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Jam Night Vol. 3
Surefire rhythm and soloing approaches for popular jam songs
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For many musicians, going out to the local jam and playing with friends is their primary, if not only musical outlet. The goal of Andy Aledort’s Jam Night series is to broaden your skills as both a rhythm guitarist and soloist, with specific instruction directed within the scope of standard, tried-and-true open jam night songs.
Each volume of the series includes 10 of the most popular songs played at open jams, all over the world on a nightly basis. The Jam Night series will help you develop both your rhythm guitar and soloing chops while teaching you a variety of ways to navigate through popular music’s most common song progressions and stylings.
My goal is to give you all the tools you need, so that you'll walk into that environment feeling confident, knowing that you can get up there stand there with the best of them and have at your disposal a variety of techniques for playing interesting rhythm parts, as well as expressing yourself through a variety of techniques for soloing.”
Jam Night: Volume 3 features 10 new series of lessons, each themed to a popular progression used in a popular jam tune, and each series teaching two rhythm approaches and two approaches for soloing and improvisation over that progression.
The 10 progressions and grooves are patterned after the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Come Together, Steve Cropper’s work on Hard to Handle, Bad Company’s Can't Get Enough, Muddy Waters’ Hoochie Coochie Man, T-Bone Walker's immortal classic Stormy Monday ala The Allman Brothers, Allman's cover version of Junior Wells' blues classic You Don't Love Me, Rolling Stones’ Wild Horses, Grateful Dead’s Casey Jones and Goin' Down the Road.
Working with Andy’s Jam Night series will equip you with the three most important skills you’ll need to take to the jam stage; command of the popular song list, a diverse rhythm guitar vocabulary, and the ability to improvise fresh solos over popular song progressions.
Command of the Popular Song List: There are really only a handful of songs that are called over and over again at the local jams — they’re the ‘standards’ of rock and popular music. You don’t need to learn them note-for-note like you would for a cover, but you do need to be familiar with their basic structure.
Diverse Rhythm Guitar Vocabulary: You’ll be playing a lot of rhythm guitar at the jams. The better your rhythm chops, the more you’ll get asked to the stage because EVERYBODY loves to play with a strong rhythm section. Again, while your rhythm parts might be inspired by the original recorded version — you MUST bring some originality and diversity to the bandstand to keep things interesting over what could be a 15-minute jam on that song.
Improvising Over Popular Progressions: Jam songs are selected because they’re familiar to players and audiences alike, AND they provide an interesting and very jam-friendly progression to play over. Your blues chops will certainly be helpful BUT they won’t take you all the way there. You MUST be able to navigate your improvisations through a variety of other 3- and 4-chord progressions.
For each of these 10 popular jams, Andy will first overview the vibe, structure and progression of the tune. He’ll then demonstrate and breakdown two rhythm guitar approaches, and then two lead guitar approaches — 20 rhythm approaches and 20 lead approaches in all.
Everything is tabbed and notated, plus you’ll get all of the rhythm tracks to work with on your own.
Click now to put 10 more universal jam tunes in your pocket with Jam Night: Volume 3!
Each volume of the series includes 10 of the most popular songs played at open jams, all over the world on a nightly basis. The Jam Night series will help you develop both your rhythm guitar and soloing chops while teaching you a variety of ways to navigate through popular music’s most common song progressions and stylings.
"I own all of the videos in Andy's Jam Night series. Learning two rhythm and two leads for each song was groundbreaking for me as it really opened up the possibilities of guitar arrangement for me. It's also a joy to learn full songs and rhythms and leads and play along to the jam tracks. Really enjoy Andy as a teacher and his style." - Tom Sweet, TrueFire Student“In every edition of the jam night series, we’re going to look at 10 chord progressions that are based on songs that are the most popular songs played at open jams all over the world, on a nightly basis.”
My goal is to give you all the tools you need, so that you'll walk into that environment feeling confident, knowing that you can get up there stand there with the best of them and have at your disposal a variety of techniques for playing interesting rhythm parts, as well as expressing yourself through a variety of techniques for soloing.”
