Jam Over Help The Poor

Here's my first shot at posting some music. It's a one-take improvisation over a freebie backing track I picked up. My recording skills are probably even worse than my playing, so be kind, please!

Oh, and thanks to Mats for a great rig.

http://soundcloud.com/zappledan/helpthepoor2-2

Quote from and44

great stuff Z!
your playing style is a bit jazzy

are you classically trained per chance?

Hi Andy. Thanks for the kind words. I guess I've started to lean towards a jazzier feel lately, but my background is really mostly blues. No classical training either. I'm sure if I had that this would sound much better!

Quote from guitarnet70

Nice tone, Zappledan. Did you stretched the track, or adjusted tempo? The guitar sounds slightly off-tune....

Thanks! Yes, that rig from Mats is very nice. As for the "slightly off-tune" - yeah, I noticed that too. I stay tuned per the KPA, so I guess that track must be ever so slightly off. Is it possible that my DAW wasn't getting enough CPU? My computer is a few years old ...

Quote from bigHF

nice playing

What rig & backing track did you use?

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Thanks H. I used the MN SC Fat Lead rig by Mats Nermark. I don't recall where I picked up this backing track, as it was a couple of months ago. However, it was free. Here's a link to that one and a couple of others of Robben Ford I found:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/690187…rd_TalkToYourDaughter.zip

I had to EQ a bit of bass out of the one I used for this, and it still was a bit boomy to my ears.

Quote from Zappledan

The guitar sounds slightly off-tune....

I think the guitar was in tune but my bends weren't

Practice, practice, practice ...

Thanks Stemast. Great people in this forum