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The piano is an awesome instrument, personally I love it, but at times I’ve wished I was able to also play the guitar. You see the piano, at least my big upright one I have, isn’t all that portable. So I decided a few months ago to buy a cheap acoustic guitar online.

I picked one up for under a couple hundred bucks and then set off to try and learn some chords on YouTube. I was at a distinct advantage over most beginners because I already have the basics of music theory from learning piano. What I found from the beginner guitar lessons I was taking was that they were just too basic and weren’t really teaching me all I knew I should be learning.

So I set off to find some paid online lessons. I found several courses to use. What I settled on Jamplay.com, an online guitar site that had a few hundred hours of lessons for all skill levels from a bunch of different teachers.

There was a couple of reasons I opted on using these guitar lessons online.

The first was I wanted to find a site that had specific teachers for different styles of guitar. I didn’t want to learn blues from the same guy that taught the kids beginner guitar lessons.

The second was I wanted to ensure there was good support for the lessons.

Jamplay had both of those, the final thing that put me over the top to choose them were these Jamplay coupon codes I found.

I was able to say 10% on my entire years membership, which might not seem like much but I basically was able to get a full years worth of guitar lessons for about $125 bucks.

If you’re thinking of picking up the guitar I have to say that this site is a great deal.

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Why Bass is an Important Part of Any Band

by admin on April 19, 2011

It’s not always apparent that the bass guitar is playing a big role in a song when a band is performing or you’re listening to a CD. However if you take the bass away you sure know it’s missing.

This is the way it often is for many background instruments, especially in a studio mix of a song when the instrument isn’t at the forefront.

The bass guitar is the instrument that really ties together the beats from the drums with the rhythm and chords of the piano or guitar. The bass guitar generally follows along with the root note of the chords from the song and then follows the beat of the bass drum for the drummer.

This is a unique marriage between a stringed instrument and the drums that doesn’t exist anywhere else.

The bass guitar is often an instrument that gets overlooked because it is a background instrument. The guitar and piano are usually the post popular instruments to learn since they are out in the front and the people who play them get noticed.

It’s a different individual who takes bass guitar lessons. It’s someone who wants to do it for the love of the music. They recognize that they may never be the front person in a band, but that doesn’t matter to them. They’re in it to be the thump and driving force of a song.

To those of you how love bass guitar i have to salute you. It’s a beautiful instrument that has a lot of creative growth when you really learn the fretboard.

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Today’s post isn’t directly related to Piano, but it is good for any of you who are or would like to be multi instrumentalists. The company that produced and sells Learn & Master Piano is Legacy Learning Systems. An educational company from Nashville TN. They first got their start with a guitar course, Learn and [...]

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Ok so I went out and found a lesson on YouTube that covers how to play Hey Jude by the Beatles. Yesterday I posted a great live performance of this song with some of the biggest names in music today, I figured if you took the time to watch that video today you might have [...]

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Well unless you’ve lived under a rock your entire life you’ve more then likely heard this HUGE hit by The Beatles “Hey Jude”. While the song itself isn’t such a techincal tune on the piano it’s definitely one of the best songs ever written on and for the piano. The version I found today is [...]

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