

Then act as your backing track, allowing you to practice your lead guitar to a beat.

A word of warning about this approach though. This is a great way of practicing with accompaniment because you’re in complete control of what’s sitting behind your lead playing. I didn’t have to obtain any new equipment to do this as my Boss multi effects pedal already had the feature (the me80 pedal) but here’s another couple of options should you be interested in this approach. Just hit the pedal and record a short guitar part and then simply play over the top of it afterwards. This method is something that I personally do quite often because it’s so simple and quick.

A very fast, easy and convenient way of creating your own mini backing tracks is by using a phrase loop pedal. So far, I’ve talked only of ways of locating backing tracks online but another option you have is making your own. Creating mini guitar backing tracks with a phrase loop Don’t forget that you can make your own backing track play list too. The quality is high and the tracks are in front of you with just a few seconds work. Simply typing the words guitar backing tracks into Spitify’s search bar generated an astronomical amount of results and more refined searches didn’t disappoint either when I searched by genres such as blues backing tracks, jazz backing tracks and hard rock backing tracks.
