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guitar backing track using A D G chord progression

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The Backing Track Above is NOT FOR TOTAL BEGINNERS!

I would like to stress that even thought the track features three of eight chords that a beginner should learn first it is not suitable for most total novice players as a first guitar lesson as the chord changes come around too quickly for someone in the earliest stages

The track is aimed at people who have mastered the process of moving between the chords less rapidly and who are perhaps ready to move on towards the study of more advanced elements such as bar chords or music theory for guitar

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Teaching Beginners Guitar With Backing Tracks

Experienced professional guitar teachers all over the world use the resources on this page in order to help complete beginners to move smoothly between the best eight beginners chord shapes in time to music (The chords are C, A, G, E, D, Am, Dm and Em)

Guitar Backing Tracks are a great weapon in the arsenal of any teacher setting out to teach novice guitar players The tracks below can be dropped onto a CD or memory stick or simply emailed to your students as an attachment as required

Together with the chord charts they form an invaluable teaching aid that will allow your students to practice effectively between lessons

first guitar lesson backing track

Using backing tracks from the start

Backing tracks help your students to play "in perfect time" from the very start

During the early stages of learning to play guitar a student should be introduced to relatively few (normally eight) open chord shapes and should be given access to teaching materials that will encourage them to change between those shapes in time to music. Gradually the backing tracks will increase in tempo and/or complexity until the student is capable of changing chords more quickly and smoothly than they did in the very early stages The backing track below uses two chords (G and Em) and is devised so as to allow a relatively large period of time between chord changes

guitar backing track for G to Em chord progression

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Although many of the backing tracks feature keyboards etc during the early stages I often prefer to use just bass and drums in order to allow the student (and the teacher) to concentrate on the sound coming from the guitar

guitar backing track for basic chords lesson

A 2nd guitar lesson introducing two new chords

The next backing track introduces two new chords (D and C) drawn from the eight guitar chords that a beginner should learn first Each chord lasts for two full bars and again there is plenty of time available for students to change between the shapes

D and C Chord Progression

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In addition to the bass guitar and drum kit here is a (very!) simple chordal piano part on this track just to liven things up a little

first four beginners guitar chords in a single progression

Backing track bringing all four chords together

This track brings all four chords learned up to this point together in a single progression It provides a great way for students to see that they really are improving and to reinforce progress made to this point

guitar lessons that use backing tracks G Em c D chord progression

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Back to bass guitar and drum kit for this one


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A 3rd Guitar Lesson that introduces "Rock" Guitar

beginners guitar lesson with a new chord and the introduction of rock guitar

One chord that they already know and a new one

By this point a student will be familiar with four of the eight chords that a beginner should learn first What we need to do next is to ensure that they become familiar with the other four chords (A Am Dm and E) and to this end the next progression requires learners to use one chord that they already know from previous lessons (G) and a new one (A) The backing track has more of a "Rock" feell than the earlier ones and tends to be popular with both younger and older would be guitar players

Great for Bar chords!

If you look at the graphic above you will see that the chord chart to the right of the image features bar chords because the happy reality is that all of the backing tracks work just as well for students when they have moved through the beginner stage and are applying themselves to learning to play and move between bar chords

Teaching Lead Guitar

Although I didn't have space on the graphic for handouts dealing with how to come up with improvised guitar "solos" this track is also very useful for teaching "lead guitar" and is particularly suited to exploring the possibilities of the Am Pentatonic Scale

guitar lessons that use backing tracks G to A chord progression

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beginners guitar lesson with Am Dm and E chords

The last three guitar chords that a novice needs to learn

The final three chords that a beginner needs to learn (Am Dm and E) are covered with a single (funkier) backing track that gives learners the opportunity to develop motor skills by cycling around the three chords in sequence You can find a short extract from the backing track below


More advanced guitar players

As well as being great for beginners all of the backing tracks are also very effective when dealing with intermediate and advanced guitar students too

If you take a closer look at the graphic above you will see that alongside a chord chart designed for teaching children to play guitar there is also a handout intended to make it easy for a guitar teacher to engage with more more advanced guitar players and teachers who wish to develop their capability with regard to teaching or learning lead guitar techniques by using (in this case) the pentatonic minor scale

guitar backing track Am Dm and E chords

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advice for first time guitar teachers

Reinforcing Skills and Knowledge is The Key To Progress

"Inexperienced guitar teachers try to teach too many things!""

