Guitar backing tracks that teach you how to play

Thousands of guitar backing tracks with real-time chord changes, transcribed bar by bar. Press play and the chords scroll with the music. Slow a track down, loop a section, and open the chord chart or scale chart that goes with it. Free to listen, no account needed.

16 genresEvery key, major and minor11 free practice toolsNo account to listen

Highway Soul | Groovy Classic Rock Backing Track in C Major | BT 718

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Cbar 1

Gbar 2

Am7bar 3

Fbar 4

Cbar 5

Gbar 6

Am7bar 7

Fbar 8

Cbar 9

Gbar 10

Am7bar 11

Fbar 12

Why jam tracks

Make the most of your playing

A jam track is a full band with the guitar left out — drums, bass and keys running a set of changes on a loop, waiting for you to play over them. Finding one was never the hard part. Knowing what's happening underneath you was. That's the part Jamtrackers does for you.

Chords that move with the music

Every track is transcribed bar by bar, so the chord you're playing over is on screen the whole time — with the next one already lined up beside it. No chart to squint at, no counting bars to work out where the change lands.

Scales chosen for the chord you're on

Every transcription carries the scales that fit its changes, so you're never guessing what to solo over. Each one opens as an interactive fretboard chart — see the shape, then take it up the neck.

Catalogued, not just uploaded

Filter by genre, key and tonality, or search on tempo, a specific chord, or a scale. If you're drilling a ii–V–I in B♭, there's a way to ask for exactly that.

Practice at your own tempo

Slow a track down until the change lands clean, loop the four bars that keep tripping you up, and queue a set to run end to end when it doesn't anymore.

Free to listen, no account

Press play and go. An account is only for the things that need one — favorites, playlists and learning-path progress — and it's free too.

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Find a track to practice over

Filter by genre or key, or search by tempo, chord and scale to find a track that contains the change you are working on.

Genres

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Rock Folk Country Blues Hip Hop Punk Electronic Jazz Reggae Funk Pop Heavy Metal Soul Classical Opera Gospel

Keys

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Scale charts for every track

Every track comes with the scales that fit its chords, so you're never guessing what to solo over. Each one opens as an interactive fretboard chart — hover any note to see where it repeats across the neck, then practice it in every position.

A Minor Pentatonic D Dorian G Mixolydian C Major

A Minor Pentatonic — the full neck

Hover a note to see it repeat across the neck

Free practice tools

11 practice tools that run in the browser. No account, no setup, no install.

12-Bar Blues MetronomeA metronome that counts the 12-bar blues, calling out the I-IV-V chord changes and guitar chord charts for any key.Jazz Blues MetronomeA metronome for the jazz reharmonization of the 12-bar blues — ii-V motion, a passing diminished, and a secondary dominant.ii-V-I Practice LoopA metronome-driven drill for jazz's most common cadence, looped continuously in any key.Circle of FifthsAn interactive wheel of the 12 keys — tap one to see its relative minor and key signature.MetronomeA plain click track with adjustable tempo, time signature, and tap tempo.Capo TransposerConvert between the shapes you know and the key your capo makes them sound in, both directions.Fretboard Note TrainerA quiz that highlights a random position on the neck — name the note to build real fretboard fluency.Ear TrainerHear an interval and name it from 12 options, with instant feedback and a running score.TunerA microphone-based chromatic tuner — see the nearest note and how many cents sharp or flat you are, live.Drum LoopA step-sequencer drum machine with genre presets — rock, funk, blues shuffle, metal, hip-hop, and more — to loop and practice or jam along with.Digital KeyboardA playable digital keyboard with switchable sounds — play with your mouse, your computer keyboard, or a connected MIDI keyboard.

Learning paths

Short, structured courses that use the jam tracks, charts and tools to teach you to improvise.

