Question: What are guitar clinics? Answer: A good investment to improve your guitar skills! What else are you using to improve your guitar skills besides your Jamorama Guitar course? Perhaps you own a few more guitar courses, or you visit your guitar tutor once a month? Are they any other options out there? Yes, Master […]
Author Archives: Jon Coursey
Kenny Burrell
The man with more than 100 recorded albums! Let’s get a bit jazzy today…nothing wrong with that I say. So grab a martini or a glass of your favorite drink and enjoy the music of Kenny Burrell. Kenneth Earl Burrell, known as “Kenny” was born in 1931. He is an American Jazz guitarist and his […]
Best Pick Holders
The pick holder is a great invention and you’ll find different types and versions created by many well known brands. But who makes the best pick holders?
Getting a basic guitar sound out of your amp
Many of you will have a descent (or not so) decent guitar amp, but I can guarantee that most of you are not happy with how your guitar sounds. This is basically because you are not paying enough attention to your amp set up. No matter what amp you have, you always have to get […]
My Top 5 guitar albums of 2012
Hello fellow guitarists! I thought I would give you a wrap up of 2012 by showing you my very own and personal picks of guitar albums of 2012! I am sure you have your own picks and you might disagree with some of mine but you will also discover some great stuff on my top […]
8 Internet learning resources for guitarists
In my opinion, the Internet is one of the best things we have seen in our era. Information is just one click away and your guitar learning can definitely improve from stuff you find on the web. That is why you are here…AND it’s the reason why we’re here too. We’ve been providing guitar learning […]
Dick Dale
Anyone from the 60´s reading this article? You will be super familiar with it… Rick Dale, “The King of the Surf Guitar”, included on the Rolling Stone top 100 best guitarists of all time. His style is as big and influential as Hendrix’s or any other of the amazingly talented guitarists from the ‘60s and […]
Frets for the bigger hands
How many times you have struggled to get your chords sounding right? During all these years of providing guitar lessons and resources for the beginner guitarists, we have had hundreds of emails from guitarists saying that their fingers are too big for the guitar they are using. Unfortunately there aren’t many fixes for this issue. […]
How to find time to practice?
We all are busy people here; we are either students, parents, full time workers, boyfriends or girlfriends but we are also wanting to learn to play guitar. Finding time to practice is probably one of the biggest challenges in our life, unless we are a full time muso which not many of us are lucky […]
Pat Metheny
If there is a billboard of Jazz guitarists, Pat Metheny definitely has to be at top of the list. When it comes to jazz music, Metheny is there whether its in a jazz group, a duet or as a solo guitarist. Metheny’s music style involves elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, latin jazz and […]