Guitar Noize have teamed up with the guys at Jam Track Central to offer a truly awesome contest called ‘BLUE NOIZE’. Entrants have to perform a blues guitar solo over a backing track and upload to YouTube to win prizes from PRS, Suhr and Electro Harmonix, to name a few!
“GuitarNoize.com, in association with PRS Guitars, jamtrackcentral.com, Suhr, Electro-Harmonix, Jim Dunlop and Rotosound Music Strings presents the latest YouTube solo contest and this time it’s a little blue. The last Guitar Noize solo contest was called ‘Anti-Shred’ to differentiate from all the shred competitions around, this time it is your chance to show us your blues chops with a fantastic professional backing track courtesy of jamtrackcentral.com.
The Blue Noize contest has a panel of distinguished guitar judges – Suhr Artists Andy Wood, Rick Graham and Tom Quayle and GuitarNoize.com’s Jon Bloomer and Paul Davies. Jon and Paul will whittle down the entries to a top 20 before handing them over to Andy, Rick and Tom to make a final decision.“
The Prizes
1st Prize: PRS 25th Anniversary SE Custom 24 Guitar
2nd Prize: Electro Harmonix POG2 & Big Muff with Tone Wicker, Max Grip Picks, BMF Leather Strap
3rd Prize: Suhr Riot Distortion Pedal, Max Grip Picks, BMF Leather Strap
Plus 3x Sets of Rotosound Strings for each of the top 20 finalists.
For more information please visit: http://www.jamtrackcentral.com/blue_noize.php and download the backing track. Good luck!
(The competition will run for 6 weeks which should be plenty of time for you to record and upload your solos, actual closing day will be Monday 13 September. The contest is open to everyone in the world.)


Why there,
I know i missed the deadline for the contest but, still, i’d really like to have the backing track for my amusement.
The above link does not work anymore…is there any other way i could find it?
Thanks in advance
George
You may be able to find the download via: http://www.youtube.com/user/bluesjamtracks
You covered quite a few interesting things in this post. I came across this by searching Yahoo and I have to confess that I already subscribed to the blog, it is very good ;D
is this contest open to kids 13 y/o?