Not just another online music school, the JamAlong Music Method is the result of literally thousands of hours spent jamming across the country, as well as teaching countless music lessons in music stores and festivals.
The JamAlong Music Method gets you playing right away, making learning fun. Whether you’re a veteran jammer or just starting out, we offer state-of-the-art instruction on the kind of music that matters the most: your music!
Multimedia eLessons
Learn how to jam with our online music lessons — featuring 25 to 40 minute online videos, downloadable TAB and sheet music, and play-along audio tracks. We’ll go over every single note, slowly and clearly, with lots of charts and demos, until you are absolutely sure how it’s done.
Our lessons include backing tracks with a full string band of guitar, bass and mandolin for you to practice along with. Once you jam along with our backup tracks you’ll start having so much fun that you can’t even really call it practice … And it’s not, it’s JamAlong!
And best of all, with our multimedia eLessons you get to learn in the comfort of your own home, and there is no pressure to make it to a music lesson or finish the material by any certain time. Nope, this is your program, and you learn it at your pace, with no pressure.
Once you purchase an eLesson, you will be able to view it streaming online from the website, where all of your lessons will be displayed in your own Lesson Folder. That way you can access your lesson from any device (laptop, tablet, smart phone) from anywhere you are! (You can also get any of our video lessons mailed to you in DVD format, just let us know and we’ll ship it right out to you! A shipping and handling fee of $15 per DVD will apply.)
Subscriptions
If you’re a dabbler, you can purchase eLessons individually, but if you wanna be a real jammer, you can get access to every eLesson on jamalong.org for only $30/month… by becoming a subscriber!
As a subscriber you can browse the eLesson Library and add your favorite lessons to your own Lesson Folder. Log into My Lesson Folder at any time and all your favorite lessons will be right there.
PS: Our premium subscription plans include custom video eLessons and live video lessons!
Custom eLessons
Yes, that’s right: custom eLessons! You can place an order for any song or skill you want to learn, and our team of Music Coaches will prepare a fun and easy to understand lesson just for you. This is something you simply will not find anywhere else!
And if you need that personal touch, our Music Coaches are just a phone call or text away. We regularly do support calls with our students, using whatever platform you’re comfortable with…Skype, Google Hangouts, IM, texting, or ravens with scrolls in their beaks. Whatever works for you. Can’t figure out a certain fingering? Mystified by a bit of music theory? Or maybe you just want a shoulder to cry on? We’re here for ya!
Transcription service
When you want to learn how to play your new favorite song, it really helps to have it written out for you. That’s where JamAlong Transcriptions come in.
Just tell us what song you want to learn. Not only do we do standard notation, we also create custom tablature for banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, bass and ukulele. So that means anything you’ve been dying to learn, whether it’s a Doc Watson guitar solo or something crazy from Jake Shimabukuro, we’ll figure out exactly how they played it and send you the TAB for every note. We also provide chord charts, lyrics and more!
Live Online Music Lessons
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JamAlong’s Live Online Music Lessons you’ll have all the benefits of an “in person” music lesson, except you can do it in the comfort of your own home, in your bathrobe if you wish!
The JamAlong Music Store
Featuring the best musical instruments and accessories for jammers like you. Plus some unique JamAlong Music products not found in any store!
Browse eLessons by Instrument
Guitar
Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk, Blues, fingerpicking and flatpick
Banjo
4 and five strings, frailing and bluegrass, traditional and modern
Mandolin
Bluegrass, Fiddle Tunes, Swing, Folk
Fiddle
Bluegrass, Folk
Ukulele
All styles and songs
Dobro
Bluegrass, Fiddle Tunes, Blues, Folk
Other instruments
Play the tuba or glockenspiel?
The JamAlong Blog
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As most of you may know, JamAlong’s banjo coach Braeden has been working on an invention he calls the “Stealth Stand”. That’s him using it in the picture, it holds your music on your knee so you don’t need to lug a music stand around! Click here to watch the Stealth Stand in action! To […]
Curing Stage Fright – Five Jedi Tips
I’ll never forget my first jam session. As a seventeen year-old banjo wielding hippy kid I was a sore thumb already, but to top it off I was extremely nervous. Like, reee—ally extremely nervous, like, more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. So before I even entered a jam […]
The Four Barriers – Why People Quit
Starting to learn music is no problem. Here at JamAlong we’ve see literally hundreds of people begin their musical journey, full of enthusiasm and confidence. Armed with a new banjo, or perhaps a free lesson offer, they are the picture-perfect student. They take copious notes, schedule regular practice hours, and usually come back to the […]