💡 Today I Learned

Backing beats to play along to

if you play guitar and want to practice playing along with a backing drum track...

this is a genius collection of 300 drum tracks -- they are all youtube videos, usually of real drummers drumming...

http://www.smarthobbymusician.com/over-300-drum-tracks/

fantastic resource i intend to come back to again and again.

here's that blues in A I was working at earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9shk67MYdc and same with just drums/bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axrzkrk08pg

And here's that 'straight rock beat' beat i was doing a reggae thing to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU4FSLfUEAc&list=PLF990399ACFD0A190&index=56

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And don't forget http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com which has many songs, including a lot of simple backing tunes you can jam to. http://www.guitarbackingtrack.com/bts/Jamtracks.htm

The drum beat program on my machine is called Hydrogen.