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Best Guitar Jam Tracks and Song Backing Tracks

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

1 – Tom Bailey Backingtracks

2 – MyDarnJamTracks

3 – JamTracksChannel

4 – GuitarBackingTrackVideos (Artmant Studios)

5 – MegaBackingTracks

Best and Most Accurate Guitar Tablature Websites

By Klaus Crow 4 Comments

Most of you know free tablature websites like Ultimate-guitar and Guitartabs.cc. Although these are great websites with lots a tablature, the downside they are not always very accurate, and not everything you want is there when you need it.

Sometimes you just want to really nail a song, and make sure you get it right. You want to save yourself the precious time searching for the right tab without mistakes or missing pieces. In that case, you can choose tablature transcribed by professionals and go to one of the websites in this post.

You can find links to get complete tablature books of your favorite artist or download or request tablature music sheets for one particular song. It’s all here. You might want to bookmark this page for when the time comes you need that great song.

Happy playing :)

Amazon Guitar tabs
Amazon is pretty much the most visited website to look for anything guitar related with an amazing amount of guitar tablature books. Just type in your favorite artist and add “guitar tab”.

Musicnotes
At Musicnotes you can find guitar tablature books as well as single downloadable digital tab sheet music if you’re searching for that one particular song. You can view each first page of the tablature notation to see how it looks.
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6 Free Quality Guitar Apps for iOS and Android

By Klaus Crow 7 Comments

Today we’re going to look into some quality guitar apps that will help you move faster towards your guitar goals, so if you’re not already reading this on your mobile device you know what to do. Grab your phone, your guitar and check out these great free apps.

I always try to find effective and easy interface guitar apps that you can really use as a guitar player and musician. If you like these apps you might want to check out some of the earlier posts as well 6 Cool Guitar Player Apps for iPhone and iPad and 10 Awesome Guitar Players Apps for iPhone and iPad

Enjoy!

1 – Riff Meastro
Riff Maestro is a free riff learning app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android. You can load up your favorite songs, set loop points, slow down riffs and pick ‘em out note for note until you’re a maestro yourself. If you want to transpose songs to a different key it requires you to upgrade and buy the additional feature. Riff Maestro

2 – Songtree
Songtree is a collaboration app that let’s you sing and play over original or cover songs, create your own musical idea or unfinished song and get other musicians to play along or finish it. It’s for iOS and Android but you can also work with it on your Mac or for Windows. Check out the website here: Songtree

3 – Wiretap riff
Absolutely love this app! Wiretap Riff let’s you capture your musical ideas quick and easy. It’s got a built-in peak meter, and you can tag, trim, name, group, save and share your riffs from the app. A high-quality recorder app for Android and iOS.

4 – Chordbank
Chordbank let’s you learn and look up thousands of guitar chords and scales and accompanying lessons to really get it all under your belt. Android and iOS

5 – Soundcloud
Soundcloud is a popular audio distribution platform where you can upload, record, promote, and share your originally-created sounds. It attracts more than 175 million unique monthly listeners. A free account gets you started where you can upload up to 3 hours of audio and then share them with your listeners. Follow others. Like and comment on music. The more active you are in the community, the more you’ll grow your fanbase.

6 – Coach me
Coach.me is a goal Tracking, habit Building & motivational Coaching app. Although it’s built for any kind of habit, I use it for my guitar goals and it keeps me reminded and triggered of what I need to practice daily / weekly and stay committed. It’s a great tool for busy people. It definitely works for me! It’s available iOS and Android but there’s also a desktop version to make sure you’re fully covered.

Do you know any great guitar apps for both iOS and Android? Please share them in the comments. I appreciate it.

Have a great weekend!

10 Best Tools to Figure Out Guitar Songs and Solos

By Klaus Crow 20 Comments

Being able to transcribe a song or guitar solo is a great skill that anyone can learn. One of the things that is really helpful developing and applying this skill, is to have some good solid tools that make this process as effortless as possible.

Back when I was 15 I had a cassette recorder with a slow down function, so I could figure out the notes of a guitar solo. The only problem was the slow down function also lowered the pitch when you’d slow down the song.

So when I had to deal with a fast blazing solo I set the pitch exactly an octave lower than the original key so I could transcribe the solo by ear. The downside was that some notes were so low they became undefinable and I couldn’t tell what notes they were playing anymore. :)

The tools we have today are something I could only have dreamed of back then. I’m not complaining, because I learned a lot from those limitations, but I also enjoy the benefits of the technology today. And oh, what makes it transcribing fun and easy!

Working out a song by ear is an important skill that is often overlooked. It takes your guitar playing to a higher level and gives you a deeper understanding and insight in many aspects of guitar playing. So, try to develop the skill of transcribing and use the appropriate tools to improve your skill and take it to the next step.

I created a list with the best tools that make the process of transcribing and learning a song or solo going as smooth as possible. These tools will help both guitar players who can already transcribe and guitar players who can you use some extra help.

Enjoy!