Backing Tracks Guitar Jam is a kind of music player with more than 600 backing tracks of various styles. This tool will help you hone your playing skills.
This application is great for everyone wanting to master the art of improvising, soloing, scaling, and learn the instrument completely.
MAIN FUNCTIONS AND SPECIFICS
☆ About 640 backing tracks in the constantly updating library. More than 400 of them are free!
☆ More than 30 styles and genres to satisfy any taste: rock, hard rock, blues, jazz, metal, pop, country, soul, funk, acoustic, Indie rock punk rock, reggae, etc.
☆ Tempo function.
☆ Key selection.
☆ 120 fretboard diagrams of pentatonic scales: five scales per key.
☆ All paid tracks are supplied with chords. So are almost all free tracks!
☆ A variety of playlist sorting and filtration options.
☆ Buying a new track album is very convenient: each album is supplied with a preview, description and total track length.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Select a backing track
2. Adjust tempo and key.
3. Open the ‘Chords’ tab to view the chords used in the track and view the pentatonic diagrams for solos and improvisation.
ADVICE
Try to memorize the track’s chords and study the pentatonic diagrams closely. Each key has five boxes! They are not really hard to remember! Finally, you should learn where each box starts for each key. In the end, you will be jamming along with any track effortlessly!
WHAT IS A PENTATONIC SCALE?
A pentatonic scale is one consisting of five notes, and that’s it! It is used widely in all genres and styles, and it is one of the most crucial types of scale for guitarists. There are five forms or templates (boxes) for each key. The boxes remain unchanged, except starting positions are different. Therefore, once you grasp one key, other ones will come much easier!
WHAT DO DOTS IN CHORD DIAGRAMS STAND FOR?
The black dots are the notes of a scale.
The red dots are the root notes of the key you are using right now. For example, in C major these dots stand for Cs.
