THE LIVE ROOM

Backing Tracks

Lets start with our first free download here at UnCAGED which will be the mighty UnCAGED theme song itself which three Richs demonstrate so ably immediately to our right. What we want you to do is take the backing track and put your own lead on it, make it your own. It's a fairly basic rock riff in D minor, so D minor pentatonic or a minor mode will work a treat. Email the entrants back to us.

DOWNLOAD HERE

As we build up a back catalogue, we'll leave the old ones available to download from this section of the web site.

Extra lessons

So every now and then we'll come up with something extra for you that doesn't really fit in anywhere else so we'll throw the odd lesson at you here in the live room.

1. Cartoon Legato

Coming soon......UnCAGED interviews

Right here we are going to talk to the people who you need to know to forge a career in music, we'll chat to promotors, other musicians, A+R guys the whole lot. Lets start with some of the country's top session musicians:

1. Andy Woodard, one of the Uk's top drummers lets us know what he thinks of us gutarists!

2. Uber experienced Vocalist and front man Mark Harrison gives us an insight into being a working musician in a functions band and what he looks for in a guitarist.

mark

COMING SOON.......The UnCAGED Guitar Off competition

The guitar off is UnCAGED's way of getting you to show us what you've learnt! As we get up and running we'll get more into it systematically, but for the time being the plan is this:

1. Download the relevant backing track from the boxt o the top left of this page.

2. Import the backing track into your garageband or whatever and record your own solo over the top. If you have no recording equipment, then simply turn the camcorder on and video yourself playing along, or even just create an audio file of you playing along, as long as it's good enough quality for people to hear then you're all good.

3. We'll happily take just audio tracks, or video or whatever as long as you can email to us here.

4. We'll listen to all of the entrants and select a winner.

5. We'll let you know you've won and put your entrant up on the video panel of the live room right here, you can use this to advertise your band, or your own myspace or whatever you want. the video will stay online until the next winner is picked. Any style will be considered.