Blues Soloing Beyond the BoxAdvanced

The sequel to the twelve-bar path, for players who already own one pentatonic shape and have run out of things to do with it. Ten lessons on connecting positions up the neck, blending major and minor, following the changes instead of one scale, double stops, turnarounds, dominant voicings for comping, call and response, and triplet phrasing over a slow twelve-eight. Every lesson is worked over a real blues track.~155 min

CAGED: Five Shapes, the Whole FretboardIntermediate

For the player stuck in open position who can feel the neck above the third fret going to waste. Eight lessons take the five chord shapes you already know, unhook them from the nut, and turn them into every major and minor chord in every key — barre technique, roots on the sixth and fifth strings, the smaller partial voicings, and the positional thinking that lets you play a whole song without moving your hand.~98 min

Funk Rhythm Guitar: Living in the PocketIntermediate

Eight lessons on the side of playing that fills the most stage time and gets the least practice: rhythm. You'll build a sixteenth-note right hand, learn the ninth chord funk is built on, work minor seventh vamps and Dorian, lock to a click at real tempos, add neo-soul colours, and learn to solo without stepping on the groove — all over real funk and soul tracks whose chord changes scroll as you play.~130 min

Getting Started with JamtrackersBeginner

A guided tour of the site, from your first backing track to the tools that go with it. You'll learn to follow a track's chord changes as they happen, see which scales fit, find tracks in any key or genre, use the chord and scale charts to practise, and put every tool to work. Six short lessons, no prior experience needed.~66 min

Jazz Guitar: Your First ChangesIntermediate

Ten lessons for the guitarist who can play but freezes when someone calls a standard. You'll learn the four chord qualities everything is built from, the ii-V-I that connects them, bossa nova comping, guide tones, the jazz blues, extensions, the flat keys jazz lives in, and modal playing — worked over real smooth jazz, bossa and fusion tracks with their changes scrolling as you play.~155 min

Music Theory for GuitaristsBeginner

Ten lessons on what the notes actually are and why songs do what they do — the musical alphabet, the major scale, intervals, how chords get built, the chords that belong to a key, Roman numerals, relative minors, the circle of fifths, and counting time. Written for someone who can already play a few chords but has never known what any of them are called or why they go together.~155 min

Music Theory, Part Two: Beyond the KeyIntermediate

The sequel to Music Theory for Guitarists, for players who can find a key and number its chords and now keep meeting chords that are not in it. Nine lessons on seventh chords, inversions and slash chords, the modes explained in a way that is actually usable, why the blues breaks the rules, secondary dominants, borrowed chords, cadences and modulation — every idea checked against real progressions from the track catalogue.~114 min

Rock Guitar From ScratchBeginner

Nine lessons for someone who owns a guitar and can't yet play a song on it. Power chords, the four open chords most of rock is built from, the F chord everybody gets stuck on, downstroke drive, low-string riffs, and a first solo with real bends — every one of them played against a backing track from the first lesson onwards, because playing alone in a room is why most beginners quit.~140 min

Soul Rhythm Guitar: Playing in the SpacesIntermediate

Eight lessons on the most restrained rhythm guitar there is. Soul parts are short, high on the neck, and mostly silence — so this path builds the vocabulary that fits in those gaps: three-note triads on the middle strings, double stops in thirds and sixths, the gospel suspension, the 12/8 ballad feel, minor seventh vamps, and fills that stop before the singer comes back in.~97 min

The 12-Bar Blues, Start to FinishBeginner

The one form every guitarist should own. Nine lessons take you from counting twelve bars in A, through dominant chords, the shuffle feel, the minor pentatonic box and the blue note, to moving the whole thing into a new key, playing a minor blues, and finally peeking at the jazz reharmonisation. Every lesson ends on a real backing track so you play the idea instead of just reading about it.~123 min

What Your Guitar Is Made OfBeginner

A guided tour of the instrument itself, for players who can hold a guitar but have never been told how one works. Nine lessons on the parts of acoustics and electrics — bodies and bracing, bridges and saddles, frets and truss rods, strings and tuners, pickups, controls and amplifiers — what each part does, why it is shaped the way it is, and the problem somebody invented it to solve.~112 min