Lesson 29 – the final lesson of the course! – looks at augmented chords.

And with that, you’ve finished the course – congratulations! By this point you have a huge chord vocabulary as well as a solid grasp of various rhythmic patterns and strumming techniques. You can read tab and basic notation, and understand how different types of chords are put together. You’ve also gained lots of practice at playing along with others (in the form of the jam tracks), and if you’ve been using the bonuses in conjunction with the main course, you’ll have developed your ear and other musical skills too. Together, this knowledge will enable you to play just about any song you like and/or to write your own tunes in various styles, and you now have a firm basis from which to learn more advanced lead guitar techniques (see Jamorama Lead, which is designed to build on what you’ve learned in this course), as well as to specialise in one or more musical styles, if that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I’ve enjoyed the Jamorama course a lot. Although this material wasn’t really new to me, it was a great refresher, and I think I’d have learned more quickly and effectively if I’d had access to a quality course like this when I was starting out. If you’ve found this post through a search engine, you can read my complete Jamorama review here.

Lesson 26 talks about major 7 barre chords.

Lesson 27 continues to expand your chord vocabulary, by introducing ninth chords, and there are plenty of exercises to practice what you’ve recently learned.

Lesson 24 introduces a new movable barre chord shape.

Lesson 22 introduces power chords, and there’s another jam track at the end.

Lesson 19 introduces minor scales. There’s a pretty glaring error here, where the A major and A minor scales are wrongly notated – all of the notes are a step out, with the scales starting on G rather than A! I find it really odd that a mistake like this could slip through, and it’s disappointing to see this kind of sloppiness in such an otherwise impressive course. Still, as with the other typos I’ve come across, it’s pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention to what they’re learning.

In Lesson 20 you’ll learn about minor seventh chords, and there’s another jam track to practice with.

Lesson 17 introduces new shapes for the dominant 7 barre chord, and a blues progression with which to practice them.

Lesson 14 is a longer one, with a new minor chord to learn, plus another blues progression and a jam track to practice what you’ve learned. By this point you’ve learned a large number of chords, plus notes along most of the fretboard, and will be able to play a variety of impressive-sounding rhythm tracks to accompany your own songs or those of others.

Lesson 15 is devoted to explaining palm muting, which is used to good effect with both strumming and picking. This a a valuable new technique which will help increase your arsenal of sounds.

Lesson 12 introduces a new barre chord pattern and staccato strumming. There’s another jam track at the end, which you’re encouraged to try improvising over, as well as playing the chords as written. I think that learning to improvise early on is important, and it’s nice to see that it’s encouraged here, even though you haven’t learned much in the way of lead techniques yet.

Lesson 9 is a short one, and is devoted to scales, with several new ones being discussed. Some might find scales a bit boring, bit I think that playing them can be enjoyable if you really focus on what you’re doing. Plus you need to learn them to progress as a guitarist, so it’s probably best to find ways of making scale practice as much fun as you can!

Lesson 10 discusses dominant 7 barre chords, as well as some more basic music theory.

Lesson 6 introduced another important technique – the barre chord, beginning with the F major root 6 chord, followed by other chords that can be formed from this movable shape. Barre chords can be tricky to master, as it can be hard to hold all of the strings down properly, but they do get much easier with practice.

Lesson 7 discusses percussive strum techniques, and there are various exercises to practice these, using both single chords and progressions. This chapter also discusses the importance of slow practice – something that lots of people (myself included sometimes) overlook in their haste to make progress and play impressive sounding fast stuff quickly.