Review of Jamorama

Face to face tuition for the guitar can be costly and is not an option for many beginners. An inexpensive alternative is the downloadable guitar course which allows you to learn in the comfort of your own home. There are many such courses out there and one of the longest established and a leader in the field is the one offered by Jamorama. This Jamorama review will help you decide if the course will be suitable for you.

The course is aimed fairly and squarely at the beginning guitarist and assumes no prior knowledge of playing. There are almost 150 lessons on video, all accessible online so there is no need to worry about not having enough space on your hard drive. The step-by-step-tuition makes learning simple.

One feature of the videos which is ideal for beginners to the guitar is the way both the right and left hands are shown together with a split screen technique. This is almost as good as having a real person demonstrating how to play. To complement the videos the Jamorama course has lessons written in digital book format. These can be printed out so that they can be studied away from the computer.

There is not a lot of music theory contained in the course material - the emphasis is on learning to play by actually playing music rather than learning scales. This is good for keeping people motivated as they can be playing simple tunes right from the start. An added attraction here is that the audio files contain tracks recorded by professional musicians so that users can "jam" along with them.

There is also a bundle of software that comes with the Jamorama course. The built-in metronome will keep you in time and the electronic tuner will keep you in tune. Another piece of software that is particularly useful for the beginner is the "Guitar Ear". For those who find it difficult to identify notes or chords by ear this program will help to train the ear.

A feature of Jamorama that might appeal to some people is that it can also be purchased as a physical product. This has all the information contained on books and on DVDs. This can be useful as the DVDs can be played on your TV as well as your computer. The physical version has its disadvantages, however. First of all you have to wait for it to arrive, unlike the download which you can be using within a few minutes of purchase. The other disadvantage is that it is quite a bit more expensive.

Hopefully this Jamorama review will help you to decide whether the course is the right one for you. It probably won't make you into a rock star overnight, but, with constant practice of the techniques given in the course, there is no reason why you shouldn't soon be a reasonably competent guitarist. Everything you need to know is given in the Jamorama course.

If you search the net for information on how to play guitar, then you're sure to come across some of the downloadable 'guitar learning' courses that are currently on the market. There are quite a few of these currently available, but some are better than others. Of all the courses I have seen, Jamorama is the best. Here I'll talk you through just what makes it so great, so you can decide for yourself if you want to buy it.

Firstly, let's take a look at what Jamorama is, and what you get in the deal. Jamorama is a complete guitar course aimed primarily at beginners. It combines video and audio with written instructions, to make learning to play the guitar both fun and easy. The main bulk of the course is contained within 2 volumes of written lessons, spanning over 250 pages and covering 44 chapters. In the course you will learn how to play individual chords, and then how to play full chord progressions. You'll learn how to strum rhythmically in different styles, enabling you to play a wide variety of guitar music quickly and easily. The written lessons are accompanied by video demonstrations - 148 in total - showing you exactly how to play what's being taught in the lessons.

As well as the video lessons, you also get 26 audio jam tracks which you can play along to, to help you practice what you've learned. These jam tracks are brilliant, and will definitely help you improve as a player. Not only do you get the lessons, but also some really cool software for learning music notation and ear training. Both of these are invaluable skills, and once you've mastered them, you'll be able to play any piece of music just by hearing it once.

The Jamorama guitar course is very easy to use. You access the lessons from within an attractive software interface. Fist of all you have to choose if you want to use the beginners or the advanced book. Next, simply select one of the lessons, and you'll be taken right to it. The video example, and audio jam tracks, are accessed by click on the appropriate icons within each lesson.

So that covers what's included, and how to use it, but will Jamorama actually make you a good guitarist? Well, to put it simply, yes. I'm confident you'll become a good guitar player using the Jamorama system. The video example included with the course, as well as the jam tracks really do make Jamorama a very effective method of learning to play the guitar. I'm quite sure that, if you put in enough work, and follow the course properly, you'll find that you improve much more quickly that you ever thought you would, and become an excellent guitar player in no time. Thanks to the way Jamorama is put together, and the inclusion of video and audio in the course, I think you'll find Jamorama to be not only an effective learning method, but also a very enjoyable one.

Having seen all that Jamorama has to offer, I can whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn the guitar. It is well worth the money, so if you really want to learn to play guitar, I suggest you take a look at it.