My first gig, one of the most fulfilling fun experiences =)

Hey Jordan here,
If you wish to learn guitar, I’m glad you found this website and I strongly suggest you keep reading…

This is my uncensored guitar learning story.  The ups, the downs, what stuff didn’t work and finally…what actually helped me progress rapidly and easily at guitar.

Ok, here goes..
I had gained and lost hobbies over the years. Living without a hobby makes me feel so empty, I mean, we all need something to do right? Musical hobbies are great to pass time, I free a lot of time for it now, however your girlfriend/boyfriend may get jealous! So try control yourself.

I have a pipe dream to make a living out of playing guitar, I was once told this.
“If you can make a living doing what you love, you’ve won life’s lottery” This saying has really stuck to me. Whether you have further ambitions in the music industry or just looking for a past-time hobby. The first step is universally the same, this is it:
Start Playing Guitar!

Here are some of the issues I encountered during my guitar learning journey:
Money is one of the largest issues I had with learning guitar, in Australia lessons are $50 per hour. This is quite a large chunk out of the weekly ‘fuel in the tank and food on the table’ budget it could even effect your beer budget! I found that most of the time with good guitar teachers it is necessary to commit to a contract to periods of at least 1 month, this is $200 a month for 4 hours worth of lessons. This was something I simply could not afford and I am sure I’m not the only one. This is the exact reason I made this website, there is very little real advice for us out there on google.

I wandered into guitar beginner packs, online guitar courses and guitar ebooks. I spent a small fortune on different guitar courses, some delivered, some didn’t. I wish someone could have just told me which ones were worth it and know exactly what to expect BEFORE I forked out cash for them. This my friend, is what I am doing for you now. No hype, this is my experience.

I started with Jamorama it quite simply blows all other guitar beginner packs out of the water. I learned all the foundations of guitar correctly and easily through this guitar course. It is set in a format that you actually have fun learning guitar, which makes you learn a lot faster, trust me. If you are an absolute beginner to guitar, Jamorama is no doubt the way to go. It contains hundreds of instructional guitar videos, play along tracks for improvisation, guitar ebooks and guitar software. All the necessary resourses for a beginner have been carefully selected and included in this package. Software includes a guitar tuner, some fun games which really helped me learn to read music and a metronome to help play in time to the beat.

This guitar course will progress you all the way to an advanced guitar player and it is a LOT faster then relying on private lessons. Last time I checked, the price was $50, about the same cost of a 1 hour guitar lesson. Not bad value right? There is one flaw however, Jamorama cannot point out something you are playing wrong. This is the one reason that I recommend that you use Jamorama to start out and get the odd guitar lesson every now and then just to give you some pointers. This was not an issue for me because everything was explained so clearly that you would really have to not be paying any attention to develop bad technique. Also, there is a 100% no questions asked guarrentee on this product. No risk is a great feeling imagine trying to pull this move on a guitar teacher! haha!

There is one more course that I use now called JamPlay, it is a website which you pay $20 subscription per month. It is completely worth it, they have 21,000 minutes of guitar lessons from various different teachers on their website. The amount I have learned from JamPlay is incomparable to traditional guitar lessons. You learn a lot more when you get lessons from different teachers, every guitarist has a different style and this is the same for guitar teachers. They also have online games which help with reading music notation and recognising all notes on the guitar. One of the most impressive features of this membership is the live questions and answers, you can ask anything that you are unsure of about guitar technique to the JamPlay staff.

I recommend JamPlay as an extension to Jamorama, if you have already started learning guitar then JamPlay is the best you will find online.  However, if you are a complete beginner guitarist Jamorama is no doubt the best bang for your buck. Plus, there is no monthly fee and it has a complete 100% satisfaction money back guarrentee = no risk, this is for both Jamorama & JamPlay.

These two guitar courses are by far the best available and they more than delivered what I expected out of them.
Go with which ever one is more appealing to you or is economic for your situation, or get both to decide and refund one of them later once you choose your favorite. Alternatively you can search lessons on youtube, it’s free so thats a bonus, however the lessons come nowhere close to the quality of these courses and you will not progress anywhere near as fast.

Hope this helps your future ambitions!
~ jordan