 - 11/28/07 06:50 AM
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Hmm.. OK. Go here http://www.ameritz.co.uk/browse_category.asp?id=7 , audition a couple, and tell me these tracks aren't sufficient for the gig that Trucks is talking about. This ain't Carnegie Hall.
Paul
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#1848569 - 11/29/07 06:23 AM
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Did you actually listen to "You Shook Me"?
That's worse than the Celine Dion/Mary J Blige backing band!
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#1848570 - 11/29/07 06:26 AM
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Seriously - I'd rather get a program like Reason or Fruityloops and do it myself - he's a guitarist, he can play his own guitar lines, all he needs is the drums and the bass - and it's not hard to program those, even if you can't play drums. Guaranteed the drum loops he'd concoct would sound better than those cheezy MIDI-drums they offer on the site you just referenced.
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#1848599 - 11/29/07 07:14 AM
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To tell you the truth, Picker has posted this exact question at half a dozen other forums, and he hasn't bother to stop back here. You try to help and get ignored, so I'm done. FWIW, those K tracks should be perfectly alright for what he proposed. To me, it just sounds like he might be too uninspired to do it the right way.. and there are more than several.
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#1851600 - 12/05/07 06:18 AM
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that Trucks is talking about.
It's always nice to be on somebodies mind! :-)
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