Jam Night: Volume 3 features 10 new series of lessons, each themed to a popular progression used in a popular jam tune, and each series teaching two rhythm approaches and two approaches for soloing and improvisation over that progression.
The 10 progressions and grooves are patterned after the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Come Together, Steve Cropper’s work on Hard to Handle, Bad Company’s Can't Get Enough, Muddy Waters’ Hoochie Coochie Man, T-Bone Walker's immortal classic Stormy Monday ala The Allman Brothers, Allman's cover version of Junior Wells' blues classic You Don't Love Me, Rolling Stones’ Wild Horses, Grateful Dead’s Casey Jones and Goin' Down the Road.
Working with Andy’s Jam Night series will equip you with the three most important skills you’ll need to take to the jam stage; command of the popular song list, a diverse rhythm guitar vocabulary, and the ability to improvise fresh solos over popular song progressions.
Command of the Popular Song List: There are really only a handful of songs that are called over and over again at the local jams — they’re the ‘standards’ of rock and popular music. You don’t need to learn them note-for-note like you would for a cover, but you do need to be familiar with their basic structure.
Diverse Rhythm Guitar Vocabulary: You’ll be playing a lot of rhythm guitar at the jams. The better your rhythm chops, the more you’ll get asked to the stage because EVERYBODY loves to play with a strong rhythm section. Again, while your rhythm parts might be inspired by the original recorded version — you MUST bring some originality and diversity to the bandstand to keep things interesting over what could be a 15-minute jam on that song.
Improvising Over Popular Progressions: Jam songs are selected because they’re familiar to players and audiences alike, AND they provide an interesting and very jam-friendly progression to play over. Your blues chops will certainly be helpful BUT they won’t take you all the way there. You MUST be able to navigate your improvisations through a variety of other 3- and 4-chord progressions.
For each of these 10 popular jams, Andy will first overview the vibe, structure and progression of the tune. He’ll then demonstrate and breakdown two rhythm guitar approaches, and then two lead guitar approaches — 20 rhythm approaches and 20 lead approaches in all.
Everything is tabbed and notated, plus you’ll get all of the rhythm tracks to work with on your own.
Click now to put 10 more universal jam tunes in your pocket with Jam Night: Volume 3!
What you'll learn
- Integrate blues scale descending licks
- How to switch between different pentatonic scales to match chord changes
- How to use hybrid picking for oblique bends in a pedal steel style
- How to construct a melodic solo over a country-rock progression
- Learn to play a complete blues solo over 'Don't You Love Me?'
Release date: 05/27/2015 • 4h 03m runtime
Sample lessons
Join Up
Overview
Join Up: Rhythm 1
Performance
Join Up: Rhythm 1
Breakdown
Join Up: Rhythm 2
Performance
What's included
92 lessons • 40 charts • 10 Jam Tracks
Jam Night: Volume 3
Welcome to "Jam Night! Vol. 3," the third in a series of instructional lessons that focuses on learning to jam on rhythm and lead guitar to the most popular "open jam" songs of all time. For many musicians, going out to the local jam and playing with friends is their primary, if not only, musical outlet. The goal of this "Jam Night!" series is to broaden your skills as both a rhythm guitarist and as a soloist, with specific instruction directed within the scope of standard, tried-and-true open jam night songs. Each volume of the series includes 10 of the most popular songs played at open jams all over the world on a nightly basis. This instructional course will help you to hone and develop your rhythm guitar and soloing chops while teaching you a variety of ways to navigate through some of your favorite song progressions.
My Sad Guitar
The Beatles' John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison wrote some of the greatest popular music we have ever known, and the study of the Beatles's music is an endeavor all guitar players should indulge in. Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" features the incredible guitar playing of Eric Clapton--every lick Eric plays on this classic, essential track should be scrutinized by every serious soloing guitar player. The progression is a great one to explore and this is certainly a tune that countless musicians continue to play at oepn jams the world over. For this song and every song in the "Jam Night" series, two approaches to rhythm guitar and two approaches to soloing will be presented for every tune.
