Ultimate 'Start Here' Guitar Lesson Package

As a long time guitar instructor I can tell you that one of the most frustrating aspects of teaching new players is seeing them waste money. Where I feel I earn $50 an hour is in my ability to provide a student with the exact information they need to get from where they are at this moment to where they want to go. But do you really want to pay someone $50 to show you how to hold the guitar? To teach you how to play an E chord? When there are excellent low cost education products out there that will help you quickly master the basics? If you've got deep pockets, sure, it can't hurt, but if you're on a budget, why not get started with some DIY lessons first- before you make a large investment in pro private or music school instruction. Put a couple of months in on your own, then when you do move on to private lessons you won't be wasting time or money. I'm currently recommending Jamarama. I've checked out the package and find it to be an excellent start up guitar lesson program. (I'm not recommending the other Jamorama products- Jamorama Lead, or the Acoustic Guitar program at this time.) The lessons are clear and the information is packaged very well as far as internet download products go. In a very short time you can go from 0 to playing songs.

The package comes with an assortment of 'bonuses' designed to make learning easier, including Jam Tracks, Guitar Tuning software, and a software Metronome. There's an ear training program as well called GuitEarIt, which is useful and kind of fun. There's also a sight reading 'game' called Jayde Musica which is interesting although I think it would be more useful in conjunction with sight reading lessons from a pro teacher. (That is, if you have an interest in learning how to read musical notation). However the bulk of the instruction is in the form of two pdf books and a LOT of audio and video files.

When you purchase Jamarama you're given a Registration Code. You then log into the Jamorama User site and download the program. Once It's installed (simple placement of the program and folders etc) and you launch it, you're prompted for your Reg. code. On the inside you have access to all the information Jamorama provides, except that much of it resides online and has to be retreived. For that purpose you use the Download Manager to tell Jamorama which lessons you want to download. Once downloaded the lesson lives on your drive so you needn't be online to access it. I just went ahead and downloaded the entire collection. (Told the Manager which lessons to download and went for a bike ride!).

If you have any doubts at all about Jamarama, I would suggest you sign up for their free 6 guitar lesson eCourse. Yes you have to give them your email address (I used a discreet email address and can confirm that it wasn't shared with anyone) but the free lessons are great and actually I remain subscribed to Ben's weekly newsletter to this day. Ben turns out to be a real guitar lover and his newsletters are full of important and interesting info. You can also download a free 38 page Jamorama Guitar Lesson eBook from my site.

So really, if you're new to the guitar, this really is the Ultimate 'Start Here' Guitar Lesson Package.. Excellent product at a great price.