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Learn Styles of Music on Guitar
Our genre-based lessons focus on learning skills and concepts that pertain to a specific style of music. However, as you will soon learn, many concepts can be applied to several different genres. Phase 2 lessons expand upon concepts taught in our beginner guitar lessons, so it would be a wise idea to check out those lessons before jumping in here!
One of the richest and most uniquely American styles of music, blues has been a major inspiration for jazz, bluegrass, country and rock.
Blues Guitar Lessons
Blues Guitar with Hawkeye
Focus: Iowa Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and famed educator, Hawkeye Herman, will guide you through blues guitar concepts and applications. Beginning at the beginner level and gradually advancing to more difficult material, you will learn chords, the 12 bar blues, the blues shuffle, slide guitar and more.
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Blues Guitar with DJ
Focus: DJ will teach you the 12 bar blues with quite a few chord variations and turnaround options. You will also learn the minor pentatonic scale and how to use it for blues lead play. DJ will also teach you a few modern blues songs to help you master the techniques he teaches.
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Electric Blues with Eric
Focus: Eric Madis will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will start off with the basics of country and urban blues and move on to touch on nearly every facet of electric blues playing.
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Fingerstyle Blues
Focus: Mary Flower combines the best of blues music with amazing fingerstyle arrangements. In this lesson series Mary will get you started in the world of fingerstyle blues.
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Fingerstyle Blues
Focus: Orville Johnson combines his amazing fingerstyle abilities with classic blues music. Orville will introduce you to the necessary concepts of fingerstyle and move on to teach classic blues tunes.
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Electric Blues with Kenny
Focus: Kenny "Blue" Ray will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will cover styles of many of the blues greats as well as throw in his personal library of knowledge.
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Blues Bottleneck Slide
Focus: Orville Johnson, an acoustic blues master, will delve into the world of slide guitar head first. He will discuss the slide, it's history and move on to teaching slide technique and related compositions.
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Blues Slide Guitar
Focus: Slide guitar and Blues go way back, and have a rich heritage of complimenting each other. The slide is a wonderful way to add that "vocal" quality to your guitar playing as well. This technique can be used with all genres of music, but Eric will cover it within the world of Blues.
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Fingerstyle Blues and Ragtime
Focus: Eric Madis covers a uniquely American style of music, the Blues. In this series he tackles the subject from the acoustic fingerstyle perspective and even throws in a bit of ragtime for good measure.
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Blues Guitar with Stuart Ziff
Focus: Stuart Ziff presents an amazing series on Blues guitar. His unique, no-nonsense approach to playing makes this series perfect for players new to the genre.
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Jekyll and Hyde Blues
Focus: Join Chris Liepe on an epic Blues journey. He will take a 3 minute Blues guitar solo, break it down and teach it lick by lick. By the end of this series your ability to play and understand Blues will increase substantially.
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The Bitter Blues
Focus: This series covers an original Blues song titled "The Bitter Blues." The song was inspired by Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy Page, and as such is an excellent study in modern electric blues. Chris will break down the song into 30 easy to digest sections. Each section can be learned individually, and them combined into a full song.
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Rockabilly Blues with Ian Argys
Focus: Learn the building blocks of the Rockabilly genre with Ian Argys.
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Blues Greats & How They Play
Focus: After reviewing some basics when it comes to the Blues, Hawkeye shares his knowledge from personal experience and one-on-one encounters with some of the greatest classic blues players ever to play! Learn some licks and hear fascinating inside information about some of these players that only a man who was there could deliver!
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Slide Guitar
Focus: This series by Stuart Ziff is one of the most comprehensive looks at all of the ins and outs of Slide Guitar playing you'll find anywhere. Once Stuart gets your tools and gear whipped into shape, he'll dive into the styles of some of the most influential Slide players in history and inspire you to start or improve your Slide skills with all of the great included examples and backing tracks.
37 Lessons Series Details
Building the Blues
Focus: Will Ripley goes in depth on the basics of blues and showing essential and universal chords that many blues players utilize.
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Blues Masters and Disciples
Focus: Without the blues, modern music just wouldn't be the same. Learn the roots and flavors of this timeless style by navigating the roadmap of storied bluesmen throughout history. Stuart Ziff, accomplished musician and educator, dedicates 40 lessons to this timeline. This course provides the answers to why names such as "B.B. King", "T-Bone Walker", "Freddie King", "Albert King" are considered folklore in the blues community.
