- A7I7
- D7IV7
- A7I7
- A7I7
- D7IV7
- D7IV7
- A7I7
- A7I7
- E7V7
- D7IV7
- A7I7
- E7V7
Solo with the A Blues Scale
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.
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Or open the guitar backing tracks tool and pick any key and style.
About These Blues Guitar Backing Tracks
Most blues backing tracks are a video in one key at one tempo. This one is played live in your browser, so it can be a 12-bar blues in A today and in E tomorrow, at 70 BPM to learn a lick and 120 to perform it — and it never fades out. The Blues style is the quick-change 12-bar with a V7 turnaround, over a triplet shuffle; Minor blues is the i–iv–♭VI–V minor 12-bar. Drums, bass and rhythm guitar swing together on one clock, and the blues scale for your key sits on the fretboard under the chart.
- 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
A looping rhythm section — drums, bass and chords — playing the 12-bar blues form, the I, IV and V chords in a fixed 12-bar pattern. You solo or practise rhythm over it. In A the chords are A7, D7 and E7; in E they are E7, A7 and B7.
The blues scale of the key you are in: in A that is A, C, D, E flat, E, G. It is the minor pentatonic with one extra note, the flat 5. Over a major 12-bar the major pentatonic works too, and switching between the two is the classic blues sound.
E and A are the most common, because the guitar's open strings fall right under the blues scale in those keys. G, C and B flat are common with horns and keyboards. This backing track plays the blues in all 12 keys.
Blues is the major 12-bar with dominant 7th chords (A7, D7, E7 in A) and a triplet shuffle. Minor blues swaps in minor 7th chords for the I and IV (Am7, Dm7) and uses F7 to E7 in bars 9 and 10, at a slower tempo.
Start slow — 60 to 70 BPM — until the shuffle feels natural, then move up. The track goes from 40 to 240 BPM and you can change it while it plays.
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.