JamPlay welcomes Jim Deeming.
Hello. I am Jim Deeming instructor for JamPlay.com.
I want to introduce myself to you a little bit and talk about what's coming up in the lessons in phase one.
First of all a little bit about the style of playing you just heard me play.
My main style of playing is finger style.
You are probably familiar with Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed.
More recently Tommy Emmanuel, Doyle Dykes some of those guys there are some giant finger style players in the world to emulate and learn from.
That's been the basis of my style now for going on thirty years.
That's what I want to eventually start to teach you but we're going to start with the basics
and we will talk about what the guitar is and how to tune it, how to put strings on it and the beginning of learning how to play.
The beginning lessons will end up being a little independent depending on which style you will eventually end up playing.
Whether you go with an Acoustic or Electric, whether you want to play nylon or steel string, whether you want to flat pick or finger pick.
The basics are pretty much the same and that's where we will start and then we'll progress from there.
One of the reasons I like finger style so much is that's it's so flexible and versatile you can literally play almost any style of music.
You can play it solo or you can sit in with a band and it works for sing along stuff.
What you may have heard me do on the intro is that'll you'll notice there was an alternating bass
and on top of that you can add some rhythm and on top of that you can add the melody.
So it's very flexible and it brings in a lot of parts, a little bit of a one man band effect there but as I said it'll apply to different styles.
You can go for a little bit more of the Elvis Presley bass line there
and then play something like Tommy Emmanuel does, a little bit of an old fashioned love song.
So again, it's flexible.
You can bring more of a rock n roll feel, pop, country, bluegrass, several styles work for this and of course classical.
I'm just a big fan of it I think it's one of the more flexible and enjoyable styles to play especially if you play solo or for your own enjoyment.
That's what I focus on for myself and once we get through the basics I will be rolling out some finger style phase two lessons for you
and then in phase three we will be bringing some arrangements that you probably see out on YouTube.
Some popular ones: Tommy Emmanuel is just doing a killer job of creative arrangements like that and you can find them on YouTube.
If you see those, Tommy Emmanuel, Doyle Dykes or Chet Atkins and you see things out there that get your blood going
stay tuned we're going to be covering some of that here with both video instruction and tablature.
I hope you enjoy your guitar journey and thank you for watching.