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If you want to play with others or play while you sing, you will need to learn to play Accompaniment, or playing “Backup”. This often underrated art form combines Rhythm, Chords and Bass Lines to create support for your voice and other players, and is as complex and rewarding as any lead role. In this one-of-a-kind Workshop you will learn exiting new strums and rhythms to support different styles of music, Chord Inversions so you can unlock your fingerboard, and using Bass Lines and Fill Licks to add spice to your Backup playing. After this class you will never think of playing Backup the same!

Watch this Workshop on YouTube HERE, download the class syllabus HERE

This fun and informative workshop will give you all the tools you need to write and sing your own songs! Using the JamAlong “Music Quadrant” approach, Song Writing is broken down into four categories: The Voice, The Lyrics, The Musical Instrument, and Music Theory. You will learn the essentials in each of these areas, and be able to practice the immensely satisfying craft of the Singer-Songwriter. We can’t wait to hear your first song!

Watch this Workshop on YouTube HERE, download the class syllabus HERE

So many of us think of composing as a “special talent”, something that only genius’s and the naturally gifted can do. Nothing if further from the truth…you can compose your own songs! This one-of-a-kind class will give you a whole new idea on how the composing process works, using out “JamAlong Composing Process” that will having you writing tunes in a matter of hours. You will learn how to find major and minor keys, and then put together great sounding chord progressions that match. We’ll show you how to record your ideas and then build on them, creating original melodies and themes. And, if you are a JamAlong student, you can send us your composition and we will send you back professional sheet music for your piece!

Watch this Workshop on YouTube HERE, download the class syllabus HERE

Jazz can seem intimidating and hard to understand, and this is made worse by all the confusing material out there that tries to “explain” it. In this workshop we break it down to the basic nuts and bolts, from how to build jazz chords like the 9th, 13th, 7 flat 5, etc, to advanced concepts like chord substitution and passing chords. You will also learn the secrets of jazz scales, like the bebop scales, altered modes like Mixolydian and Dorian, and the “synthetic scales” such as Diminished and Whole Tone. We’ll walk you through the beginnings of jazzing up the Blues, so you can start playing jazz phrases and learning to improvise right away. If you’ve ever wanted to play jazz, this is the class for you!

Watch this Workshop on YouTube HERE, download the class syllabus HERE

Ever wondered how good player can keep a stream of notes pouring out of their instrument, and make it look effortless? Ever been frustrated with learning scales and licks and still not being able to make music with them? Then you definitely want to take this class! You will learn the magic art of turning scales into improvised music, using insider tricks like syncopated rests, string skipping, repeated riffs, and left-hand ornaments, giving you the power to improvise your own solos at the next jam!

Watch this Workshop on YouTube HERE, download the class syllabus HERE

Learn the secrets of music theory in this fun and informative class, featuring all the useful and “street-ready” tricks that you can use the next day! You will learn how to find the chords to any key, chord construction and building 7th and 9th chords, scale types and modes, chord substitution and much more. This class will teach you all the theory that performing professionals use, and will change the way you think about music forever!

Watch this Workshop on YouTube  HERE, download the class syllabus  HERE