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Style of Steve Vai
Focus: Chris Liepe is here to guide you into the world of Steve Vai. Utilizing well known techniques to demonstrate where Vai makes his own "Sound", Chris brings you on board to bring a little Vai technique to your playing!
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Lessons with Mary Flower
Focus: Mary Flower, an award-winning fingerstyle blues artist, was quoted to be "One of the best blues-based singer songwriters working today" by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. In addition to her already thriving blues series on JamPlay, Mary shares an array of insightful ideas in her Artist Series.
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Style of Eric Clapton
Focus: Brendan Burns delves in to the stylistic playing of Eric Clapton.
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Style of B.B. King
Focus: This is your chance to play like a King... B. B. King! Throughout this series, Kenny Blue Ray will break down B. B. King's style and get your fingers rollin' like one of Classic Blues' finest!
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Blues Songwriting
Focus: Hawkeye Herman returns to Jamplay.com with his brand new series on Blues Songwriting! Hawkeye covers all aspects of blues songwriting, from common styles to intros and outros, as well as topics related to inspiration and content. A must for any budding songwriter!
23 Lessons Series DetailsFingerstyle technique allows guitarists to combine melody, bass lines, and harmony to create a complete, orchestral sound.
Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons
Fingerstyle Guitar
Focus: Steve walks you through some of the most basic fingerstyle guitar techniques, including lessons for developing finger independence and walking basslines. He teaches these techniques in the context of timeless fingerstyle repertoire and famed fingerstyle songs..
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Fingerstyle Guitar
Focus: Fingerstyle expert and performing artist, Jim Deeming, brings over 30 years of playing experience and his beloved thumb-pick to this lesson series. From basic right hand technique to combining melodies, this is a great series to begin applying fingerstyle to your playing.
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Fingerstyle Guitar with Eve Goldberg
Focus: Eve Goldberg brings years of experience, knowledge and passion to her fingerstyle series. Learn the very basics and proceed to more advanced topics with fun, easy-to-digest lessons.
44 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Fingerstyle with Don Ross
Focus: In this series, Don Ross delivers his extensive knowledge on many aspects of fingerstyle guitar. Not forgetting beginners, he starts off his series with a manageable pace, covering the basics in-depth.
28 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Fingerstyle Guitar
Focus: Marcelo Berestovoy returns to JamPlay with his Fingerstyle Guitar series. He uses his one step at a time method to take you from novice to expert in no time!
10 Lessons Series Details
Building Finger Independence
Focus: This series is all about fostering the ability for your fingers to play independent of each other. Mastering this skill will give your playing a living, organic feel and open up previously unimaginable doors. During this process you will also learn two of Don Ross' songs, both perfect for showing off to your family.
30 Lessons Series Details
Solo Guitar
Focus: Solo guitar... Different than guitar solos! The idea of being a self contained unit of chords and melody is a long, time honored tradition in guitar playing. Beginning with simple exercises and concluding with actual songs, Marcelo Berestovoy will give you the essentials to getting a real handle on the solo guitar and chord-melody style.
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Erik Mongrain Artist Series
Focus: Self-taught acoustic guitarist Erik Mongrain shows off some of his innovations in this Phase 2 Artist Series. Lessons include information about guitar setup, advanced harmonics, composition, and performance tips.
17 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Lessons With Kaki King
Focus: Renowned guitarist Kaki King teaches musicality, altered tunings and percussive elements in her artist series. Kaki also demonstrates fingerpicking technique and hand independence.
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Trace Bundy Artist Series
Focus: Trace is a critically acclaimed, self taught acoustic guitarist. In 2008, he was named "Most Promising New Talent" in by Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and won 3rd ranking for "Best Fingerstyle Guitarist."
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Style of Merle Travis
Focus: Merle Travis is one of the biggest names in the world of Fingerstyle guitar. In this series Jim Deeming will walk you through the tricks Merle employed to give his music that unique "Travis Picking" sound.
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Style of Tommy Emmanuel
Focus: Jim Deeming will walk you through the style of Tommy Emmanuel. He will talk about Tommy as a person, and introduce elements that make Tommy's music unique.
5 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Flamenco Guitar with Mario DaSilva
Focus: Learn to play the acoustic Flamenco guitar.
29 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Flamenco & Spanish Guitar
Focus: Internationally known Latino artist, composer and guitarist explores key Flamenco and Spanish rhythms and progressions. Marcelo breaks down these styles in a proven, easy to understand method.
