Funky Blues in D Backing Track (Full Band), Straight, 100 bpm

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Funk Blues Backing Track.
A mid-tempo funky blues for practicing:
- Blues melodies
- Improvised solos
- Working on difficult or unfamiliar keys
- Double-time fragments
- Phrasing and timing
- and much more

Some examples of things to try:
- Improvising using only chord tones or guide-tone lines
- Practicing the "question, question, answer" phrasing that is indicative of the blues form.
- Working on integrating acquired licks or language over this form
- Varying usable scales. Dominant 7 options:
- Mixolydian (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7, 1)
- Lydian b7 (1, 2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7)
- Melodic Dom. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1)
- Harmonic Dom. (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, b6, b7, 1)
- Altered (1, b2, #2, 3, b5, #5, b7)
- Half-whole dim. (1, b2, #2, 3, #4, 5, 6, b7)
- Whole Tone (1, 2, 3, #4, #5, b7)
- Harmonic Major Dominant (1, b2, 3, 4, 5, 6, b7)
- Practice moving from harmonic specific phrases (chord-tone approach) to blues scale (minor pentatonic) phrases.

Here are some variations of this track to try:
Full band: https://youtu.be/WzPS5EKcwgU
Minus Bass: https://youtu.be/0QyEfTrxf8Y
Minus Comping: https://youtu.be/YHXNXZmIweQ
Minus Drums: https://youtu.be/uLC1u_XuIE0

For some other exercises, visit www.practiceaddict.com
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