AI Backing Track Generator for Practice

How do you make a backing track in a specific key and tempo?

Choose a style such as blues, rock, jazz or funk, pick a target key (for example A minor), type the BPM, pick the time signature and set the length. Choose the instrument you play and it's left out of the track, so you play that part. Each run gives you two instrumental versions in a minute or two.

  • Works on the free plan

    20 credits per run, two versions included. Free accounts get 50 credits every month, no subscription needed.

  • Use it in your videos

    Play over it in lessons, practice videos and YouTube covers, including on the free plan.

How do you make a backing track in a specific key and tempo?

A jam track for your practice

Set the tempo, key and length

40 to 240 BPM in 4/4, 3/4 or 6/8, a target key in major or minor, and 30 seconds to 5 minutes long. The tempo is followed closely, so you can slow a groove down while you learn it.

Your instrument is left out

Choose guitar, bass, drums, keys, sax or vocals and that part is left out of the band. Drummers get a drumless track, bassists a bassless one, guitarists a track with no guitar.

12 styles, two takes every time

Blues, rock, jazz, funk, pop, R&B, country, metal, reggae, bossa nova, lo-fi and gospel. Add a chord progression like 12-bar blues or Am - F - C - G as guidance.

AI backing track vs YouTube jam tracks vs chord chart apps

YouTube tracks come in fixed versions. Chord chart apps follow your chart exactly but often sound programmed. An AI backing track is generated fresh for your tempo, style and length, with the key and chords as a target.

  • Choose the tempo

    • AI backing track:Yes, followed closely
    • YouTube jam tracks:Only what's uploaded
    • Chord chart apps:Yes

  • Choose the key

    • AI backing track:As a target
    • YouTube jam tracks:Only what's uploaded
    • Chord chart apps:Yes, exact

  • Leaves out your instrument

    • AI backing track:Yes
    • YouTube jam tracks:Sometimes
    • Chord chart apps:Yes, mute a part

  • Follows an exact chord chart

    • AI backing track:As guidance
    • YouTube jam tracks:Fixed per track
    • Chord chart apps:Yes

How to make a backing track

Three steps. No musicians needed.

  1. 1

    Pick the style and your instrument

    Choose the style you want to practice and the instrument you play. That instrument is left out of the track.

  2. 2

    Set tempo, key and length

    Type the BPM, choose a target key and the time signature, and set the length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. Add a chord progression if you want one.

  3. 3

    Generate and practice

    Two versions are usually ready in a minute or two. Play them in your library, or download the MP3 and loop it in your player or DAW.

When to use an AI backing track

Use it to practice soloing, improvising, drumming or singing over a band at the tempo you need. Use a chord chart app when you need every chord exactly as written.

Best for

  • ✓Drumless, bassless or no-guitar practice tracks
  • ✓Practicing solos and improvisation over a groove
  • ✓Slow practice tracks at a tempo you can play
  • ✓Warm-ups, lessons and practice videos

Not for

  • !Following a complex jazz chart chord by chord
  • !Full songs with vocals (use the AI song generator)

Why make your own backing track

Backing tracks on YouTube come in the key and tempo someone else chose. If you want to practice a blues at 70 BPM, or slow a funk groove down while you learn it, you have to search until you find one, or change the speed and lose sound quality.

Here you set the tempo, the time signature, a target key and the length before the track is made. Choose the instrument you play and it's left out: drummers get a drumless track, bassists a bassless one, guitarists a track with no guitar.

The tempo is followed closely. The key and any chord progression you type are a target rather than an exact chart, so play along for a few bars before a long session. Each run gives you two takes; if neither fits, generate again.

AI backing track FAQ

The tempo is followed closely: set 90 BPM and you get about 90 BPM. The key is a target, not a guarantee, so play a few notes along at the start to confirm it. Choose 4/4, 3/4 or 6/8 for the time signature.

Yes. Set I play to the instrument you play: Drums gives you a drumless track, Bass a bassless one, Guitar a track with no guitar. The rest of the band plays so you can practice your part over it.

Guitar, bass, drums, piano and keys, saxophone and horns, or vocals. Choose Other to keep the full band. Tracks for melody instruments also come without a lead melody, so there is room for your solo.

20 credits per run, and each run gives you two versions, whatever the length. Free accounts get 50 credits every month, no subscription required.

Set any length from 30 seconds to 5 minutes. There's no loop button here; download the MP3 and loop it in your player, DAW or looper pedal.

You can type one, such as 12-bar blues, ii-V-I or Am - F - C - G. The AI uses it as guidance, not as an exact chord chart, so listen to the first bars before you practice over it.

Yes. Tracks you make here can be used commercially in lessons, practice videos, covers and other projects, including on the free plan. Subscribers can also download a commercial license certificate and WAV files.

Blues, rock, jazz, funk, pop, R&B and neo soul, country, metal, reggae, bossa nova and Latin, lo-fi hip hop and gospel.

Make your backing track

Pick a style, tempo, target key and your instrument, and get two jam tracks without your part in a minute or two. 20 credits per run; free accounts get 50 credits every month.