Improvising
To me improvising is one of the most important aspects of learning guitar!
Notes:
Some of the jam tracks are rather short and that is on purpose. The reason is to help with focus. It is easy to get sidetracked when playing along with a jam track and find ourselves off on a little musical journey 🙂
Now I'm not saying little musical journeys are not good. They are fun and quite important to developing as a player however sometimes we need to stay focused on the task at hand. With the jam tracks short, you are reminded if you have gotten off track. Hit play and refocus your attention to the initial idea.
Focus and making good use of your practice time is a corner stone to getting good at any instrument.
G to Em to C to Am
71 bpm
This jam track is great for practicing your triads on various strings once you have learned them. (Strings 1 2 3, 2 3 4, 3 4 5 etc.)
These chords allow for voice leading that will only have us move one note with each chord.
G to Em to C to D
98 bpm
This starts on an Em chord however this is not the key of Em/G. This will be explained in the Main Lesson.
This progression is used in many songs and on the site it is used on Greenday's Blvd. of Broken Dreams (still needs page as of Dec. 09, 2025) YouTube
Capo: Blvd of Broken Dreams uses a capo on the 1st fret making the chords:
Fm Ab Eb Bb
This is the key of Eb/Cm
This is explained quickly in the video. I will go into more detail on the Main Lesson 5.
New Jam Tracks
F Minor - 74 bpm in 6/8 time
I have been making a lot of jam tracks lately. Some are becoming tripfuse tunes others are just tracks for the site.
F Blues Scale
F Minor Arpeggio
F Minor 7th Arpeggio
F Minor Pentatonic Scale
F Blues Scale
C Minor Blues Based Riff
For the most part this is a one chord jam based in C minor. It is based on a ZZTop song.
I recommend starting with just the C minor arpeggio (3 notes - C, Eb, G) and then after you are getting comfortable make it Cm7 (4 notes - C, Eb, G, Bb). This means it will be the same arpeggio with an added Bb. Once comfortable with that add an F and you have a C minor pentatonic scale (5 notes - C, Eb, F , G, Bb). Then add a 6th note and make it a C Blues Scale.
C Minor Arpeggio
C Minor 7th Arpeggio
C Minor Pentatonic Scale
C Blues Scale
Improv Lessons from Old Site
There are many more and links will be added shortly.
So I think this should start with blues improv lessons: