Jamorama Lead Guitar is an advanced guitar course suitable for intermediate guitarists, for example, those who have already completed Jamorama!

Jamorama Lead Guitar is made up of 43 video lessons that take the student from intermediate level through to being a competent lead guitarist playing like a pro. The student will master impressive lead guitar skills like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, whole bends, half bends, ghost bends, runs, motifs, vibrato, legato and much, much more.

Jamorama Lead Guitar is based on the Jamorama Guitar Learning Kit that is widely recognized at the best guitar course available. The Jamorama Lead Guitar Kit specifically targets the guitar player with soem experience who wants to take his or her playing to the next level - soloing.

The course comes with 29 Jam Tracks in a variety of styles including 12 bar blues, minor blues, slow country, fast country, metal, modern punk, classic 60s rock, modern rock, pop/folk, ska/reggae, jazz and 50s style rock 'n roll. The student can play and learn IN CONTEXT with the course materials.

Jamorama Lead Guitar

Jamorama Lead Guitar also comes with five free bonuses that make this a truly COMPLETE learning experience. These bonuses include:

JaydeMusica Pro

GuitEarIt!

Advanced Learning Techniques for Guitar

Guitar Tuner Pro and How to Tune Your Guitar

The Jamorama Metronome

These games and resources make the monotony of learning to read music fun, and also help students to develop their ear for transcribing their favorite songs from the radio. Both games are professionally designed, and are invaluable in developing the key skills necessary in being a better musician.

Also included is a free online consultation to customers who may have a specific training problem they would like to address.

This package is impressive because it fills a need for a "lead" guitar course in the Jamorama learning style. It covers lead skills with IN DEPTH, step by step lessons.

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Jamorama Lead Guitar

Why do YOU want to learn how to play lead guitar?
Do you want to play for personal pleasure? Would you like to be sexier? Perhaps you want to be a star! Face it, the lead guitarist in a band is always the center of attention!

Whatever your reasons are, I've designed my cutting-edge guitar learning method with YOU in mind, so that you will get immensely satisfying results FAST...

I designed Jamorama Lead Guitar to be a complete learning system and the easiest to follow guitar learning method available.

It comes jam-packed with information, including 43 powerful video lessons, 29 of the broadest range of Jam Tracks available anywhere, 1000s of lines of tablature AND step-by-step instructions training you to play by ear, so you can play virtually any song that you ever hear on the radio.

This is truly cutting-edge material!

Jamorama Lead Guitar

If you are thinking of going solo with your lead guitar then the one thing that you need to master is how to use the guitar fretboard to its maximum capacity. If you are well-versed with the fretboard, then you will be able play just about anything on your lead guitar.

The guitar fretboard is the most important area of an acoustic as well as electric guitar. The fretboard is where you play all the scales, the chords and use the various progressive scales and improvisation techniques for lead guitar.

When you buy a guitar, you will find dots all across the Fretboard. These dots represent the different frets. The first dot is usually on the 3rd fret and is followed by dots on the 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 17th and 19th frets.Mastering the fretboard will help you to play lead guitar compositions with ease. One important thing that you need to know is that when you move forward while playing on the fretboard, you are actually playing the various chords that will render a higher sound while moving forward and lower sound while moving backwards. For example: The 5th string also known as the open A will look like this:

FRET -----0-|-1-|-2-|-3-|-4-|-5-|-6-|-7-|-8-|-9-|-10|-

STRING---A-|---|-B-|-C-|---|-D-|---|-E-|-F-|---|-G--|-

If you compare the lead guitar fretboard to a piano, you will find that the frets that lie between the natural tones are also known as the flats (b) or Sharp (#) and represent the black keys on the piano. If you raise the natural tone on the lead guitar fretboard by half a step then it will become a sharp tone and whenever you lower it half a step, it will become a flat tone.

Those who are right handed will be using their left hand to play or pluck the various scales and chords on the guitar fretboard. You will need to use 4 fingers of your left hand to play all the various scales on your fretboard. The only way to master them is by practicing. Here's a simple exercise that will help you practice better and let you hone your lead guitar skills:

E = 0 |1----|2----|3----|4----
B = 0 |1----|2----|3----|4----
G = 0 |1----|2----|3----|4----
D = 0 |1----|2----|3----|4----
A = 0 |1----|2----|3----|4----
E = 0 |1----|2----|3----|4----

One thing that you need to remember is that the notes on the guitar fretboard move upwards chromatically. If you start with A then the notes will move like this:A, A#/Bb, B, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab, A You will notice that there are no flats or sharp between B and C as well as E and F.

