Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. More advanced players can use the scales and arpeggios for following the chords when playing solos that hit chord tones. These tracks can a great way for beginners to start with blues guitar improvising. ore Texas blues, this times with a quick change in bar 2. A really slow track, great for soulful blues playing. Jazzy chords played by guitar through a leslie speaker cabinet. This moody jam track combines B3 organ with guitar, bass and drums. This uptempo jam sounds great mixed with some BB King licks. Classic Chuck Berry licks sound great here. Fast rock n roll guitar riffs with hammond organ, bass and drums. Sounds great with classic minor pentatonic blues licks. A raunchy Texas blues shuffle in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan. This backing track is similar to the king of thing Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top may play. A classic blues shuffle riff with bass, guitar and drums. Improvise with backings and improve your solos. Tempo of each track can be adjusted allowing a wide range of speeds.įor each track there are scales diagrams for the pentatonic scales and arpeggios needed to jam along with the track. Some didn’t work at all, but it sure helped me understand how modes can open up a whole different world when jamming.Īnyway, check this site out.15 seperate professionally recorded blues jam tracks in a variety of blues styles.Įach track can be adjusted to play in all 12 keys. What that sparked was using different modes starting with different tonics or root notes over the different keys. That was really cool a way to immediately use a mode over a piece of music, as opposed to having to intellectualize. I looked up “A Mixolydian” and was greeted with the pattern, and started playing the pattern over the jam track. For instance, in one of the tracks, the suggestion came up with “A Mixolydian.” I’ve never been that much into modes and such, even though I’ve studied them, but as an interesting and added value, the site has some great graphic examples of the different modes. One thing I forgot to mention was that when you click on a style on the machine, text appears on the machine suggesting the type of scale to play like “A Harmonic Minor” or “E Blues.” It’s a small thing yes, but it’s cool to have a starting place. What I found very useful with having two different feels to a track was it allowed me to practice switching pedals and pickup selections. So not only can you practice your technique, you can practice changing your tones and attack. Having this type of variation makes you play differently. Usually, the first part of a track will have a mellower feel, then jumping into the second half of the track, the feel gets more intense.
Yeah, there are lots of different sites offering jam tracks out there, but what I like about this particular site is that instead of just playing MP3s in another tab or window that eventually end, the jam tracks are arranged in a loop, and not only that, many of the jam tracks have two different “feels” to them. I slung my guitar and started playing… Two hours later, I still hadn’t gone through all the keys and all the jam tracks, I was enjoying myself so much! I clicked on “COOL” and was rewarded with a nicely produced jam track. There really wasn’t much there just a navigation bar on the left that listed “Jam Machine Keys.” I clicked the Key of A, the page reloaded and the following “machine” appeared on the page:Ĭool, I thought, this looks really promising. Intrigued, I clicked the link and was taken to the site. Within a few minutes, I wanted to play to something, so I did a search on “jam tracks” and the first search result was a link to a place called Jam Center. So yesterday, not feeling like writing any music – actually not feeling very creative at all – I just picked up my guitar and started noodling. But I’m back now, refreshed, restored, and fully recovered. Wow! Amazing what taking a few days off can do! I spent last weekend in Las Vegas deflating from the rigors of everyday life, and when I came back, made a conscious effort to play as little guitar or writing as possible.
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