My Sad Guitar: Rhythm 1
In this first approach to rhythm guitar, I stick with first position "cowboy" chords (chords that are played within the first three frets of the neck and often include open strings). This type of approach lays down the perfect type of "bedrock" as accompaniment to either a vocalist or an instrumental soloist. As I play through the repeated progression, I like to pick the notes of each chord individually to create a fuller and more intricate sound than simle strumming provides.
My Sad Guitar: Rhythm 1
This eight-bar chord progression consists of two distinct four-bar sections: bars 1-4 feature a progression of Am-Am/G-D7/F#-F(maj7)-Am-G-D-E, with two beats sounded for each chord; bars 5-8 feature a progression of Am-C/G-D7/F#-F-Am-G-C-E. During bars 1-4, the Am/G can also be analyzed as C6/G, because the "pull" of relative major--C to Am--is strong. If you look closely at bars 1-4, you will see that the notes A, C and E, played on the top three strings, remain constants through each of the chord voicings. The picking technique employed is hybrid picking, as the pick is used to sound the lower strings while the pick-hand ring finger is used to fingerpick the higher strings throughout.
My Sad Guitar: Rhythm 2
My intention in demonstrating these "pairs" of approaches to rhyhtm guitar is to, initially, set up a rhythm part that lays down a solid bed track, and then, with the second rhythm approach, offer a complimentary part that "sits" well on top of the primary part. Since the first approach is played using chordal arpeggiations of "cowboy" chord, for this second approach I move up the neck and use all closed-positioned forms, intertwining single-note licks and sliding doublestops with hybrid-picked chordal arpeggiations to provide a more intricate rhythm guitar concept.
My Sad Guitar: Rhythm 2
The initial Am chord is played in a "Jimi Hendrix"-style using "thumbed" root notes on the sixth strig, meaning that ther fret-hand thumb is wrapped over the top of the fretboard to fret the low sixth-string root notes. With the fifth string muted, the ring and index finger are used to fret the rest of the voicing on the higher strings. I use the pinkie for a quick hammer/pull on the G string between the fifth and seventh frets, followed by a straight barre across the fifth fret on the D, G and B strings to sound a C major triad. I then add a single-note line based on the notes of A minior pentatonic--A C D E G--which are the same notes that make up C major pentatonic--C D E G A. The subsequent fourth-position D/F# voicing moves perfectly into the third-position F major voicing after it, at which point I switch to chordal arpeggiations. Over E, I incorporate sliding sixths--pairs of notes that sound a sixth apart, intervallically speaking--based on the E Mixolydian scale: E F# G# A B C# D.
My Sad Guitar: Lead 1
For this first example of soloing over this progression, my goal is to emulate Clapton's slow, mournful and melodic approach heard on the original track. This approach includes wide string bends--"overbends" of one and a half steps--plus slow and wide, vocal-like vibratos. The intention os for this solo to sound like it could have been sung, so no fast phrases are used; this is an example of striving to make the melody reigh supreme.
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Hlue1
Verified buyer
01/20/22
Andy Aledort's Jam Night Vol. 3
Excellent choice of songs, very useful exploration of backing options with 2 distinctly different rhythm guitar parts and, similarly, two soloing approaches. Perfect for the intermediate/serious amateur/semi-pro player. I had a lot of fun with this and can only hope Andy produces more volumes in this format.
Dave58
Verified buyer
08/12/21
What could go wrong with this?
Andy is an excellent teacher and can play guitar like a virtuoso. The lesson package consists of very well-known songs that you will immediately recognize when he introduces them to you in a completely new outfit and in his own arrangement. The songs are also explained in different variations across the neck of the guitar. Clear videos. I've gone through many courses from mr.Aledort and it certainly won't be my last. You will love it.
dhayes
Verified buyer
05/13/20
Jam Night 3 Andy Aelodort
Top class.Tast arrangements that will make you the go to guy at jam nights for back up.If thats not enough then the lead lessons included will give some flashy lead guitarists something to think about.
Jon M.
12/22/19
Excellent series
Andy's Jam Night courses are my favourites on the site and I've been hoping for a Volume 4 for a couple of years now. Andy is an unreal player and does a good job of explaining what he's doing on some really fun examples. I keep coming back to these courses.
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