The free rock jam track I promised you can be downloaded by right-clicking on the button below, and clicking "Save As" or "Save Target As" depending on your browser. You can also watch the video, above, as it has a scale pattern on-screen to help you.
Why F# minor? Well... why not? F# minor is the relative minor to A major, which is a very common key, and the free jam track I offer with my blues tracks is in A minor, so I decided to pick a different key this time to explore some other parts of the fretboard, and some new sounds. Your guitar will sound different in F# minor compared to the more common A minor!
This particular jam track is in F# minor, so you can use the F# pentatonic minor scale to solo over it, or if you know your scales, try adding in the A major scale as well. Hit play on the video to hear the same track that you can download above, but with the F# pentatonic minor scale displayed on screen throughout the whole track.
Tip: if you hit the fullscreen button in the bottom right of the player you'll be able to see the notes better.
Muchas gracias por su backing track, es ideal para practicar.
Thanks Jonathan,
Nice soundtrack. Appreciated.
Great jam track for improving soloing! Thanks!
I really liked tjis jam track!
That’s great and beautiful Colin. I am still learning your “The definitive beginner’s Guide to Acoustic Guitar”. Held up in bar chords but trying everyday. I am definitely a better player. But still far away from jamming.
You are my guru and I hope one day I will start doing it.
Regards.
Kailash
Nothing gets my guitar juices flowing better than a great jam track… and Jonathan’s have been some of the best ones I have used. Why? It’s all in the production value. These tracks use a real band (no cheesy MIDI crap), and they sound great, both in audio quality and musicality. You really can’t go wrong with these jam tracks! **Robert**
Bro you always have awesome stuff appreciate all your tips and insights and the blessings of your knowledge keep it Rocking
Austin
Thanks, I started experimenting with it. It’s fun!
Hey, It’s always good to have a playing buddy…..When there is no one to jam with, these quality jams are the edge a guy needs. I even use them to brush up on harmonica work.
Thanks for the freebes!!!
Best Story: Is – Picking up a Guitar, and Playing – After putting it down for about 16 years, and Burning in some calouses… well not Burning, but developing…. Gota Go Now, LATERRRRRRRRRRRRR
Wal of the`RAPIDS“CEDAR`that is……..
I have 3 Guitars and 2 Basses, but my fave is my Tyler Mountain acoustic that I won in a raffle. The sunburst face is signed by30 blues artists who appeared at the2007 South Florida International Blues Festival. It was then sent back to the factory for the final gloss coat. National artists like Duke Robillard,Ben Presage, Jeff Prine, Juanita Dixon,Joey Gilmore, and the late Tinsley Ellis, who passed away last year, much too young just to name a few. It is most definitely one of a kind. also, your last 30 tracks are great.
Great Jam track!
My guitar playing has improved considerably since joining your sight, thanks for all you provide.
Rock On Brother!!
I have learned more from your free mini lessons that I can use in my daily practise then from any other guitar websites
This jam track is the greatist THANK YOU Johnathan
Dig it bro. Are you familiar with the telluride guitar?got it from a young guitarist who passed4 years ago so I’ve got his axe now on a quest too play in my upper 50s but with passion to be a player thanx
As always, I have to purchase this one too, so I will not miss any single copy of your CD’s in my shelf.
Sounds like late 50’s in Holly Ridge, MS
Great track. Like the tab that goes along with it.
Hey Jonathon:
Great track
Thanx
Bob
I am inspired by all of your info that you put online wish I could afford to buy your lessons but I am on a very strict and fixed income at present please keep the free lesson coming and keep on rockin
Very nice sounding track!
…thanks for all you do for us!!!
Bill
Excellent !
Free! I like free!
Rocking god swamp music , I can hear John Fogerty vocals over this one !!
Hey Jonathan,
Thanks for all you do.
I’m waiting to pick up a new guitar.
I found a used Brian Moore i2000 i9 guitar at a pawn shop.
It needed some TLC. So I brought to my guitar store.
Great to have a store that you have worked with for years.
Where the owner greets you by name when you walk in every six months or so.
They are repairing a broken coil-tap volume pot and getting it set up for me.
It will be interesting to hear how the single coil pick-ups sound on a mahogany body.
It’s been an agonizing wait of a whole week. (patience, patience)
Hopefully I’ll get it back today.
-Steve
You make learning fun and easy! Always finding new ways to teach things! You honestly care about your followers and their progress! Thanks for sharing your talent.
Hi Jonathan. I love the Jam track. I particularly enjoy the “open spaces” that allows for some inspiring opportunities. The dynamics in the different parts also prompts one to play with the right kind of feel matching the particular pace of the song. It is also nice to be challenged a bit with a key that I certainly do not use a lot (F#). I was amazed how different the scale sounds by simply this key change. I am your typical weekend guitarist stuck in the South of Africa that only knows one scale – The mighty minor pentatonic (mostly in A, LOL). Thanks to people like you the internet has become a most valuable source for us few rockers stuck down here in Africa. Many thanks. Peter > Johannesburg. South Africa.