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The C major scale can unlock the entire fretboard

To learn lead guitar, the major scale is the first and most important scale to learn. The major scale contains within itself the minor scale as well. Many beginner lead guitarists are being taught the pentatonic scale as a first lead guitar lesson. I personally have never bothered with the pentatonic scale, as it too is contained within the major scale. Anyway, enough about why your first lead guitar lesson should be the major scale, let's get down to it.

The first lead guitar lesson - Understanding the major scale

To best understand the major scale and how it applies to lead guitar and the fretboard, we need to work with the easiest example of the major scale. That would be C major (I think you might have guessed that by now). I'm going to assume that you know nothing about music, so please forgive me as I'm trying to make this as clear as possible.

The music scale starts with A and progresses up to G, or G sharp to be entirely accurate, and then reverts back to A again. The notes in the C major scale are C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and then C again. What makes the major scale sound major is the difference in pitch between the notes. These differences in pitch are called intervals.

The difference between the notes C and D, for example, are referred to as a tone. A tone is the equivalent of two fret spaces on the guitar, so if you put your finger behind the first fret of the guitar and then, on the same string, put your finger behind the third fret, you would have played a note one tone up from the first fret. A tone can also be called a whole-tone. A semi-tone is only one fret spacing. Let's see how this applies to the major scale.

The C major scale has the following note intervals
# C to D is a whole-tone
# D to E is a whole-tone
# E to F is a semi-tone
# F to G is a whole-tone
# G to A is a whole tone
# A to B is a whole tone and
# B to C is a semi-tone

So if you where playing this on a guitar and you where using just one string, you would go 2 frets 2 frets 1 fret 2 frets 2 frets 2 frets 1 fret. If the note you started on was C, then you would have played the C major scale, and if you had started on a D you would have played the D major scale. Whatever note you start on, as long as you play the same pattern of note intervals, it would be the major scale of that first note. I think it's a good thing to mention sharps and flats. A sharp is one semitone up, so if you where playing a G note, and then played one fret higher, that would be G sharp, or G# as it's written. A flat note is one fret down, so G# would be the same note as A flat, also written as Ab. Normally the lower case b is smaller and to the top right of the note name.

The second lead guitar lesson - Applying the major scale to the fretboard

To learn to play lead guitar with this information, lets start with the note names of the guitar strings, so we'll have a good grasp of where in the C major scale each string is. What we're trying to do here is create five separate but interconnected lead guitar scale patterns staring at the nut, and working our way up to the twelfth fret. The twelfth fret is an octave higher than the nut, so all the patterns just repeat themselves from there.

Here are the note names of the six guitar strings, provided you've used standard guitar tuning.

# The sixth string is E (this is the thickest string, or lowest sounding)
# The fifth string is A
# The fourth string is D
# The third string is G
# The second string is B
# The first string is E

So if we start on the sixth string, and we're working out the C major scale, we know that between E and F there is only a semitone interval, so we then play the first fret on the E string. Next note we're looking for is G, and between F and G there is a whole-tone difference, so we play the third fret on the E string and so on.

Now the idea is to create five small patterns, each covering a distance of three to five frets (It varies according to the pattern). The scale patterns should be playable without having to move your hand too much up and down the neck of the guitar when playing any one pattern. Some of the patterns will have overlapping notes, but that's fine, as long as you memorize them easily.

So far we've worked out the first three notes on the sixth string. To help you along a bit, I'm going to write out which frets are played on which string for the first position guitar scale in the key of C. A "0" will mean the open string, and the frets will be numbered 1, 2, and 3 etc.

# 6th string is 0, 1, 3.
# 5th string is 0, 2, 3.
# 4th string is 0, 2, 3.
# 3rd string is 0, 2.
# 2nd string is 0, 1, 3.
# 1st string is 0, 1, 3.

I'll leave it up to you to work out the rest of the fretboard in C major, as long as you know the intervals between the notes, you should do okay. Here is something I want you to keep in mind when practicing lead guitar scales. When you're picking the notes, try and use alternating strokes, in other words down up down up and so on. The most important of all though is to have fun and enjoy.

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