Thursday 14 April 2011

Black Napkins style backing track.

Here's a new backing track, in the style of the song "Black Napkins" by Frank Zappa. This backing is a two chord idea in 3/4. The two chords used in this song are C#m7 and Dmaj7. Appropriate scales that could be used are the C# Natural minor, minor pentatonic, or Dorian scale, similarly to some of the ideas which are played in the original recording of the song Black Napkins. Though I would recommend experimenting with different notes over the Dmaj7 chord.

Here is the link to an mp3 file of the backing track:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15967191/Black%20Napkins%20Style%20Backing%20Track.mp3

I'll note that this is not intended to be an exact backing track to Frank Zappa's Black Napkins, it's merely a tool to aid the practice of soloing and improvising, however, as my demonstration video shows, it is possible to play the main themes to the original song over this backing track with no transposition.

I hope this helps anyone and I hope you have fun jamming to it!

Thanks!

2 comments:

  1. Excellent effort Rory, the best backing track of black napkins I have found. However how about getting your band's drummer in on the act to build in a variation in tension. Also the net needs a good backing version of Watermelon in Easter Hay - you know it makes sense ;-) cheers and good luck with the exams in a few weeks.

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