My JamPlay.com Review

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What you get with the JamPlay.com Guitar course

I was member of JamPlay.com for 6 months. JamPlay.com is a website with online guitar lessons and a huge Facebook like community where beginners and advanced guitar players hang out. You learn absolutely everything you need to know about learning and playing guitar there. If you like Social Networking, JamPlay is definitely for you.

How JamPlay.com works:

The subscription is currently $19.95 per month and cheaper when you subscribe for longer. You will get about 300 hours of video lessons from over 20 different instructors. I found it very cool that there are lessons from so many different teachers as everybody has his or her own style, strength and knowledge. This means a huge variety and different ways of looking at things.

You will never run out of guitar learning video lessons on JamPlay because new lessons are added all the time! However, it is also very easy to get distracted and socialize and chat more than you practice…

Each lesson is filmed from multiple camera angles you can focus on the teacher’s picking and fretting hands – very helpful! Each of the lessons ranges from 15 minutes to an hour and comes complete with a downloadable lesson manual (sometimes you need to see it in writing). You have also access to content like tablature, chord charts, guitar learning exercises and much more.

The online chat and forum are a lot of fun: you create your own profile and can search and find other guitar players based on their profil by location, level of playing, favorite bands, and many other search criteria.

What I liked most

Over 20 different teachers which each their own expertise and style
Hundreds of video lessons for any style and kind of music, acoustic, electric, jazz, blues, rock, metal, etc.
They have a huge chord library
They have songs from famous bands to play along
You meet people from all levels from beginners to advanced
Like Facebook you can connect with other members via chat and forum and make like-minded friends (if you can trust their numbers, about 1,000 members are online every day plus many guests) Making friends who are also learning guitar is a great way to stick with guitar learning!

What I didn’t find so great…

I really liked being a member for a few months. Then I decided to cancel my membership because:

If you are like me, you are tempted to jump around and try out things. You can spend hours on their website and have fun, but you don’t progress in your playing! (This is why I preferred the ‘Learn and Master Guitar‘ course, because I liked it better to follow a course step by step!)
Like for every online program you need to be able to sit with your guitar next to your computer to watch the sample lesson, and this was in my case not as convenient as to sit in front of my widescreen TV and pop in a guitar lesson on DVD.