ZZ Top Style Blues Rock Backing Track (Gm) 

Hey Purple Shade, thanks so much for the comment and we love the fact that you're enjoying the track so much that your fingers are bleeding! 😂 Let us know if there's anything else you'd like to hear and have a great day!

Ah thanks so much for the comment Terry, glad you like it! Feel free to let us know if there are any other kinds of backing track you'd like to hear and we'll try adding it to the list. :)

Thanks for the comment Shan, glad you're enjoying the backing tracks. Is there anything you'd like to see with regard to future lessons for backing tracks? Let us know!

Thanks so much Max! We're pleased to see the views on this video shooting up!

Thank you my friend! This track, above all of our others, seems to have grabbed people, which is nice! Happy jamming and thanks for taking the time to comment.

Thanks Boris, glad you're enjoying it mate!

Thank you so much, it's so great to hear that people are enjoying our tracks. This one in particular really seems to have struck a chord (excuse the pun) with people! Please let us know if there's any type of track or lesson you'd like to hear and we'll add it to the list. Thanks again for the comment.

@@TheJamStation oh wow that is a very generous offer and I'm going to take you up on that!! I'll think about it for a day. I have recently become enamored with ZZ Top. It's been great for busking. I've always loved their music but I've never played it. It always seems fun but... it never really peaked my interest to learn it. But when I started actually learning their songs correctly then the magic hit me. There's a lot of little tricks and fun things going on. Gibbons. hybrid picking or down tuning etc. I already play lead with my fingers mostly so hybrid picking was not a huge jump for me. I came across your track when I was just taking a break from playing Jesus just left for Chicago And I just wanted a jam for a while. And boy did I have fun. I'm definitely going to add this to my busking jam tracklist. You know these guys and this kind of music just have to be right in the pocket or it doesn't work. ZZ Top is so good at that. I've been struggling to do one of his riffs on LaGrange at full speed. The first one I know it I just got to keep practicing. I ran across a live track of theirs The only track I've ever heard,, live or not where they don't sound particularly great. They are not in the pocket and they sound like they're on Quaaludes or have the flu They just weren't having a fantastic night. And when I heard him play that lead I realized I'm doing pretty well. I'll get there. It's not even hard for me it's just been painfully slow to get to speed. He actually slowed it down in this instance. The entire song was slow. Normally I'm humbled by the greats but in this instance it just made me feel a little bit better about having my own bad nights! And it reiterated the importance of needing to play in the pocket when playing this kind of blues. And if you want to keep that magic you have you got to learn the songs correctly the way they played them. And then you can add your own style if you want to. At least That's been working for me as I get to know their music more. So far I've learned Cheap Sunglasses La Grange and Jesus just left for Chicago. All have been great additions for busking.

Okay that didn't take long i have a request. I know there's some backing tracks already but what about an old school Montrose jam track school style backing track like a rock candy style or bad motor scooters or something like that? I think it would be fun. Just an idea. I know that songs have backing tracks already of course these days just about everything does but I don't think there's too many jam tracks in that style or for those songs. Could be fun. And I know somebody just recently put a lesson out for rock candy might generate some other interest.

@@funkymonkey8174 Agreed, ZZ Top is infinitely cool and Billy Gibbons, although not a flashy player is an awesome blues player - always fantastic tone and feel. Apparently even Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of the young Gibbons before he died! Cheap Sunglasses is great - in fact that whole Deguello album is awesome!

@@funkymonkey8174 I must confess, none of us know a lot of Montrose but I've just blasted Candy Rock through the speakers and it's very cool. We'll add it to the list - thanks for the recommendation and keep in touch!

Thank you for your comment Matze, it's appreciated! And we're very pleased you like the video. Keep in touch!

@@TheJamStation Was a pleasure. By the way: I use the G Blues scale and the G minor pentatonic.

@@matzedapresi3862 Awesome! We'd love to see that, Matze! No pressure but if you share a video of yourself jamming to one of our backing tracks on Twitter or Facebook and tag us, then we'll add you to the 'Friends of the Jam Station' section of our channel! Have a good evening and thanks again for your comments.

Hi Barrie thanks for the message mate. We would LOVE to see that - both the acoustic slide AND the beard! ;) Billy Gibbons was a great slide soloist as well - check out Tush and you'll see what we mean. Happy new year and keep jamming.

@@TheJamStation ha! .. Yep Billy is a legend.. ZZ top what a band.. your track nail their spirit.. no great skill in my slide work on 12th and 5fret but your track was fun to pretend to be in the band ( was actually on my sofa at home!) Cheers for the music!

@@barriesansom2070 Thanks for the compliment Barrie and I'm glad you're enjoying our tracks. Let us know if there's another artist you'd like us to cover.

Hi Andrew, thanks for taking the time to leave such a detailed response, it's great to hear from you and what your approach would be! A distorted Les Paul would definitely give you that harmonic-rich Billy Gibbons tone - feel free to share a video of you improvising over the backing track and would could share it on our facebook or Twitter pages! Take care.

Halfway through Im done!

@@gregdemeterband Ha ha, Greg, sounds like you need to work on your soloing stamina my friend! 🙃 Hope you enjoyed it though - it's our most popular track!

@@TheJamStation I don't need anything if I actually learn the parts, like Stranglehold...But most of what I put out is IMPROVATION and Ideas...Maybe i will TRY playing to this track once, just make you happy, Ha!

@@TheJamStation Not really, just got Board of playing to other people's LIMITED skill back tracks!