Guitar Background Music ( aka: backing tracks )
If you are a guitarist, you may enjoy playing along with some of your favorite songs. But playing with the original song is just like singing to it: you think you sound good because the "other guitarist" is hitting all the notes you missed. The solution is to play along with a backing track. Backing tracks are basically a cover of the original song without certain tracks. For a guitarist, the best track to exclude would be a lead guitar. Most guitar backing tracks are missing vocals as well (sing along if you must, but if you are like me, you play guitar for a reason... weak vocals).
So how do you get your hands on these backing tracks? The most obvious method would be to search google for: backing track! If you want guitar specific, obviously search for: guitar backing track! Most of the sites offering backing tracks provide a midi or mp3 cover of the song.
One of the largest sites I've found is www.guitarbt.com. Check them out. They have a large collection of free backing tracks.
But if you don't have the sheet music, how will you ever learn the song in the first place? Well, I suggest you look at a program called GuitarPro. If you play guitar, just check out the program ( it has too many features to list on my site ). It uses files with an extension of .gp3, .gp4, etc. to store both the sheetmusic and a midi version of the song. Finding songs for this program is as easy as searching google for: GuitarPro .gp4!
And my final suggestion for getting .gp files and backing tracks would be for you to download Shareaza. Shareaza is a windows based, open-source, FREE, peer-to-peer network client ( think of bearshare, kazaa, morpheus, early napster... but without all the ads! ). Now don't use Shareaza to download copyrighted material! Just use it to find free backing tracks and GuitarPro music files. You are on the honor system here, so don't screw it up!
If all of this is new to you, then I'm sure you'll be busy for the next few years sifting through all the information available at the sites listed above. If only some of it is new, then you'll be busy for the next few months. If none of this is new to you, and you know of some good information I have left out, then quit holding back and share the wealth! :)
So how do you get your hands on these backing tracks? The most obvious method would be to search google for: backing track! If you want guitar specific, obviously search for: guitar backing track! Most of the sites offering backing tracks provide a midi or mp3 cover of the song.
One of the largest sites I've found is www.guitarbt.com. Check them out. They have a large collection of free backing tracks.
But if you don't have the sheet music, how will you ever learn the song in the first place? Well, I suggest you look at a program called GuitarPro. If you play guitar, just check out the program ( it has too many features to list on my site ). It uses files with an extension of .gp3, .gp4, etc. to store both the sheetmusic and a midi version of the song. Finding songs for this program is as easy as searching google for: GuitarPro .gp4!
And my final suggestion for getting .gp files and backing tracks would be for you to download Shareaza. Shareaza is a windows based, open-source, FREE, peer-to-peer network client ( think of bearshare, kazaa, morpheus, early napster... but without all the ads! ). Now don't use Shareaza to download copyrighted material! Just use it to find free backing tracks and GuitarPro music files. You are on the honor system here, so don't screw it up!
If all of this is new to you, then I'm sure you'll be busy for the next few years sifting through all the information available at the sites listed above. If only some of it is new, then you'll be busy for the next few months. If none of this is new to you, and you know of some good information I have left out, then quit holding back and share the wealth! :)
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