Jam Tracks For Guitar Solo Improvisation

Use these guitar Jam Tracks to practice solo improvising. Each Jam Track has suggestions for which guitar scales and key to solo in, however, these are not strict rules and sometimes good solo improvisation benefits from adding notes that aren’t necessarily in the scale you’re using. Find what works first, then add from there.

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All Over II Chorus – Backing Track

A slow heavy rock for working out guitar licks. The Natural Minor scale in the key of A works well with this.

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All Over – Natural Minor Scale

A slow rock ballad great for working out guitar licks. The Natural Minor scale in the key of A works well with this.

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Somewhere Closer – Backing Track

This guitar backing track in the key of F# Minor, uses the Natural Minor scale. Soloing over this riff works well with the Minor Pentatonic, Pentatonic Minor Blues and Natural Minor scales in F#.

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Darkness – Backing Track

This backing track works well with the Natural Minor scale in the key of A. The moody dark sound works well with plenty of long held notes with wide vibrato. Arpeggios and fast Legato riffs also sound good with this track.

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Pretend 2 B – Backing Track

This backing track is based on the Natural Minor scale in the key of E.  It's simple structure allows a lot of freedom for soloing. The Pentatonic Minor scale works well here and the use of the C chord in the fifth measure give a good excuse to add the C note from the Natural…

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A Heavy Blues Style

A version of the 12 bar blues (1, 4, 5) pattern starting in the key of A Major. The chords are A, D, A, E, A-turnaround. Good for practicing your basic blues chops.

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Looking For The E

This Loop is in the key of E Minor using the E Natural Minor guitar scale. It's basic sound lends it to using the Pentatonic Minor Blues scale in the key of E for soloing over. Also try using the Natural Minor scale in E.

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Dee Minor Blue-ish

This guitar riff sound kind of bluesy and works well with the Pentatonic Minor Blues scale in D. Based on the D relative Minor scale, you may also want to try using the relative Minor scale in D.

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Neo Classical A Harmonic Minor

Harmonic Minor Jam Loop in A uses chords in the A Harmonic Minor scale and is good for practicing your improvisation skills using the A harmonic minor guitar scale.

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To Be Escaping

This guitar riff in the key of B Minor works well with the B Natural Minor and B Pentatonic Minor Blues guitar scale.

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Major Tantrum

Based on the E Minor scale, this guitar riff works well with the Pentatonic Minor scale in the key of E as well as the Major and Major Pentatonic scale in G. Also, since this riff also includes the C and F major chords, you might want to play around adding the C and F notes in…

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E Phrygian Riff

This riff based on the E Phrygian Mode works well with the D Relative Minor (D E F G A B C D), especially when used in the Phrygian Mode (E F G A B C D E).  Also try experimenting with the E Minor Pentatonic scale.

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Disturbance in E Minor

Based on the E Natural Minor scale, this works well with the Pentatonic Minor Blues scale as well as the Natural Minor scale in E.

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Dok In The Riff

Guitar riff in A Minor. With the addition of the flatted fifth, this riff works well using the A Minor Pentatonic blues scale.

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Arpeggiated Descent

Medium slow speed guitar riff in E Natural Minor works well with the E Natural Minor scale.

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Power Ballad Jam Loop in B Minor (Blue Anger)

Power Ballad Jam Loop in B Minor uses chords in the B Natural Minor scale and uses both acoustic and electric guitars. The Pentatonic Minor scale in B goes well with this also try using the Pentatonic Minor Blues scale and the B Natural Minor scale.

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Blind Rage

E Minor Jam Loop - this one works well using the E Minor Pentatonic Blues scale.

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Roll the Credits

Roll the Credits: D Major Jam Loop - this one works well using the Pentatonic scale in the key of E as well as the D Major and B Minor Pentatonic scales.

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