What are backing tracks?
Backing tracks are digitally remastered music tracks without lead guitar and vocals. Singers usually use backing tracks when they don’t have a band travelling with them all the time. Simply pop in a CD, press play and all the instruments are provided. Well, guitar backing tracks follow the same principle – you’ve got a music track that’ll give you drums, bass, piano and every other instrument that’s in your song except guitar! You obviously play the guitar along with the track and provide the main instrument yourself. Why do I need it? Backing tracks are the best way to practice certain songs or to just jam your heart out. There’s nothing like playing the guitar and sounding like you’ve got a rock band behind you. So unless you’ve got a millionaire grandpa who’s willing to pay the thousands of dollars needed to hire studio musicians every time you want to play with a decent band, backing tracks are the way to go… Maybe you are in a band, but your band suck (we’ve all been there :-),
