Backing Tracks' hottest parts!

[Niktar]

So guys there's something I want to share with you,
I have recently had a round of interviews with GuitarBackingTrack users.
7 out of 10 were either performing musicians or YouTubers or both
I am glad to post links to channels of some of the guys I talked to:
Cesar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruRVly7q1WE
Chris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0w9Y2vxljM

Thanks a lot to you, guys, you rock, no doubt!

What I got from the interviews is that backing tracks mostly help with:
- practicing the tempo and timing
- orientation in a song
- rehearsing in order to not screw up in front of the audience of your band at rehearsal.

So, broadly speaking it helps you practice playing the whole piece from start till finish with the right tempo and timing.

 
I must be right to say though, that not all our users are professionals and performerss who need to know the whole song.

So, here's a question from me: how good do you usually have to know the song in order to be playing it with the backing track?
Do you have to be able to play the whole song or do you start playing with the BT even if you only know a part of the song?

A lot of us are bedroom guitarists (well, I, certainly, am one of those) and when I nail some part of the song I can't wait to play it with the backing track. 
And of course these parts I learn are the "hottest" and most recognizable riffs and solos of the song.
So, the fact that I can be Ritchie Blackmore or Brian May just for 20-30 seconds makes me happy like hell. And, to say the truth, I don't usually have the intention to learn the whole song.

So, what do you guys think about that all?
Does that sound familiar to you?

Are you a whole song learner?
Or do you mostly play the hottest parts?

[Yurichъ]

Does that sound familiar to you?

Very much 

Are you a whole song learner?
Or do you mostly play the hottest parts?

Mostly at the first point, but the hottest parts from several songs can be organized into a hot new song too.

[eduardoritos]

I like playing myself out with a familiar song on the back. That way, I can play with freedom, because I know the chords and changes, and I'm not molested by a voice singing.
I don't like Jam Tracks, because the most of them are plain chord changes, with no dinamics, nor tesion moments (not all Jam Tracks are that way, but I prefer not investigating, having the posibility of listening to Rainbow's Satargazer, and play solo or rythm).

[jimrocks22]

Trying to get VH Ice Cream Man solo down, it is one bitch of a solo to play hats off to Eddie he probably did it in one take yeesh! I nearly get it all the way usually blow  the ending or the beginning so its I'm almost like Eddie for 20 seconds till I blow it lol

[AlbertThoxy]

thanks again howard. i managed to get the backing tracks onto my smart media card and i am able to hear it on the ps-04 and play along. i didnt realize that the restore card function in card manager was how you transfer the aud files back onto your card. i will have to run through the whole process again to make sure i have it down. thanks again

[2904]

Whole song here

[richardlpalmer]

I'm more of a whole song learner -- and the overall difficulty of the song is what I use to decide if I'm going to learn it. For instance, I could easily play most of Walk by Pantera, but the solo is out of my league, so I don't have that BT in my rotation. But I can play all of Yellow Ledbetter (by Pearl Jam) so I would use that BT...