Medium Slow Blues Backing Track in A Major | 65 bpm 

That is awesome! 😎👍🎶🎸 It would be cool to hear you jamming over this and show what you’ve worked on!

It's a vibe.

Thanks a lot for the positive feedback, Eagle Driver! 😁👌🎶

so you;re playing worthless shit!!!!

be urself my boy

Thank you! Appreciate that!

Nice! Great to hear tha our track helped you with your daily practice!

These are the blues! ;)

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Thanks man!!

Thank you!

It's neither major nor minor. It's a blues, which is often in-between. Neither the major nor minor scale have three dominant seventh chords. The dominant seventh chord has a major third and a minor seventh - That's why the minor pentatonic can sound good over it, even the minor third in the minor pentatonic, because it's a blue note (and the minor pentatonic includes the minor seventh). I remember how it is as a beginner, you learn the pentatonic as a system and you don't understand when something doesn't fit that system. If you want something that "fits" a bit more, try playing by following the chords instead, play [A C# G] for A7, [D F# C] for D7, and [E G# D] for E7 - and then try experimenting which notes sound good over which chord.

F# would be relative minor

@@TheMVAUGHAN I thought I’d come up with a nifty trick for finding the relative minor quickly by counting back two full steps. This works for some but not all keys as some go back in half steps which is why for this particular key I was a half step off. I guess there is no way to get out of memorising the circle of fifths 😂

@@SuiTobi sorry I know this is old but I missed it at the time and I thought I’d respond with three years of reflection behind me. You’re right about trying to make everything fit into one box as a beginner, it can make things quite confusing. In this instance I was trying to avoid memorising the circle of fifths by thinking I could count two steps backwards from the major key to find the relative minor. What I didn’t realise is that this works for some but not all keys and that’s why I was a half step off. Considering this I was playing in Am because Fm didn’t fit (should have been F#m), and you explained in detail why it worked.

Try mixing both major and minor pentatonics, switch from one to the other mid-phrase and it sounds cool. Also, some A mixolydian and dorian scales to spice things up!

In blues, major, minor (parallel and/or relative) and pentatonic are often played against each other. The original pentatonic scale included quarter-tones. Pianos simulate the quarter-tones with rolled grace notes, or a dissonant pair of notes a half-tone apart. The bottom line is: Play what feels good to you and expresses your mood. Classical music composers often interleaved major and parallel minor keys (and of course relative minor keys). They often did not bother changing key signatures; they just added accidentals. When I improv on flute, I do not know ahead of time when I am going to shift between D maj or D minor or D dorian or F major. Or sometimes transition into an entirely different key.

This track is tremendous for jamming and learning relative scales and keys. It's A major as far as the key: which you can test by playing the A major scale - and you will find that using "bluesy" riffs and techniques, the major scale can be awesome for blues. Even better: YES - the A minor scale is relative here and sounds awesome - but not just as an alternative, but rather together and adjacent in your playing of the major scale. You can do SO much with this track - it's my favorite kind of progression when it comes to blues type playing. Have fun!

@@bigcos1966 YES. On Tnr Sax we think in the Key of B for us.. I've been jamming on Clarinet where the fingering is a nightmare in this Key. It has made me forget fingers & HEAR what I want to play. This track is a great Music lesson. Our Instrument = a machine to express ourselves. Practicing with this track has made other things seem easier. Thank you for sharing your ideas about all that.

@@daviddiamond2415 ... I'm self taught and if I'm at a blues jam, the blues players would always state this simply as in A...

No. It's A major.

Major... ;o-))

@@AdlaiAlexander Exactly ! We have good ears ! ;o-)) From France

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Blues is both major and minor

Thanks for the feedback, you players are the best source of motivation to imporove 👍😊

+karol walczak Hi Karol! Thanks for your question, and I think the best way to answer you is to say that if you listen closely to the major thirds in the accompanying instruments, you will hear that they play a major third and not a minor third on the A7 chord. :) Hope that helps! Cheers man!! :D

+karol walczak F# is the relative minor if you want to jam on a minor scale

yes but A minor works aswell

Kinda. You get a few funky notes. The minor third clashes with the C# in the A chord

@@EliteBackingTracks Hi very late reaction I know but thanks for the track! But it is possible to play the minor scale when it goes to the 4th and 5th chord right? And then back to the major scale when it returns to the 1 chord? Thanks again!

Make 2!

Nah. A minor (pentatonic) scale only “properly” works over the D7. The minor 3rd in the Am scale the and the major third in the A7 chord clash.

thats the official structure of blues FUCKIN CUACK

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I was "talking back" to the rifts they played...it was fun. lol

Oh well. You’re getting it for free. Do your own if you don’t like it.