For those about to jam, we salute you.
Playing along with recordings is an effective way to learn new techniques and to try out your musical ideas. It can be annoying, though, to try playing your own lead guitar part right over what the lead guitarist on the recording is playing. Luckily, this problem is neatly solved by playing along with “jam tracks”, which are recordings that purposely leave out the lead guitar and provide just the backing tracks of all the other instruments. [more…]