Guitar Backing Tracks

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Welcome to the backing tracks section of GuitarOrb.com. Here we provide a range of backing tracks to help develop your soloing and improvisation.

These tracks have been provided by Jamplay from a previous version of their backing track library before they merged with TrueFire and have been put together by leading guitarists such as David Wallimann, Kris Norris and Nick Kellie.

Jamplay has now merged with TrueFire, another leader in online video guitar lessons and the backing track library there has also changed and evolved with this. It now includes things such as multitrack audio backings as well as a wide range of backing tracks to solo over.

We’ve organised the tracks by the scales that can be used to solo over them:

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>> Blues Guitar Backing Tracks

These blues tracks are ideal for practicing your improvisation with the blues scale or the minor pentatonic scale. Additionally, as the Dorian mode is the bluesiest of the major scale modes, it will work over many of these tracks too.

Sample Blues Backing Track:

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>> Minor Backing Tracks for the Aeolian Mode

Here are tracks designed to develop your soloing with the Aeolian mode or the natural minor scale. Additionally, as the notes of the minor pentatonic scale are all notes of the Aeolian mode you can also use the minor pentatonic scale with these tracks.

Sample Aeolian Backing Track:

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>> Major Scale Backing Tracks

These tracks are formed from chord progressions based on the major scale and are the choice of tracks to practice your major scale improvisation.

Sample Major Scale Backing Track:

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>> Dorian Mode Backing Tracks

These backings are designed for use with the Dorian mode. A couple of the tracks in this section also involve changing the key of the Dorian scale you use during the solo. This provides a good introduction to changing scales through your improvisation.

Sample Dorian Mode Backing Track:

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>> Mixolydian Mode Backing Tracks

Here are the backing tracks to practice your Mixolydian soloing with.

Sample Mixolydian Mode Backing Track:

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>> More Backing Tracks for Other Scales and Changing Scales

The tracks here allow you to explore other scales than those used above. This section uses metal and jazz tracks. There are tracks to develop your soloing with the Phrygian Mode, the Phrygian Dominant scale, the harmonic minor scale and the Lydian mode. There are also jazz tracks that involve much more complex changing of scales through the progression.

Sample Metal Backing Track:

Sample Jazz Backing Track:

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More Tracks

These tracks have been provided by Jamplay from a previous version of their backing track library before they merged with TrueFire.

Jamplay has now merged with TrueFire, another leader in online video guitar lessons and the backing track library there has also changed and evolved with this. It now includes things such as multitrack audio backings where you can mute the different parts, as well as a wide range of your more traditional backing tracks to solo over. There are also InTheJam packages where you can jam with famous artists like Eric Johnson.

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