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Best Guitar Jam Tracks and Song Backing Tracks

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Last Updated on March 28, 2021 by Klaus Crow

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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

SONG BACKING TRACKS

1 – Guitarbackingtrack.com

2 – Karaoke Version (custom backingtracks) 

3 – Best Songs Backingtracks

4 – Professional custom made backing tracks

DRUMLOOPS & BEATS

1 – Jim Dooley Drum beats 

2 – LumBeat – Simple Beat 4/4 straight

JAZZ JAMTRACKS

Quist Jazz jam tracks

Quist Dorian jam tracks

Starter tracks for guitar players – PlayJazzNow

Rhythm Changes in 12 keys – PlayJazzNow

COUNTRY JAMTRACKS

Cool country backing tracks

Country Rock jamtracks

ROCK AND PROGRESSIVE ROCK JAM TRACKS

Elite backing tracks

Hard Rock JamHQtracks

 

Please share your comments below. I really appreciate it. I read them all.

Have a great one!

 

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Comments

  4. Al Dominguez says

    Klaus: I have enjoyed your e-mails for a few years now. Can I make a donation to your cause? If so where?

  8. Bjorn Goud says

    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

  11. Alexander says

    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.

  12. Jackson says

    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!

  16. JJ says

    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.

  19. Stuart McPherson says

    great site thanks for doing this it is awesome ans
    d im sure it helps many people all over the world

  20. bill hancock says

    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

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