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Come, come
Major Lazer
Pon de floor
Pon de floor

Ladies, get in line
Let me see your bestest wine
Ladies, get in line

Let me see your bestest wine

Baby, get in line
Let me see your bestest wine
Move every part of your spine
Gimme some of yours
Lemme give you some of mine

Pon de floor anyway
Pon de floor anyway
Pon de floor anyway
Pon de floor anyway

Pon de floor, pon de floor
Pon de, pon de
Pon-pon-po-po-pppppp
Pon de floor

Major Lazer

Ladies, get in line
Let me see your bestest wine
Ladies, get in line
Let me see your bestest wine

Baby, get in line
Let me see your bestest wine
Move every part of your spine

Gimme some of yours
Lemme give you some of mine

Overall Meaning

The song "Pon de Floor" by Major Lazer is an upbeat, high-energy track that encourages listeners to dance and let loose. The lyrics are simple but effective in conveying the message of the song, which is essentially to get on the dance floor and move your body. The repetition of the phrase "pon de floor" serves as a sort of chant or mantra, encouraging listeners to keep dancing and to embrace the party atmosphere.

The lyrics also include some references to wine, which is likely a nod to the Caribbean culture that heavily influences Major Lazer's music. When the song instructs "Ladies, get in line / Let me see your bestest wine," it's basically asking women to show off their best dancing moves and to really let themselves go on the dance floor. Similarly, when the song instructs "Move every part of your spine / Gimme some of yours / Lemme give you some of mine," it's encouraging everyone to dance with abandon and to let the music move them.

Line by Line Meaning

Come, come
An inviting welcome by the artist to the listeners of the song

Major Lazer
A verbal expression of the artist's identity

Pon de floor
Encouraging the audience to get on the dancefloor and start moving to the beat of the music

Ladies, get in line
Directing the female members of the audience to form a line and show off their best dance moves

Let me see your bestest wine
Requesting the ladies to showcase the best dance style they can muster while enjoying the show

Baby, get in line
Calling out to a girl to join the rest of the ladies on the dancefloor and showcase her dance moves as well

Move every part of your spine
Advising the dancers to use their entire body while dancing to the rhythm of the music

Gimme some of yours
Requesting another person to share their dance moves or enjoy the moment together

Lemme give you some of mine
Offering one's own dance moves to the other person as an invitation to dance together

Pon de floor anyway
Encouraging the audience to continue dancing even if the song ends

Pon de floor, pon de floor
Repeating the phrase 'Pon de floor' for emphasis and to sustain the dancing mood

Pon de, pon de
A repetitive phrase used to keep the rhythm flowing and maintain a fast tempo

Pon-pon-po-po-pppppp
A sound effect used to echo the rhythm of the song

Major Lazer
A verbal expression of the artist's identity

Ladies, get in line
Directing the female members of the audience to form a line and show off their best dance moves

Let me see your bestest wine
Requesting the ladies to showcase the best dance style they can muster while enjoying the show

Baby, get in line
Calling out to a girl to join the rest of the ladies on the dancefloor and showcase her dance moves as well

Move every part of your spine
Advising the dancers to use their entire body while dancing to the rhythm of the music

Gimme some of yours
A repeated request asking another person to share their dance moves or enjoy the moment together

Lemme give you some of mine
Offering one's own dance moves to the other person as an invitation to dance together

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management
Written by: ADIDJA PALMER, DAVID JAMES TAYLOR, NICK DEWALT, THOMAS WESLEY PENTZ

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Comments from YouTube:

Brians Music Channel

1y↑3

This is exactly what i was looking for!!!I'm playing with my BB inspired type licks and this is perfect!! Thank You!!

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2y↑3

Perfect backing track, and so many intricate flourishes. Makes me sound pro playing on top of this. Thanks so much 👍🏻 🎸

Bernard Glorian

7y↑8

toujours d'excellente qualité cette série de backings !! merci

Ashish Singh

1y↑1

One of the best backing tracks ever. Thanks mate!

Eagle Driver

3y↑1

Elite Backing Tracks should be the template for every jam track on YouTube. Everything is right there - beats per minute, time signature, and chord progression. Not to mention that they're really good jam tracks too.

