Hey guys,
I thought it would be useful to provide you with specific details of what each lesson in the Jamorama Beginner Guitar Course teaches you so that you’ll have a good idea of what to expect from it.
As I mention in my Jamorama Review, the course is built around two books, which take you from someone without any knowledge of guitar (or music in general) to an intermediate/advanced guitarist.
Each book is divided into a series of lessons, each of which I’ve provided a brief synopsis of below:
Book 1: Beginner Course Level 1 (Beginner)
The Introduction will give you an overview of the guitar, how to sit with it and how to hold it.
Lesson 1 teaches you the chords A Major and D Major and how to strum them.
Lesson 2 explains how to read guitar tabs and provides a jam track to strum along to.
In Lesson 3, you’ll learn the basics of reading traditional music score, how to play a series of single notes on the 1st and 2nd strings and gives you another jam track to pick notes to.
Lesson 4 introduces the E Major chord, builds on your music theory, shows you how to pick notes on the third string and gives you another jam track to play to.
Lesson 5 shows you how to play the G Major and C Major chords, how to pick notes on the fourth string and provides a new jam track to play along with.
In Lesson 6, you’ll learn how to play the A Minor chord and notes on the fifth string as well as teaching you turn around progression and giving you a couple more jam tracks to play to.
Lesson 7 introduces 8th note rhythm patterns, the chromatic scale and the F Major chord.
Lesson 8 explains the dominant 7 chords and shows you how to play the A7, D7 and E7 chords. Again, a jam track is provided for you to practise what you have learned.
Lesson 9 introduces the silent stroke symbol, notes on the sixth string and 2 more jam tracks.
And in Lesson 10, you’ll learn the G7 and C7 chords and be taught two bar rhythms.
Lesson 11 teaches you the B7 chord and how to play Blues in E Major. There’s also a new jam track to practise to.
Lesson 12 builds on your knowledge of music theory and introduces bass note picking.
In Lesson 13, you’ll learn about the 3/4 time signature, more bass picking and have two more jam tracks to rock to.
Lesson 14 goes into detail about suspended chords (Asus, Dsus and Esus chords) and scales (including the Major scale and the C Major scale). Again, there is another jam track for practising.
Finally in Lesson 15, you’ll learn the Asus2 and Dsus2 chords and play along to the last jam track in this book.
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Book 2: Beginner Course Level 2 (Intermediate)
Lesson 1 teaches you base note runs and introduces the D minor chord.
In Lesson 2 you’ll learn about the Major 7th chords and how to play the F Major 7th and C Major 7th chords. You’ll also be taught 16th note rhythm patterns.
Lesson 3 will show you A Major 7th, D Major 7th and G Major 7th chords as well as the first position of chromatic notes.
Lesson 4 goes into triplet rhythms and introduces the B Minor chord.
And in Lesson 5, you’ll learn about the A major scale and Major 6 chords (A6 and E6 chords).
Lesson 6 will teach you how to play Barre chords (including the F barre chord and root six barre chord).
Lesson 7 will show you how to do the percussive strum.
Lesson 8 will explain the Root 6 Minor Bar chord.
And Lesson 9 will expand your knowledge of music theory by discussing key signatures and scales.
Lesson 10 explains music rests and the F dominant 7 chord (Root six).
Lesson 11 will teach you how to do an 8th note rest with a strum and how to perform deadening.
Lesson 12 discusses the Major root 5 barre chords and will teach you staccato strumming.
Lesson 13 explains important concepts in chord progression and introduces two 12-bar blues patterns.
In Lesson 14, you’ll learn about the Root 5 minor barre chord and a third 12 bar blues pattern.
Lesson 15 explains palm-muting in detail.
Lesson 16 will teach you advanced rhythm techniques.
And Lesson 17 introduces the Root 5 dominant 7 barre chord and how to play blues in D.
Lesson 18 will teach you how to strum along to Reggae music with the Reggae strum.
Lesson 19 teaches you the Minor scale.
Lesson 20 introduces the Minor 7th chords and teaches you the Fm7chord and Bbm7 chord.
And in Lesson 21, you’ll be taught about the Major 6 barre chords and learn the F6 chord and Bb6 chord.
Lesson 22 explains Power chords and shows you how to play the F power chord and Bb power chord.
Lesson 23 discusses accents and the compound meter.
Lesson 24 teaches the C shape barre chord.
And Lesson 25 goes into detail about Suspended barre chords (including Bbsus2 and Bbsus4).
Finally, in Lesson 26 you’ll learn the Root 6 and root 5 major 7th barres.
So, if you do decide to learn guitar using Jamorama, you now have idea of how the lessons are structured.
Danny
