Piano backing tracks for jazz

These jazz themed backing tracks give you a chance to improvise on the piano by using major and minor scales.

Backing tracks are music arrangements designed for play-along practice. Here you have the opportunity to play along with common scales. The Jazz Piano Backing Tracks album includes instrumental tracks made specially for jazz piano. Prior knowledge of Major and Minor scales is helpful, but not required. If you don't know the scales, clicking on "Show scale" makes the relevant scale visible.

You don't need to change scales with chord change. Instead, you can use a single scale for the whole song. However, try to listen carefully to the backing track and be restrictive with some notes that seems to collide with the notes in the chords that are played; for example, the fourth note in the major scale will often not sound very good over a major chord). To make it a little more sophisticated and jazzier, try incorporating additional scales. Another approach is to use chromatic scales (especially in bebop, chromatic notes are used a lot).

Backing tracks for jazz piano presented by Pianoscales.org.