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Solo with the A Major Pentatonic
The ringed note is the root, A. Tap any note to hear it.
Playing along on Bluetooth headphones? They delay every sound by about 150–250 ms, so taps land late against the band. Wired headphones or speakers keep them in time.
Backing tracks by style and key
By style
Or open the guitar backing tracks tool and pick any key and style.
About This A Major Backing Track
This A Major backing track is generated in your browser rather than recorded, so it can do what a video cannot: play in A Major at exactly the tempo you want, loop for as long as you practise, and drop the bass or the chords when you want to play that part yourself. It opens on rock — A, D and E — and the Style buttons switch it to pop, jazz or a 12-bar blues in the same key without stopping. The fretboard shows the A Major Pentatonic (or the A Major Scale) across all 24 frets, with every A ringed so you always know where home is.
- 01Drums, bass and chords in one looping backing track
- 02All 24 keys, 5 styles: blues, minor blues, rock, pop, jazz
- 03Any tempo from 40 to 240 BPM
- 04Mute the drums, bass or chords
- 05The scale to solo with, drawn on a fretboard (left-handed too)
- 06Electric guitar, acoustic guitar or electric piano chords
Frequently Asked Questions
Start with the A major pentatonic scale (A, B, C#, E, F#): every note fits every chord in the track. For more colour use the full A major scale (A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#); over the blues style, the A blues scale gives the classic bluesy sound.
It depends on the style. The 12-bar blues uses A7, D7 and E7. Rock plays A, D and E; pop plays A, E, F#m and D; jazz plays Bm7, E7, Amaj7 and F#7. The chord chart above the fretboard shows every bar and highlights the one playing.
Yes — anywhere from 40 to 240 BPM, while it plays. Each style starts at a typical tempo (110 BPM for rock); slow it down to learn a lick, then push it back up.
Yes. Tap Bass under Band to mute it and the drums and chords keep going — useful for practising bass lines on bass guitar. Drums and chords can be muted the same way.
F# Minor. The two keys share the same notes, so the same scale shapes work over both — the difference is which note the music resolves to. There is a F# Minor backing track too.
Yes. They play in your browser with no download, account or sign-up. The drums, bass, guitar and electric piano are real recorded instruments from public-domain (CC0) sample libraries, so you can also practise, stream or record over them.