Live, Online Guitar Courses for Early 2016
eight to ten week live courses at JamPlay
We are excited to announce just a few of our live courses that will be beginning in early 2016... some as early as the next few weeks! Scroll to learn more about each course, along with details about starting times and instructors.
About our Live Courses
We have upgraded, revamped, and organized in-studio, live weekly workshops broadcasted in 1080p. These focused, task-based workshops include full tablature, interactivity with the instruction, and even homework each week. We are bringing live, educational instruction into the next generation with this platform.
In 2015, we completely re-engineered our recording studio with top of the line gear, including a full suite of 4k cameras complimented by a new audio outfit. The result is beautiful live streams to your computer, in qualities as high as 1080p!
Each live course is supplemented with full tablature, music notation, and even backing tracks. Our live lessons are focused, planned, and even give you homework options on how to improve and look forward to the following week.
Our staff fields questions from the audience throughout each section, and opens the "classroom" up for questions throughout each course. You also have the ability to call in live with your own video stream!
Our live platform has been a major focus over the past 18 months, and we are very excited to fully unleash it's capability! Attend any of these courses with a full JamPlay subscription and get the benefit of full interaction with our instructors in a focused, planned course. We even have the ability to field your questions with live video call in!
Blues: From Roots to Rock with Chris Liepe - 2/4/2016
10 Week Live Course, Each Thursday at 8pm
Develop YOUR foundation for playing the Blues! Learn the basics, and then see how extremely simple ideas from classic Blues players have influenced modern, more contemporary players. Get some ideas from such Blues greats as Stevie, Jimmy, Jimi, Buddy, Muddy, Chuck & more! It is not about how many notes you can play. Notes were expensive in early Blues and the players worked with a little to create a lot! Keep this in mind as you take this course. We won't be shredding or using stopwatches. We will be looking at HOW to play notes and grooves so that they have ATTITUDE and CHARACTER. See you there!
| Guitar Theory Course Schedule |
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Forming The Blues2/4/2016 at 8pm EST |
Your Main Tools2/11/2016 at 8pm EST |
Steady Steady Slow Hand2/18/2016 at 8pm EST |
Notes In Between Notes2/25/2016 at 8pm EST |
Tell Your Story3/3/2016 at 8pm EST |
Muddy Waters meets ZZ Top3/10/2016 at 8pm EST |
John Lee Hooker Meets Stevie Ray Vaughan3/17/2016 at 8pm EST |
Buddy Guy And Eric Clapton3/24/2016 at 8pm EST |
Jimmy Page And Modern Rock3/31/2016 at 8pm EST |
Chuck Berry and Eric Johnson4/1/2016 at 8pm EST |
Square-1 Guitar Theory with David Wallimann starts 1/11/2016
8 Week Live Course, Each Monday at 8pm
Playing the guitar and understanding the guitar are not one in the same! Building muscle memory and practicing rote memorization can take you a long way on the instrument, but to make your music come alive, to truly develop your own unique music personality, you must understand the instrument. That's what this course is all about, taking the most useful bits of music theory, teaching them in an easy to understand, sequential manner and then applying this information directly to the guitar. Having this knowledge will improve every facet of your playing from learning songs, to improvising, to writing your own material. Your friends, family and fellow musicians won't believe the change that can be wrought in a mere 8 weeks.
| Guitar Theory Course Schedule |
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Major and Minor1/11/2016 at 8pm EST |
Integral Intervals1/18/2016 at 8pm EST |
Building Chords1/25/2016 at 8pm EST |
The Major Scale2/1/2016 at 8pm EST |
The Minor Scale2/8/2016 at 8pm EST |
Mastery of Modes2/15/2016 at 8pm EST |
Using Pentatonic Scales2/22/2016 at 8pm EST |
The Keys to the Kingdom2/29/2016 at 8pm EST |
Guitar 101 with Chris Liepe starts 1/6/2016
10 Week Live Course, Each Wednesday at 8pm
Whether you just purchased your guitar, or are revisiting your old friend after many years apart, this course will get you up to speed quickly. In an easy-to-follow live 10 week course, Chris Liepe of JamPlay teaches you all the basics necessary to master the instrument. And more importantly, everything you learn will be applied to fun downloadable backing tracks which make learning fun. He will cover the basics of chords, playing rhythm playing with backing tracks, understanding tablature and chord charts, and of course get you started on playing with tracks.
