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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 28 & 29

Lesson 28 of Jamorama Book 2 is a short one, focusing on diminished 7 chords.
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 …

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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 25, 26 & 27

Lesson 25 of the Jamorama course covers suspended barre chords (open suspended chords were already introduced earlier on).
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.
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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 23 & 24

Lesson 23 of the Jamorama course of guitar lessons discusses accents and compound time, and there’s a jam track to practice these and previous techniques.
Lesson 24 introduces a new movable barre chord shape.
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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 21 & 22

Lesson 21 of the Jamorama guitar course discusses the rather tricky to play major 6 barre chords, and there is an exercise for practising the new shapes.
Lesson 22 introduces power chords, and there’s another jam track at the end.
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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 18, 19 & 20

Lesson 18 of the Jamorama guitar course focuses on reggae-style rhythms, and there’s a rather lengthy jam track for practising in this style.
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 …

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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 16 & 17

In Lesson 16 of Book 2 of the Jamorama guitar lessons course, you’ll learn a variety of new rhythmic patterns which work well with the techniques covered in the last few lessons. There are exercises to practice your new skills, plus a mellow sounding jam track to finish with.
Lesson 17 introduces new shapes for the dominant 7 barre chord, and a blues progression with which to practice them.
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Jamorama Book 2, Lessons 13, 14 & 15

Lesson 13 of the second Jamorama book begins with two different 12 bar blues progressions, which can be played in a variety of keys. The point is not just to learn a fixed pattern of chords, but to understand the principles behind the progression, so you apply it in different keys.
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 …