JamPlay Member: T-BoneU
| Member Since: | Hidden |
| Name: | Hidden |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Charlottesville VA |
| Occupation: | Unknown |
| In a Band: | No |
| Skill Level: | Beginner |
| Guitar(s): | Taylor DN3, Epiphone F-120, Gibson Les Paul Firebrand |
| Amplifer(s): | Line 6 Spider III 15W |
| It started for me in 1979, my senior year of High School. No music lessons and no Internet in those days. Just me, a Mel Bay beginner guitar book, and an Epiphone F-120 acoustic guitar I received from my parents as a Christmas gift that year. Two years later, while serving a hitch in the Air Force, I picked up a Gibson Les Paul Firebrand electric guitar from a small music store located in the great white Northeastern city of Caribou, Maine. Still no lessons over the next four years, but I did learn to play some licks and a few songs (mostly portions of songs) from friends—Smoke on the Water (who hasn’t learned the chorus to that one?), Godzilla, Back in Black, Saturday Night Special, Free Bird, Stairway to Heaven, Eruption (badly), Money for Nothing, and several other hot rock songs from back in the day. I also learned some fingerstyle tunes, such as Doc Watson’s Deep River Blues. I was off to college in 1985 when my school workload forced me to tuck the axes into their cases where they gathered dust for the next 25 years. In 2010 I got the itch to play guitar again and purchased a Taylor DN3 acoustic. That only lasted about a year, during which time I learned to play a few fingerstyle tunes through the Internet. Sunflower River Blues (John Fahey) and Spike Driver Blues (Mississippi John Hurt) were my favorites. Fast forward to Dec 2018, and a great Holiday deal from JamPlay, I am back at it again. The resources available from JamPlay are AMAZING! FAR removed from the days of learning from a Mel Bay guitar book. It’s now January 2019, my DN3 is setup for fingerstyle guitar (lighter strings), and I am deep into Jim Deeming’s phase 1 and phase 2 fingerstyle lessons. Using my old Epiphone and a glass slide, I’m working on “Come on in my Kitchen,” by Robert Johnson, and I’ve blown the dust off my Les Paul and started digging into the blues resources offered through JamPlay. So, that’s my guitar journey. Again, I’m amazed by the HUGE quantity of excellent resources available from JamPlay. In the first month of my subscription I had already learned more through JamPlay than I had through six years of picking up whatever I could from books and friends. The only problem with JamPlay is that it is HIGHLY addictive. I can’t pull myself away from my computer, and my wife and kids are wondering why they haven’t seen me for the past month. But it’s all good ‘cause my guitar is singin’ the blues. | |
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