28 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Integrated Percussive Technique with Preston Reed
Focus: Preston Reed is a world renowned acoustic guitar player. He single handedly created his own style of guitar which he dubs the "Integrated Percussive Technique." In this series of lessons he will explain his method of playing and get you started on your path to guitar mastery.
17 Lessons Series Details
Acoustic Artistry with Calum Graham
Focus: Award-winning Canadian fingerstyle guitarist Calum Graham aims to transform the average fingerstyle player into an artist. Using modern techniques such as harmonics, hammer-ons, two handed tapping, rhythmic accents, you'll be well on your way to creating your own fingerstyle guitar compositions in no time!
29 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Phil Keaggy Master Course
Focus: This master course will cover over 30 techniques and principles that have made Phil Keaggy one of the best guitarists on the planet.
46 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Mike Dawes Master Course
Focus: Start your fingerstyle foray under the tutelage of a world-class player. Mike Dawes teaches you to go from a fingerstyle newbie to playing some of his most advanced compositions. 40 lessons to both inspire and challenge any guitarist, exclusively from JamPlay.
40 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsOriginating from a reference to the loud, mechanized sounds of the modern world and the harsh, British factory sounds of the 1960's.
Metal Guitar Lessons
Metal with Dennis
Focus: While musically gifted and classically trained, Dennis Hodges can’t shake the metal bug. This popular JamPlay.com series includes lessons on commonly used metal techniques such as palm muting, slides, bends, octaves, power chords and more.
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Kris Norris Artist Series
Focus: Kris Norris offers an array of ideas and lessons; from changing strings to advanced sweeping / legato techniques and soloing applications. Kris also offers conceptual lessons for song writing ideas and composition.
41 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Emil Werstler Artist Series
Focus: Up and coming talent Emil Werstler brings you advanced lessons on lead techniques, style and theory applications. Emil's videos also include candid interviews about his background and the inspirations behind his playing.
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Tosin Abasi Artist Series
Focus: Lead guitarist for Animals As Leaders, Tosin Abasi brings his knowledge of extended range guitars to JamPlay, with detailed lessons on various picking styles and emulating bass with the 8 string instrument.
19 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
James Malone Artist Series
Focus: James Malone, founder and frontman of Arsis, teaches intermediate to advanced lessons on various topics in his style of death metal guitar, including advanced legato and tapping.
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Dave Davidson Artist Series
Focus: Revocation's Dave Davidson teaches you the techniques essential to his style.
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Lessons With Steve Smyth
Focus: Veteran metal gunslinger Steve Smyth currently is in the bands Forbidden and The EssenEss Project. Having also been in bands such as Testament and Nevermore, Steve has a unique style that he teaches here on JamPlay.
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David Ellefson Artist Lessons
Focus: Take lessons with legendary thrash metal bassist David Ellefson who is a founding member of Megadeth.
5 Lessons Series Details
Andy James Artist Series
Focus: Learn how to shred with the amazing guitarist Andy James.
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Glen Drover Artist Series
Focus: Former guitarist for Megadeth and Testament, thrasher Glen Drover presents his Artist Series and will touch on subjects such as speed, rhythm, and solo creation.
27 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Bumblefoot's Artist Series
Focus: Unconventional... Diabolical... Just plain crazy! Learn a fresh, quirky and MUSICAL approach to extreme guitar playing! Bumblefoot takes you through many exercises of the mind and hands to take your playing to the next level!
20 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Tony MacAlpine Master Course
Focus: Dig into the style and technique of one of the most accomplished and creative guitarists of his era! Ever a true clinician, Tony MacAlpine breaks down over 30 song passages from his extensive catalogue while offering pointed instruction on melodic development, composition, soloing, picking and legato techniques and more!
33 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsOne of the world's great guitar traditions and called ki ho'alu in Hawaiian, slack key developed in the 19th Century as a fun, fingerpicking style.
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Lessons
Hawaiian slack key
Focus: Explore this beautiful style of guitar with heralded slack key guitarist, author and performer, Mr. Mark Kailana Nelson. By blending relaxing melodies with intricate fingerstyle playing, this traditional genre of music is sure to please.
63 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsA sub-genre of country music which blends improvising with folk-like melodies. Pioneered by Bill Monroe in the 1930s in the "bluegrass" state.
