Hey Everyone,
I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about why we built this site…
To start, I have been playing guitar for 7 years. During this time I’ve had several teachers. For the first 5 years I felt that I was progressing reasonably well. At this time, I had a friend who described his teacher as a “master guitar player” and I was so impressed I decided to give him a call. After talking to him, I thought I would give him a try and shortly after I started taking lessons from him.
I would like to introduce you to my friend and musical mentor Alan Hume. He himself had been playing guitar for almost 40 years and teaching for over 30. What immediately struck me was his thoroughness and depth of knowledge on any aspect of the guitar/guitar playing.
Fast-forward 2 years => I am still taking lessons from Alan (as one of his 25+ students) and am really happy with how far my playing has come. What continues to impress me is his versatility both as a teacher and as a player. Also his ability to genuinely communicate with his students and help them diagnose and fix ANY technical problem they may have.
I recently asked him “after playing and teaching for so many years, what would you say you were best at?”
His answer was improvisation. His personal style of playing is based very much around improv, and so is his teaching, regardless what style the pupil is interested in. This is one of the reasons why his dozens of students are all very in tune with bringing out the musical voices of what they are playing. Alan continually emphasizes that this skill is a large part of what makes a great musician “great”.
One thing that him and I have both talked about is how few jam tracks there are that help you really build up your improv skills in lots of different genres of music.
Now don’t get me wrong, there are thousands and thousands of jam tracks online…it’s just that most of them are really basic and many genres are passed right over. Also, a large portion of improvisation is based on rhythm and many of these tracks lack an interesting rhythmic component.
This is where GuitarJamTracksHQ fits in. Alan has spent the past 6+months creating top quality jam tracks for a variety of genres designed to help all guitar players improve their improvisational chops (regardless what genre they like or what their abilities are).
I am trying to help him get these jam tracks out to the world because I believe in them and their ability to help all guitarists get better as much as he does. I hope to be able to post lots of his key lessons here as well so please visit often and subscribe.
Because of the significant investment of time and money that went into creating these jam tracks, we cannot afford to give them away for free, but we do want to ensure they are affordable for the masses.
Our promise to you is that you will always get awesome, super useful information from this site and should you decide to purchase these jam tracks, you will get an excellent product that will really help your playing improve!
Thank-you,
We look forward to hearing from you in the future!
