Bluegrass Jam Along
The IBMA Award winning podcast for anyone and everyone who loves bluegrass.
Free fiddle tune backing tracks and interviews with amazing people from the world of bluegrass.
For every tune we give you four brand new tracks:
- Backup 4 times through (you play the tune or improvise breaks)
- Tune 4 times through (you play backup)
- ‘Jam Along’ (4 complete run throughs, alternating backup and tune)
- Full performance
For more info and chord charts, visit https://bluegrassjamalong.com. Hope you find these tracks useful (and thanks for listening!) - Matt
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 490
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Food for Thought #2 - '100 Whiskey Before Breakfasts'
This week's food for thought centres around the question 'what is the actual tune?'
We all know Whiskey Before Breakfast, right? But we also probably all know slightly different versions. So, how does…
Black Mountain Rag (D 75 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the Black Mountain Rag. This is a performance track, rather than a backing track. It's me playing both tune and backup so you've got a reference to listen to if you'r…
Black Mountain Rag (D 75 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to Black Mountain Rag and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play rhythm track where I play the melody so you can work on backup. …
Black Mountain Rag (D 75 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Black Mountain Rag and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the jam along track where I play backup, then the tune and w…
Black Mountain Rag (D 75 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to Black Mountain Rag and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play lead track where I play backup so you can work on the tune. It'…
Food for Thought #1 - Tony Rice
Hi everyone.
This is the first in a new series of episodes called 'Food for Thought'. Each one introduces an interesting (and short!) thought or idea about music that got me thinking about how I play …
East Tennessee Blues (C 75 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune East Tennessee Blues and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the jam along track where I play backup, then the tune and…
East Tennessee Blues (C 75 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune East Tennessee Blues. This is a performance track, rather than a backing track. It's me playing both tune and backup so you've got a reference to lis…
East Tennessee Blues (C 75 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to East Tennessee Blues and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play lead track where I play backup so you can work on the tune. I…
East Tennessee Blues (C 75 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to East Tennessee Blues and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play rhythm track where I play the melody so you can work on backup…
Bryan Sutton interview (episode #100)
Welcome to the 100th episode of Bluegrass Jam Along. To celebrate we have a very special interview with bluegrass flatpicking legend Bryan Sutton.
Bryan is not only a Grammy Award winner, he was also …
Bill Cheatham (A 85 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Bill Cheatham and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play rhythm track where I play the melody so you can work…
Bill Cheatham (A 85 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Bill Cheatham. This is a performance track, rather than a backing track. It's me playing both tune and backup so you've got a reference to listen to …
Bill Cheatham (A 85 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Bill Cheatham and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play lead track where I play backup so you can work on th…
Bill Cheatham (A 85 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Bill Cheatham and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the jam along track where I play backup, then the tune and we swa…
Billy in the Lowground (C 85 bpm) - You Play Lead
This week we're jamming along to Billy in the Lowground and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play lead track where I play backup so you can work on the tune. …
Billy in the Lowground (C 85 bpm) - You Play Rhythm
This week we're jamming along to Billy in the Lowground and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the you play rhythm track where I play the melody so you can work on back…
Billy in the Lowground (C 85 bpm) - Jam Along
This week we're jamming along to Billy in the Lowground and I've got three brand new backing track episodes for you. This is the jam along track where I play backup, followed by the melody then we k…
Billy in the Lowground (C 85 bpm) - Performance
This week we're jamming along to the classic tune Billy in the Lowground. This is a performance track, rather than a backing track. It's me playing both tune and backup so you've got a reference to l…
Marcel Ardans (Lessons With Marcel) Interview
My guest on the podcast today is Marcel Ardans, who most of you will know through his site and YouTube channel Lessons With Marcel (if you don't know those, check out the links below!)
We chat about l…