Play Along Backing Tracks

Here’s a selection of backing tracks in various styles to play along with.

All of them are in the key of C major, all using the same chord progression.

C/// G/// F/// G///
C/// G/// F/// G///
F/// G/// Am/// Em///
F/// G/// C/// G///

This chord sequence is just looped over.
Please leave comments and suggestions below. I can knock up variations quite easily with Band in a Box.

Medium Country Pop – With Guitars

Medium Country Pop – No Guitars

 


Medium Pop Rock – With Guitars

Medium Pop Rock – No Guitars

 


Stoney Rock – With Guitars

Stoney Rock – No Guitars

 


Blues Pop Shuffle – With Guitars

Blues Pop Shuffle – No Guitars

 


Funky Wonder – With Guitars

Funky Wonder – No Guitars

 


Reggae Pop – With Guitars

Reggae Pop – No Guitars

 


Soulified – With Guitars

Soulified – No Guitars

18 thoughts on “Play Along Backing Tracks”

  1. Just signed up. I think I’m close to being an intermediate acoustic guitarist having started guitar about 1 year ago. I’m 64, and learning acoustic guitar topped my bucket list. I am loving my “journey” to my musical soul. After a lot of work, I making good steady progress towards conquering the barre chord “hurtle”. That’s an exciting feeling by itself. I looked over your site and love it. It offers a great deal to me(my budget is pretty lean). Just wanted to introduce myself and say thank you. Paul

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    • Hi Paul.
      Great to have you on board. Yep, those bar chords are a curse but once you get past them it’s a big step forward. Keep at it and enjoy the journey.

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        • Today, June 15, 2920, is hereby the date I defeated the F barre chord. I am told that the F barre chord is one of the toughest especially because of its position on the neck. Indeed, I took no shortcuts(I took no prisoners either) or easier alternatives and just went to war that is:. practice. practice. and more practice Today I breezed through a nice C F G Am Em chord progression at 80 bpm. Smooth enough all around to declare victory. Now its onwards to more fun and glory!

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  2. Loving the jam tracks. I’m just starting to learn how to impro and those tracks are really, really helpful. Thanks heaps 🙏 Maggie

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    • Thanks Maggie. Keep at it, this is the best way to learn improvisation. I think my next project will be a bunch of licks and exercises to go with these jam tracks.

      By the way, you used your email address as username in this comment so I’ve edited it otherwise it might get picked up by spambots and blasted with junk mail.

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  3. Dear Lee, many gratefull thanks to your dedication and your hard work! Your passion is contagious and very motivating.
    I`m trying to to adopt your striking pattern, wich you play in the Reggae Pop jamtrack. But I’m having a little trouble hearing the striking pattern. Is it possible to add any of your used striking patterns? And is there a way to playback the jam tracks more slowly?
    Thank you very much in advance. Kind Regards, Giova

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    • Hi Giova.
      It’s a Band in a Box track, I’m not playing it myself.
      To play this kind of rhythm, play with even 16th note strumming but with the strings muted and let the strings ring quickly on every third strum. Does that make sense to you?

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