Backing tracks?

[PhilA]

Practicing techniques, theory and learning other people’s music is all great stuff. However I find playing over backing tracks gives me best bang for buck when I want to improve my musicality and learn to use what I’ve learned in practice.

Aside from making your own do you use any commercial pre made backing tracks products? What’s good? all styles considered.

Thanks and happy holiday limbo what actual day of the week is it day.

 

[DrewJD82]

I warm up with those Elevated Tracks on Youtube all the time, or whatever pops up when I enter "_ minor backing track"

 

[Fireproof]

I just ran across Jamzone.

Seems pretty awesome. Stems for each instrument. Can change pitch or speed. Includes chords.

Trial version seems good so far.

 

[Chocol8]

Lately for generic jamming or if I am setting up a preset and want to hear how it will sound in a mix, I just find something semi random on YouTube via search. There is a lot out there it seems for any genre key and tempo I care about.

If I am actually working on something I lean towards a fairly basic looper with a drum beat. These days it is a Mooer GL100.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I have a plethora of backing tracks on my phone and tablet. But at home I prefer to roll my own.

 

[Jazz Padd]

They’re great for home practicing and more fun than using a metronome. There’s lots of options, but I use iReal Pro on a tablet to run through playlists of jazz standards to prep for jam sessions. It has charts for the 500 tunes from the 2 volume Jazz Standard Bible (like a Japanese Real Book) in use at several nearby venues that host jazz jam sessions. I like the ease of changing keys and tempo and customizing chord charts.