Jim's Circle of Blues - #4 - Blues Shuffle in C

Jim · #1 August 5th, 2006

Here's the 4th installment in my Circle of Blues - a Blues Shuffle in C. I'm going in chromatic order, so up to this point I've posted blues in A, Bb, B and now C. The first link below is my take over the C backing track.

The second link below is the backing track itself, if anyone else wants to have a go at it!

Jim

scotty_b · #2 August 5th, 2006

Well done Jim
So do you have a track for C#?

allthumbs · #3 August 5th, 2006

Nice Jim. Same question. Do you have a C# bt?

Jim · #4 August 5th, 2006

Thanks Scotty and Marty!

Nope - C#/Db is probably one of the hardest keys to find, along with F#/Gb. I was thinking of maybe taking one from C or D and using Audacity to change the key of it, although I've never tried that function, so I don't know if it works well or not.

Have either of you got one I can use? (he says hoping...)

Jim

tomg123 · #5 August 5th, 2006

That sounded good jim, I tried this one but it moved a bit to fast for me and my acoustic. I have one in C7 I did a while back i'll post, not perfect and the recording's a bit rough but it is one of the ones I held on too. Whenever I hear one of these in C it reminds me of the allman brothers yours did too

Jim · #6 August 5th, 2006

Nice job on the C7 one Tom. You got the changes in there really well. The shuffle I did is pretty fast, and it's almost hard to get into a blues frame of mind with something that jumpy going on!

Thanks for contributing to the Circle! Oh, and the Allman bros are one my all time favorite bands. I saw them live in 1973 at the Pocono rock festival (bigger than Woodstock!).

Jim

tomg123 · #7 August 6th, 2006

Thanks jim, if ya get to G thats probably the best one I did. I saw the allmans around that time too I think it was in philly, dicky betz was in asbury park recently but I missed him

joe_strummer · #8 August 6th, 2006

Another classic mix Jim, well played, really enjoy listening to your blues compositions, well done

Jim · #9 August 6th, 2006

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Originally Posted by tomg123

Thanks jim, if ya get to G thats probably the best one I did. I saw the allmans around that time too I think it was in philly, dicky betz was in asbury park recently but I missed him

Cool Tom! It will be a few weeks until I get to G, but I'll be looking forward to yours when I do! Too bad you missed dicky, but we can't catch 'em all. I have tickets to see Clapton in NYC on Sept. 29, and I'm really looking forward to that!

Jim

Jim · #10 August 6th, 2006

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Originally Posted by joe_strummer

Another classic mix Jim, well played, really enjoy listening to your blues compositions, well done

Thanks Joe!

This was kind of a tough one for me, because C is kind of a bright key to me and this is a fast shuffle - neither of which is really blusey to me, so I had to get into an upbeat, bright and fast blues groove - it was why I choose this BT, for the challenge of having to do that. I know accomplished blues players do it all the time, but I'm still have a lot to learn!

Jim

allthumbs · #11 August 6th, 2006

Here you go Jim. Took me a while to make it. Very basic but, better than nothing. C#blues

Jim · #12 August 6th, 2006

WOW, Marty -- THANK YOU!!!

Did you make that all by yourself? I have no idea how to make a decent backing track from scratch, and I'm very impressed you were able to do that.

I appreciate it so much, and it will be used for my next installement of the Circle!! - likely next weekend, which is when I get my recording time.

You're da man Marty - I thank you again so much!

Jim

cshude · #13 August 6th, 2006

Jim, the recording software I use can move everything up (or down) in semi-tones up to an octave, so if you have something close, I can run it through and put it to whatever key you need. Let me know.

Jim · #14 August 6th, 2006

Thanks Chris!

I think Audacity has an effect that can do that - although I've never tried it to see what the quality would be like (I guess I should just try it, duh!). That was my fallback position if I couldn't get a BT made in C# (or F# which will be coming up down the pike - I think I have an Eb BT, but I'll have to double-check).

Thanks for the offer - and I may take you up on it for other keys if I can't come up with them on my own!

Appreciations!
Jim

cshude · #15 August 6th, 2006

Jim,
I dl'ed the track you posted here and pitched it up a half-step and you couldn't tell any loss in sound quality. Then I slowed it down by about 10%- still sounded pretty good, but almost like someone went a bit overboard on the compressor. Gotta love software!