Monday, July 21, 2008

Steve Vai Naked Tracks

Posted by Jon

Steve Vai - Naked Tracks
I love playing along to backing tracks you only have to check out my Ultimate Guitar profile and my BluesJamTracks.com inspired YouTube recordings to see that! However when I record covers like my cover of Steve Vai’s ‘For The Love Of God’ I have to use user created backing tracks. Now these are ok but wouldn’t it be great to get your hands on the original tracks minus the lead parts? Well soon you will be able to do just that!!

Steve Vai has announced that he is releasing select backing tracks from Passion and Warfare, Sex & Religion, Alien Love Secrets, Fire Garden, The Ultra Zone, Alive In An Ultra World, Real Illusions: Reflections and others.

““Through the years, whenever I would mix my records I would usually do a mix of specific songs without the lead guitar. This allowed me to play along with the track or make loops to jam to, and because I figured perhaps someday maybe others would like to do the same. Voila! We have arrived at someday.

Playing to these naked tracks, or creating loops of various sections, to endlessly meander over, is a phenomenal way to discover unique musical ideas from within yourself.“

All 5 disks will be offered together in one package at various retail stores, through Vai.com, or can be downloaded by various tracks or volumes at any of the online digital stores (such as the iTunes Music Store). I think I’m going to be buying a copy of Passion & Warfare!

And if that wasn’t enough Vai goodness for you Mr Vai has also uploaded a sneak peak video to his YouTube channel of a recent trio performance of “K’m-Pee-Du-Wee” live on the steps of a Polish Hotel! The full 12 minute version of “K’m-Pee-Du-Wee - Live In Poland” will be available through the iTunes Music Store very soon. He will also be making all of Steve’s official promo videos available through iTunes, along with select cuts from the Live At The Astoria London DVD, and all videos from the Alien Love Secrets DVD.

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Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com on 07/21 at 04:28 PM

I loved your Midnight cover, very beautiful! Congratulations! Also i didn’t know about Steve Vai’s channel, good to know! I subscribed to it.

on 07/21 at 04:55 PM

Thanks Ovidiu I really wanted to do “Day at the Beach” but need to get my fingers back up to speed!

on 07/28 at 02:24 AM

Genius idea - someone should do it for the Mahavishnu!

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