Where to Find Great Backing Tracks to Practice Your Favorite Songs

If you are taking voice lessons to improve your singing, then what better way is there than to practice with the songs you love to sing… using good backing tracks that deliver instrumental music to your favorite songs! When I teach voice in my studio, after practicing the scales I would throw in songs and backing tracks to help my pupils apply their training to singing. The songs that I use are very carefully selected for a purpose.  I tend to want to work with classics. Songs from yesteryear were sung without the aid of computers and techno gimmicks. Back then you really had to sing. You had to become an instrument. Hence, what you get to draw from working with such songs is real and achievable when you put your mind and practice to it.  

RECOMMENDED BACKING TRACK SITES

I’ve used numerous sites to get my backing tracks. Hereunder I’m going to review a couple of the good ones.

STANDARDSTRAX.COM

This site has great jazz backing tracks of absolute top quality production in .WAV format. I use these backing tracks for my live performances. They’re that good. If you want jazz backing tracks to perform live with, standardstrax.com will provide you with the best. They sell for about £5 per track and they also giveaway some great offers from time to time. The producer, Alan McPike, is a really good man. He is very helpful and will go out of his way to help you. 

KARAOKE-VERSION.COM

For me this is a relatively new find. What I like about this provider is that they have a very wide selection of genres, including piano versions to most songs. Something else I like about their backing tracks is that they are of good MP3 quality. I personally wouldn’t use these for live performances though. I don’t think they’d be good enough for me in that department, but if you want to practice singing at home, have fun and hone your vocals at the same time, there’s something for everybody at karaoke-version.com

I hope this information comes in handy for you. And for those of you taking lessons with me, feel free to download whatever tracks you fancy. Just make sure you bring along the original track (with vocals), and two copies of the lyrics (which you can download off the net), and be sure to put those on CD (the quality is better) when you bring them to my studio. 

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JOETT
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Joett Voice Lessons EXCLUSIVE Audio Files Part 1

This is something else that I've wanted to do for a while...to upload vocal training session audio recordings to my blog, just to show you how I work and what a dedicated and talented singer stands to gain when they take voice lessons.

In this recording, I'm in a session with Sonia, an 11 year-old Tanzanian girl with exceptional talent. We'd done a one hour session of practice with the scales, and this was the culmination of the session where I gave her the Dionne Warwick classic That's What Friends Are For to sing to a piano backing track.

I cannot emphasize this enough, if you do the scales CORRECTLY it gets a lot easier to apply technique to songs. Why? Because the voice will have been there in the scales IF you did them correctly. And one more thing: you need to throw away your inhibitions and ALLOW the voice to do the job. Sonia pays a lot of attention during training; is very focused; and follows my advice and instructions to the letter. And she has no inhibitions when singing. Whatsoever. Which brings out her unique personality and emotion in her vocal. The result of which is what you'll hear in this recording. Enjoy!


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JOETT
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Download Joett tracks from iTunes, Amazon MP3, TuneCore.
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Joett Gives FREE Trial Voice Lessons Via SKYPE

I’ve always wanted to give voice lessons via SKYPE. Now that I have a really fast wireless connection with Tanzania’s fastest – Smile, I am well positioned to teach voice over the internet.

HOW I WORK 

I’m going to keep it really simple. Call me to make an appointment. Once that is set, I will hook-up with you online, send you a recorded piano track of the scales we’ll be working on for you to play your end and sing over your SKYPE connection. I will listen and correct you as we go along. And when the time comes to practice with a song, I will ask you to rehearse your end before you come online (to save time), and then I will send you the backing track MP3 for you to sing to. Easy! 

Contact me today to make an appointment for FREE Trial Voice Lessons Via SKYPE. It isn't going to be free forever, so HURRY!

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JOETT
Vocal Coach & Author

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Voice Lessons Via SKYPE 
Letters from a Vocal Coach

FREE Arpeggios Exercise mp3
Learn to Sing with Joett Vocal Training CD 

FREE Letters from A Vocal Coach E-Book here!
Learn to Sing in 4-Hours Comprehensive CRASH Course

Download Joett tracks from iTunes, Amazon MP3, TuneCore.
Buy Joett CDs from A Novel Idea Bookstores Dar, Zanzibar, Arusha.
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Voice Lessons: Understanding WHY We Do These Lifeless Exercises

Get this, as you do your scales, absorb what you’re doing in greater depth in order to TRULY understand WHY you’re doing this. And the message is in the scales. How does it feel to you when you’re practicing? How do YOU think this would apply to singing a song? If you begin to go deeper down the TRYING TO UNDERSTAND side of things, you will begin to understand how all of this applies to your singing performance WHEN you’re singing a song.

I thought I should post this pointer on my blog today because, it happens all the time in my voice studio, when students don’t quite ‘get it’. They’ll get it right in the scales, and then get stuck in a song. IF you understand yourself and what you’re doing in training and why, it shouldn’t be so difficult. So the next time you’re having trouble applying your training to singing a song, try to understand why we do these lifeless exercises. Literally. Analyze everything that you do in training in greater depth. It helps.

