If you feel you need to give your guitar skills a boost and make some forward progress in how you teach yourself guitar then the Jamorama system could suit you.
To provide the reader with a gauge of my ability, I had attended over two dozen lessons over the years, been mentored by friends who are quite good guitarists and read numerous books to try and improve my skills which had seemed to plateau at an intermediate level.
The guitar tuition progress was limited to the 30/60 minute class and how much effective practice I could do during the week after getting maybe 2/3 key takeaways from a class. The cost of guitar tuition didn’t help either. In any case, I have always felt it is much easier and more beneficial to teach yourself guitar anyway. My experiences with reading guitar books was short lived due to the passive nature of reading books – in truth we can all learn the guitar best from ’seeing’ how a chord/technique is performed.
I needed an approach that was visually oriented, helps you teach yourself guitar but at your own pace and had enough variety in its teaching approaches to stop me losing interest in the lessons. Learning guitar online seemed to be the ideal approach. After assessing reviews of several online products I chose to go with Jamorama.
The product’s learning method incorporates video lessons, eBooks and jam tracks. There is a natural progression through the lessons to build up the player from an absolute beginner to advanced level meaning I could skip over the simpler lessons and focus in on the more complex sections.
Jamorama builds upon the online guitar lessons to apply your new skills using a jam-along approach (hence the name). This means the student can play along with professional tracks that are suited to that lessons stage. Tracks are chosen from rock, country, jazz, blues, dance & hip-hop genres in an effort to broaden the guitarists range of skills (why restrict yourself to one genre when you can apply the skills of one genre to another – true innovation).
The jam tracks introduce different playing styles and while some players will perhaps baulk at the idea of learning jazz riffs, or country picking styles, or hard rock hammer-on techniques, you ultimately becoming a better player on a technical level by giving these skills a try.
Jamorama also introduced me to music theory concepts (chord progressions, etc.) which I had not fully grasped previously. This was an eye-opener for me as I have now come to understand the progressions used in most modern songs follow some very simple templates. This knowledge makes it easy to then play by ear with any tune once you have worked out the root chord that is used.
In conclusion, I’ve been happy with the progressive improvements that Jamorama provides through its logical sequence of lessons. The interactive video media suits my learning style (replaying techniques or sections of lessons repeatedly) and the jam tracks have solidified the new knowledge in a simulated band setting. The bonus of learning some music theory has given me the confidence to understand popular tunes song structure and now forms a key tool in my own songwriting tool-kit.
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