Bluegrass Guitar Lessons
Bluegrass Guitar with Steve Eulberg
Focus: Steve Eulberg walks you through the most common techniques in the bluegrass guitar style. He teaches these concepts in a methodical, step-by-step approach that will have you playing in no time.
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Bluegrass Flatpicking
Focus: Orville will cover proper Bluegrass flatpicking technique and move on to teach a plethora of classic Bluegrass tunes.
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Bluegrass with Nick Amodeo
Focus: Starting with History, Nick will cover many aspects of Bluegrass techniques, the role of Bluegrass instruments, then move into some great Bluegrass songs.
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Bluegrass Flatpicking
Focus: Tyler will cover the spectrum of unique Bluegrass flatpicking techniques and demonstrate a wide array of Bluegrass flatpick song lessons.
25 Lessons Series Details
Bluegrass Fiddle Tunes
Focus: Join Nick Amodeo as he teaches his own rendition of some popular bluegrass fiddle tunes.
3 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsFrom the 1950's to the present, rock and roll, along with its wide range of sub-genres, has dominated popular music.
Rock Guitar Lessons
Rock Guitar with Brad Henecke
Focus: With over 50 lessons and 15 hours of instruction, Brad Henecke brings you the biggest and most comprehensive lesson series at JamPlay. This series begins by reviewing basic concepts, then progressing to advanced rock technique, scale applications, chord progressions and more.
54 Lessons Series Details
Rock Guitar with Matt Brown
Focus: Matt Brown offers up 14 lessons in the realm of rock and roll. This series begins with lesson on proper practicing and scale theory basics, then moves into advanced playing applications such as soloing, improvisation and more.
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Rock Guitar with Chris Liepe
Focus: If you like instrumental rock guitar, this series is for you. This series covers three on a string scales, melodic invention, the CAGED system, modes and implementation and Arpeggios. Chris will demonstrate all the things that help you phrase and play with an instrumental rock influence.
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Pop & Classic Rock with Lauren
Focus: Using her own songs and recordings as examples, Lauren teaches us that it's not what you know, but instead how you USE what you know. This series covers tons of great chord voicing ideas, arranging tips, and production techniques as well as general music theory applied to real music!
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Instrumental Melodic Rock Solo
Focus: Learn an entire guitar solo inspired by such greats as Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Although you’ll learn the solo lick by lick, each lesson also serves as an in-depth study in technique, music theory and songwriting perspective.
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Progressive Rock Solo
Focus: Learn a full progressive rock solo lick by lick in this series of lessons. Each lesson teaches a lick from the solo, or an alternative lick that can be played over the progression, and a variety of different skills and techniques.
13 Lessons Series Details
Classic Rock Guitar
Focus: Will Ripley picks up where he left off in his Phase 1 Beginner series with this series: Classic Rock Guitar. Through original tracks in the styles of great artitsts that Will has prepared for this series, you will learn all the techniques you need to know to make you sound like you just stepped out of the classic rock era!
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Rockabilly With Stuart Ziff
Focus: Learn the styles of Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and more! Join Stuart Ziff in a comprehensive study and application of Rockabilly guitar. Learn with real musical examples and composed material that, with some hard work and dedication, will have you playing right along with the greats!
36 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
50 Years Of Guitar
Focus: Join Dave Isaacs for a comprehensive course covering some of the most well-known sounds of the last 50 years in guitar playing. Come straight out of Isaac's Phase 1 series and learn songs in the style of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, The Eagles, Stevie Wonder, and more! You'll also learn how to practice new techniques and apply more musical ideas as you work through each musical example.
29 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Rockin' Rhythm Guitar
Focus: Rock guitarist John Shannon takes you on a journey to improve your rhythm playing.
31 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Rules of Rock
Focus: For this series, Prashant crafted some killer new tracks exclusively for JamPlay members! The 15 tracks included in this series are a spot on demonstration of the skills that Prashant has honed over his years as a professional player. Learn some fun new licks and riffs to expand your own bag of tricks!
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Style of Joe Satriani
Focus: Joe Satriani. You will learn the music theory and guitar techniques essential to the style of Joe Satriani. David will cover certain Hammer on and pull off techniques and demonstrate samples that best depict Joe at his best
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Style of David Gilmour
Focus: David Gilmour. You will learn the music theory and guitar techniques essential to the style of David Gilmour. Wallimann will cover certain scale options and demonstrate samples that best depict Mr. Gilmour at his best.
