Welcome to Free Backing Tracks by Dylan Adams!

These jam tracks are 100% recorded and mixed by me in Logic Pro X. The guitars and bass are real instruments played by me, with no quantizing or “cleaning up.” The keyboards are Logic MIDI software instrument patches played by me, but often edited/quantized in the piano roll to fix my sloppy playing. The drums are a Logic MIDI software instrument kit, and I program all of the drum grooves 100% custom for each backing track (i.e. I don’t use pre-recorded drum loops). My mixing skills aren’t the best, but I try.

Most of the tracks are simply one or two 8-bar, 12-bar, 16-bar, or 32-bar segments that loop continuously for 5-10 minutes. In other words, they’re mostly just “solo section only” vamps/repeating chord progressions that don’t have a real song form. One day I may put in the time to make complete full-song backing tracks, but for now these should have you covered if you’re just looking for something to jam along with.

My plan is to upload tracks along with my Instagram reels and Youtube performance videos, plus some extra bonus tracks as well, so be sure to check back every now and then to see what new ones show up here. Feel free to download them to your computer/phone and use them in your videos!

All I ask is: please don’t directly share the link to this page, and give credit if you use my tracks in your content. If you’d like to share these tracks with friends or followers, I kindly ask that you provide them the email list sign up link that brought you here, and have them subscribe. It truly goes a long way in supporting me and allowing me to continue doing what I do.

Thanks so much, and happy jamming!

Allman Brothers - Hot Lanta (A7#9 D7#9 A7#9 E7#9 Eb7#9 D7#9 Db7#9, solo in A minor)
Jimi Hendrix - Power To Love/Power of Soul (just the Ab minor riff/vamp over and over)
Sly & The Family Stone - Skin I'm In (Cmin Bb7 Ab7 G7 x2, G7, F7, Ab7 turnaround)
Bb Blues Shuffle (12 bar blues with II V turnaround)
Allman Brothers - Liz Reed (main solo section - Amin9 to Dmaj vamp - use A Dorian scale)
Fabulous Thunderbirds - Extra Jimmies (uptempo 12-bar blues shuffle key of B)
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! (outro - C7 one chord funk vamp)
Various Artists - Key to the Highway (8-bar blues, key of A)
Sly & The Family Stone - Sing a Simple Song (Studio Version - E7 one chord riff/vamp)
Soulive style Groove (Dmin13 funk vamp)
Allman Brothers - Whipping Post (Amaj [yes, major] Bm Cmaj Bm vamp - use A Dorian scale)
Funkadelic - Hit It and Quit It (Eb funk riff/vamp)
Groove Holmes - Red Onion (funky Eb9 vamp, then Cmin7 to F9 vamp, E9 turnaround back to Eb9 vamp)
Sly & The Family Stone - Sing a Simple Song (Woodstock Version - Eb7 one chord riff/vamp)
Allman Brothers - Dreams (D7sus4 to D7 vamp - use D Mixolydian scale)
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up (key of B minor - F#m Em F#m Bm)
J Dilla-Inspired Groove (Abmin7 B7sus4 Emaj7 Eb7alt, solo in Ab minor)
Derek Trucks Band - Blind Crippled and Crazy (B7 to E7/B funky vamp)
Jimi Hendrix - Who Knows (C# minor blues vamp)
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Hear My Dear (D F#m C [Db passing chord] D F#m C [Em passing chord])
Albert Collins - Hot 'N Cold (12 bar Blues Shuffle in G)
Allman Brothers - Mountain Jam (E Major vamp)
Soulive - Vapor (G13 F13 Eb9 D7#9 - just play G bluesy stuff if changes are too hard)
ZZ Top - Ten Dollar Man (driving F# blues-rock vamp)
James Brown - Funky Drummer (D9 one chord funk vamp)