JamPlay Review

JamPlay is an online video guitar lesson provider. The offer a variety of lessons for Beginners, Genre specific, and specific songs. Currently they have over 100 hours of lessons on the site, and it's all available for only $19.95 per month. JamPlay Home Page JamPlay sample Lessons What JamPlay Teaches

JamPlay, an online video website providing guitar instruction videos, is a reasonably new comer to the learn guitar market. They've taken a unique approach to providing lessons from a variety of genres, as well as a variety of teachers which I think greatly benefits you the student.

JamPlay offers the ability to ask questions about particular lessons of the instructors, this is unique to just them. Most guitar lessons sites don't do this, they may have a message board where students can converse but not that in depth. I think for the price of $19.95 per month it's a steal of a deal even if you only joined for a month to see what the lessons were like.

Video Quality:

I've got to give JamPlay a 5/5 for quality. The videos are HD quality, and as long as you're using some form of high speed connection you shouldn't have any issues watching them. For any of you still using dial up JamPlay might not be the best alternative, and you might be better served by a home study guitar video course.

See a sample Video Lesson Here

Lesson Quality:

The lessons are good, all though I'll say not fantastic. The best lessons I've ever seen are those of Learn and Master guitars so it's a pretty high bar I hold for comparisons. How ever it varies from instructor to instructor. That's another great point, unlike many other online video guitar lesson site JamPlay has a variety of teachers you can learn from.

One downfall I found was that there wasn't enough content on musical theory or reading music. This makes JamPlay a great site for people learning to play songs, or jam with friends. How ever not as strong for those wanting to learn more of the technical side of guitar.

View a list of what JamPlay teaches

Amount of content:

There are over 100+ hours of lesson time (at the time of this JamPlay review writing 6,682 minutes) online. That's a ton of content, and if you're looking to learn a variety of genres or particular songs that will take you quite some time to go through.

Buy or Don't Buy JamPlay

This isn't a yes or no question, it depends on what your learning expectations are what type of guitar player you want to become. JamPlay will benefit any beginners, and the majority of intermediate players. The only people I would suggest maybe not bother with JamPlay are those that want to become very technical players.