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Style of Tom Morello
Focus: Tom Morello! Here you will learn all the different techniques; from pedal work to guitar sounds that Tom creates. Chris will also demonstrate a killer In the style of song that you can learn and be creative with.
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Style of Jimi Hendrix
Focus: In this "In the Style of" series, Brendan Burns discusses and demonstrates the stylistic traits of the iconic guitarist Jimi Hendrix
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Style of Steve Vai
Focus: Chris Liepe is here to guide you into the world of Steve Vai. Utilizing well known techniques to demonstrate where Vai makes his own "Sound", Chris brings you on board to bring a little Vai technique to your playing!
7 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Style of The Rolling Stones
Focus: Brendan Burns takes an in-depth look at the guitar styling of legendary rock band The Rolling Stones. Specifically, Brendan breaks down the techniques and conceptual ideas in Keith Richard' and Mick Taylor's playing.
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Dave Weiner Artist Series
Focus: Take lessons with acclaimed instrumental guitarist and longtime 2nd guitarist for Steve Vai's band, Dave "David J" Weiner. In his exclusive artist series on JamPlay, Dave uncovers many concepts that are often over looked. The ongoing theme in his series is have fun and make music!
21 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Lessons With Steve Stevens
Focus: Take lessons with rock legend Steve Stevens, guitarist for Billy Idol.
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Joel Kosche Artist Series
Focus: Joel Kosche, guitarist for Collective Soul and solo singer/songwriter, will dissect his style of playing and demonstrate all of the juicy tidbits.
16 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Bumblefoot's Artist Series
Focus: Unconventional... Diabolical... Just plain crazy! Learn a fresh, quirky and MUSICAL approach to extreme guitar playing! Bumblefoot takes you through many exercises of the mind and hands to take your playing to the next level!
20 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Lita Ford Artist Series
Focus: Early Punk Rock guitarist Lita Ford offers and great look into the world of what it was like to be a growing famous female professional guitarist!
15 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Style of Paul McCartney
Focus: Join Larry as he examines the style of Paul McCartney.
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Style of Slash
Focus: There's no doubt that Slash of Guns 'n' Roses is one of the most influential guitarists to come out of the decade of the 80's. Join Will Ripley as he dissects the key elements of Slash's style! Will tackles everything from Slash's tone and gear, to his unique way of approaching solos and lead guitar playing.
17 Lessons Series DetailsAlthough not a native celtic instrument, celtic-style guitar adapts folk and fingerstyle to accompany reels, jigs, and polkas.
Celtic Guitar Lessons
Celtic Guitar
Focus: Steve Eulberg delves into the world of Celtic guitar. He will first talk about the basics of the genre and quickly guide you into some of the genre's most memorable pieces.
23 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsBorn in the 9th century, “classical” guitar is characterized by fingerstyle technique and nylon strings, producing organic timber and dynamic quality.
Classical Guitar Lessons
Classical Guitar
Focus: Composer and song writer, Danny Voris, discusses and demonstrates techniques unique to playing the classical guitar as it's designed. He includes instruction on creating quality tone by shaping finger nails, through advanced picking techniques.
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Classical Guitar with Pamela Goldsmith
Focus: Pamela Goldsmith starts with the basics of classical guitar and moves on to teach some timeless pieces. She will cover proper technique, classical theory and other important concepts.
37 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsA style of American popular music, country has it's roots in the folk music of the rural south and the cowboy music of the western United States.
Country Guitar Lessons
Classic Country Guitar
Focus: Learn how to play classic country guitar. From double stops to pedal steel licks, banjo rolls to chicken pickin’, you will learn it all step-by-step.
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Modern Country Guitar
Focus: Rhythm, Gear, Soloing, the Nashville number system... Learn them all from one of the most recorded guitarists in history: A-list session player, Brent Mason!
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Classic Country Chops
Focus: Tyler Grant takes an in-depth look at the classic country genre and explores the tricks, techniques and guitarists that helped shape it's sound.
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Modern Country Shred
Focus: Andy Wood offers a crash course in telecaster abuse. If you have heard players like Guthrie Govan, Zakk Wlyde or Brad Paisley slaughter some country lines, this course serves to unlock this chaotic, ear-perking tonality and technique. As Andy states.. "This isn't your grandpa's country guitar!"