In the early stages of learning the guitar a common mistake is to just carry on learning (and teaching!) new chords. Experienced guitar teachers know that student progress is not measured by how many chords they know but by how comfortable and capable they are when it comes to moving between (at this stage) relatively few chords in time to music

When they are operating well at this level it is no real problem to learn new and more advanced chord shapes on an "as required" basis as a student's repertoire of songs naturally expands

Chords are a "vocabulary"

Its a bit like when a child learns to speak fluently over a period of months and years. It would be lunacy to try to teach a toddler every individual word in the dictionary before working on putting those words into sensible phrases, statements and questions

It is obviously better to have them understand a limited number of words and to become used to combining them thoughtfully before moving on to more complicated concepts and ideas

The same thing applies to chords

guitar backing tracks for rock guitar

Developing Speed And Fluency On The Guitar

Help Your Beginner Students to Play Like Jimi Hendrix!

A pretty lofty claim I know and obviously made with my tongue very firmly in my cheek but the point at which students reach the end of the "beginners" stage (by which time a guitar student would be confident and capable when it comes to moving fluently between the eight basic chord shapes covered to this point) can be regarded as being when they cope comfortably with the backing track below

The track brings together all of the Major chords covered to this stage with the added challenge that the first part of the repeated sequence (C-G-D-A-E) requires a player to stay on each chord for only two beats rather than one or two full bars as was typical with other tracks to this point The track sounds a lot like a "classic" Jimi Hendrix track and if a guitar teacher gets a complete beginner to the point that they can make a reasonable fist of some Jimi Hendrix then they surely deserve a pat on the back

guitar backing tracks for rock guitar players

The more advanced guitar teachers backing tracks introduce the chords that a beginner needs to learn after the first eight have been mastered and when the basic motor skills required to change between shapes reasonably quickly have been developed They also provide guitar teachers with the opportunity to introduce more advanced concepts such as bending notes and an introduction to composing single note solos and licks

The early lessons are concerned with moving between chords that change relatively slowly while towards the end of the "beginner" stage a student will be able to cope with a track (such as the A-C-D-E progression that features further down this page) with relative ease

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guitar backing track for intermediate and advanced students

Guitar Backing Tracks that go "Beyond the Basics"


There were twenty guitar teacher's backing tracks in the original "Deluxe Download" which was devised in order to get novice players "up and running" on the guitar from an absolute standing start. They are proven to be effective with complete beginners to the instrument but what about those students who progress through being able to change chords in time to music and who wish to progress to more advanced material (improvisation and more advanced chord voicings etc)?

We now have a whole new set of backing tracks and while they were originally designed as a "stand alone" product (which is how they may yet end up) I have decided for the time being to just throw them into the $25.00 "Deluxe Download" (alongside all of the other resources that you see on this site) which means that you can get instant access to 35 guitar backing tracks and over 80 chord sheets and handouts to go with them

The following material is (in no particular order) a closer look at some of the new backing tracks with some suggestions as to how you might choose to incorporate the materials into the guitar lessons that you give to your customers

guitar backing track for the chord of F

Guitar Backing Tracks: The "dreaded" F Chord


Experienced guitar teachers the world over know that you don't try to teach somebody who is new to the guitar how to play the chord of F. Despite the fact that music theory is best understood in the key of C (of which F is a very important chord) the chord shape is a complete nightmare to beginners because they are required to hold down two strings (the E and the B) with a single finger before they have gotten used to working with single strings. The backing track uses two "easy" chords of C and G along with the new F shape. If the F chord is introduced at the right time during a course of study the student will take it in their stride and will be surprised when you tell them that countless would be guitar players simply gave up and became convinced that they would never be able to mater the guitar because they could not get their fingers around the (simple sounding) chord of F

When to introduce music theory to guitar students

When guitar students get to this point it can be an ideal time to introduce music theory to them