| Guitar 101 Course Schedule |
|---|
Get Acquainted, Make Music1/6/2016 at 8pm EST |
You Are Free to Play1/13/2016 at 8pm EST |
Change Is Good1/20/2016 at 8pm EST |
EEE-fective1/27/2016 at 8pm EST |
Rhythm and Rhythm2/3/2016 at 8pm EST |
Open Up Your Eyes2/10/2016 at 8pm EST |
All About The Melody2/17/2016 at 8pm EST |
Rounding It All Out2/24/2016 at 8pm EST |
Playin' Along3/2/2016 at 8pm EST |
Lead The Way3/9/2016 at 8pm EST |
Melodic Magic with David Wallimann starts 2/23/2016
8 Week Live Course, Each Tuesday at 8pm
This course is all about learning to bring out your inner melody in the easiest way possible. Forget learning years of theory or memorizing hundreds of patterns. This course focuses on the nuts and bolts that can take even the most mundane of playing and inject it with a healthy dose of of soul. Every beginner or intermediate player will find something here to take their playing to the next level. Each week will come with at least one backing track. This track will be used throughout the session to illustrate all the examples and concepts discussed.
| Guitar Theory Course Schedule |
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Starting Within2/23/2016 at 8pm EST |
Chord Tones3/1/2016 at 8pm EST |
Pentatonic Extensions3/8/2016 at 8pm EST |
Development3/15/2016 at 8pm EST |
Extended Autoplay3/22/2016 at 8pm EST |
Horizontal Playing3/28/2016 at 8pm EST |
Dealing With Key Changes4/5/2016 at 8pm EST |
Building The Perfect Solo and Going Further4/12/2016 at 8pm EST |
Bluegrass Basics with Tyler Grant starts 1/5/2016
7 Week Live Course, Each Tuesday at 8pm
Bluegrass music is filled with guitar that is fast, melodic, fun and requires an excellent understanding of technique; that doesn't mean it has to be hard to learn, though! With this 7 week, step-by-step course, players of all skill levels will be able to hone their technique and gain a true understanding of how rhythm and lead play into the genre. It won't be boring either, each week features real music to play, as well as fun homework to practice between sessions. Follow this course to the end and you'll be able to showoff your new technique, play several songs and be ready for your first Bluegrass jam!
| Bluegrass Course Schedule |
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Intro to Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar1/5/2016 at 8pm EST |
Intro to Playing Melody and taking Lead Guitar "Breaks"1/12/2016 at 8pm EST |
Jamming over Bluegrass Songs1/26/2016 at 8pm EST |
Soloing on Bluegrass Tunes2/2/2016 at 8pm EST |
Rhythm Guitar Part 12/9/2016 at 8pm EST |
Rhythm Guitar Part 22/16/2016 at 8pm EST |
Final Course2/23/2016 at 8pm EST |
Strumming Mastery with Mark Lincoln starts 1/11/2016
10 Week Live Course, Each Monday at 6pm
Every well rounded player has a solid rhythmic foundation. Are you ready to join their ranks? This course will make it easy. Each week will shine our mental spotlight on one particular facet of rhythm playing, and explore it with useful (and fun) exercises. By the end of the 10th week you will be proficient in 10 new facets of rhythm playing, and be able to hold your own in any musical situation.
| Bluegrass Course Schedule |
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Strumming Defined1/11/2016 at 6pm EST |
Rhythm and Continuity1/18/2016 at 6pm EST |
Timing and Consistency1/25/2016 at 6pm EST |
Developing Feel and Purposeful Dynamics2/1/2016 at 6pm EST |
Tapping for Time and Feel2/8/2016 at 6pm EST |
Walking and Plucking the Tonic2/15/2016 at 6pm EST |
Precision and Intuition2/22/2016 at 6pm EST |
Muting and the Racecar2/29/2016 at 6pm EST |
Synthesis and Raking3/7/2016 at 6pm EST |
Polishing the Gem3/14/2016 at 6pm EST |