I’ve been working these pent scales all over the fret board…Just going all the way up and then back down in sequence and working that open scale. Scale patterns DVD most helpful. Now to work in Dom 7ths and 3rds is next step.
OUtstanding track, im 70 just started playing (practicing ) about 9 months ago and really enjoy this ,thx
Coool track……reminds me of a jam we did in Afghanistan a few years back. I was there (Im a soldier) and we had the chance to jam so LETS DO THIS!! There was a nice setup and after the bbq we jammed. Must have been 200 people there. We even got rocketed but kept playing. Music wins!! Cheers and keep jammin’
I ever follow your lessons, i’ve purchased someone, and even if i don’t speak english very well (i’m an italian guy), you ever make me a better self guitarist, thank you for sharing your lessons and your experience.
From the deep of my strings, Roberto
Great Jonathan and thank you.
Rgds,
Evandro
That’s a great backing track. Can’t wait to try it. Great job.
so your stuff works! good going , looking forward to learning…
i like to learn guitar i work only 9 to 14 hours a week & iam always broke
i have really enjoyed the jam, because before i was so confused with those scales but now my mind is widen, thank you a lot.
2yrs ago I turned 70 and learning to play the guitar 2 years earlier. My wife and I went to a dinner party at aclubhouse for condo residents maybe 30 people there and while we were eating a elderly gentleman said Ken i hear yo play guitar. I said just barely but learning a lime. He said go get your guitar and let’s jam for the dinner guests so I went back to my condo and got my Strat. We played for 2 hours and he was unbelievbly good. Later my wife said “Do you know who that was?” I said no and she said he is one of the guys who wrote Suzie Q. Now I know I have arrive in Guitar God land. Ken P
Sounds pretty cool. Thanks.
I enjoy getting your emails on ways I can better my self as a guitar player. I started back when I was 10 yrs. old but put it down after a couple of guitar lesson as it became to boring so I put it down.If back then somebody had made it simple and not hard I would probably be a better guitar player. Now that I get emails from you I have learn from you and even my wife has said I’m getting better at my playing, so keep up the great work and keep the videos coming. Now that I have learn some things fromyou their is no doubt that will become a better player. Thanks a lot Tim.
There is absolutely no substitute to playing along with jam tracks (unless you’re lucky enough to have other musicians around) in order to build the skills you need to play in a band. I must admit that F# isn’t a key I normally play in, but this ‘Slow Monday’ groove is too good to pass up!
Nice rock-blues track! The “Slow Monday” brightened up my dull Tuesday… ; ) Your DVDs and CDs have helped me improve the technique of improvising. I am a fan of your Blues Jam Tracks. And, you are a great teacher. Thanks for all you do.
Fav Jam Story:
Back in the Disco era, me and my guitar player were dressed in our best Leisure Suits to go clubbing. On our way we stopped as the local jam room where we usually rock out. Well we walked into the room and some new guys were there, you should have seen the look on their faces. We then proceeded to shred the room as udual Priceless! !! They didn’t know what hit them.
THANK YOU!! Learning scales, and starting to see and hear the pattern. Feel like I’m getting somewhere, and this really helped me!!
Kewl groove… Nice and clean. Works great playing along with strumming patterns. Thanks.
Nice !!!!i
I used F# Aeolian and F# Dorian (and some extra fail notes) with this track and got very exiting sounds out of it! – Ooh I want some more like this 😉
Thanks for the great jam tracks
Jonathon, ‘ole buddy!
Thanks for all that you’ve done for my playing over the past year. I look forward to more. Watch for me when they start an, “America’s Got Old Talent”. By then, I might be ready.
I can’t wait to close my door at lunch and practice f’ing F# minor!
Dick
Take the memory of my R&R group in high school in the 60’s and all the memories of our group that played then and reunite in 2006.This made me feel that my bucket list in my now 60’s. I had to bring things up to date,.Bought 2 new guitars and a amp. I am now having a great time . Your emails are the blame, thanks a million. Greg
This definitely confirm my decision to start spending serious time on playing / learning the guitar.
What a pleasure!
My fingers keep itching to keep playing
Great jam track! Playing along with it reminds me why I love to play guitar, because everytime you learn something new it opens many other doors for several other possibilities and different ways to look and think about what you’re doing. Learning new things on guitar grows your knowledge of the intstrument exponentially. Once you start learning it never stops and the beauty of it is, you will never learn it all. But we’re inspired to try!
This is one of the best jam tracks I’ve heard in a long time. Great choice of chords, a wonderful melody and crystal clear production! I love it!
Really nice tune,worth some time to learn-
Thanks for the info. Always looking for a way to advance.
Always wanted to play guitar but was too self-conscious but while at birthday party at bro-in-law’s, I picked up one of his many guitar catalogs and saw a guitar and amp for $99.95. I asked if it could possibly be any good and he said the guitar, a Squier, was better than it had any right to be. I didn’t get that combo but the seed was planted that I could own a cheap-but-decent guitar and within a month I’d found a sweet used Marshall amp and a blonde Squier Tele. Then I discovered your courses and I was on my road to blues heaven. Gracias, mi amigo.