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Cost

• Monthly subscription - $19.95 which will be billed every 30 days and works out at $0.67 per day.
• Quarterly subscription - $49.95, which works out at $0.55 per day and is billed every 90 days.
• Annual subscription - $139.95, is a one time charge and works out at just $0.33 per day.

JamPlay.com also offers a full money back guarantee no questions asked up to seven days after purchase.

Features:.

• JamPlay is a fantastic and ever-expanding online resource, currently featuring over 173 hours of video lessons and supplementary material of unrivaled quality.
• The website is cleverly and intuitively designed, giving you your own personalized profile and members' page. From your members' page you can access;
  • A personal progress feature so you can keep track of which lessons you've started, which you've completed and which ones still need work.
  • Social networking and community features including chat rooms, forums and personal messages.
  • A news feed so you can keep track of the newest additions to JamPlay's lessons library and up and coming events such as live Q&A sessions with tutors.
  • A comprehensive chord library with a unique feature that allows you to quickly create your own printable chord sheets for practising specific progressions.
  • A scale library, with extensive material on music theory and suitable applications for every scale and mode.
  • A collection of backing tracks for you to jam along to.
• The video lessons are divided into three phases;
  • Phase 1 beginner lessons teach the raw basics.
  • Phase 2 advanced lessons teach full progressions and techniques in a variety of styles and genres.
  • Phase 3 song lessons teach you how to play whole songs and highlights the importance of learning entire pieces to perfect technique and develop musicality.
• All video lessons are produced to a superb standard and feature selectable camera angles and close ups.
• While viewing video lessons you can use the intuitive interface to simultaneously browse related chord diagrams, tablature and other supplementary material.
• JamPlay currently has 19 resident tutors with individual styles and expertise, so you can be sure to find a teaching style to suit you.
• The site is regularly updated with new content.
• Individual questions can be answered with a personalized video message from one of the tutors.
• All written material can be printed off and kept for future reference.

Editor's Verdict:

If you've learned a bit of guitar in the past and are now looking for a cost effective and convenient way to hone your skills and expand your knowledge, you need look no further than JamPlay.com which is a slick, professional and extensive online resource for guitar learning. With over 173 hours (and counting...) of immaculately produced video lessons spanning more than ten musical genres and stacks of supplementary material and theory, this is a great solution for the serious learner looking to take his playing to the next level.

That's not to say there isn't plenty here for the beginner. You can start from the raw basics and follow the built in structure to improve your playing step by step or you can use the site as something like a musician's inventory where you can enhance specific skills and draw inspiration.

From your members page you can engage in the online networking features to exchange ideas with fellow learners, or take advantage of some of the very useful online tools provided by Jamplay. These include a personal progress report, jam tracks, a handy metronome and an extensive library of chords and scale theory. The chord library is an invaluable tool that allows you to quickly and easily create your own chord sheets so you can practice specific progressions, while the scale library includes all the theoretical knowledge you'll ever need to master your instrument, all laid out in a well structured and intuitive manner.    

All the content and media on the site is of unrivaled quality with 19 resident tutors continually adding to a growing online library of guitar instruction. The design is slick and easy to navigate so you'll never get frustrated with the site's interface. Whats more, any problems or queries you may have will be personally addressed by one of the tutors via a video response. The fact that all of the instructors are resident and dedicated to the site gives Jamplay a great personal feel, almost like the experience of one-on-one tutorship, for a fraction of the price.

In fact, the only slight drawback with this brilliant package is the necessity of a good broadband internet connection to take full advantage of its features. If you don't have regular access to a good internet connection you should probably avoid Jamplay.com, as all of its content is online only and not available as a download or hard copy. While you can log on to Jamplay and print many sheets of valuable written information, this won't make up for all you'll be missing out on, as the service was really only intended for online use.

One other slight niggle with Jamplay is the lack of integrated graphics and diagrams in the video lessons. While there are good supplementary materials provided with each lesson, which can be browsed simultaneously, sometimes the lack of integrated visual aids results in tutors resorting to painstaking explanations of rhythms and picking patterns when a simple diagram would have sufficed.

That said, if you do have a reliable broadband connection and don't mind using your computer as the main hub of your practice, then you can consider this an absolutely top notch and rewarding product well worth your time and money. While there are other sites that perhaps offer lessons in a broader range of styles, JamPlay is growing fast and what it lacks in quantity it certainly makes up for in quality. This is the one of the best designed, most intuitive and feature-packed guitar lesson site on the web.

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