This could be the start of the Cordy Masterclass video series.

This is about the most consistently interesting and informative guitar channels I've stumbled upon. All delivered in such a chilled style as well.

Now this is something that makes total sense. It is not a "how do I create backing tracks", but rather how John makes music that is actually enjoyable to solo over. So many backing tracks on KZread lead nowhere, thus making practice less efficient. Cheers, John

John - wow this post is amazing! Your post keeps getting better and better - you have nailed your audience. How does John Cordy think as he creates......just amazing

Thank you for explaining the music theory behind your backing track compositions. Very cool!

I see you got tired of my Patreon messages and decided to just explain your entire process! Well done and thank you!

Great insight of your beautiful and musical mind & workflow! Amazing how efficiently you glide through it all when you have a clear "vision" of what you want plus the templates and systems you know work for you. Lots of work involved in the process to get to this stage. Thanks for sharing John!

Very cool mate! I did wonder about your process, so this is helpful

The video I've been waiting for!

Brilliant. Super helpful, thanks. You're intros are so good... Doing something similar in my style has been on my list for a while.

I’ve been searching for this on KZread for sometime.. thank you 🙏

Thanks John. Apparently you got my email. I'm a beginning reaper user and how you effortlessly glide through the whole process is amazing to see. Clearly you have put in the time and the hard work. Great job.

Thanks for sharing all those gold nuggets!!! Amazing

Awesome video mate - great to see the workflow, very impressive

This is great! Please create more videos like this!

This was very informative! Thanks for sharing.

A real, useful and value lesson. Many Thanks, John:

That outro ambience was incredibly creepy. You should play something over it sometime :)

VERY interesting learning about your workflow John. Appreciate the peek into the process, I think I learned a couple of things I'd like to try out.

Thank you! This is great!

Now this, this is very interesting! Thanks for sharing! Useful, informative and helpful. You’re the man, John! 👏🏻 👏🏻

Favorite video of yours in awhile man

Very helpful thank you

Very inspiring and insightful, and beautiful playing, thanks.👏👏👏

Wow very good Video John!!!!!

Outstanding! Thanks.

This is great, thanks John

Very very cool. A lot of good tricks in this video. But I am even more impressed by your soloing now that I know that you record it without any background, just the metronome. Very nice

Thank you man .. this is brilliant!

I was curious, so thanks!

Very useful... thank you

Super cool John

I'm starting to suspect that actually learning some music theory might be good after all.. :D Amazing to see (and hear), well done

Very good!

Very interesting !

Awesome video! Can you talk about how you record the first couple of loops? Were you recording straight the whole time and then you split it up? Or do you have some sort of floor board record trigger? Or perhaps there is a loop feature in reaper that creates a new track every time you create a new loop? Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I don't quite understand, are you actually playing only over the click?

so is reaper actually looping or are you recording and then going back to mimic it? I don’t understand how you get it to loop and be in sync with the video without stopping to edit. You could use something like super 8 to do the looping with foot switches? that would give you the sound of the guitar through the modeler in your monitors.

The leads here reminded me of Brad Paisely 🤠

Quick question John, do you outline the key of each of your backing tracks? With your inversions and chordal flavours I was just wondering as it would help dial in what to play over them etc. Keen to become a member!

You're missing out on the 4 being the best note on which to resolve. Try ending a climax with a giant high four. I bet you like it.

@Arthur_My_Dear

28 күн бұрын

He’s not though. By leaving the 4 out of his repeating phrases at the beginning, he’s still free to play one over that, within a melody or even the F chord. It’s because it’s not there in the loop that he’s able to use it in a resolution

@CraigFlowersMusic

28 күн бұрын

@@Arthur_My_Dear Oh I misunderstood. I thought 4 was off limits altogether, not just in the backing loop.

Nice man! On side note, which neck p/u is that again? More sparkle in that compared to most tele necks? Im looking for the sparkle!

What finish is that Tele?! 😍

Damn….somthis is what I’m going to be doing today

Hi John, I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to music theory, so don't understand why leaving the 4 chord out of the first bits recorded allows room for the additional parts to florish. Could you explain, please ?

Great tutorial on how you do this stuff. Its nice that your backing tracks are available to your Patreon members, but i still say you should release an album proper of your instrumentals, I'd be the first in line to buy it.

@jimmcdougall9973

28 күн бұрын

John has done an album in the past. Google John Cordy Seven Good Days a Year.

@tomtrack16038

28 күн бұрын

@@jimmcdougall9973 thank you.

I really love your playing. It's just so beautyful in melody and harmonics. Really great. For me you are one of the best! So the first part of the video was of course the most interesting for me, but I apreaciate that you are also sharing your workflow on the PC. And I like Reaper :)

may i ask why you leave out the F note ? the 4th note. is there more theory behind ? that would be amazingly interesting to know

@jimmccall8030

29 күн бұрын

The 4th being next to the 3rd can sound dissonant. Try playing a hexatonic (6 note) scale without the 4th and then include the 4th and you’ll hear the difference

I still don't quite understand something. Do you just record 1 take to the click, and cut it up later to produce loops? Because the way you showed it, the backing tracks were already there.

What kind of recording software are you using.

@ksharpe10

29 күн бұрын

John uses Cockos REAPER, from what I remember.

@TheBbtlegit

29 күн бұрын

@@ksharpe10 Thanks so much.

Reverb n delay all videos😂

I love this video! So cool. Can’t wait to try this. Thanks @johnnathancordy!