Good songs to jam to

Mustang Sally - a Blues riff - not an instrumental but it's got a great groove to play with.
 
Anything Steely Dan. It's a mix of rock, R&B, jazz, and blues.

Check out the albums:

  • Pretzel Logic
  • Katy Lied
  • The Royal Scam
  • Aja
  • Gaucho
  • Two Against Nature
  • Everything Must Go

Innvervisions by Stevie Wonder is also great!

I know they're not instrumentals, but there are a lot of instrumental breaks and solos and whatnot, plus the drumming on almost every song on all of those albums is superb. Stevie Wonder swings and grooves his ass off and plays the tastiest fills and parts.
 
Some old school songs I've enjoyed jamming:

Blues & Lounge
Chitlins Con Carne
Watch Out
Hideaway
Stormy Monday
Walking the Dog
Do It Again
Moondance
The Thrill is Gone
Cry Me a River

Rock
All Along the Watchtower
You Really Got Me
All the Day and All of the Night
Summertime
Sunshine of Your Love
I Put a Spell on You
I'm Bored
CC Rider
Boots
Fire
Love Me Two Times
 
Preferably instrumental...

These are instrumentals ambient music with some nice grooves to play along, they're great for practicing or just playing for fun :)

Koan - Flying cities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxt_RkpvA-Y

Koan - Hotei http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-CfibS_ONA&feature=related

Zero cult - Cosmophobia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8nTfzYAGDo

Amon Tobin - Defocus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrjHQRfEJo

There's a huge amount of music like this on YT, and it's a nice way to create your own groove while playing along with them.
 
We did a cool song the other night that I thought was fun to play....Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull. I'm playing it on guitar too on my own.

Then after that we did a CCR medley. You can do about 6 or 7 of their songs with the same three chords. So we just jumped around from song to song. We'd start with Green River, somewhere in there was Run Through the Jungle and Susie Q, amongst others. It was cool.
 
"move on up" by curtis mayfield, "i am the slime" and "camarillo brillo" by frank zappa
 
Instrumental:

Freeway Jam
Green Onions
Chameleon
Hideaway
Surfing With the Alien

Vocal:

All Along the Watchtower
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Stormy Monday
Key to the Highway


Peace, goodwill, and happy jamming.
 
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