Chords, Scales, Theory
Guitar Resolutions for the New Year
Guitar Resolutions for the New Year Make this the year your resolutions lead to some musical resolution. In this age of the internet guitar multiverse, you could easily see more lesson…
Guitar Practice: Touch and Tone
Touch and Tone The best compliment I ever got on my tone was from the producer on a recording session. He said, “you’re the only guy I know who can make a Gibson sound like a Fender”. He…
Triads and Melody
Guitar Practice: Triads and Melody Triads are chords in their simplest form. You might think that the “box” forms you learned early on are the simplest ones, but any major or minor chord…
JamPlay's Holiday Guitar Gift Guide 2022
Share this Cool Guitar Gadgets & Guitar Stocking Stuffers Gift Guide 2022 | JamPlay It’s that time of year again… where we show the guitar players in our lives just how much they…
Guitar Practice: Conscious Repetition
Guitar Practice: Conscious Repetition “Don’t practice till you get it right, practice till you can’t get it wrong”. It’s well-intentioned advice, but it might give you an incomplete…
Another Way to Think About Guitar Modes
Another Way to Think About Guitar Modes Guitarists spend a lot of time talking about modes. Learning modes usually starts with a list of scale fingerings, and for a lot of people it never…
Navigating The Grid
Navigating The Grid The guitar neck is a grid. It’s the only instrument that offers so many ways to get to the same place. It’s a little like getting around Manhattan. Even a…
Get More Power From Your Power Chords!
Get More Power From Your Power Chords! Power chords are part of the backbone of rock guitar. Tony Iommi’s epic, lumbering sludge on “Iron Man,” and Ritchie Blackmore’s iconic grind on…
Music Theory Madness: Video
Share this Music Theory Madness: Video A JamPlay Short Film Music theory can be intimidating. But connecting the dots between the skills you already have and a few basic music theory…