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7 Tips for Positive Practice Habits

November 5, 2011 — Leave a Comment

As we all know, learning an instrument can be hard work. It is important to make sure you have solid self discipline and apply yourself.

Because a lot of your practice will be away from your teacher you need to develop strategies for maintaining a good work ethic. Here are seven habits that will help you in your journey learning your instrument.

1) Don’t procrastinate. There are always a set number of tasks you have to do when you are practicing. It is easy to put off playing until tomorrow, but you shouldn’t do this. Practice is important; you should get into it as soon as possible.

2) Keep in touch with other musicians. If you are constantly in contact with your friends who also play then you will boun off and motivate each other.

3) Keep moving. Don’t get stuck in a rut, it is important to keep on learning new skills and developing your playing.

4) Use your time properly. Without a regular practice time it becomes difficult to maintain consistency. You should make a regular time to practice so you can fully develop as a musician.

5) Practice in a good work environment. It is important to have a good place for you to practice. You need an environment that is clean and quite so you can fully concentrate on what you are doing.

6) Be comprehensive. You should always be trying to become a complete musician. For this reason, it can be a good idea to keep a list of all the things you need to do to become a complete musician.

7) Know your own work habits. Each person has their own individual way of learning. For this reason it is important to adjust your practice so you can maintain it.

We hope these tips help you with your practice. Keeping your self discipline is a matter of good planning and goal setting.

Posted by Moses Robbins

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A whole bundle of guitar lessons & tools

October 11, 2011 — Leave a Comment

Question: What do the following products have in common?

Answer: They are all part of an exciting bundle that is now on sale. For a limited time, you can get access to these products for one low price. No recurring bills. No complicated sign up process.

Just one simple (and heavily reduced payment mind you) and powl! you can get on with your playing and stop worrying about which course will best suit you, because these are the best of the best and will get your playing going.

Let me jump back a few months and tell you how this all came about. We decided that we wanted to pull together the ultimate collection of lessons and tools for people who want to bring playing music back into their lives, and who want to be able to lead sing-alongs with their guitar at backyard parties with friends and family.

We’ve certainly achieved that goal, and more besides. We’ve wound up with a collection of lessons and software that can take you from absolute beginner through to as far as you want to go musically.

We’ve got all the biggest names in the business, such as Jamplay, Song Surgeon, Songsterr Singing Success, and, of course, our very own SongPond.

As far as I know a collection of this scale with a discount this large is completely unprecedented.

Jamplay alone has over 2000 guitar lesson videos from over 40 professional teachers covering beginner acoustic and electric guitar right through to genres like Blues, Metal, Funk and Classical. They even have at least 8 hours of real, live, online guitar lessons every day!

Add to that Songsterr who have70,000 songs from 14,000 artists all with Guitar Tabs that play themselves. You can also loop a section for playback, change the tempo and the mix of the playback instruments.

… and, Song Surgeon; the best tool out there to slow down any track, including songs with vocals and complex lead licks to even a quarter of their original speed, with almost no discernable distortion or pitch change.

… and Singing Success; the course taught by one of the world’s most sought-after vocal coaches, Brett Manning (just Google the guy to see the list of amazing performers he’s coached and you’ll see he’s in a league of his own!)…

….and finally, SongPond which has step-by-step video lessons teaching you how to play some of the greatest songs ever written by artists like AC/DC, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Cream, Dire Straits, The Doors, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones – but you already knew that right?

And even if you already have access to SongPond or have signed up to the service before, there’s still plenty of content included in this bundle to make it worth your while.

With everything that’s included in this bundle, you’d end up paying over $400 if you wanted to buy them individually. But, from today (10th October) you can get all these products for just $99! (Or just pay $79 if you don’t need help with your singing).

I think this bundle is going to sell like hotcakes. It’s only available for a short time. I’ll keep you posted on how we get on with it. We’re pretty pleased and proud at how it’s turned out after all these months of background work on it.

All the best bringing the music back,

Jon Coursey
Guitar Fanatic & Co-founder
Jamorama.com

P.S. By buying this bundle, with the frankly amazing discount, you’ll be supporting our work here at Jamorama & SongPond. I would recommend this bundle to anyone who wants to learn to play and sing all the classics and be the life of the party!

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Introducing the JamEdge Newsletter

August 9, 2011 — 2 Comments

For all those guitarists who like to be in the know: The Free JamEdge Newsletter provides the most up to date guitar gear reviews, interesting ‘how to’ articles, inspirational guitarist videos, exclusive Jamorama offers, and can be found in the ‘The Free Stuff’ section of the Jamorama Website.

The JamEdge is all about giving guitarists the edge when it comes to guitar ‘know how’ and what’s new. Each newsletter covers a selection of interesting content so there’s always something for everyone.

And as extra incentive for people to sign up we also just added a couple of free guitar courses to choose from on signup.

The 10 Part Beginner Guitar Skills Course is a 3 week course that covers 10 fundamental guitar skills and is aimed at people starting learning guitar. By the end of the course, students are strumming chords and picking single notes, playing cool techniques like bends, and even have a blues under their belt!

The 9 Part Introduction to Lead Guitar Course is a longer and more challenging course for people who know the basics but want to develop their playing beyond that. Spread over 10 weeks, the course covers 5 fret positions of the pentatonic scale and enables you to solo over pretty much anything in both minor and major keys.

The sign up page can be found in the ‘The Free Stuff’ section of the site. Now no-body has any excuse for not being in-the-know!

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Giveaway: How do you plan to rock the 4th of July?

July 3, 2011 — 5 Comments

It’s Independence Day. Time to fire up the BBQ, have a few drinks and strike up a jam on the good ol’ acoustic guitar.

Well, that’s one way of celebrating July 4th.

If Jimi Hendrix were alive today, he might fire up the Fender Strat with a rendition of “Star Spangled Banner”.

Here at Jamorama our marketing team plan to celebrate by kicking off a week long, ‘Ultimate Guitar Learning Package’ promotion and free prize giveaway, ending Sunday night.

I’ve just checked it out and I’ve gotta say it’s one very complete set of guitar lessons, software, and guitar tools – And with a 70% discount you’d be crazy not to go and check it out.

As a bit of fun, we’re giving away 2 “Ultimate Guitar Learning Packages” right here on the blog, and here’s how you can get your hands on one ‘em…

Tell us how you plan to rock this 4th of July!

We want to know the unique way you plan to spend (or did spend) the national holiday. We’ll pick our 2 favorite answers and announce the package winners here on Friday. Just leave your comment here on this post.

Please make sure you fill in the email field when you leave your comment so we can contact you if you win!

Looking forward to hearing your great responses!

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Posted by Jon Coursey

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Happy Halloween

October 28, 2010 — 1 Comment

The wide spread observance of Halloween’s more social, festive and commercial aspects appears to be growing every year. American pop culture’s influence on an ever increasing worldwide audience is probably the biggest reason for the rise in popularity of the celebration amongst a new generation.

In New Zealand it is fairly rare to see any real Jack-o-lanterns around but trick or treating certainly seams to be getting bigger each October 31 and there has been a bit of buzz around the Jamorama office about how we could encourage kids to chew candy AND learn guitar.

Perhaps next year we will have to get some guitar shaped chocolate made up with special lesson codes on the wrappers, this year however we have sent some Halloween themed emails to our favorite subscribers with some tasty discounts on our guitar lessons. You can check out the discount your self here.

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