Backing Tracks - Tunes and Exercises

This page has the list of backing tracks available at the Jazz Improv Institute organized by tune name, exercises in 12 keys, tutorials, and Christmas tunes.

Head on over to the other page for Blues, Rhythm Changes, and Two Chord backing tracks in 12 keys.

Tunes Backing Tracks

• A Beautiful Friendship

• A Child is Born

• All of Me

• Alone Together

• Anthropology

• Autumn Leaves

• All the Things You Are

• Auld Lang Syne

• Bags Groove

• Beatrice

• Beautiful Love

• Blue Monk

• Bluesette

• Boy What A Night

• Bye Bye Blackbird

• Ceora

• Cherokee

• Confirmation

• Daahoud

• Deluge

• Honeysuckle Rose

• Impressions

• In a Mellow Tone

• It Could Happen To You

• Just Friends in G

• Just Friends in F

• I Love You

• Killer Joe

• One Finger Snap

• On Green Dolphin Street in C

• On Green Dolphin Street in Eb

• Out of Nowhere

• Overjoyed

• Recorda Me

• Satin Doll

• Sextette

• Silver Serenade

• Sonnymoon for Two

• Stella by Starlight

• Sunny

• Tenor Madness

• There Will Never Be Another You

• Ugetsu

• What is this thing called love

Exercises in 12 Keys Backing Tracks

• ii V7 I half measure each

• ii V7 one measure each

• ii V7 I four measures each

• ii7(b5) V7(b9) one measure each

• ii7(b5) V7(b9) i four measures each

• V7 four measures each

• V7 two measures each

• Minor ii one measure each

Two Chord Backing Tracks

• Dm - G7

• Gm - C7

• Cm - F7

• Fm - Bb7

Christmas Tunes

• A Child is Born

• Blue Christmas

• Auld Lang Syne

• Baby, It’s Cold Outside

• Christmas Time is Here

• Feliz Navidad

• Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

• This Christmas

• We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Tutorials (videos)

• Autumn Leaves

• Confirmation Sequence

• 3 Easy Ways to Practice Jazz

• ii V7 I Explained Simply

• 15 Minute Jazz Practice System Ep 2

• Honeysuckle Rose Part 1