March 28, 2021 by Klaus Crow
Photo by Gavin Whitner
Whether you are practicing rhythm along with a backing track, perfecting your guitar solo, or expanding your improvisation skills over a jam track, you will find it a true joy and it’s SO good for your guitar playing.
Practicing with jam and backing tracks develops and enhances your rhythm, feel and timing for music and your ability to lock into the groove of the drum and bass, which is an imperative skill for any musician.
When you study a lead guitar solo it’s good to play along with the track without actually hearing the original notes of the solo and learn to fill in your solo between the spaces while keeping up with the right tempo, timing and feel of the song.
It’s the perfect way to practice what it’s like to play with a real band and what that requires from your playing. You have to learn and memorize songs, practicing them over and over until you get it right from beginning to end, until you feel comfortable enough to play it in front of an audience.
If you want to get good at soloing & improvisation, jam tracks are the best tools to exercise, drill, explore and train yourself for the challenge of playing over chord progressions. It’s a must-do.
So today, we got some great hiqh quality sounding jam & backing tracks for every kind of musical style and purpose.
Now you know what to do. Set aside a part of your daily workout to practice with jam & backing tracks and watch your playing improve and unfold.
Enjoy!
BLUES, FUNK, MINOR & MAJOR KEY JAMTRACKS
2 – MyDarnJamTracks
3 – JamTracksChannel
4 – GuitarBackingTrackVideos (Artmant Studios)
SONG BACKING TRACKS
2 – Karaoke Version (custom backingtracks)
4 – Professional custom made backing tracks
DRUMLOOPS & BEATS
2 – LumBeat – Simple Beat 4/4 straight
JAZZ JAMTRACKS
Starter tracks for guitar players – PlayJazzNow
Rhythm Changes in 12 keys – PlayJazzNow
COUNTRY JAMTRACKS
ROCK AND PROGRESSIVE ROCK JAM TRACKS
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Have a great one!
Great jamtracks Klaus!
Can’t wait to get started.
Hi Nelson,
I hope the tracks inspire you to practice and upgrade your playing.
Best,
Klaus Crow
Hi
I really enjoyed the guitar goodies and the knowledge you give out
Thank you
Klaus: I have enjoyed your e-mails for a few years now. Can I make a donation to your cause? If so where?
Hi Ian,
I hope you put them to good use. ;)
Thanks for reading my posts.
Best,
Klaus Crow
Hi Al,
I appreciate that.
You can donate here:
https://www.guitarhabits.com/support-guitarhabits/
Keep picking!
Best,
Klaus Crow
Great list. Thank for sharing, Klaus!
Thanks for this info!
I would like to add a youtube channel, (not mine) called ‘Elevated Jamtracks’.
Very nice professional creative and superb sounding backing tracks in lots of styles!
Regards Bjorn
Hi Bjorn,
Thanks. Great jam tracks!
Here’s the link for all you folks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqAZJmEC2-C9roOB4vgzROA/videos
Hi … here’s a new one that’s geared toward creative originals. Hope you’ll consider adding it to your list!
https://www.creativemusictracks.com/
Good list. I like that comment which says add ‘Elevated Jam Tracks’. Those tracks are made with Logic in less than an hour, fake bass which badly resonates, no idea what mix and master is, one or maximum two guitars played and looped. Just some presets. ‘Elevated’. Lol. A guy who doesn’t even show his face. They’re just a little better than a midi file. With a progessional Korg keyboard in 10 minutes you make better tracks.
There’s a lot of confusion here.
I sometimes follow Chuss, Quist, Nick Neblo, Tom Bailey and some other channels which make music and sound genuine.
Here is another one to potentially add to the list: https://www.youtube.com/soundwitchbackingtracks
The videos emphasize modal progessions in different styles, tempos, and keys. They also have tracks for bass players, drummers, and just bass and drums. I dig on the bass and drum tracks to experiment with chord voicings and trying to create horn parts.
Thank you for finding and sharing such great resources!
Chuss has really cool backing tracks with a wide variety of heavy/rock ballads and some exotic scales backing tracks … Here is a link to his youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/chussssss/videos
Enjoy!
also, tomas sandanus music is making great jam tracks for practicing
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGNbYBYS5mXOSn5BMhIW0zQ
Great list!
I would also recommend Backtrackit App!
Hi Klaus, just wanted to ask if you would consider adding our site to your list here?
We have thousands of free guitar backing tracks at GuitarVoice.com in most of the genres listed here. Thank you.
Thank you for this great list.
Here’s a great site to consider
https://www.creativemusictracks.com/
great site thanks for doing this it is awesome ans
d im sure it helps many people all over the world
i am looking for background music for following songs telstar/walk dont run/wipe out/pipeline/apache/sleep walk/and rebel rouser is it available and how can i purchase it do i need extra equipment to play it thx bill in mesa az
Got some really kool beats and tracks. Really enjoy them.. Tj