Welcome to the family backing track

Are you recording or videoing yourself and then playing it back? What you think you hear when you are playing and what you are actually playing could be very different.

Any inconsistency in tempo may not be noticeable by yourself but could be a train wreck when playing with others. The recording or video of you playing may show you some stuff you don't realize is an issue otherwise. Do you have access to the backing track at home? If so, play to it as this will help get you used to it. If not, youtube has lots of tracks. Is there someone you can play in front of at home?

A friend or family member would work fine.

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Your problem could all just be nerves. You are taking a class and the instructor knows your playing level and has probably heard this issue in class and is much more likely to be able to help you with it more so than some random person on the internet who has never heard you play. Ask them for help. You will both improve by doing this. Either one of you might see something in the other player that you can learn from or teach each other.

Part of being a musician is making music with others and no better way to do this than to make music with someone that is at the same or similar level as you. This is a life long journey and the most important thing is stick with and work through issues as they come up. Try not to get discouraged. EVERYONE has problem periods when playing at all levels and the players that become great are the ones that work through them and keep going.

Backing tracks take no prisoners! They won't stop and wait while you work out what the next note is. Don't worry about this.

You're not alone. Can you get a copy of the backing track to practice with? If you're a computer sort of person you could slow it down a bit even Windows Media Player has this function. Playing in time is a learned skill. If this is your problem you could practice and train this also without harmonica and see if it works:. I call it tunnel-singing: let the music play, sing a phrase, rest a phrase as the train would pass in a tunnel and reenter in the right moment. Then count loud the beats during the rests. If you have no problem by singing try the same with the harmonica.

During the "tunnel" prepare the instrument that it is filled with air, as far as I understand this instrument, it doesn't have to breath, you only need to turn slightly the hand that there is an other angle, if I'm not mistaken Maybe when you play alone you unknowingly stop for a fraction of a second whenever you are unsure what to play, or even when you know a difficult part starts.

I think I have this problem, with the result that you describe: when playing with a backing track there's not enough time. I would still feel that I can play the song, but only alone. Others gave great advise to practice with metronome, practice re-entering after getting lost.

I would add: make sure that you are very fluent reading notes I'm reading too slow to follow the backing track. And check your progress by playing with a backing track early. You don't say whether you're playing an improvised line or from notation when you perform to the backing track. But if you're playing an improvised line I'd suggest at first improvising using exactly the the same simple rhythmic figure in every bar, starting with the first beat of each bar.

This is to build awareness of where the downbeat beat 1 actually is. This approach also helps you anticipate the chord changes as the piece progresses.

Once you're confident with this, use a slightly different rhythmic pattern - starting in the middle of each bar, leading towards beat 1 of the following bar. It sounds as though you go adrift when you lose sight of where you are in the bar. These techniques will help you stay more aware of this. I'd also ask for a session with your teacher - they'll almost certainly be able to spot where you're going wrong.

Playing with other people involves bringing a whole lot of skills together. First, you have to hear yourself: did I produce the sound I was trying to make? That means comparing what you are hearing to the musical image that was in your head. Then you have to hear what the other person or persons your are playing with are doing and compare that to what you are expecting them to be doing. Then you have to hear what your sounds together are doing: are we meshing and are we making an interesting noise?

And then,if you are playing specific piece, as opposed to jamming you compare that noise to the song in your head All of this while not losing your place You are focusing so much on moving your mouth to the right place and breathing that you simply don't have time to listen to others at the same time. When you play on your own, you are, without realising it, stretching your subjective time to fit what you are doing. To an outsider it would sound wrong but to you it sounds fine. Remedy - ask the teacher to give you an easier part to play say one beat per bar until you are confident of listening and playing at the same time.

Alternatively simply hum along to the tune during class for a while and see if you can keep up that way. If you can then you know the problem is with physically playing the instrument. Even with a limp, your walking will still be regular although slightly asymmetrical. These moments just cannot happen when a band is locked into a backing track. I remember joining a dancefloor limbo at a wedding back in mid song — guitar and all! The guests loved it. It was fun, it was impromptu, it was real, it was honest.

In we added a keyboard to our line-up.

It took years for Ceri to learn and master an additional instrument, notwithstanding the high cost associated with purchasing a high-end instrument and lessons. But do you know what? It was the best thing we ever did. By a real person, right in front of you.

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I recently came across a new band online that appeared to be based within South Wales. They looked very good and I wondered if I knew any of the performers. I think it was the multiple gigs on one night that got my alarm bells ringing, all at very different ends of the county. To my amazement, the band appears to have in excess of 10 lineups and advertises all over the UK! I use these for practice and learning. However I am happy to add more tracks to the site as and when I am asked. My hope is that it becomes a well used resource and we all benefit as a result! I make these tracks anyway so it's not much additional work to set them free.

Update: it's a lot of work! I made them available to friends and musicians I play with. I figure the better we all get, the more fun we have picking together.