Above you can see one of our handouts/worksheets that looks at the (very important) topic of understanding which chords will always sound good together. If your students can count from one to twelve and recite the alphabet from A through to G then they already have the tools they need to understand all music theory. Music Theory has nothing to do with notated music

Follow the link below to find out more about teaching music theory to your guitar students

guitar backing in key of E minor

Guitar Backing Tracks: Em Am and B7 Chords

This progression uses chord shapes that a student already knows (Em and Am) and a new shape (B7). If you take a look at the printed materials above you will see that there are two sheets featuring a choice of shapes for the B7 chord as well as another which provides the fingering for a bar chord of B7. The track is also effective when it comes to improvising solo lines and phrases using the Em pentatonic scale Another of the sheets you can see above features guitar necks and blank tab which allows you you to teach licks, lines and single note phrases drawn from relevant shapes and scales. This allows a huge amount of flexibility to the educator It's up to you as a guitar teacher to assess just what your student will find useful and to help them in accordance with the way that they want to play (and you play) rather than prescribing a whole lot of random "set phrases and solos" as can be the case with a lot of the guitar methods on the market

guitar backing track using a chord of A in the key of A

Guitar Backing Tracks: A Vamp over a single A chord

This one is particularly useful when it comes to developing the ability to solo and put together simple single note phrases and it comes with a whole range of relevant handouts from the guitar teachers toolkit to assist with this You can see a few handouts based around the Am Pentatonic scale (really useful for teaching techniques such as slurs, string bends and hammer ons) You can also use the blank sheets (on the bottom right hand side of the illustration above) which allows you to identify and graphically explain your own favourite scales, positions fingering and tab

guitar backing track using 7th chords in the key of A

Guitar Backing Tracks: Amaj7, Dmaj7 and E7 Chords

Funky stuff going on here featuring three of the seventh chords (Amaj7, Dmaj7 and E7) that are commonly encountered when operating in the key of A. If you examine the handouts above you will see that the chords are presented initially in the open position and then again as moveable four note shapes. There can be a tendency for beginner or intermediate level guitar players to develop the impression that "full" chords, using as many strings as possible are somehow "better" than shapes that use four (or even fewer) strings (someone had better tell Nile Rodgers!). As well as being useful for helping to develop a functional knowledge of the guitar neck I like to use this type of progression to help my students to work on choosing where on the neck to play particular chord shapes and to help them to construct "well thought out" solos by asking them to choose a "target from each of the chords in the sequence to arrive on as the chord changes

guitar backing track featuring blues riff in E

Guitar Backing Tracks: E Blues Vamp

We're off to Chicago, Think "Hootchie Cootchie Man" "Bad To The Bone" and "Mannish Boy" If Muddy and Wolf float your musical boat then this one is a whole load of fun. An effective riff to use with the E pentatonic minor and Blues Scales and accompanied by handouts looking at "power chords" and how experienced guitar players often "cheat" when it comes to chord fingerings. I use this one to help students develop a "joined up map of the guitar neck" and ask them to play chords and short solo lines in a variety of positions.

guitar backing track in the key of A

Guitar Backing Tracks: Funk Blues A7, D7 and E7 Chords

Blues and funk groove using dominant 7 chords (A7, D7 and E7) This progression is ideal for helping your students to develop their "map of the neck" which allows them to move shapes around as well as to combine chords with short single note licks and phrases (based on the Am pentatonic scale)

Easy Guitar Songs For Kids

Guitar backing tracks: D C and G Chords

This one is included in the update for intermediate players but really it works just as well for beginners who can cope with moving between open chords in time to music. The groove sounds a lot like it would fit with a song about a state in The Deep South or another themed around werewolves that alarmingly apparently infest England's capital city. Solos using the Bm pentatonic scale seem to work just fine with this one.

guitar backing track in the key of G

Guitar Backing Tracks: Diatonic 7th chords in the key of G

7th chord backing track in the key of G

Guitar Backing Tracks: Am, G, F and E

Another repeated chord sequence that helps get your students familiar with changing between (bar?) chords and to help them to relax into putting together meaningful solo passages

guitar backing track introducing a Bm chord

Guitar Backing Tracks: G,Bm,C and D




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