These are free to jam along to! If you use any of these and post your playing online, please let me know so I can check it out! I would love to hear you play.
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30 Blues Backing TracksMy friend Jonathan has put together a package of 30 great blues backing tracks. He has set up a special page for friends of Dolphinstreet, where you get one track completely for free. |
Here is a very useful backing tracks CD with a 12 bar blues in all 12 keys. Very handy to have!

Include these 9 blues tunes: "Franky's Place," "Bullet Train," "Long Gone," "Just Can't Take It," "Storm Rising," "Hurtin' Bad," "Texas Shuffle," "Honky-Tonk Women," and "Loose Change." Two improvising scale patterns are shown for every tune, and each selection tune presents a different blues style for improvising.
Here is a tool I recommend for slowing down music, so you can easier figure out what is being played. It's called Song Surgeon, and it's got some nice features. Check it out.
I have put together some blues backing tracks that you can use to practice with. They are mostly just simple blues backing tracks. I only have a few so far, but I am working creating more. Some of these I did not create myself. If you use one of these backing tracks and record something with it, let me know - it would be fun for me to hear you play over them! For commercial use, you must get my written permission for the songs I wrote.
I recorded some of these tracks with Cubase SX2, using my Vox AD50VT and my Squier '51 or Squier Tele. Nowadays, I use GarageBand and Ez Drummer for my recording. The sounds were created using Line 6 Toneport and Pod Farm, or else miking any of my guitar amps. Some compression and delay were added after recording.
I have a few country backing tracks as well.