You can never have enough of the E minor pentatonic scale. So here is another practice track, built around an E boogie power chord. There is just one chord! The organ comes in over the top with an E7 #9, while the bass line features sliding or bending between minor and major third. So hit those bends in your solo, especially the minor third!
Practice Track – D7
Here is a practice track for practicing your myxolidian mode. Seventh chords occur as the chord built on the 5th degree of the major scale, and usually resolve to the Tonic chord, or the 1 chord of the major key. However in the blues and modal tunes, their may be no such resolution. There may be a change to another 7th chord. Or as in this track, there is just one chord the whole way. Notice how interest is built by having a melodic rhythm backing that varies.
The track is built on the D7 chord. So use the myxolidian mode of the G major scale. Or in other words, a D major scale with a flattened 7th. And listen to the next bass track as well, if you want to hear my ideas for soloing!
Here is the track without a bass line for the bass players. Listen to the other track too, with my Bass line, and see if you can copy aspects of it!
G minor Practice Track
Here is a practice track for guitar players in the key of G minor. Its a G minor groove built around a Gm7 chord. Perfect for jamming away on a G minor pentatonic scale. For a different flavour, try a G dorian (Dorian mode of F major) or a G natural minor.
Here is the same track minus the bass line, and with a lead guitar part, especially for Bass players to jam away on. Try coming up with your own bass lines. Also see if you can hear my bass line from the track above, and reproduce it. The chromatically desending organ line that comes around periodically sounds extra good if you double that on the bass.
Practice Track A minor Funk
Use this practice track for polishing up your A minor chops. You can use A minor pentatonic, A natural minor, or A Dorian (Dorian mode of G major). There’s just one chord, Am7, with an occasional change up. See if you can figure out the chords in the change up. It shouldn’t affect your scale for soloing too much, although there is D chord which has a F sharp in it, so the A dorian would be better suited than the A natural minor over the change up. The A minor pentatonic has neither an F or F sharp, so isn’t affected.
Ear Training practice track
Hi all,
This practice track is to help you with your ear. I play a phrase over 4 bars, then there is a 4 bar gap for you to play the same phrase. The progression is
||:C |C |F |F :||
The key is C major. I played all phrases in the 2nd position moveable scale shape. But you should be able to use just about any C major fingering!
Enjoy!
C Major Practice Track
Here is a practice track for guitarists to practice soloing in C major. The chords are
||:C | |F | :||
As well as using C major, you could also experiment with the C minor pentatonic scale.
Have fun!
If you would like to hear some of my guitar work over this rhythm track, I have released it as a single called “Cat Cuddle Cafe” by Rob Reeves. Access it on Apple Music or Spotify from this link….
You can also purchase from iTunes or Amazon if you want the 1’s and 0’s on your device!
Practice track for Bass Players – C major
Here is a practice track for Bass Players in C major. The Chords are
||:C | |F | :||
Try playing a bass line with just the root notes first, and when you can hear the chord changes well, try putting in some runs with the C major scale. You can also try working off your chord tones… the 1,3 and 5 of each chord. It sounds good adding a 6th or a 2nd to the chord tones as well. Experiment and have some fun!
If you would like to hear my bass line for this track, I have released it as a single called “Cat Cuddle Cafe” by Rob Reeves. Access it on Apple Music or Spotify from this link….
You can also purchase from iTunes or Amazon if you want the 1’s and 0’s on your device!
Another One for the Bass Players – E Blues
Here is another practice track for the bass players. It is an E 12 Bar blues. The rhythm part is played with all dominant 7th chords, while the lead guitar plays with the E minor pentatonic scale. Here are the chords:-
|E7 | | | |
|A7 | |E7 | |
|B7 |A7 |E7 |E7 |
Try constructing bass lines from your dominant 7th chord arpeggios. Add in the 6th for a classic blues bass line. For your runs, try the the myxolydian mode from the root of each chord.
G major II-V-I practice track
This practice track is intended for bass players who are getting to grips with there II-V-I progressions. The key is G major, with a basic jazz feel, the backing track contains guitar playing the chords and drums doing a slow tempo swing. The chords are
||: Am7 |D7 |Gmaj7 | : ||
You can try some of the following exercises:
(1) Play the root note of each chord on beat one of each bar. Find as many different root notes as you can in different regions of the neck.
(2) Modify exercise 1 by playing up or down the scale from the root note when you land on the chord Gmaj7. Play one neat per beat.
(3) Repeat exercise 2, but playing up or down from the root note of the other chords.
(4) Try playing up or down from the root notes of each chord in the progression.
(5) Once the first four exercises are going comfortably, try exercise 1 again, but this time land on the 3rd of each chord. Repeat exercise 3 and 4, but playing up or down from the 3rd.
(6) Repeat exercise (5), but landing on the 5th, and again landing on the 7th.
Repeat all exercises using all 5 moveable major scale fingerings, and the open fingering.
Practice Track – E major Folk Rock
Here is a practice track for working on your E major soloing. It is two chords, a I-IV progression – E and A in the key of E major.