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Thanks a lot for the positive feedback, Eagle Driver! 😁👌🎶

noelia cajueiro de campos cunha

Que lindo!!

TKSnatch

6y↑15

I've been practising these three chords so thanks so much for this.

Elite Backing Tracks

6y↑4

Nice! Great to hear tha our track helped you with your daily practice!

DA

It's crazy, you cannot play a wrong note on this. Any note I play on my guitar works.. what magic is this?!

OneBound Music

These are the blues! ;)

Matheus teles

5y↑1

This is the best blues backing that I have ever heard

Cldfsn0200

7y↑9

Enjoy your tracks they have a well rounded sound and feel.

Elite Backing Tracks

Thank you! Appreciate that!

Kārlis Ozols

3y↑32

Today I learned A major pentatonic scales that CAGES thingy and Holy Moly im soo hooked on this.... All I need to do know is to learn this chord progression and then I need to find friends to jam with 😂

Elite Backing Tracks

3y↑2

That is awesome! 😎👍🎶🎸 It would be cool to hear you jamming over this and show what you’ve worked on!

KK

2y↑1

It's a vibe.

jorge daniel franco

7y↑2

muy bueno ,muchas gracias por el aporte!!!!

Elite Backing Tracks

Thank you!

John Henry Rogers

4y↑3

that was really good, thank you

Sandip Sandip

Jaming track is better than my solo🤗🤗🤗

ukulelechriswilson

Bravo : super merci.

Miguel Angel Crimson

Muy bonito, pero las guitarras acompañantes dejan poco lugar al solista.

Alan Elliott

Isn't this A minor- surely? I play A minor 7th pentatonic to this, but what are the major scale notes that can be played to this please?

David Diamond

4y↑3

In blues, major, minor (parallel and/or relative) and pentatonic are often played against each other. The original pentatonic scale included quarter-tones. Pianos simulate the quarter-tones with rolled grace notes, or a dissonant pair of notes a half-tone apart. The bottom line is: Play what feels good to you and expresses your mood.

Classical music composers often interleaved major and parallel minor keys (and of course relative minor keys). They often did not bother changing key signatures; they just added accidentals.

When I improv on flute, I do not know ahead of time when I am going to shift between D maj or D minor or D dorian or F major. Or sometimes transition into an entirely different key.

Big Cos Guitar and Music

3y↑3

This track is tremendous for jamming and learning relative scales and keys. It's A major as far as the key: which you can test by playing the A major scale - and you will find that using "bluesy" riffs and techniques, the major scale can be awesome for blues. Even better: YES - the A minor scale is relative here and sounds awesome - but not just as an alternative, but rather together and adjacent in your playing of the major scale. You can do SO much with this track - it's my favorite kind of progression when it comes to blues type playing. Have fun!

Deryck Trahair

@Big Cos Guitar and Music YES. On Tnr Sax we think in the Key of B for us.. I've been jamming on Clarinet where the fingering is a nightmare in this Key. It has made me forget fingers & HEAR what I want to play. This track is a great Music lesson. Our Instrument = a machine to express ourselves. Practicing with this track has made other things seem easier. Thank you for sharing your ideas about all that.

Christopher Bako

Major & Minor Pentatonic are Brothers!

Charlotte

It's great thank you

Prema Bung

Perfect 3:55

Gitaris Kampungan

awesome bro

dhruvika's sweet world

Is this a minor or major track??

Gareth Ferguson

5y↑1

A pentatonic also works

Juste Filip et Juste pour les vacances

Les bases pour apprendre à jouer du blues, infos simples à pratiquer beaucoup : https://youtu.be/2zBC555-cJk

leonidude

I'm a bit confused, hopefully someone can help. If this is A major wouldn't F be the relative minor? It plays in A minor pentatonic and I dont understand why.

