Jamorama Relaunches with Free Guitar Lessons

The guys at Jamorama have just re-vamped their website and re-launched the most popular of online guitar lesson packages.

Jamorama Lead and Jamorama Acoustic have been withdrawn and the range now consists of two products: Jamorama Standard, which is $49.95 and Jamorama Deluxe, which is $99.95.

The ugliest Epiphone Casino ever? Or the prettiest? You decide

Have a look at the painted Casino on GuitarSite and see what you think. Me? Well, let’s just say that I think the fact that the artist felt the need to enhance its auction value by having The Allman Brother Band autograph it says that she wasn’t to confident about it. And I can see [...]

Fantastic Blues Guitar Solo Lesson

This lesson on how to play a blues guitar solo comes form Dan Denley, author of several courses of guitar lessons. Dan’s a great teacher and communicator and makes it easy to play along with him. You can find out more about his Blues Guitar Secrets course here.

Adding Videos of Strum Patterns | A Guitar Teachers Lesson Notebook

add videos of him demonstrating strum patterns and link them to the chord charts on his site. Getting the strum pattern right is something that can be difficult to do, and impossible if you only read a Tab or chord chart, rather than actually listen to the song you’re learning.

It’s a brilliant idea and one which will certainly help and inspire me to learn new material

Talking about strumming, so many of us focus on getting left hand (or right hand if your a lefty) that we don’t spend enough time practising strumming technique. Getting the strumming accurate and flawless can be the difference between nailing a song and sounding like someone who’s learned a few chords and picked up a guitar for the first time. It’s that important.

Five great iPhone apps for guitar players

The whole world seems to be talking about the new iPhone 3G at the moment. And with good reason: I’ve had one for just over a week now and already I’m wondering how I managed without it.

One of the great features of the new iPhone software, which comes with the iPhone 3G and is available as a free uprgrade for older iPhones, is the ability to install third party applications.

Apple’s App Store is already brimming with fantastic applications. So what, you ask, has this to do with guitars, Kenny? Well, it so happens that quite a few of the new apps are music related and a number of those are aimed at guitar players.

How to read guitar tab

Learning how to read guitar tab is an essential task for anyone new to the guitar. Most guitar players, unlike say violinists or pianists, are self taught and many have never learned how to read music. For guitarists who are able and happy to learn everything they want to play by ear, that’s not a problem. For the rest of us it makes it very difficult to learn new tunes, or it would if it wasn’t for guitar tab.