E Minor Rock Instrumental Jam Track
Artists like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani are great at soloing over brooding, atmospheric minor jams. Vai’s “For The Love of God” comes to mind. Here is a E Minor rock jam track in that style:
The main backing guitar part jazzes up an Em to C progression with some colorful extensions:
Some scale suggestions:
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Metal Guitar Jam Track in E Minor
An “Iron Maiden”-style metal guitar jam track today. The track is in the key of E minor (metal approved!) and follows this chord progression: |E5 - - - |C5 - D5 - |
Some cool scale choices:
Rock on!
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Looping Reggae Guitar Jam Track
Hey, Mon! Have fun “jammin’” Jamaican-style over this Reggae Jam Track. This looping guitar jam track is in B minor, following the progression |Bm - - - |G - A - |
Some cool scale choices:
A clean, reverb-drenched guitar sound will serve this style well. Try using a touch of palm-muting for that staccato, “stucky”, sound that is so typical of Reggae single note parts. Irie, Mon!
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Techno-Rock Guitar Jam Track
Rock music will live forever! I know this because it readily accepts other music styles and fuzes them together to create ever evolving rock hybrids. Jazz-Rock, Country-Rock, Blues-Rock, Rap-Rock. The list will keep evolving.
This looping jam track in B minor takes techno/electronic music elements and fuses them with a rock feel.
This jam track is taken off of my Jeff Beck Style lesson series. Starting with Jeff Beck’s Guitar Shop, Jeff has increasing had a ‘electronica’ element to his tunes.
Some cool scale choices:
As a added bonus, here is my intro video to this lesson from the series! I think most of the licks I use are in the lesson series but, if I remember right, I just improvised this take and tried to squeeze the licks as best I could.
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12-Bar Blues Jam Track, Key of E
What? No 12-Bar Blues jam track on GuitarTeacher.com? No longer! In the oh-so-friendly key of E here is your prototype 12-Bar Blues Progression. With a shuffle feel, no less!
You know what to do over this one.
Or if you don’t know what to do, you might want to order my Eric Clapton style lesson series. I promise to revisit this progression with some licks soon.
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Metal Guitar Jam Track #3 - Van Halen style
Give the people what they want! That’s the credo I hope to follow with my guitar teaching website, GuitarTeacher.com. And as I look at my most popular posts I see “Metal Jam Track #1” competing neck and neck with… “Metal Jam Track #2“! So, can you guess what I came up with for today’s jam track? That’s right! It is time for Metal Jam Track #3!!
Straight off of my Van Halen Style lesson series for Riff Interactive comes this “Hot For Teacher” sound-a-like jam track in the key of A.
The following scales all work well:
And here is how to play the backing riff. Always good to know the rhythm parts, even for you lead players. The groove is a hyper-speed rock shuffle.
Want something else? Let me know by commenting!
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Latin Minor Bossa Guitar Jam Track
Here is a cool Latin Guitar Jam Track that I think will appeal to fans of all guitar styles. It is a ‘bossa’ style groove, a very common latin-jazz feel. It stays on one chord, Dm7, throughout. Rock players will probably dig playing Carlos Santana inspired licks against this one.
Here are a few scale suggestions:
D Minor Bossa Vamp - Suggested Scales
The E Minor Pentatonic scale is a great substitution against this Dm7 vamp, implying the Dorian mode. The Rule: Against a minor 7th chord, go up one whole-step and play that Minor Pentatonic.
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12 Minor Keys Jam Track
Changing keys is a challenge presented by jazz and jazz-rock styles. Today’s jam track exercises your key-changing prowess.
It back-cycles through the Circle of 5ths every 2 bars through all 12 keys. A great way to workout your ear and all those scale patterns you’re learning on GuitarTeacher.com!
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Latin Guitar Jam Track
Hey, six-stringers! In the change over to the new website format I know alot of the old content is now unavailable. I will repost old favorites as I can with plenty of new content to come!!
Today’s post is a looping jam track with a Santana flavor.
You can play standard rock and blues licks but the track’s use of the Fmaj7 chord strongly implies the Phrygian mode.
Instructions
1. Press play on the audio player above (Adobe Flash Player needed).
2. Solo over the backing track (audio will continuously loop).
Try this scale:
Other suggested scales:
- E Minor Pentatonic/E Blues
- E Phyrgian
- E Half-Step/Whole-Step Diminished Scale
Suggested Listening:
- Carlos Santana
- Al DiMeola
- Larry Carlton
- John McLaughlin
Have fun!
Storm Stenvold
GuitarTeacher.com
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