Rock Ballad Backing Track

With this rock ballad backing track you can practice playing epic, melodic, expressive, emotional guitar solos. The backing track is in the key of C# minor and is similar to many classic rock ballads such as ‘Comfortably Numb’ by Pink Floyd. So grab your guitar and let those emotional and melodic rock licks flow!

When soloing over this ballad backing track you’ll probably want to use scales like C# minor pentatonic or C# natural minor scale. Both will work well in this setting. Notice which notes in the scale sound good when you bend them…this is an important part of rock soloing in a ballad setting. You can also focus in on some of the notes in any C# minor chord shapes you know. These can also for the basis of some great melodic guitar licks.

Tips for playing a guitar solo over a rock ballad: use lots of space, use lots of string bends, try to use the full range of the fretboard, use repetition to build structure in your solo and think about how to get a singing ‘vocal like’ sound using slides, bends and other legato techniques.

Rock Backing Track for Guitar Practice

Rock Backing Track for Guitar Practice (Key Of Am 120bpm)

Rock guitar backing track for A minor jamming. Practice jamming in a ‘classic’ rock style similar to bands like Ratt, Poison, Aerosmith, Guns’n’Roses, Motley Crue and others. Use to improve your rock soloing, guitar scales, new lick ideas or creating riffs of your own. This guitar track and my other backing tracks are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my site.

Practicing guitar with backing tracks is one of the best ways to get used to playing with other players in a band setting. You get used to playing with a groove, improvising and soloing, it can be great ear training, you learn to listen to what’s going on around you and you get used to playing…not just practicing!

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Minor Blues Backing Track (B minor 90bpm)

Blues Guitar backing track in B minor at 90bpm. This Blues Track with the style of “The Trill is Gone” from BB King is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Bm. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This track and others I’m offering are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my site.

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Guitar Backing Track in A minor Rock Pop Style

Guitar backing track in A minor at 100bpm. This rock pop style jam track is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Am. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This track and others I’m offering are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel.

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Funk Blues Jam Track – Guitar Tutorial

Funk Blues Jam Track in D for funk and blues guitar practice! This funky blues backing track is in the key of D and in the style of funky blues guitar players like Freddie King and Albert King. It’s perfect for practicing those funk blues licks and solos over. So plug in and enjoy hours of fun jamming over the funk blues jam track you’ll find in this video.

A few suggestions for using this jam track:

(1) Just because this backing track uses a blues funk feel doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep it bluesy! The backing track is in the key of D, so use the classic blues guitar scales like D minor pentatonic and D blues scale licks and ideas. For some cool licks which go with this funk blues backing track try this lesson HERE.

(2) Lock in tight with the funk blues rhythm. Funk is a rhythmic style…so whatever you do don’t let your rhythm drag. So as you play over this funk blues jam track, keep your rhythms crisp, punchy and above all, funky!

(3) Leave space between phrases. This will help your licks and ideas stand out and give you a more structured sounding solo that will make sense to a listener.

Hope this helps you with your blues funk soloing…have fun!

Guitar Backing Track Metal in Em

Guitar backing track metal in E minor. This heavy metal jam track in Em is perfect for practicing soloing in the key of Em. Work on those new guitar scales, new lick ideas or create riffs of your own. This track in a metal style as well as my other guitar backing tracks are perfect to use with my video lessons and tutorials on my channel.

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Scale suggestions for this metal guitar backing track:

The guitar backing track (metal style) is in the key of E minor so try using scales like E minor pentatonic, E blues scale or E natural minor scale (also called E Aeolian mode). Try some open string scale shapes too, these can sound great in this style!

Blues Rhythm Chops (Slick Rhythm Techniques You Can Use Right Now!)

Sick of those same old blues rhythm guitar shuffles and barre chords? Kick your blues rhythm chops up a notch with this blues rhythm lesson and discover how to use chord fragments, ninth chords and rhythm riffs in your rhythm guitar style.

Ex 1: Chord Fragments

Chord Fragments are fragments of larger chords and they are powerful blues rhythm guitar tools. See this example to learn how to use them straight away in your playing.

Ex 2: 9th Chords

9th chords can act as substitutes for Dominant 7 chords, so instead of playing A7 in your 12 bar blues, you could play A9 instead. This adds much more colour to the 12 bar blues (and makes you sound like a way slicker player!)

Ex 3: Blues Bassline Riffs

Why not ditch chords all together…and play a blues bassline riff instead! Here’s one example of a blues bassline riff you can use. Try out some riff variations of your own remember.

Have fun spicing up your blues rhythm chops with this lesson and see you next time!

5 Common Mistakes Beginner and Intermediate Lead Guitar Players Always Make!

Common Guitar Mistakes Beginner and Intermediate Guitar Players Make

Learn how to avoid and how to fix some of the most common mistakes beginner and intermediate guitar players make when it comes to learning to solo. Overcome these and you really can supercharge your progress, improve faster on guitar and stop getting held up.

Common Guitar Mistake 1- Weak Finger Independence and Accuracy
This can cause you to press down on the strings too hard making notes sound out of tune. Poor finger accuracy can also lead to lifting up the fingers after playing a note., slowing you down and making it hard to play smoothly.

Common Guitar Mistake 2 – Picking Problems
Don’t use too much pick when you play. It’s way harder to get good controlled picking. Just use the very tip of the pick. And make sure your picking hand stays close to the strings when you play. If your picking hand is too far away you may never develop awesome picking!

Common Guitar Mistake 3 – Weak Pull Offs!
To get strong sounding pull offs ‘flick’ your finger off the side of the string. If you pull the string out of tune as you pull off it’s probably due to poor finger independence. Follow the simple trick in the lesson to fix this.

Common Guitar Mistake 4 – Bending Mistakes!
Here you’ll learn how to control and ‘cut off’ bends before you let it down. To do this we use left and right hand muting techniques. Practice these techniques: they will tidy up your bending.

Common Guitar Mistake 5 – Bad String Muting Technique (here’s how to fix string noise!)
String noise can be a big problem on guitar. Muting or ‘string damping’ technique is how to fix this. The picking hand wants to rest lightly on any unplayed strings to keep them quiet and the fretting fingers need to lie slightly flat across the strings. The fingertips can also help by muting neighboring strings. This also helps control unwanted string noise.

Good luck fixing up these common guitar problems, you’ll definitely find they make a massive difference to how your playing sounds. Good luck!

Alternate Picking Rock Licks (for Speed Building!)

In this guitar lesson you’ll discover 3 alternate picking licks for building speed and using in your solos in the styles of players like Paul Gilbert, Gary Moore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Zakk Wylde and others.

All 3 licks are in the key of A minor using a mixture of different minor and blues scales.

Alternate picking lick 1 is in the style of Gary Moore and Randy Rhoads. Not only is it a great alternate picking lick to use in your solos, but it’s also an awesome exercise to build you picking speed and chops!

Alternate picking lick 2 is in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen and uses the A harmonic minor scale. Check out the scale pattern, then jump into this challenging alternate picking lick, it’s an amazing speed building workout!

Alternate picking lick 3 uses string skipping, the A blues scale and some notes from the A Dorian mode. It’s the kind of alternate picking lick you hear Paul Gilbert play in his solos.

How to Stop Playing the Same Old Pentatonic Licks

How to Stop Playing the Same Old Pentatonic Licks.

Sick of the same overused pentatonic rock licks? Did you know you can easily transform them using the blues scale and dorian mode? In this lesson learn how to breath new life into common pentatonic rock licks to create awesome repeating licks, double stop licks, stretch licks and more.

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