04 G 54 Chevymp3wma
Time/size: 5 mins 37 secs/7.72mb
Odd meter jam track: Fairly straight sounding rock in G. (110 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Progression: (G-GMaj7, C-CMaj7)x4 then verse (D-C9)x3 + (D-C9-D)x1
Suggestions: Play a G Major Pentatonic scale.
Time signature: This backing track is in 5/4. Just count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 all the way through as you tap your foot on each beat. The main thing with odd time signatures (for my money) is that I don't want them to sound like they are odd time signatures. Sometimes there isn't much you can do about it but you at least want them to sound natural. Ultimately thought, it'll be something that a civilian (non-musician) can dance to, or at least tap their foot.
The verse to outshined is in 7/4. You can count along with it from the start. Count; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Great tune.
05 A At the Fox Theatre in 78mp3wma
Time/size: 5 mins 53 secs/8.08mb
Style: Rock n roll in A. (110 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Progression: Riff in A minor: (A-b3-4-5)x3, (A-b3-R-b7-5)x1 - (A-b7-5-b7-5-4-b3)x4
Suggestion(s): Play the A blues scale.
Time signature: This backing track is in 7/8. Just count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 all the way through as you tap your foot on each beat.
06 E Eleventh Hourmp3wma
Time/size: 4 mins 52 secs/7.70mb
Style: Funk rock in E.
Backing instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums
Progression: (E A B)x2 - (E A C# B) - (E A G# F3)
Suggestion(s): Try the E Major scale over this progression.
Time signature: This backing track is in 11/8. Just count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 all the way through as you tap your foot on each beat. That might sound like an obvious way to tell you to count it but there are a lot of different ways you can count when playing odd meters. You need to work out how to count for each different tune. It depends on how the notes/riffs are grouped. If the bar is divided into groups you can break up the count. For example on this track you could count it in 2 groups, the first in 6 and the second lot in 5. Try it - count; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So you have broken up the 11 to be 6 + 5 = 11.
Who would have thought that math would have one day come in handy!
This tune is mostly in 12/8 but they throw in a bar of 4 on the last grouping every now and then to make it 13/8. Count it in 4 lots of triplets and then 3 lots of triplets with 1 group of 4 when they go into the odd meter.
More Guitar Jam Tracks
Below are the links to jam tracks in 7 different styles of music along with music theory, scales and more along the way.