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JOETT
Vocal Coach & Author

Private Singing Lessons
Letters from a Vocal Coach

FREE Arpeggios Exercise mp3
Learn to Sing with Joett Vocal Training CD 

FREE Letters from A Vocal Coach E-Book here!
Learn to Sing in 4-Hours Comprehensive CRASH Course

Download Joett tracks from iTunes, Amazon MP3, TuneCore.
Buy Joett CDs from A Novel Idea Bookstores Dar, Zanzibar, Arusha.
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Letters from A Vocal Coach E-Book (FREE PDF Download)

If anything, working as a vocal coach over the years has helped me understand the human voice better. Whenever I’m dealing with voice issues that my students are going through and trying to solve their problems—as everybody is different—I almost always pick up yet another solution to seemingly insurmountable difficulties and challenges singing throws at you.

My NEW e-Book Letters from a Vocal Coach is intended to serve as a reference point you can return to again and again should you run into any difficulties with your singing. Contained herein is a fountain of articles and knowledge that you can draw inspiration and guidance from. It’s very easy to regress in this business, you’ll be amazed. So please treasure this handbook and be blessed with a great singing voice for always.

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JOETT
Vocal Coach & Author
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Letters from a Vocal Coach
Learn to Sing with Joett Vocal Training CD 
Learn to Sing in 4-Hours Comprehensive CRASH Course

Download Joett tracks from iTunes, Amazon MP3, TuneCore.
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Radio Airplay Pros Select Color Me Beautiful and I Could Never Live (Without Your Love) by Joett for Sony, Capitol, Columbia Records

Radio Airplay Pros has hooked up with Song Submit to find POP/DANCE/R&B/TOP-40 SONGS to pitch to TOP RECORD LABELS + MUSIC EXECUTIVES in the Music Industry. Radio Airplay Pros clients include Def Jam Records, Universal Records, Sony-BMG, Capitol Records, Atlantic Records, Columbia Records, and more! The company is a well-connected radio placement firm offering guaranteed airplay services to all levels of radio including Internet (Live365, AOL, Pandora, On Demand, Rhapsody, Yahoo, MTV & Shoutcast), Satellite, College, and Terrestrial Radio (Major FM - BDS / Mediabase Reporting Stations).

This listing was accepting Pop, Dance, and R&B Club songs w/ vocal performances (no instrumentals). Styles of songs needed to include all mainstream Pop, Dance, R&B, Top-40 Songs (See Billboard Hot 100 Charts for Examples). Selected songs are considered directly by RadioAirplayPros.com. Winners will have their music pitched as solicited to top Record Labels + Music Executives within its Network.

Well, once again, my song Color Me Beautiful and this time I Could Never Live Without Your Love),  both of which are published via the American Society of Composers, Authors And Publishers (ASCAP), have been selected and are now being forwarded as solicited to music executives for possible signing and placement on major Film, TV, Record Label, or Album projects.

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to all involved in the production of Color Me Beautiful and I Could Never Live (Without Your Love): Max Rioba (Authentic Records, Tanzania), Ken Kanyeria (41 Records, Tanzania), Patrick Jonsson and Toby Warren (Ignition Sound, UK) who've all done an absolutely brilliant job. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Many many thanks, once again you ROCK!

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Download FREE I Could Never Live (Without Your Love) mp3 here!

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JOETT
Vocal Coach & Author
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Learn to Sing with Joett Vocal Training CD

Download Joett tracks from iTunes, Amazon MP3, TuneCore.
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Introducing Learn to Sing in 4 Hours Comprehensive CRASH Course

I have tried and tested this system over an extended period of time, and I can confirm that it most definitely works! Every time. If you've got SOME talent AND you consider yourself to be, musically, a fast learner, then this system can put your voice in order and have you singing nearly as good as a pro in no time at all. The principal is really quite simple.

INTRODUCING Private Speech Level Singing Lessons in my studio where, under supervision, I will help you connect your chest voice to your head voice; and quickly help you to mend the bridges in just FOUR HOURS. In addition to this, I will give you homework tailored to your needs, so that you may continue to train at home with my Learn to Sing with Joett vocal training CD package which also has ongoing online support with YouTube video illustrations on my blog. If done SERIOUSLY,  REGULARLY and CORRECTLY, this will help you fast-track YOUR learning curve using numerous adaptations of these vocal exercises to fix a multitude of vocal problems. It's really that simple!

Call me NOW to BOOK for the Learn to Sing in 4 Hours Comprehensive CRASH Course for Only Tanzania Shs 140,000. I've made it SO affordable to help as many people as possible achieve their dreams of becoming better singers. Limited space available, so don't delay. Book your place NOW!


You are the instrument, learn to sing like a pro!

JOETT
Vocal Coach & Author
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Learn to Sing with Joett Vocal Training CD

Download Joett tracks from iTunes, Amazon MP3, TuneCore.
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