12 Bar Progressive Blues Guitar Backing Track in A Minor

[Iarchy]

This is not A Minor. It's A mixolydian. It's just your major scale with a flat 7th.

[sammydems]

Man, the maker of this video seems like a big dickhead in his posts.

[GibsonLord1]

I played along countless times on my bass.....great idea in extending it for better practice

[antisocialworker]

still jamming to this after a year now, what a great way to explore the pentatonic scale

[nice1centurion]

@antisocialworker i know it's so fun!

[gooman989898]

thats major you nigger

[mateo2711ify]

I've got the groove, got into rhythm, started to make those B.B. King face expressions... than suddenly .. SILENCE in the middle of track.. Unexpected.. :(

[tigangertusen]

loved to jam to this one! even dough the break was a little confusing the first time I played it. But thats just progresive!

All over a great backingtrack!

[aljhae6]

dam just shut up and use a fucking blues scale

[deepislandboy]

major, not minor, however...you can use the a minor pentatonic scale and it will sound fine.

[aj7689]

a little hard jamming to this one

[dillweed44]

For fucks sake its in A major not A minor, is really not that hard to work it out.

[armsby]

This is srambled - needs replacing.

[johncartelli]

is it me or does the beginning of this sound like a jazzy JINGLE BELLS

[saskekun101]

@johncartelli i agree

[saskekun101]

@johncartelli jingle bell rock?

[caldasReport]

This is A MAJOR.

[Duesenfried]

He is still in A ....Mixolydian

[8werty8]

@Duesenfried come on this is blues.. use the blues scale not a harmonic one...

[ballooification]

thank youu:D

[lordguitar101]

this helps me work on my solo

[daytonohiofellowship]

do you take video responses on this track ?

[endosomev]

All you guys are silly.

The bass is playing a boogie woogie bassline with a flat 7.

It's in A Dominant.

It's as easy as that.

[brownbigb]

it's in the key of a major. the chord is a dominant 7th chord. this is not a minor. c# baby :)

[imhere8888]

@endosomev wouldnt a Flat 7 be a Dorian ? =o

[koen37]

@imhere8888 no it wouldnt... dorian is flat 6. flat 7 is mixolydian

[Sunderlanding]

@koen37 Dorian doesn't have a flat six. Both Dorian and Mixolydian have a flat seven. The difference is Dorian has a minor third while Mixolydian has a Major Third.

[Currlesman]

I like improving to this

[ElectricMan5]

why the hell does it just stop in random places??!?!

[CreamerMusic]

I just repeated the track like 3 times just so people like you wouldn't complain about it being too short.

[ElectricMan5]

ah i see lol. i love your tracks btw my favorite is the 80's metal

[silentsouless]

Same here. Love that one.

[guitarbackingtracks4]

@CreamerMusic cod have repeated it smoother ass wipe

[joebrassmonkey]

It's a major progression, not so much minor.

[RSRop0]

A major doesn't work at all in this context. Playing the parallel pentatonic minor scale (with borrowed M3, M6, M9, whatever) over the appropriate major or minor progressions will give you the blues sound. If you were to play the relative major pentatonic you'd get something country-ish until you hit the V chord, where it'd all fall apart..

[joebrassmonkey]

you've lost me. I've played the relative major ( by relative major I mena playing in F sharp as well as A) to this track before, and sounds fine. the V is an E majorish chord, so I'm not sure how exactly this could possibly fall apart.

[RSRop0]

You can't play anything meaningful in F# major over an A major blues progression. Just compare notes in the scales.

A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G (dominant 7th)

F#, G#, A#, B, C#, D#, E#

Notice the multiple instances of dissonance. If you mean playing the F# minor pentatonic scale over this, yeah, that's fine - I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you do that it should work - though your best bet would be to play the Am pentatonic with a b5 or A dorian.

[joebrassmonkey]

and that is exactly why I never bothered to learn theory. I don't know all of that crap. lol

I've learned nearly everything I know, mostly by ear. I started off with the basic pentatonic scale. I supposse that it would be considered minor, and then you would play the F# pentatonic.

I honestly have no idea what b5 or dorian is. Notes I would incorporate besides regular A pentatonic and F# pentatonic notes would be the flat 5, G# and A#.

[brownbigb]

this song is not in a minor. but playing a minor pentatonic in f# is playing a major pentatonic, which works. resolve to the "a" though

[brownbigb]

maybe your ear should mnot be trusted so much :)

[joebrassmonkey]

I wish I had the patience to learn theory, and I respect the fact that you know it. haha

[Pulver1zer]

cool story bro

[Trapmaker677]

Well, to me, I would make use of the F# major for some tension with that wicked feeling, but it's all up to personal taste. I would use it rarely though lol.

[brownbigb]

he's playing f# minor petonic, which is a major pentatonoc.

[Frank912R]

Dud the A blues scale works fine

[jaxeplayer]

awsome dude! great backing trackjack:)

[Porkkana89]

minor pentatonic and minor scale.

[suthernroc]

a minor scale works for me

[Aliaboud5617]

in ??

[CreamerMusic]

figure it out yourself, I didn't have time and still don't

[bladesaint21]

@CreamerMusic *LOL*