MIDI Files for Soloing/Improvisation Practice

Here is a chance to work on soloing and improvisation. I have scales in all major and natural minor keys and practice progressions to help develop your improvisatory skills.

Major/Natural Minor Scale Fingerings

These pages of scales are in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. If you don't already have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, click here to get it. Please note that the keys of F#/D#m, Cb/Abm and C#/A#m are not included because they are fingered the same respectively as Gb/Dbm, B/G#m and Db/Bbm.

• Page 1: Keys of C/Am, G/Em, D/Bm and A/F#m.
• Page 2: Keys of E/C#m, B/G#m, F/Dm and Bb/Gm.
• Page 3: Keys of Eb/Cm, Ab/Fm, Db/Bbm and Gb/Ebm

Major Scale Practice Progressions

Use these MIDI files as accompaniment for improvising using major scales in the key of each progression. These are all I-vi-ii-V progressions.

Natural Minor Scale Practice Progressions

Blues Progressions

Use these MIDI files as accompaniment for improvising against I-IV-V Blues Progressions.

Key of C

Key of G

Key of E

Key of A

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