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		<title>Help us make Jamorama better.</title>
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The Jamorama team is totally dedicated to your guitar playing education. In fact it’s our purpose for being so we tend to take it rather seriously. We know we are not perfect so won’t get it right all the time. But we also know that with your help, we can become the best guitar lessons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAMM Show Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Jamorama Students and fellow Rockstars,
Yesterday we took in our final day at the NAMM show. Being Saturday, it was the day where the big crowds turned out to see the big name artists and the big changes taking place in the world of music gear.
After seeing pretty much everything that&#8217;s being exhibited this year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/namm-show-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>Jamorama at NAMM &#8216;10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve landed in NAMM!
No not the Nam of the 1960&#8217;s &#8211; NAMM the music trade show. 
NAMM is short for National Association of Music Merchants and their annual show is one of largest music product trade shows in the world. It&#8217;s held every January in Anaheim, California, and sees thousands of exhibitors and tens of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/jamorama-at-namm-10/</link>
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		<title>Learning to play the guitar with Jamorama in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 is here and the Jamorama Team are very excited about what 2010 has in store. It’s always awesome to hear about progress that has been made and read the feedback regarding your learning and playing.
During the Christmas and New Year period we really got the impression that many new guitarists out there are experiencing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/learning-to-play-the-guitar-with-jamorama-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Pearl Jam concert a stellar evening!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[November 29 and the RSR staff found themselves car pooling to Jon’s home for an amazing pot luck dinner and some quiet drinks prior to the Pearl Jam concert.
With full bellies and for some, a mild beer glow, we headed off to the AMI stadium eager with anticipation about the night ahead.
Parking wasn’t a problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/pearljam-concert-a-stellar-evening/</link>
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		<title>Learn like a Real guitar Hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had a quick look at some custom guitar hero controllers as well as the YAMAHA EZAG stringless guitar, a "guitar" that falls half way in between a stringless controller and a learning tool with l.e.d.'s  to illustrate where you place your fingers upon the neck.

Guitar Rising is a music video game where the player plays a real guitar as cued by the game’s visuals. Following rock music sequences and streaming notes, players play guitar melodies and rhythms. Beginner difficulty levels are designed for non-guitar players and hard difficulties will challenge experienced guitarists.

The great news is Guitar Rising from Game Tank allows you to play a real guitar in a game that combines the Guitar Hero format with guitar tablature. There are six lines on the screen that represent the six strings just like the neck of your guitar. The color-coordinated notes have been replaced with numbers that tell you which fret to finger.

So a number seven moving across the third line or string from the top, means you'll play a D note on your 3rd string. Guitar players who have spent any time with standard tablature will find this to be like second nature. If you haven't then this game will help you move away from the stringless controller format into the territory of REAL guitar playing whilst still having fun.]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/learn-like-a-real-guitar-hero/</link>
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		<title>Help Wanted: Online Community Manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re hiring an Online Community Manager, experience necessary.
Rockstar Recipes is an award winning Christchurch, New Zealand-based Company that produces online educational resources to teach people to learn to play musical instruments. We have over 60,000 members and more than 330,000 page views a month.
We&#8217;re hiring someone to run our 3 online communities. Please read this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/help-wanted-online-community-manager/</link>
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		<title>Relics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a funny old world that's for sure. While some of the population seems hell bent on preserving their youthful good looks, brainwashed by the shallow whimsies of Hollywood`s plastic people, or even their own vanity; the world of the guitar is steadfastly running in the opposite direction. There is currently no botox available for guitar - but Keith Richard's dermatologist is down at Gibson and Fender charging big bucks to mess up your axe with an old flask of tea, an ashtray of fag-ends, a rusty chisel and a dirty old palm sander!

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Let's face it,  guitar design remains predominantly trapped back in the 1950's -and in this world change is a suspicious and malignant blight that the the guitar stoic must resist! 

We've had a look at modern materials here, but accepted wisdom holds that concepts such as old, vintage, traditional and classic are the foundations upon which tone, sound and greatness are built.

Indeed, the Fender custom sheep, sorry shop, have taken it upon themselves to introduce the Road Worn(tm) series - guitars that come pre-loved, pre-stressed or what have you!

You can of course do it yourself, but in reality there is no substitute for time tested, genuine, cut your teeth, on the ciricuit wear and tear.

Some fellers on ebay have been pre-loving their guitars and putting them up for sale but the results are often a little over cooked.

One guy even dragged his Strat'  body behind his  I-roc - man he must hate guitars.


Let's face it guitar design alone remains firmly trapped back in the 1950's -and in this world change is a suspicious and malignant blight that the the guitar stoic must resist! We've had a look at modern materials here, but accepted wisdom holds that concepts such as old, vintage, traditional and classic are the foundations upon which tone, sound and greatness are built.

Indeed the Fender custom sheep, sorry shop, have taken it upon themselves to introduce the road worn(tm) series - guitars that come pre-loved, pre-stressed or what have you!

You can of course do it yourself, but in reality there is no substitute for time tested, genuine, cut your teeth, on the ciricuit wear and tear.

Some fellers on ebay have been pre-loving their guitars and putting them up for sale but the results are often a little over cooked.

One guy even dragged his Strat'  body behind his  I-roc - man he must hate guitars.]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/relics/</link>
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		<title>Beginning with the major pentatonic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post called Jamming I I introduced you all to a movable pentatonic minor blues box. It's the foundation of most blues rock guitar and a really very highly versatile scale that will allow you to play licks, phrases and motifs across the neck.

BUT it's definitely a scale with a dark and minor character: moody, doleful and chock full of midnight moonlight. What happens though if you manage to shake off those blues shackles and even crack a wry old grin into your sleeve every now and then?

So to complement the minor today I`m going to introduce the Major Pentatonic Box and this has a much more uplifting "major" character. If this sounds a litttle like GREEK to you then "DONT PANIC!" because it's all about creating a mood, it's all about discovering the way different sounds and intervals (the gaps between notes in terms of both pitch and space) create, enhance or combine to communicate emotion.]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/major-pentatonic-box-1/</link>
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		<title>Paul Ubana Jones Fingerpicking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the late eighties Paul and his family moved to New Zealand, which is still their permanent home. He has continued to perform internationally, to growing acclaim. Concert performances include opening for the likes of Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Taj Mahal, Keb Mo’, Tuck and Patti, and Crowded House.

Understandably Paul's "off the hook" skills aren't something that'll come to you overnight, unless you're friends with the devil, but, to compliment the awesome Blind Blake style fingerpicking lesson from Jim Bruce, Paul's approach to fusion expands upon an already eloquent vocabulary.

So, here is Paul discussing one of his clawhammer thumb picking patterns.

Whilst this may be out of your playing depth technically Paul describes some helpful techniques in approaching fingerpicking such as focusing upon a relaxed hand and extracting and concentrating upon the the rhythm of the left hand - it`s well worth spending some time in trying to apply Paul's advice to your own picking practice regime.

In a world of increasing homogeneity and gratuitous eulogising of the mediocre by the media simply for what appears to be the sake of having something to talking about, it's a rare  sight to behold aberrations to the normal especially in the form of unique and uncompromising talent.]]></description>
		<link>http://jamorama.com/blog/paul-ubana-jones-fingerpicking/</link>
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