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Backing Tracks

Practicing your guitar solos (improvisation) over backing tracks is one of the best and highly enjoyable ways to improve your lead playing skills.

The backing tracks listed here are all ones I have played to, and had a lot of fun with.

​Different tracks will be added periodically. If you have a track you'd like listed on this page, send a message to
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•A Minor Epic Ballad by Metal Guitar Stuff
•A Minor Power Ballad by Metal Guitar Stuff
​•A Minor Slow Rock Blues by thedinodog1  (EXCELLENT track for beginners!)

•A Minor Space Rock Ballad
•F Minor Sad Ballad by Masanoriutsumi
•A Lydian Backing Track by BetterBacking Tracks
•E Lydian Steva Vai Style Backing Track by Roosville1
•E Minor Epic Ballad by Metal Guitar Stuff
•E Minor Atmospheric Rock Ballad by Steve Cross
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E Minor Sad Backing Track by Steve Cross
​•E Minor Steve Vai Style Backing Track by Cool Jam Tracks
•E Minor Rock Ballad Steve Vai Style Backing Track by Vito Astone
 (it should be noted that a C9 chord is listed on the video, which is incorrect. C Maj9 or C add9 could work though)
•C Minor Sad Emotional by MegaBackingTracks

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