For the purpose of this exercise and many more to come I’d say no. We are trying to tune our ears to recognise the effect of certain notes over the chords, What works and what doesn’t and also why.
You could however use it in reverse if you have a tune and work out what chords you would like to play under it. A lot of songs are written that way.
is there a reason why i wanna learn/play open position C scale though?? im an intermediate bass player so i know most (4 string) scales and modes except open. i dont see people soloing open C scale much but maybe theres a good reason to learn it and im just ignorant?
There are multiple reasons to learn all scales in open position.
You will learn the names of the notes on the first 5 frets and how they relate to each other.
You will learn runs and fill in the open position to go with all the open chords.
Country and Blue grass play a lot of solos in open position.
The C major scale in open position is also a movable scale if you treat the nut as a barre it
is the C shaped Major scale any where on the neck. Think of CAGED system
Hello:
I followed the link to Justin’s Jam track packages, and my login here and the regular site didn’t work. Do we need to create a new account at https://justinguitarjams.com/ to buy a pack?
While I was typing you already had the answer. Thanks @Socio and @Helen0609
Anyways, as they said, if you look at the lesson page on the website, you’ll find the backing track under Resources.
When I click the download icon on the right-hand side it opens a new tab in my browser. I can either play the backing track in the browser or down load it by clicking on the vertical three dots.
Note that I access the website using Chrome on a Windows PC. I have noticed some people using other platforms don’t see the download option.
That’s a very good point I forgot about David. You have a very good memory. If I recall correctly the Team were looking into that issue. So if the OP is experiencing the same it would be helpful to provide details of browser they are using for the Team to look into,
Btw I managed to upload the backing track onto looper so it’s great that Justin has provided a downloadable backing track.
I think the backing track provided under the Resources tab for this lesson is actually better for a beginner than the C major backing track on Justin’s Jam Major backing tracks album. That track is a fast tempo funk track which I find difficult to improvise over.
Is there a way to download this lesson’s backing track so it can be played with a music app like Apple Music? For me it opens as a web page, which works OK, but I’d prefer to have all my backing tracks in one place.