31 Lessons Series Details
Style of Merle Travis
Focus: Merle Travis is one of the biggest names in the world of Fingerstyle guitar. In this series Jim Deeming will walk you through the tricks Merle employed to give his music that unique "Travis Picking" sound.
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Style of Keith Urban
Focus: DJ Phillips takes a lick based look at the sound and stylistic approach of Keith Urban.
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Guthrie Trapp Artist Series
Focus: Nashville session player Guthrie Trapp provides lessons on country guitar, roots music and session playing.
23 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsThe classic swing sound emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, and blends classic melodies, intricate harmony, and improvisation.
Jazz Guitar Lessons
Jazz Guitar with Matt
Focus: In this series, you will learn the music theory and guitar techniques essential to the jazz genre. Matt focuses on concepts such as scales, chord voicings, comping, improvisation, and interpretation of melodies.
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Jazz Guitar with Jane
Focus: Jane Miller dives into the exciting world of Jazz guitar in this lesson series. You will be exploring all different aspects of Jazz with Jane's vast knowledge and easy-to-follow teaching style.
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Jazz Guitar With Dennis Hodges
Focus: Dennis Hodges teaches jazz for students with a rock background. In this series you will learn to play jazz chord progressions and licks without theory being forced upon you.
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Smooth Jazz with Nick Kellie
Focus: Nick Kellie covers smooth jazz, how it relates to guitar playing and the differences from more traditional jazz playing.
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Jazz Guitar with Brendan Burns
Focus: Brendan's jazz series with JamPlay.com covers the basics of jazz chord voicings. Here you will learn about alterations and extensions to commonly used jazz voicings and how they apply in context of Jazz music.
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Chord Alchemy with John
Focus: John March, a long time student of the late Ted Greene and a self-proclaimed "chord addict", opens up a fresh way to view the guitar fretboard. A different way to think, introducing the idea of how chords work and how to develop a “vocabulary”.
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Walking Bass Lines
Focus: Paul Musso dives into jazz guitar with an emphasis on walking bass lines. This series of lessons focuses on separating chords from bass lines, which is good for a variety of things, including accompaniment and soloing.
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Improvising with Mini Arpeggios
Focus: Paul Musso's mini arpeggios series will get you prepared for jazz improvisation starting with the basic building blocks.
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Gypsy Jazz with Austin Filingo
Focus: Austin Filingo introduces Gypsy Jazz and Sing Guitar. In this set you'll cover the basics of these style as well as some of their musical tendencies.
22 Lessons Series Details
Creative Chords
Focus: Jamplay.com welcomes one of Downbeat Magazine's 2014 "Rising Stars" - Sheryl Bailey. Take a rich harmonic stroll through her new series, "Creative Chords", exploring new voicings and inversions along the way!
38 Lessons Series Details
Jane Miller Artist Series
Focus: Guitarist, composer, arranger, and Berklee Associate Professor, Jane Miller has roots in both Jazz and Folk circuits. Explore intermediate topics and Jane's original compositions through her comprehensive teaching style.
11 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsStudy the ideas and techniques of artists like Dick Dale, The Ventures and more! Learn how to create Surf hooks, get Surf tones, and make the information you already know on the guitar useful in the Surf genre!
Surf Guitar Lessons
Surf Guitar
Focus: Study the ideas and techniques of artists like Dick Dale, The Ventures and more! Learn how to create surf hooks, get surf tones, and make the information you already know on the guitar useful in the Surf genre!
6 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsGet your groove on with funk guitar.
Funk Guitar Lessons
Funk Guitar with DJ Phillips
Focus: Learn how to play funk guitar with DJ Phillips.
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Funk/R&B with Nomad
Focus: Michael "Nomad" Ripoll dives deep in to the Rhythm & Blues, Funk, and Soul genres that were made popular by artists like Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, and James Brown. Nomad's approach is to take techniques and ideas you may already play in other genres and look at how paying attention to subtle nuances can make all the difference when you're gettin' funky! Enjoy dozens of tips, playing ideas and other licks and apply them over spot on, genre-specific backing tracks.
30 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsFlamenco is an art form originating in Spain that expresses joy, sorrow and passion! This series will teach you to play 'toque' or flamenco guitar.
Flamenco Guitar Lessons
Flamenco Guitar with Mario DaSilva
Focus: Learn to play the acoustic Flamenco guitar.
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Flamenco & Spanish Guitar
Focus: Internationally known Latino artist, composer and guitarist explores key Flamenco and Spanish rhythms and progressions. Marcelo breaks down these styles in a proven, easy to understand method.
