Jamorama Review: Learn to Play Guitar with Jamorama

Back in high school, my mother insisted that I learn how to play an instrument and so I went for guitar lessons every week for about two years. Learning guitar was a slow, painful and frustrating process and it took me ages to feel like I knew anything, which ruined my motivation to continue with lessons. In fact, after about the one year mark, I often spent the hour I was supposed to be at the guitar lesson over at the video game arcade, the guitar on the floor beside me. That went well until my mother found out about it and then the guitar lessons stopped and the guitar was put away forever. Where it is now, I have no idea.

So when my niece decided she wanted to learn guitar after spending her own frustrating couple of years taking piano lessons that she didn't enjoy, I decided there must be a better way to learn how to play an instrument rather than the traditional manner of doing scales and drills for a couple of years and never really mastering the instrument. I really think that more people would enjoy playing music if it didn't take instructors so long to actually get to the "playing music" part. So we decided to take a leap on the Jamorama guitar lessons online. The price was only $40 or so, which was less than the cost of two traditional lessons with a guitar teacher, and it also offered refunds, something traditional lessons don't offer, so it was an easy choice.

Like a lot of kids her age, my niece already seems to know more about the internet than I do and she also plays Guitar Hero on one of her game consoles and it's her favorite game, so she took to the Jamorama guitar lessons pretty enthusiastically. She currently whips through a couple of lessons a week at her own pace with Jamorama. She runs through more lessons some weeks than others, depending on how much homework or how many tests she has to study for, so she has more control over her pacing than she would have working with a traditional guitar teacher. And she's already playing actual songs and, unlike when she took piano lessons, they are actually songs she likes. She's playing rock songs, not Kumbaya or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It's a big boost to her motivation. So if you're looking to learn how to play guitar, or your teen wants to learn to play guitar, I think Jamorama is the way to go.