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matonanjin2
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matonanjin2
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05/23/2020 2:56 pm

I just want to second William MG's recommendation of

https://www.karaoke-version.com/

As William said, he uses this site to make all of his backing tracks. So do I. It took me a while to realize this site has two different versions of all of its tracks. But I am a little slower than most.

You can just purchase their "regular" backing track for any song. Purchase it; download it, and you're done.

But if you caught William's phrasing, "I made a backing track with no rhythm guitar on........" The site also has what it calls "custom" backing tracks. For a ridiculously small additional fee ($1?) you make a custom backing track that you change as many time as you want.

Using the example of "Born Under a Bad Sign" there are two guitar parts, lead and rhythm, vocals, and rhythm section. Assuming you are learning the rhythm guitar, you can download the full version with everyone playing and play along. Then, when you feel confident, you can go back and take the rhythm guitar out and play along with you providing rhythm guitar. Feel really confident?

Different key? Change the key and download it! You can modify the backing track just about ad infinitum.

This is a really fun learning tool that perhaps doesn't get discussed enough on these forums. And it is a very rare song that they don't have a backing track for.


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