28 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Miche Fambro Lessons
Focus: Miche Fambro, a dynamic songwriter and performer, delves into the world of acoustic guitar. Instead of focusing on specific techniques, Miche heavily covers meta guitar concepts that can truly facilitate growth as a musician.
49 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsTraditional and contemporary acoustic music that forms the roots of many genres of music. In this series we explore this foundational style.
Folk Guitar Lessons
Extreme Folk Guitar
Focus: Learn the basics and fundamentals of the lap tapping and extreme folk style of guitar.
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Folk Guitar with Eve Goldberg
Focus: With Eve Goldberg's history and long-time fascination with Folk music, she shares her knowledge through easy to follow, song-based lessons.
21 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Two Hand Grooves with Mark Kroos
Focus: This mini-series of lessons focuses specifically on the two handed aspect of extreme folk and lap tapping styles. It is designed to work you from a novice to expert by gradually growing in complexity and difficulty.
11 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
David Wilcox Artist Series
Focus: David Wilcox, acclaimed guitarist and songwriter, teaches four amazing master classes on songwriting.
4 Lessons Series DetailsLearn to play in the style of R&B and Soul.
R&B and Soul Guitar Lessons
R&B and Soul with Nick Kellie
Focus: The Motown sound that brought us R&B and Soul is characterized by melodic and rhythmic phrasing that cuts through the fix in a simplistic fashion. In this series, learn the foundation for playing in this style.
6 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsLet the mood of Reggae guitar sooth your soul
Reggae Guitar Lessons
Reggae with Stuart Ziff
Focus: Learn how to play Reggae guitar with Stuart Ziff
9 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsLearn the basics of Bossa and Samba in these Brazilian style lessons.
Brazilian Guitar Lessons
Brazilian Guitar with Peter Einhorn
Focus: In this lesson series, Peter will discuss and demonstrates the basic techniques and concepts behind Brazilian guitar styles like the Bossa and Samba.
12 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsDerived from an Old English word meaning "good news," gospel offers a spiritual and uplifting musical experience.
Gospel Guitar Lessons
Gospel Guitar
Focus: In this series you will be taking an in-depth look into gospel music and the basics behind performing it. Steve will teach a variety of topics, including hymns, gospel and praise songs, playing solo and with others. This series assumes an intermediate level of knowledge.
18 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Style of Modern Worship Guitar
Focus: Learn how to produce the sounds that have made modern church/worship music what it is today. Look at the styles of Hillsong United, Jesus Culture, Third Day, Lincoln Brewster and more!
20 Lessons Series DetailsWe all love pop music, and hear it daily. This catchy, accessible music appeals to almost anyone.
Pop Guitar Lessons
Acoustic Pop With Nomad
Focus: You'll learn strumming, fingerpicking, hook/melody development, colorful chord choices and options. While popular music is all over the map in terms of genres actual styles and influences, all Pop music shares one thing in common. It is popular! This may seem so obvious, but that really is the classification for popular music. Learn how to get sounds out of your guitar that sound like popular music from yesterday and today!
38 Lessons Series Details
Life Of The Party
Focus: Learn the fundamental building blocks to be able to play any song from beginning to end with confidence and the ability to actually entertain those around you while doing so!
26 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Style of Joe Satriani
Focus: Joe Satriani. You will learn the music theory and guitar techniques essential to the style of Joe Satriani. David will cover certain Hammer on and pull off techniques and demonstrate samples that best depict Joe at his best
7 Lessons View Free LessonSeries DetailsRock energy with an acoustic flavor!
Acoustic Rock Guitar Lessons
Rocking on Acoustic Guitar
Focus: Will Ripley is back with his series, Acoustic Guitar! Known for his electric rock guitar series on Jamplay, Will shows us how much electric and acoustic have in common. Learn basic acoustic techniques like strumming, fingerpicking and chords, and apply them over classic sounding rock, classic rock and pop-rock tracks in the styles of some of your favorite artists!
44 Lessons Series Details
Acoustic Guitar Styles with Dave Isaacs
Focus: Dave Isaacs is back with his comprehensive series covering all sorts of different ways that Acoustic Guitar presents itself in popular music. Get ready to learn your favorite styles from recognizable artists and put to practice techniques such as strumming, fingerpicking, and chord voicings!
31 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
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