Lessons with Jane Miller #5: Once Around the Sun

Jane Miller shares an original tune called, "Once Around the Sun." She uses this as another example of a way to create a song through an exercise. Enjoy!

• Feb 3rd, 2012 at 6:48 pm EST
• Posted by J.Booth

Basic Electric with Lisa #37: 5th and 6th Intervals

Lisa continues her last lesson by demonstrating 5th and 6th intervals.

• Feb 3rd, 2012 at 6:15 pm EST
• Posted by T.Rugh

Lessons With Lauren Passarelli #35: Song Inspiration

Lauren talks about some of the interesting places song inspiration can come from, including things as simple as refrigerator magnets.

• Feb 3rd, 2012 at 4:27 pm EST
• Posted by J.Booth

Extreme Folk Guitar #18: Natural Harmonics

Mark Kroos is back with a lesson on natural harmonics. You may be familiar with the concept, but Mark takes it to the next level and demonstrates how to include these harmonics in the songwriting process.

• Feb 2nd, 2012 at 2:19 pm EST
• Posted by J.Mounce

Lessons with Jane Miller #4: All I want

Jane Miller talks about her song, "All I want" which came to her through another song by the same name. She discusses how she made it her own and demonstrates how to play it.

• Feb 1st, 2012 at 6:42 pm EST
• Posted by J.Booth

Recording and Micing #8: Layering Multiple Guitar Tracks

With Jim playing 3 different sequences to overdub on top of one another, Chris will record them using 3 different micing techniques with 2 different guitars to create 1 final track.

• Feb 1st, 2012 at 4:46 pm EST
• Posted by T.Rugh

Lessons With Lauren Passarelli #34: Song Imitations

Lauren Passarelli talks about how imitating a riff, lick, tuning or even chords from a song you like can be used as an amazing creative avenue when suffering from writer's block.

• Feb 1st, 2012 at 4:40 pm EST
• Posted by J.Booth

Lessons with Jane Miller #3: Magazine Beach

Jane Miller shares another original tune called, "Magazine Beach" in this lesson. First she talks about how she got the idea for the song, then goes on to explain the development.

• Jan 30th, 2012 at 4:46 pm EST
• Posted by J.Booth

Schwarzenator - Terminator 2

Shane Gibson teaches this 7-string metal song from his Arnold Schwarzenegger tribute band, SchwarZenator.

• Jan 30th, 2012 at 4:20 pm EST
• Posted by A.Miller

Extreme Folk Guitar #17: Open D Tuning

In his 17th lesson with JamPlay, Mark Kroos discusses the advantages of working in Open D Tuning. Additionally, he teaches some fundamental chords in this tuning as well as how to get to it from DADGAD.

• Jan 30th, 2012 at 3:03 pm EST
• Posted by J.Mounce

Recording and Micing #7: Acoustic Recording Options

With the help of Jim's playing, Chris has rigged up Jim's guitar 3 different ways and will demonstrate the different qualities of sound you can get by recording with a direct line in, micing the amp, and micing the guitar, or even combining anyone 1 of the 3 options together to create a crisp and unique sound.

• Jan 30th, 2012 at 1:07 pm EST
• Posted by T.Rugh

Lessons With Lauren Passarelli #33: Tuner Thoughts

Lauren Passarelli takes a brief pause from her songwriting lessons to talk about guitar tuners, which kind she prefers and why.

• Jan 30th, 2012 at 12:07 pm EST
• Posted by J.Booth

Extreme Folk Guitar #16: More Cascading

Now that you've got the basic cascading technique under your belt, Mark is back with a look at what else you can do with this technique. He discusses adding chords as well as picking.

• Jan 26th, 2012 at 7:01 pm EST
• Posted by J.Mounce