Tobias Christensen

It's neither major nor minor. It's a blues, which is often in-between. Neither the major nor minor scale have three dominant seventh chords. The dominant seventh chord has a major third and a minor seventh - That's why the minor pentatonic can sound good over it, even the minor third in the minor pentatonic, because it's a blue note (and the minor pentatonic includes the minor seventh).
I remember how it is as a beginner, you learn the pentatonic as a system and you don't understand when something doesn't fit that system.
If you want something that "fits" a bit more, try playing by following the chords instead, play [A C# G] for A7, [D F# C] for D7, and [E G# D] for E7 - and then try experimenting which notes sound good over which chord.

Fernando Cappra

I swear i am gonna make a music jamin on this backing Track

jahomiehiphop

Make 2!

Grampz stillkickin

8y↑7

Excellent
Thank you Thank you

tehseen mushtaq

interesting points ,if anyone else wants to learn about blues jam tracks try Zamartar Simple Blues Remedy (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some amazing things about it and my buddy got excellent results with it.

Backing Track

Grampz stillkickin 👈🏻🤟🏼

andrea epaminonda

Good!

Jari Ravensbergen

5y↑2

best one yet

Elite Backing Tracks

Thanks man!!

André Felipe Zuccolo Barragat de Andrade

Top!

narmu dirmu

what the name of blues type is this. Please 🙏🏼😇🙏🏼😇 thanks

rob brunet

really nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe Walsh

Is this a rhythm player backing track it’s so busy

D

A Major? Using A7, D7 & E7...isn't that in A minor?

Brad Rathernotsay

3y↑4

Too much going on for a backing track. It competes with what I'm playing.

Josh .E

3y↑3

This is A minor, still a good track tho.

Adlai Alexander

3y↑4

No. It's A major.

PEURE Humphrey

3y↑1

Major... ;o-))

PEURE Humphrey

3y↑1

@Adlai Alexander Exactly ! We have good ears ! ;o-))
From France

Nikith :

2y↑1

Blues is both major and minor

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gianmarco bozza

This is A Minor backing track

Sharpen Contents

Nah. A minor (pentatonic) scale only “properly” works over the D7. The minor 3rd in the Am scale the and the major third in the A7 chord clash.

Jim

What's some good scales to play over these? Asking for a friend...

José María Altúzar

4y↑1

Try mixing both major and minor pentatonics, switch from one to the other mid-phrase and it sounds cool. Also, some A mixolydian and dorian scales to spice things up!

nybluesking

Sounds Great but...…...Sounds more like a blues track than a backing track. Way too much going on to add much of anything. Nice work though

Put On The Cape A Foundation For Hope

I was "talking back" to the rifts they played...it was fun. lol

karol walczak

8y↑5

it's not A minor?

Elite Backing Tracks

+karol walczak Hi Karol! Thanks for your question, and I think the best way to answer you is to say that if you listen closely to the major thirds in the accompanying instruments, you will hear that they play a major third and not a minor third on the A7 chord. :) Hope that helps! Cheers man!! :D

lucfireful

8y↑2

+karol walczak F# is the relative minor if you want to jam on a minor scale

william larsen

7y↑4

yes but A minor works aswell

David Ferrara

Kinda. You get a few funky notes. The minor third clashes with the C# in the A chord

Nick

5y↑1

@Elite Backing Tracks Hi very late reaction I know but thanks for the track! But it is possible to play the minor scale when it goes to the 4th and 5th chord right? And then back to the major scale when it returns to the 1 chord? Thanks again!

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ron amick

4y↑1

Way too much accompaniment for this to be a backing track. I cant hear myself over the slide, broken chords and other accents

Morh 87

1y↑1

thanks. But there is too much going on. Leave some space for the solo

Elite Backing Tracks

Thanks for the feedback, you players are the best source of motivation to imporove 👍😊

Andrés de la Uz

Slow is slow...

Compartmentofdirections

7y↑10

Too much going on at once with the resonator

Onyango Okuku

hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to uncover guitar backing jam tracks try Sarparder Blues Jam Starter (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my mate got amazing success with it. @Compartmentofdirections

Amy Winehouse.

Heartbreak Hotel.

Doug Martin

Not enough space to play lead over. Too busy.

alessandro

0:07

Carl Davis

For your help to get

Sylvain l

7y↑4

Am mineur

Jaime

annoying guitar at rythm

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